AVANTASIA - Mystery of a Blood Red Rose (OFFICIAL TRACK & LYRICS)

Tobias Sammet became known amongst Rock fans all over the world as the singer and songwriter of EDGUY, one of Germany's biggest internationally acclaimed Rock bands in recent music history, having played numerous headline tours in Europe, Australia, Asia and North, Central, and South America.

In 1999 Tobias started his side project AVANTASIA. What was originally planned as a one-off studio affair, was revived in 2007. The album "The Scarecrow" was released in 2008 and was officially amongst the 20 best selling albums all over Europe upon its release, it entered the charts in 15 countries (Germany #8), featured the Top 10 hit single "Lost In Space" and producer Sascha Paeth received an award for "The Scarecrow" having been chosen "Best Rock Production 2008" by the Association of German Sound Engineers (VDT).

On the album Tobias had been working with fellow musicians like Jorn Lande, Eric Singer (KISS), Rudolf Schenker (SCORPIONS), Bob Catley (MAGNUM), Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske both ex-HELLOWEEN), Alice Cooper and many more. The unexpected success of the album resulted in a Festival-tour, climaxing with a headlining show at the prestigious Wacken Open Air in front of more than 85.000 people. When the tour was over AVANTASIA had played in Europe, Asia and South America in front of more than half a million people. Tobias later recalled: "Allstar albums are being recorded quite often, but I don't think the Heavy Metal circus has seen a giant allstar show like that travelling around the world."

To this date EDGUY and AVANTASIA have sold more than 2.5 million CDs worldwide - exclusively on Independent labels and to quote Tobias: "(...) without kissing ass in today's fast food music business (...)" Currently he is working on a new AVANTASIA album which is scheduled for April of this year.

Avantasia

Ghostlights

release date: January 29th, 2016

Label: Nuclear Blast Records

1. Mystery of a Blood Red Rose 03:51

2. Let the Storm Descend upon You 12:09

3. The Haunting 04:42

4. Seduction of Decay 07:18

5. Ghostlights 05:43

6. Draconian Love 04:58

7. Master of the Pendulum 05:01

8. Isle of Evermore 04:28

9. Babylon Vampyres 07:09

10. Lucifer 03:48

11. Unchain the Light 05:03

12. A Restless Heart and Obsidian Skies 05:53

total time 01:10:03

AVANTASIA - Mystery of a Blood Red Rose (OFFICIAL TRACK & LYRICS)