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Kamelot – Where I Reign – The Very Best of the Noise Years 1995-2003Label: BMGFormat: CD Released: 2016 Reviewed By: Rich Catino Rating: 8/ 10 |
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Kamelot’s history goes back to 1995, and the album “Eternity”, where the title track is included on this Best Of. On their first three albums, and you will hear this on the “Eternity” title track, Kamelot were more influenced by the first few Fates Warning albums (“Awaken The Guardian”, “The Spectre Within”), 80s Queensryche (see ‘The Gleeman’), and at times on some songs Helloween, Gamma Ray and Stratovarius. So at their beginnings, with their first singer Mark Vanderbilt, and long standing original member, guitarist Thomas Youngblood, Kamelot worked with combining both prog and power metal into their formula. ‘We Are Not Separate’ originally appears on the second album “Dominion”, here re-recorded with Roy Kahn on vocals. |
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‘Where I Reign’, from third album “Siege Perilous”, is where the now known voice of Roy Khan was added (who sang on the next six studio albums). With this album, the more classic sound of Kamelot was starting to take form. The Kamelot artistic direction really came about on the fourth album “Fourth Legacy”, as you can hear in the title track. But, I think as a fan, a better choice would have been ‘Nights of Arabia’, and for variety ‘The Inquisitor’. The final four tracks comes from the start of Kamelot’s most successful period, and albums, “Karma” and “Epica”. These are the editions available in America which are only a single disc, and, for Kamelot, have a song or two from every one of the band’s albums. While you get a good smathering of their music, and a couple often played in concert, it is better to get the two disc edition because you get more tracks, and to hear more of the bands range of songwriting.
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