Live CD and DVD combo, the first to feature new vocalist Rob Lowe (Solitude Aeturnus) offers ten tracks, almost evenly split between his tenure and the classics with Messiah Marcolin, plus the closing, punked-up cover of Rainbow’s ‘Kill The King’.

The Sweden Rock crowd is singing along to ‘Dark Are The Veils Of Death’ after about one minute, even as Lowe’s vocals are a little rough (not his best performance, but this is live and unadulterated). Neither that, nor a ‘Samarithan’ follow-up would be considered definitive festival pleasers (speaking volumes to the band’s status and the sophistication of the homegrown audience). As for the newer material, nice guitar solo in ‘If I Ever Die’ and aside from a premature bell tolling to introduce an almost a cappella (in front of tens of thousands?) ‘Hammer Of Doom’, it ends in six-string flurry. Lowe truly shines on the multi-dimensional dynamics of ‘At The Gallows End’. Unaccompanied to start ‘A Sorcerer’s Pledge’, an off-key fan can be heard almost as clearly as Lowe! Latter, the crowd adds the ‘whoa’ section without prodding. Hopefully, they’ll all beat a path to their local music store as well.