Following the release of their latest full-length, the introspective, uplifting, vital The Awakening (#2 US Current Hard Music Albums, #27 Current Album Sales), and several international tours like their recent Awaken The World tour – which has become the band’s most successful and massive headline run in their 30+ year history – KAMELOT returns with their next enchanting surprise!
Ringing in the new year right, KAMELOT proudly celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most renowned albums of their career, The Black Halo. Out on March 14, 2025 via Napalm Records – exactly 20 years after its initial release – the essential new reissue, The Black Halo (20th Anniversary Edition), will be available in several must-have collectible formats. See below!
After their successful co-headliner tour together with AD INFINITUM, BLACKBRIAR announce more European tourdates for October/November this year. BLACKBRIAR will join KAMELOT´SAwaken The World Tour as a special gusts. Together with AD INFINITUM and FROZEN CROWN they will share the stage with KAMELOT all over Europe and the UK. All tourdates are listed below.
Modern heavy symphonic metal leaders KAMELOT recently released their most introspective, uplifting, vital release to date – their first full-length in five years, The Awakening. The album, which debuted at #2 on the US Current Hard Music Albums chart and #27 on the Current Album Sales chart, connected with fans and critics alike – touted by many as the best late-era KAMELOT release to date!
In anticipation of their upcoming “Awaken The World” North American headline tour with special guests Battle Beast and additional support from labelmates Xandria, which kicks off August 17, KAMELOT have revealed an exciting new music video for the new fan favorite album single “Eventide”. The video showcases the band playing puppet masters inside a castle far beyond imagination, setting a scene of gothic darkness amid love lost.
The wait is almost over! This Friday, March 17, modern heavy symphonic metal leaders KAMELOT will finally unveil their most introspective, uplifting, vital release to date – their first full-length in five years, The Awakening. The album enters the KAMELOT legacy as their most massive and diverse offering yet – mixing symphonic, gothic, melodic, progressive and power metal styles while yielding some of the heaviest tracks in the band’s history.
One of the most innovative and prestigious bands in modern symphonic metal, unstoppable icons KAMELOT, are coming back to European stages on their upcoming headline tour, beginning March 12, 2023 in Prattlen, CH! The glorious American band, founded and led by mastermind and guitarist Thomas Youngblood, have announced new dates in 14 cities in 11 countries, with more shows to be confirmed soon!
Musician-turned-filmmaker THOMAS CRANE is jumping back into music, releasing his new single “Monsters Walk Among Us” with an epic new video along with it. Best known as a music video director, and the head of killDevil Films, he has directed videos for TODD LA TORRE of QUEENSRYCHE, SALIVA, KAMELOT, ONCE HUMAN, and many more. With the new single and video, he’s now back in front of the camera, instead of behind it.
The video has already screened at various film festivals in the U.S. and internationally, winning the Best Music Video Award at the Paris Cinema Awards. It also picked up Best Rock/Metal Song honors at the Tracks Music Awards in Los Angeles, and was honorable mention for Best Rock Video at the Munich Music Video Awards. It is slated for several other film festivals throughout the fall and winter.
The video for “Monsters Walk Among Us” finds Crane taking on a kind of performance art, as he plays a character named “The Gemini Killer”. Clad in black leather, and face paint reminiscent of The Crow, The Gemini Killer is a ruthless but flamboyant serial killer, spouting lines such as “You know I love to creep, I murder to the beat”.
“As I was writing the song, I was drawn to the idea of the lyrics being written from the perspective of a serial killer. Kind of like how the Zodiac and others used to write letters to the press. I thought it was an interesting concept to write a song through a character and to continue that with the video. The lyrics are the Gemini Killer’s billet-doux, taunting authorities, embracing notoriety, and I wanted to him to have style and panache. He’s a bit of a troll. There’s definitely some social commentary in the video, about how the media loves to embrace villains for clicks and views. I think the over-the-top nature of the story makes that pretty clear.” – Thomas Crane
In the video, as the Gemini gains notoriety, he also attracts a group of alluring but deadly followers, joining him in the cross country murder spree. The women, named Cookie, Kitten, and Jayne, form a collective that the Gemini lovingly dubs “the murder supergroup”.
“Monsters Walk Among Us” is Crane’s first music release since 2019, when he launched the single “Spook House”. Before then, he had multiple releases with his band Marion Crane. As the head of killDevil Films, he has directed over 100 music videos, working with artists all over the country.
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Thomas Crane got his start creating music videos for his own band Marion Crane. He founded killDevil Films in 2014 and began producing videos for other artists. Since then he has directed, filmed, and edited over 100 music videos, several commercial projects, and one short film – working with artists such as Todd La Torre of Queensryche, Saliva, Kamelot, Once Human, Eve to Adam, and many more.
In 2019, his first narrative film production was released – “Halloween Party”, a 38 minute horror/thriller short film, and it won The Florida Spotlight Award at The Spooky Empire horror convention in Tampa. The film is now available on Amazon Prime.
2019 also saw Crane’s first music release as a solo artist, with the single “Spook House”.
Crane plans to continue to work with artists on music videos as well as expand to feature-length films, with several projects in the pre-production phase.
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