Artist: KAMELOT
Album: THE BLACK HALO 20TH ANNIV. - DIE HARD EDIT. VINYL (2LP+SLIPMAT+20P BOOKLET BOXSET)

Release date: 14.03.2025
EAN/UPS: 810135713719
Media type: LP

Following the release of their latest full-length, the introspective, uplifting, vital The Awakening (#2 US Current Hard Music Albums, #27 Current Album Sales), exciting reissues of seminal albums Ghost Opera, Poetry For The Poisoned and One Cold Winter's Night, and several international tours – including their recent Awaken The World tour, which has become the band’s most successful and massive headline run in their 30+ year history – KAMELOT is ringing in the new year by celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the most renowned albums of their career, The Black Halo. Upon its release, Blabbermouth dubbed The Black Halo “stunning”, naming it “one of 2005's most impressive releases”. Widely considered by fans and critics alike as a shining example of KAMELOT’s finest early-era work, the album featured standout guest characterizations by Dimmu Borgir mastermind Shagrath, keymaster Jens Johansson of Stratovarius and many others, and was produced by band mastermind/guitarist Thomas Youngblood and vocalist Roy Khan, as well as renowned musicians, producers and The Black Halo personnel Sascha Paeth and Miro.

The Black Halo (20th Anniversary Edition) will be available in several must-have collectible formats. These include a limited edition wooden boxset containing splattered vinyl packaged alongside a special chalice, ring, pendant encased in a velvet bag, 20 page booklet, and most thrilling – a signed card adorned with the autographs of both Thomas Youngblood and Roy Khan. Additional variants will include a deluxe edition featuring marbled vinyl, a slipmat, a 20 page booklet and record butler, as well as retail black vinyl and digipak CD editions. Both the limited edition wooden boxset and deluxe editions will only be available via Napalm Records webstores. Don’t miss your chance to own this once-in-a-lifetime masterclass opus on limited edition vinyl and a rare autographed item from Thomas Youngblood and Roy Khan – available exactly 20 years after its original release on March 14, 2025 via Napalm Records.

Side A:
01    March Of Mephisto (feat. Shagrath)
02    When The Lights Are Down    
03    The Haunting (Somewhere In Time)    feat. Simone Simons
04    Soul Society    

Side B:
05    Interlude I: Dei Gratia    
06    Abandoned (feat. Mari Youngblood9
07    This Pain    
08    Moonlight

Side C:
09    Interlude II: Un Assassino Molto Silenzioso    
10    The Black Halo    
11    Nothing Ever Dies    

Side D:
12    Memento Mori (feat. Shagrath & Mari Youngblood)
13    Interlude III: Twelve Tolls For New Day    
14    Serenade