During my tape-trading days (late 93/early 94) I obtained a copy of a rehearsal demo of Opeth's "Apostle In Triumph", long before the debut album "Orchid" was released. This wasn't the brief 3 minute snippet that is floating around the net these days, but the full song, structurally identical to the album version. Being a rehearsal demo, it lacked the multiple guitar harmonies (so much so that when I finally heard the album version I thought it too elaborate).

Unfortunately I lost the tape some years ago, and when I tried to search for the track online I found that the only version mentioned on the internet is the short snippet (at one point it was listed on Opeth's MA page). I'm aware that sharing is frowned upon on here, so I'm really just trying to establish whether anyone else is aware of the track? Anyone else come across it whilst trading? Anyone got it?

Would be interesting to hear this.

Isn't that track a bonus track to the Re-Release CD of the debut (re-released around 2000/2001?? I thought there is this Reh-track used). Not a snippet, but a full song.

No, the 2000 reissue had "Into the Frost of Winter" as a bonus track.

Still looking for this, can anybody shed any light on it? I realise this will get locked for thread-necromancy, but hey.

I notice that the 3-minute demo has diappeared from the discography on Opeth's page since I first posted this.

I believe there's a different version of it that appeared on this compilation:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Candleli ... se/1613195

I'm not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure it was mentioned on the Opeth forum a very long time ago. Perhaps it was just the acoustic part not being tacked on to the wrong track, not a different version, I really don't remember.

Hi balbulus - did you ever get ahold of this? I have a huge collection of live Opeth recordings (including early 90s rehearsals), but this one has always eluded me.