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| The Year of the Voyager | 
 enlarge | Actor: Nevermore
Studio: Century Media
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 14186
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 244
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 18310
UPC: 727701831091
EAN: 0727701831091
ASIN: B001GJ4U9Q
Theatrical Release Date: November 11, 2008
Release Date: November 24, 2008
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Description
DVD 1 Main Show - Live at the Zeche Bochum, Germany, October 11th, 2006 (21 songs captured live) DVD 2 Gigantour - Live at the Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada, September 2nd, 2005 (2 songs captured live) Metal Mania Festival - Live at the Spodek, Katowice, Poland, March 4th, 2006 (4 songs captured live) Wacken - Live at the Wacken Open Air, Germany, August 4th, 2006 (4 songs captured live) Century Media USA 10th Anniversary Party - Live at The Roxy, LA, September 28th, 2001 (2 songs captured live) Plus promotional videos for the songs: 13. What Tomorrow Knows 14. Next In Line 15. Believe In Nothing 16. I, Voyager 17. Enemies Of Reality 18. Final Product 19. Born 20. Narcosynthesis (live promo video) * Plus an interview with Warrel Dane!
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 2008 is the year of the voyager November 25, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Man, I can't believe it's been two years since I first read of a Nevermore dvd in the works. 2006 wasn't a great year for Nevermore due to illnesses left and right, the worst being former guitarist Steve Smyth experiencing kidney failure due to a congenital birth defect. This show was originally set for September 12 in Bochum, Germany. Unfortunately, Warrel had an infection, and had to be hospitalized. The show was later rescheduled for October 11. After it was filmed, the last thing I remember reading was a post online from Jeff Loomis talking about the show and possibly doing some post-production touchups here and there. Nothing new came up after that. Two years later, it resurfaced not only as a 2-dvd set, but as a 2-cd set for those that want listen to it in the car, or on their walkman or ipod. Of course, the meat of it all is the main concert filmed in Germany. 20 songs from all of the band's albums spanning their career, plus you get to catch guitar-shreddage from Jeff Loomis, who was joined by Jag Panzer guitarist Chris Broderick before he left to join Megadeth. As expected, the live audio is crisp, clear, and super loud thanks to Andy Sneap (Arch Enemy, Exodus, Testament). Some may be turned off a little by some fancy editing, but as long as it sounds killer, should you really care?!? The extras on disc 2 are kinda simple: additional live footage including Gigantour in Montreal, Canada in 2005 (from the first Gigantour dvd), the Metal Mania Festival in Katowice, Poland in 2006, Wacken Open Air 2006, and the Century Media USA 10th Anniversary Party in Los Angeles in 2001 (from the Century Media USA 10th Anniversary Party dvd), all of the band's music videos, and an interview with Warrel Dane. Sadly, what's lacking is a documentary on the band's history from starting out to where they are today. Because I am a fan of the band, and the concert is so awesome, I can overlook this. This has been a long time coming as I've always thought they should have a live dvd, so to finally see this is a wish granted. If you're looking for sonic insanity, get both the dvd and cd now.
 Seizure enducing edits does not a good video make December 2, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a huge Nevermore fan I was really excited over the release of this DVD, which is also why it kills me to give what I believe to be the best band out there today 1 star for this release. I had pre-ordered it along with the double CD of the show as well. I listened to the audio discs first and thought the performance was great. I brought the video over to a friends house on Thanksgiving to watch it on his 52" flat panel. I decided to watch the footage for "I Am the Dog" first and I lasted two minutes through the hyper-editing cuts that plague this release. If anyone has seen Iron Maiden's "Rock in Rio" then you will know what I am talking about. I don't know why anyone would ever edit a video this way because it's certainly not how you would see it if you were there in person. It's extremely distracting since you can't get a good view of anything since it cuts away every 2 seconds and it just makes it a chore to watch. The only positive I could give is that the audio is excellent, but you could just buy the double CD for that.
Stupid edit and mixing December 5, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've waited for a year to get this dvd and I disapointed with how the camera angle's would change in every 2 secs and it also shows black and white colour every once in a while , this is really stupid. The mixing, you might say its good but to me Andy Sneap has fix too much thing to make it almost exactly sounds like the album. The guitar tone, i even think that it might be taken out from the album, on certain occasion you could hear that.
Wow. December 12, 2008
Holy crap, best dvd ever.
When I was watching the previews before this came out, I thought the editing was annoying, but now watching the whole thing on a big screen it seems to work. The actual performance is fantastic. If you haven't heard much of Nevermore's stuff, and are looking to get into them, start with this. Partly because there are songs from every album, and party because they are just so damn good live. Anyway, buy this. It's worth far more than the AU$50 I paid for it.
Great concerts - incredible value! December 26, 2008
1 star ratings?!?... I dunno... I don't get it. I guess it really bugs me for when people rate a DVD for what it COULD have been or what THEY WANTED it to be - but if you rate this DVD for what it IS, I don't see how you can possibly give it one star... or really any less than four stars. I could see maybe taking one star away for the quick edits, etc.
The sound is great (I'll take "sounds too much like the album" over the tin-can sound most concert DVD's have any day), the editing isn't THAT bad (I personally enjoyed it), and most-importantly, the video is clear enough to see the true energy Warrel puts into his vocal performances! And as a guitarist, of course I enjoy seeing the fretboard wizardry of Jeff and Chris.
The main concert would have made the DVD enough of a value, but then add the other concerts, the promo videos, and the Warrel interview (kind of surprising to see how shy he is in front of a camera after being a performer for so many years) all makes this an incredible value for even a casual Nevermore fan.
Highly recommended!
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