BE (Original Stage Production)

"BE" is Swedish progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band Pain of Salvation

Pain of Salvation

Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive rock band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. Their sound is characterised by powerful, accentuated guitar work, broad vocal range, abrupt switching between heavy and calm passages, intense...

's first live DVD (and second live CD), documenting one of the performances of their 2004 album BE in its entirety in Eskilstuna

Eskilstuna

Eskilstuna is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 60,185 inhabitants in 2005. Eskilstuna has a large Sweden Finn population....

, Sweden

Sweden

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 on September 12, 2003. In contrast to the studio album, The Orchestra of Eternity (a nine-piece orchestra accompanying the band) are given credit on the front cover of the album (though they weren't shown on the initial promo release).

Track listing

All music by Daniel Gildenlöw, except "Iter Impius" by Fredrik Hermansson

Fredrik Hermansson

Fredrik Hermansson is a Swedish musician. He is currently a keyboardist and backing vocalist in the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation. He also works as a free-lance piano player and composer...

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1. "Animae Partus"
2. "Deus Nova"
3. "Imago"
4. "Pluvius Aestivus"
5. "Lilium Cruentus"
6. "Nauticus"
7. "Dea Pecuniae"
8. "Vocari Dei"
9. "Diffidentia"
10. "Nihil Morari"
11. "Latericius Valete"
12. "Omni"
13. "Iter Impius"
14. "Martius/Nauticus II"
15. "Animae Partus II"

Concept, research, original stories, lyrics, narrations and texts by Daniel Gildenlöw

Daniel Gildenlöw

Daniel Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band. In the band, he is the main songwriter, lead guitar player, and the mastermind behind each album's concept...

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All orchestral arrangements by Daniel Gildenlöw, except "Iter Impius" by Fredrik Hermansson and "Imago" by Jan Levander and Daniel Gildenlöw.

The track listing is identical for both the CD and DVD, which are in turn, identical to the studio release of "BE" (refer to the studio version article for a more detailed Track listing).

Personnel

• Daniel Gildenlöw
  Daniel Gildenlöw
  Daniel Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band. In the band, he is the main songwriter, lead guitar player, and the mastermind behind each album's concept...
  
   – lead vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, mandola, percussion
• Johan Hallgren
  Johan Hallgren
  Johan Hallgren is a Swedish musician. He is a guitarist and backing vocalist in the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation....
  
   – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, percussion
• Fredrik Hermansson
  Fredrik Hermansson
  Fredrik Hermansson is a Swedish musician. He is currently a keyboardist and backing vocalist in the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation. He also works as a free-lance piano player and composer...
  
   – grand piano, harpsichord, percussion
• Kristoffer Gildenlöw
  Kristoffer Gildenlöw
  Kristoffer Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as bass guitarist in the band Pain of Salvation, a band started by his older brother Daniel Gildenlöw...
  
   – fretted and fretless basses, double bass, vocals, percussion
• Johan Langell
  Johan Langell
  Johan Langell is a Swedish musician. He is best known as the former drummer of the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation.-Pain of Salvation:*Hereafter *Entropia...
  
  – drums, percussion

The Orchestra of Eternity:

• Mihai Cucu – 1st violin
• Camilla Arvidsson – 2nd violin
• Kristina Ekman – viola
• Magnus Lanning – cello
• Åsa Karlberg – flute
• Anette Kumlin – oboe
• Nils-Åke Pettersson – clarinet
• Dries van den Poel – bass clarinet
• Sven-Oloe Juvas – tuba

Backtrack musicians:

• Daniel Gildenlöw – harmony vocals, choirs, guitars, keyboards, samplers, Chinese archo
• Mats Stenlund – church organ
• Cecilia Ringkvist – vocals
• Donald Morgan – narration
• Donald K. Morgan – narration
• Alex R. Morgan – narration
• Kim Howatt – news reading, Cindy (Sandra!)
• Jim Howatt – news reading
• Blair Wilson – Miss Mediocrity
• Gaby Howatt – Miss Mediocrity
• Various people from around the world – voice messages to God