Kamelot

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Just booked tickets for London in November.  Supported by Ad Infinitum, Blackbriar & Frozen Crown.  I love Ad Infinitum and Frozen Crown are decent too, need to check out Blackbriar though.

Blackbriar is opening for Battle Beast when they come here soon, I need to check them out as well.  Frozen Crown is coming here for ProgPower.  They are OK from listening to their two latest albums.  I do enjoy Ad Infinitum.  I wish they were the second slot here not third to get more of them instead of Hammerfall. Overall, all seem like cool support bands for Kamelot though.

I expect Melissa will join Kamelot on stage too and as both Frozen Crown and Balckbriar are also both female fronted maybe they'll join em too?

Melissa for sure, I'd say the other two maybe, but not sure.  Definitely could see something for like the final show of the tour, but maybe not every night.

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Well I checked out Blackbriar last night.  I wasn't expecting much more than another identikit symphonic metal act with some catchy songs (bit like Frozen Crown), but I was super impressed, in fact I ended up listening to both of their albums and they are very good, best act in this genre I've heard since Seven Spires.   Added to my excitement of this gig now 

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Saw them last night.  Very empty venue  which I very much enjoyed! Got to be up close with plenty of room.  I even got a setlist!



Sadly their set is exactly the same but with two older songs swapped out for newer ones

Kamelot - Willow LIVE @ Wellmont Theater Montclair NJ 5/1/2024

I sadly thought they kind of stunk last night. The audio was just bad for some reason.  The vocals were hard to hear and Melissa's mic was off for a lot of it and you could only hear the backing tracks sometimes.  Everyone looked to be giving it all and it was fun overall, but not the best Kamelot show IMO.  Thought the NYC show last year was much better. The sound also went out completely for a moment in one song.  That same thing happened at the ProgPower show last year.  I think they might have some sound engineering issues.

Ad Infinitum were awesome.  I actually though Hammerfall was better than Kamelot too.  Definitely sounded much better.  Both bands released new singles too:

Ad Infinitum - Outer Space LIVE @ Wellmont Theater Montclair NJ 5/1/2024

Hammerfall - Hail to the King LIVE @ Wellmont Theater Montclair NJ 5/1/2024