Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes

'The Roundhouse Tapes' contains a captivating Opeth performance from the Camden Roundhouse, London, UK, on November 9th, 2006 (a gig which also featured Goth metal legends Paradise Lost), & sees mainman Mikael Akerfeldt & co in scintillating form, churning out a selection of classics from their illustrious career to date. Since their formation in 1990 in Sweden, Opeth has risen to the forefront of the metal world over the years; bringing many aspects of progressive rock/metal to a whole new audience by combining soft acoustic ambience with complex, melodic & heavy guitar often familiar to forms of death/black metal, perfectly concocted into a completely peerless sound. A constant factor of their success is that the band have never been afraid to experiment with their song-writing, taking us through some truly magical & hypnotic soundscapes from blackened death/prog debut opus, 'Orchid' back in 1995, through to the highly accomplished prog/rock outfit witnessed in recent years.