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As far as release dates go, it's been a great year for metal bands. Not that many capitalized on the opportunity, but it's not often that 6/6/6 AND Halloween are both Tuesdays in the same year. In fact, I haven't done the math, but considering how often the former occurs at all, this might be some once-every-hundred-millennia shit, which means our civilizations will have crumbled and the earth will have flown off course into the sun before it happens again.

There is, however, one band cashing in on the potential of this second dark day of release: the mighty Opeth. Today, Roadrunner Records released a "special edition" of last year's Ghost Reveries, complete with a cover of Deep Purple's "Soldier of Fortune" as a bonus track and an accompanying DVD. The DVD features a 5.1 surround sound mix of the album, a 40-minute making-of-the-album documentary, and the director's cut video for Ghost Reveries' first single, "The Grand Conjuration".

If you go to the record store now, you'll still have time to buy a bunch of copies of Ghost Reveries (Special Edition) to give to trick-or-treaters in place of candy. Even if they don't like metal, it's way better than those peanut butter pieces of crap.

Opeth begin a mammoth fall tour November 5 at Portsmouth, England's Pyramid, hitting places all over the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy in the process.

Tracklist:

01 Ghost of Perdition
02 The Baying of the Hounds
03 Beneath the Mire
04 Atonement
05 Reverie/Harlequin Forest
06 Hours of Wealth
07 The Grand Conjuration
08 Isolation Years
09 Soldier of Fortune (Deep Purple cover)

Dates:

11-05 Portsmouth, England - Pyramid *
11-06 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC *
11-07 Nottingham, England - Rock City *
11-08 Birmingham, England - Academy *
11-09 London, England - Roundhouse *
11-10 Manchester, England - Academy *
11-11 Exeter, England - Great Hall *
11-13 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar St. *
12-02 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Club
12-03 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
12-05 Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre
12-06 Lyon, France - Transbordeur
12-07 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo
12-08 Madrid, Spain - Heineken hall
12-09 Lisbon, Portugal - Paradise Garage
12-10 Porto, Portugal - Hard Club
12-12 Bilbao, Spain - Sala Santana
12-13 Montpellier, France - Le Rockstore
12-14 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
12-16 Ravenna, Italy - Kojak
12-17 Rome, Italy - Alpheus
12-18 Treviso, Italy - New Age

* with Paradise Lost