Opheliac
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| Studio album by Emilie Autumn | ||||
| Released | September 1, 2006 October 2009 |
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| Recorded | Mad Villain Studios, Chicago | |||
| Genre | Dark cabaret, electronica, classical, electro-industrial | |||
| Length | 85:41 | |||
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Trisol Music Group The End Records |
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| Studio album (commentary) by Emilie Autumn | |
| Released | August 2009 |
| Recorded | Mad Villain Studios, Chicago |
| Genre | Commentary |
| Length | 8:00:00 |
Opheliac is the second studio album by Emilie Autumn released in September 2006 by Trisol Music Group GmbH. Opheliac was recorded at Mad Villain Studios, Chicago, United States. It is the first album by the artist to receive widespread distribution around the world. All of Autumn's previous albums were only available through her own independent record label, Traitor Records.
The album Opheliac was preceded by the Opheliac EP, released in Spring 2006. This was a preview of the full-length album, and featured the first six tracks plus "Marry Me" and "Thank God I'm Pretty", the latter as a hidden track following the former. However, track 5 "I Want My Innocence Back" does not play on any one of the copies of the EP, due to a manufacturing error.
In addition to the musical and spoken-word tracks, Opheliac features live concert footage, clips from her performance of "Misery Loves Company" on the WGN Morning Show on January 12, 2006, and three short video clips entitled "Inside the Asylum: Lessons in Being a Wayward Victorian Girl".
Opheliac was originally released as a limited edition digipak in Europe on September 1, 2006. Then it was released worldwide on September 22, 2006, Emilie Autumn's birthday. When this limited edition sold out, it was released in a standard jewelcase edition on February 5, 2007. There is no difference in musical content between the two versions, however, the digipak edition includes an additional "Opheliac" poster.
At some point, a Russian printed version of Opheliac became available. It only features disc one of the "double disk" album, thus, the Russian album normally sells for a lower price (on eBay, prices have been as low as £3, but as high as a normal edition of Opheliac).
As of August 6, 2008, Emilie announced that she will be releasing Opheliac Nationwide in music stores across the US on October 7, 2008. The US release features exclusive tracks, such as "The Art of Suicide - Acoustic" and out-takes from the Opheliac recording sessions.
A third issuing of Opheliac, entitled The Deluxe Edition, was released by The End Records in October 2009 to coincide with her first American tour.
The album was written solely by Autumn. The name Opheliac derives from the song of the same name, which also served as the album's lead single. The song's name is derived from the character Ophelia from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, whom the song is about.
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