Kamelot keyboardist Oliver Palotai has checked in from the road with what he calls The Keyboarder's Perspective. Read on... 

"What the hell is the keyboarder´s perspective? Why is it different? Why the f**k do I write about it? 'Be happy with your 88 keys and shut up", some of you might say now. Yeah, I`m happy with my 88 keys. Very happy. 88 friends, all politically correct; black & white. And, yes, they have got some stories to tell!

As a keyboarder I am somewhere in between a drummer and a guitarist, regarding my morphological classification. I´m pretty much immobile, but not so much as Casey respectively 'the drummer.' I can reach, for instance, for beer bottles myself without the need of a tech. Still immobile, though, with that big device in front of me. But I like that. I can duck and hide if stuff goes wrong.

Talking about Casey (again: The Drummer), I am the one getting bombarded by that big-ass drum kit from the right without a chance to escape. Sometimes I have those brief reality-shifts and I am suddenly a soldier in the trenches of World War I, grenades exploding around me. Luckily we´re all friends nowadays, but deep inside I know Casey likes to unload his shiny artillery against this poor German somewhere beside and below him.

Talking about the present tour we rarely had so many great gigs at the very beginning. Mexico City, New York, Worcester... really powerful, people! Dragonforce helps us getting all fired up before we get on stage. Well, at least my pulse is way over the healthy level listening to them from backstage alone. They are fast!

Ok, gotta get off this computer to put my nose out into the sun. Montréal today is the first real sunny day. Made me even forgive the Canadian border patrol piling our precious gear up in one big heap to scan. I preferred the border doggies running around our bus all excited! No drugs here, hairy friends. 88 keys is all I need."

Kamelot recently released the music video for the track "Insomnia". Guitarist Thomas Youngblood states: 

“Kamelot returns with a sci-fi inspired thriller for the song "Insomnia". In a post apocalyptic world, surveillance is everywhere and over population is rampant. Deep in the underground of the Wasteland Monarchy lies the Insomnia Division, the housing for some of the chosen ones, only allowed to live in an Insomniatic state!“

"Insomnia" from Kamelot's new album, ‎Haven, is now available as instant gratification song with any pre-order. Fans can pre-order the record via iTunes here .

Kamelot recently checked in with good news for their North American fanbase:

"We are really pleased to announce that we'll return to the US and Canada this fall in support of new album, Haven, coming out May 4th. This will be our biggest North American headliner tour to date, make sure to catch Kamelot near you! Dates for the second leg will start mid-November and can be found here ."

The Haven World Tour is on, stay tuned for more dates to come!"

Kamelot have posted a teaser for Haven, featuring a snippet of the new song "Under Grey Skies". The song features guest vocalist Charlotte Wessels from Delain. Check it out below:

Haven will be released worldwide (excl. Asia) on Napalm Records/Universal and Napalm Records/ADA/Warner as an exclusive licensing deal through the band's Kamelot Music LLC on May 5th (North America) and May 8th (Europe and rest of the world) and will showcase Kamelot at their finest.

Haven is available to pre-order in multiple exclusive and limited bundle packages at the Napalm Records American and European Webstore now. A new lyric video for the album track “Veil Of Elysium” can be seen below:

Tracklisting:

“Fallen Star”
“Insomnia”
“Citizen Zero”
“Veil Of Elysium”
“Under Grey Skies”
“My Therapy”
“Ecclesia”
“End Of Innocence”
“Beautiful Apocalypse”
“Liar Liar (Wasteland Monarchy)”
“Here's To The Fall”
“Revolution”
“Haven”

Studio preview:

Haven audio teaser: