Next Friday, the new AVANTASIA single "Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose" will be available for download. On Wednesday, December 9th at 3pm EST/9:00pm CET the song will be played on the Tobias Sammet Rockshow on RadioBob. You can also stream the show live from www.radiobob.de.
"Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose" is a four minutes song which Tobias described as a short opera within the rock opera. The choirs alone took over 40 hours to record - just for that one song!
Tobias commets: "At first listen it's a straight forward epic rock track in the vain of Meat Loaf meets AVANTASIA, but there are so many details and even though it flows well, it's the most sophisticated and detailed single I've ever released. Except from the chorus and one guitar line not one single part is repeated, even the verses are completely different. If Meat Loaf or Richard Wagner would do that kind of song, I am sure this would be a major hit. I just hope people take their headphones and listen to this in a darkened room and not over their mobile phone speakers, because that's the only way this music unfolds its magic."
Below is the track listing for Ghostlights:
01. Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose
Lead vocals: Tobias
Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
02. Let The Storm Descend Upon You
Lead vocals: Tobias, Jorn Lande, Ronnie Atkins, Robert Mason
Lead guitar: Oliver Hartmann
03. The Haunting
Lead vocals: Dee Snider, Tobias
Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
04. Seduction Of Decay
Lead vocals: Geoff Tate, Tobias
Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
05. Ghostlights
Lead vocals: Michael Kiske, Tobias, Jorn Lande
Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth, Oliver Hartmann
06. Draconian Love
Lead vocals: Herbie Langhans, Tobias
Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
07. Master Of The Pendulum
Lead vocals: Marco Hietala, Tobias
Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
08. Isle Of Evermore
Lead vocals: Sharon Den Adel, Tobias
09. Babylon Vampyres
Lead vocals: Tobias, Robert Mason
Lead guitar: Bruce Kulick, Oliver Hartmann, Sascha Paeth
10. Lucifer
Lead vocals: Jorn Lande, Tobias
Lead guitar: Bruce Kulick
11. Unchain The Light
Lead vocals: Tobias, Ronnie Atkins, Michael Kiske
Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth, Oliver Hartmann
12. A Restless Heart And Obsidian Skies
Lead vocals: Bob Catley, Tobias
Lead guitar: Bruce Kulick
The instrumentalists on Ghostlights are as follows:
SASCHA PAETH - Rhythm Guitars, Lead Guitars, Bass, Additional Keys
MICHAEL RODENBERG - Orchestration, Keys
TOBIAS SAMMET - Additional Keys, Bass
OLIVER HARTMANN - Lead Guitars
BRUCE KULICK - Lead Guitars
FELIX BOHNKE - Drums
Order your copy of Ghostlights here:
https://nblast.de/AvantasiaGhostlights
Or digitally:
https://nblast.de/AvantasiaGhostlightsiS
The Mystery of Time, the latest release from German composer and vocalist Tobias Sammet's, Avantasia, charted in 16 countries in Europe, Asia and America, including #2 in Germany. It debuted at #9 on the Billboard "Heat Seekers" chart as well as #33 on the "Hard Rock" chart.
Watch The Mystery Of Time album preview, the video for "Sleepwalking" and interviews with Tobias Sammet on the Nuclear Blast YouTube Channel!
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