Kamelot is an American power metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed by Thomas Youngblood in 1987.

The Norwegian vocalist Roy Khan joined for the album Siége Perilous, and shared songwriting credit with Youngblood until his departure in April 2011.

The band was formed in Florida in 1987 by guitarist Thomas Youngblood, with Richard Warner on drums, Rob Beck on vocals and Dirk Van Tilborg on bass and keyboards, as "Camelot".

[3] In 1988 they recorded the song "Breaking The Silence", composed by Youngblood and Warner, for "Tampa Bay's Metal Mercenaries: The Invasion", a cassette-only compilation of various Heavy Metal bands from Tampa Bay produced by Keith "Thumper" Collins (ex-bassist for Savatage).

In 1992 Glenn Barry replaced Sean Christians on bass guitar and, the following year, the band recorded its second demo.

After this, David Pavlicko was recruited as keyboardist; in 1993 the band signed a deal with Noise Records and released its first album, Eternity in 1995.

Later that year after a tour in Europe, founder Richard Warner departed the band and drummer Casey Grillo was brought in.

Following their first European tour and the departure of keyboardist Pavlicko,[7] the band returned to Tampa to write music for a new album titled The Fourth Legacy, released in 1999.

Both Epica and the band's seventh album, The Black Halo, which was released in 2005, are based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's version of the legend of Faust,[11] a man who sells his soul to the devil.

During the first leg of the "Black Halo World Tour 2005", Kamelot played a headliner show with Epica and Kotipelto.

In 2005, Kamelot made its first music videos for the songs "The Haunting (Somewhere in Time)" and "March of Mephisto" from the album The Black Halo.

On February 11, 2006, the band's live DVD, One Cold Winter's Night was filmed by Patric Ullaeus at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway.

Music videos were made for the songs "Ghost Opera", "The Human Stain", "Rule the World" and "Love You to Death".

It contains the entire original Ghost Opera album and a second CD with ten songs recorded during a concert in Belgrade, Serbia, with the additional bonus tracks "Season's End", "The Pendulous Fall", "Epilogue" and "Rule the World (Remixed)".

[14] During early 2010, Kamelot published the titles of three songs from the upcoming album on their official website: "The Great Pandemonium", "Hunter's Season" and "Thespian Drama".

[12] On September 6, 2010 the band announced that Khan had fallen seriously ill during rehearsals for the upcoming North American tour, just a few days before its scheduled start, and had returned to Norway.

While it was initially reported that the band would continue the tour with the Norwegian vocalist Michael Eriksen of Circus Maximus in Khan's place,[18] the band later announced that it would postpone the tour with Khan, though one show was performed with Eriksen at the ProgPower USA XI festival in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 10, 2010.

[19] However, on December 16, due to Khan's lingering illness, it was announced that Fabio Lione of Rhapsody of Fire would replace Khan for the remaining and rescheduled dates on the Pandemonium over Latin America, Europe and North America tours in 2011, and later the 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise in 2012.

The band joined Nightwish on their Imaginaerum World Tour in North America as special guests during September and October 2012 in the period leading up to the release of Silverthorn, along with guest-vocalists Elize Ryd and Alissa White-Gluz.

Between their shows in Milan and Strasbourg, they headed to Japan over the weekend, to play at Loud Park Festival for the first time.

Kamelot's focus in 2016 continued on live shows in support of Haven and brought them again to Europe, but also toured Japan and South America.

Kamelot announced that longtime member Casey Grillo had departed from the band on February 5, 2018 to "pursue other musical and touring opportunities" and to focus on his drumhead company.

After only two performances, the band announced that Johan Nunez would be stepping away due to injury and that Alex Landenburg would be his live replacement.

Kamelot concluded The Shadow Tour with another North American leg in the fall with support from Sonata Arctica and Battle Beast.

[39]In two interviews with FaceCulture and A&P Reacts, Youngblood had also revealed that twenty-five songs had been written for the new album, in which they would focus on thirteen of them.

[47] In addition to being confirmed as a headliner at the 2023 edition of ProgPower USA,[48] the band supported the album by going on a five-day tour in Brazil with Turilli / Lione Rhapsody in February 2023 with Melissa Bonny as a guest vocalist.