In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall is the third live album and video by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. The DVD was recorded on 5 April 2010. It was released on 20 September 2010 in Europe and on 21 September 2010 in the rest of the world. The concert was part of the band's Evolution XX: An Opeth Anthology tour, made in celebration of their 20th anniversary, and was the fourth show of the tour, filmed at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.

Release

The album is available in three configurations: one double-DVD including bonus features; a five-disc set that consists of two DVDs and three CDs; and a limited-edition vinyl box set which consists of the double-DVD, a set of four 180-gram LPs of the concert's live audio in its entirety, a numbered lithograph with artwork designed by the band's frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt and Travis Smith, and a 20-page booklet of photos of the event and exclusive artwork.^[3]

The concert performance was split into two sets for the DVD. The first set consists of the entire Blackwater Park album, while the second features one song from each of their other albums in chronological order, representing the twenty years of evolution in the band's music.

Cover art

The cover art is purposely similar to that of Deep Purple's Concerto for Group and Orchestra, which was recorded at the same venue in 1969, "underlining the band's longstanding love for their prog-rock roots".^[3]

Trivia

At some point during "The Lotus Eater", a camera man stepped on the power cord to Fredrik Åkesson's guitar amplifier, resulting in no sound coming out from Åkesson's guitar. This moment was kept on the recording.^[4]

Track listing

DVD

Observation One – *Blackwater Park*
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Leper Affinity"
2.	"Bleak"
3.	"Harvest"
4.	"The Drapery Falls"
5.	"Dirge for November"
6.	"The Funeral Portrait"
7.	"Patterns in the Ivy"
8.	"Blackwater Park"

Observation Two – A song from every other Opeth album in chronological order.
No.	Title	Album
1.	"Forest of October"	Orchid
2.	"Advent"	Morningrise
3.	"April Ethereal"	My Arms, Your Hearse
4.	"The Moor"	Still Life
5.	"Wreath"	Deliverance
6.	"Hope Leaves"	Damnation
7.	"Harlequin Forest"	Ghost Reveries
8.	"The Lotus Eater"	Watershed

CD

Disc one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Leper Affinity"	10:07
2.	"Bleak"	8:53
3.	"Harvest"	6:10
4.	"The Drapery Falls"	10:07
5.	"Dirge for November"	8:28
6.	"The Funeral Portrait"	8:21
7.	"Patterns in the Ivy"	2:24
8.	"Blackwater Park"	12:32

Disc two
No.	Title	Album	Length
1.	"Forest of October"	Orchid	17:12
2.	"Advent"	Morningrise	15:03
3.	"April Ethereal"	My Arms, Your Hearse	10:22
4.	"The Moor"	Still Life	12:12

Disc three
No.	Title	Album	Length
1.	"Wreath"	Deliverance	12:24
2.	"Hope Leaves"	Damnation	6:48
3.	"Harlequin Forest"	Ghost Reveries	13:11
4.	"The Lotus Eater"	Watershed	11:09

Personnel

Mikael Åkerfeldt − guitar, vocals, mixing, direction
Fredrik Åkesson − guitars, backing vocals
Martín Méndez − bass guitar
Per Wiberg − keyboards, backing vocals
Martin "Axe" Axenrot – drums

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[5]	59
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[6]	60

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[7]	5

References

^ Heaney, Gregory. "Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall - Opeth". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
^ Breihan, Tom (22 September 2010). "Opeth Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall Pitchfork review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Opeth to Release 'In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall' DVD This September". 21 July 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
^ Mead, David (22 June 2017). "10 questions for Opeth's Fredrik Åkesson". MusicRadar. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Opeth – Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
^ "Swedishcharts.com – Opeth – In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
^ "Opeth: In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved November 3, 2021.

v t e Opeth
Mikael Åkerfeldt Martín Méndez Fredrik Åkesson Joakim Svalberg Waltteri Väyrynen Anders Nordin Johan De Farfalla Peter Lindgren Martin Lopez Per Wiberg Martin Axenrot
Studio albums	Orchid Morningrise My Arms, Your Hearse Still Life Blackwater Park Deliverance Damnation Ghost Reveries Watershed Heritage Pale Communion Sorceress In Cauda Venenum
Live albums	Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003) The Roundhouse Tapes In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater
Compilations	Collecter's Edition Slipcase The Candlelight Years The Wooden Box
Related articles	Discography Band members Bloodbath Heritage Hunter Tour Storm Corrosion
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