Product Details

• Actors: Anathema
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Peaceville UK
• DVD Release Date: May 21, 2002
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005YXGH
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #138,774 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
This retrospective of Anathema's musical career features both 4 promo clips and 8 songs, recorded live in Krakow, Poland on March 1, 1996.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only Anathema DVD I have so far..., August 26, 2003

By	"bartmanphooey" (Fargo, ND USA) - See all my reviews

I really love this DVD. There are some great songs on here, the promos are really cool. Most of the disc is actually a live concert in Krakow, Polland. It's Vincent Cavanagh doing the vocal work on this, which I enjoy. It really would have been nice to see some live work with Darren White, but it didn't happen that way. I was disappointed that it was only dolby 2.0, DTS would have made me far happier. Definately worth the money. On an interesting note, I bought this used through Amazon from Spun.com. I placed my order 080103, received confirmation from Spun.com 080403 and finally got it 081503. I saved about 11 bucks buying it used, so it was acceptable I guess, but 14 days is way too long when Amazon usually gets stuff to me in 3-5 days. See my review of Slayer's War At The Warfield for an example of what not to do.

Promos: Sweet Tears, Mine Is Yours, The Silent Enigma, Hope

Concert: Restless Oblivion, Shroud Of Frost, We The Gods, Sunset Of Age, Mine Is Yours, Sleepless, The Silent Enigma, A Dying Wish.

Truly this is an amazing disc. Buy it now.

3.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, February 26, 2009

By	factory35 "donc" (usa) - See all my reviews

Only buy this if you are a die hard fan or want a cheap product. The videos are OK but the concert sound is terrible. You have to blast your TV set and even then it doesnt sound very good. Muddy. I would recommend looking elsewhere unless you need this for your collection or are only into OLD Anathema stuff.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better, January 13, 2004

By	rafael simian (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews

Anyone who buys this DVD has one main reason: to watch and to hear Anathema playing live. This performance in Krakow consists in 8 songs, 5 from "The Silent Enigma" and 3 from albums which were recorded with Darren White. I am a great fan of this band, especially of "The Silent Enigma" and "Eternity" albums. I think I have heard the former at least a thousand times. As you probably know, it has many parts which are sang gutturally. This guttural aspect of the vocals is very important in the record. For example, the powerfullness of Restless Oblivion rests on Vincent Cavanagh's great guttural sound; the same happens with Shroud of Frost's chorus; and with Sunset of Age's last four lines. The force and dark atmosphere of A Dying Wish is almost unimaginable without the mixture between the guttural and the deep painful vocals. If you, as I, think this is very important for the songs to be as good as they were originally recorded, then you will be dissapointed with this live recording. Vincent does not sing as he did for the record (I am sure the voice in the album is he's), he just screams, but he does not reach the guttural sound, except in Sunset of Age (the problem in this track is that he sings awfully the first eight lines). Sometimes it is pathetic, like when he sings the Shroud of Frost chorus (especially when he says: "I yearn for an answer..."). Of course I will not go into a complete analysis, but I have to tell you: Vincent's voice is not Silent Enigma-like, and he does not adopt an Eternity vocal style neither, he just screams (not sounding awfull all the time, not even half of the times because the screaming sounds good, not excellent like the guttural, in many parts, but making the songs worst). I also have to say three great things of this performance: (1) The band plays their instruments great and sounds perfectly as a whole; (2) Sleepless and The Silent Enigma sounds incredible; (3) Shroud of Frost's last lines are maybe the greatest part because of Vincent's penetrating voice, the beatiful lyrics and the sublime music. These 3 aspects and Vincent's good vocal moments (which is the only element that sometimes is missing for this band's works to be perfect as in the record) make this DVD a great one, not an excellent or perfect one (like My Dying Bride's), that is why I give it 4 stars.
The 2.0 sound is not Anathema's problem, but Peaceville's. It is self-evident that a band like Anathema could benefit from a 5.1 mix.