Dream of an Opium Eater is a special collaboration originally created by invitation for Roskilde Festival.
For one hour on the evening of 07.07.07, a collection of horror films was accompanied by original musical score of an unsettling and epic nature.
Since then the band has also played the Carling Leeds Festival UK 2007, with a third show booked for Wacken Open Air, Germany on August 1st 2008.
Back in the old days, a pianist usually accompanied screenings of silent films. With Dream of an Opium Eater, a handful of ace metal musicians carry on this tradition. They play intense metal to a number of horror short films projected on a screen above them. In this way, they will bathe all ears and eyes in icy horror and fright. as the surreal and disturbing images on the screen find a parallel in the guitar-borne nightmare from the speakers..
The musicians are Ben Calvert from Killing Joke, Ivar S. Peersen from Enslaved, Reuben Gotto from Twin Zero / Johnny Truant and Julia Ruzicka from Million Dead.
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