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Opeth will be releasing a live DVD, entitled “In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall”, on September 21 via Roadrunner.

The DVD, recorded on April 5, 2010, features the band’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall while on their “Evolution XX: An Opeth Anthology” tour — it includes two live sets: the band performing “Blackwater Park” in its entirety, and a chronologically arranged selection of material from the group’s catalogue.

The release will be available as a Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set, a 5-disc set consisting of 2-DVD and 3 CD’s, and a Double-DVD set of the band’s performance in its entirety with bonus features.

Opeth vocalist/guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt issued a recap of the band’s recent 20th anniversary tour that took place in six select cities around the world. Akerfeldt comments:

“Got back home last night from the 6 shows we did celebrating 20 years as a band. Let’s see, Stockholm (went OK), Essen (Great), Paris (Great), Holland (off show…horrible!), London (AMAZING!), NYC (Good), LA (OK).”

“Overall it was a fantastic little trip for all of us, we had a blast. Played  3 hour shows, started with the whole “Blackwater park” album from start to finish, then a little 10 minute break, and a second set consisting of: Forest of October, Advent, April ethereal, The moor, Wreath, Hope leaves, Harlequin forest and The lotus eater.”

“Crowd was great on all shows, apart from Holland (I mean, some peeps seemed to like us and cheers to them, but we’re really ignored AND some TWAT threw a beer in my chest. Same TWAT later posted in the guestbook that he’s actually a fan, and ‘couldn’t believe I could throw 40 yards, sorry, love you guys’ Haha! What a TWAT!!! The ‘OK’ and ‘Good’ comments above are based on our personal overall feel on stage, some of these shows we’re plagued with bad stage sound which always makes it a lot more difficult. And we’re also quite picky I guess.”

Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt recently checked in with an update on current happenings. Akerfeldt comments:

“Quite interesting to see how diverse the reactions have been to our last song, ”The throat of Winter” that we recorded to be included on a disc coming with the ”God of War 2” game. Everything from ”loving it” to ”hating it” to juvenile ”meh” comments. I’m happy we’ve caused some reactions at least, rather raise a taste-agenda than a shrug. It’s quite clear to me that some have yet to understand what this band is about. Some say the song doesn’t ”fit” the game, as if we’d ever, in our career, been interested in fitting in. Sorry! I was asked to write an Opeth song, and that’s what I did. Couldn’t care less if we fit in or not.”

Opeth will be releasing a “Blackwater Park Legacy” edition of their 2001 album on March 29.

The set will include a 5.0 audio mix of the original album, a previously unseen documentry called “The Making of Blackwater Park”, and an unreleased bonus track dubbed “The Leper Affinity (live)”. The Legacy Edition will also include new artwork and liner notes by Mikael Akerfeldt.

Additional information can be found here.