Karma (Kamelot album) explained

Karma
Type:	studio
Artist:	Kamelot
Cover:	kamelot karma.jpg
Released:	9 July 2001
Recorded:	December 2000 – March 2001^[1]
Studio:	Gate Studio (Wolfsburg, Germany)
Genre:	Symphonic power metal,^[2] progressive metal
Length:	55:55
Label:	Sanctuary
Producer:	Sascha Paeth and Miro
Prev Title:	The Fourth Legacy
Prev Year:	1999
Next Title:	Epica
Next Year:	2003

Karma is the fifth studio album by American power metal band Kamelot. It was released on July 9, 2001 through Noise Records which is a part of Sanctuary Records.

Personnel

All information from the album booklet.^[3]

Kamelot

Additional musicians

Miro – keyboards, orchestrations, backing vocals, producer, mixing, mastering, engineering
Sascha Paeth – additional guitars, producer, mixing, mastering, engineering
Farouk Asjadi – Shakuhachi
Liv Nina Mosven – vocals on "Requiem for the Innocent" and "Fall from Grace"
Olaf Hayer – choir vocals
Cinzia Rizzo – choir vocals, backing vocals on "Karma"
Robert Hunecke-Rizzo – choir vocals

Strings quartet

Production

"Forever" is based on "Solveig's Song", written by Edvard Grieg for his Peer Gynt Suites.
"Don't You Cry" is dedicated to Thomas Youngblood Sr., who died when his son was very young.
"Ne Pleure Pas" is essentially the same song as "Don't You Cry", only sung in French.
The trilogy of songs that close the album on the normal edition, "Elizabeth" I, II & III, are based on the story of Elizabeth Bathory.
There is silence from the end of "Fall From Grace" to 11:00. This is because Karma was Kamelot's fifth studio album and they wanted its duration to be 55:55. The silence is kept intact even in versions of the album with bonus tracks.