Opeth Anthology

On Wednesday, I saw Opeth at Terminal 5 in New York City on their 20th anniversary minitour. It was the 15th time I've seen them.

Their set:

1. Leper Affinity
2. Bleak
3. Harvest
4. The Drapery Falls
5. Dirge For November
6. Funeral Portait
7. Patterns in the Ivy
8. Blackwater Park
9. Forest of October
10. Advent
11. April Ethereal
12. The Moor
13. Wreath
14. Hope Leaves
15. Harlequin Forest
16. The Lotus Eater

It was quite possibly the best show I've ever been to; it's at least tied with the Blind Guardian/Symphony X show at Jaxx years ago. There was no opening act at all. The sound was fantastic. I was pretty close to the rail, so I had a great view. The set was almost perfect. I would've preferred more songs I hadn't heard live before. All of Mikael's stage banter between songs, which is always fantastic, was about the history of Opeth. There were almost no idiots shouting out stupid things at bad times. There were crowd surfers, but they weren't anywhere near me.

Since Wednesday, I've listened to every single Opeth song.

More great pictures here.

One of the highlights for me was "Dirge For November." I didn't film this, but I think I can see my head occaisionally in the bottom left of the screen..

Opeth

Updated: Song list

Tonight is Opeth. I keep forgetting how many times I've seen them so I plan to figure it out right now:

1-2. Blackwater Park Tour: both times at Jaxx in 2001-2002
3-4. Deliverance Tour: once at Jaxx on 1/23/03 with Paradise Lost, one time at the Norva in 2003 with Lacuna Coil
5. Damnation Tour: Trocadero summer 2003 with Porcupine Tree
6. Lamentations DVD Tour 2004 (This had -- ugh -- DevilDriver and Moonspell on it)
7-8. Ghost Reveries Tour: 11/5/05 @ Jaxx, 2/17/06 at Recher
9.(I actually missed them on the Sounds of the Underground Tour.)
9. Wacken 2006
10. Progressive Nation 2008: 5/26/08 at DAR
11. Wacken 2008
12. Watershed Tour: 10/26/08 at Ram's Head
13. HammerFest 2009

If I didn't miss anything, tonight will be #14.

Songs I've seen live:

Under the Weeping Moon
Forest of October
Advent
Night and the Silent Water
April Ethereal
When
The Amen Corner
Demon of the Fall
Credence*
Karma
The Moor
Godhead's Lament
Benighted
Moonlapse Vertigo
Face of Melinda
Serenity Painted Death
White Cluster
Leper Affinity
Bleak
Harvest
The Drapery Falls
Blackwater Park
Still Day Beneath the Sun**
Wreath
Deliverance
A Fair Judgement
Master's Apprentices
Windowpane
In My Time of Need
Death Whispered a Lullaby
Closure
Hope Leaves
To Rid the Disease
Ending Credits
Weakness
Soldier of Fortune
Ghost of Perdition
The Baying of the Hounds
Hours of Wealth*
The Grand Conjuration
Heir Apparent
The Lotus Eater
Porcelain Heart*
Hessian Peel

*I may be wrong about these.
**Mikael played a snippet of it on the Damnation tour. Still counts!

Sources of actual dates: http://www.opeth.com/, http://www.paradiselost.co.uk/

UK & Ireland Trip

The link to the non-slideshow version of the album (bigger pictures!): http://picasaweb.google.com/nyarlathotim/UKHammerFestDublin409?authkey=Gv1sRgCIP6g87uxJ2UjgE&feat=directlink