Tobias Sammet's Avantasia - Ghostlights Album

Tracklist

1	Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose	3:51
2	A Restless Heart And Obsidian Skies	5:53
3	Master Of The Pendulum	5:01
4	Unchain The Light	5:03
5	Isle Of Evermore	4:28
6	Draconian Love	4:58
7	Babylon Vampyres	7:09
8	Ghostlights	5:43
9	Seduction Of Decay	7:18
10	The Haunting	4:42
11	Lucifer	3:48
12	Let The Storm Descend Upon You	12:09

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
NB 3635-2, 27361 36352	Tobias Sammet's Avantasia	Ghostlights ‎(CD, Album)	Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast	NB 3635-2, 27361 36352	Europe	2016
L100005162	Tobias Sammet's Avantasia	Ghostlights ‎(CD, Album + CD + Dlx)	Evolution Music	L100005162	South Korea	2016
NB 3635-4, 27361 36354	Tobias Sammet's Avantasia	Ghostlights ‎(CD, Album + CD + CD, Album + Ltd, Ear)	Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast	NB 3635-4, 27361 36354	Europe	2016
NB 3635-5	Tobias Sammet's Avantasia	Ghostlights ‎(Box, Dlx, Ltd, Num + CD, Album + CD + CD, Album + )	Nuclear Blast	NB 3635-5	Europe	2016
NB 3635-0, 27361 36350	Tobias Sammet's Avantasia	Ghostlights ‎(CD, Album + CD + Ltd, Dig)	Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast	NB 3635-0, 27361 36350	Europe	2016

Credits

• Artwork [Cover], Layout – Thomas Ewerhard
• Backing Vocals – Clara Habekost (tracks: 3), Cloudy Yang, Oliver Hartmann
• Bass – Sascha Paeth
• Bass [Additional] – Tobias Sammet
• Booking – all-access.de
• Drums – Felix Bohnke
• Engineer [Additional] – Jacob Hansen, Jeremy Rubolino, Olaf Reitmeier, Sheena Sear
• Guitar, Soloist – Sascha Paeth (tracks: 5)
• Keyboards – Michael Rodenberg, Sascha Paeth, Tobias Sammet
• Lead Guitar – Bruce Kulick, Oliver Hartmann , Sascha Paeth
• Liner Notes – 藤木昌生
• Lyrics By, Music By – Tobias Sammet
• Mastered By – Michael Rodenberg
• Mixed By – Sascha Paeth
• Orchestrated By – Michael Rodenberg
• Photography By – Alex Kuehr
• Producer – Sascha Paeth, Tobias Sammet
• Recorded By – Sascha Paeth
• Rhythm Guitar – Sascha Paeth
• Vocals [Aaron Blackwell] – Tobias Sammet
• Vocals [Eclipse] – Herbie Langhans
• Vocals [Magician] – Ronnie Atkins
• Vocals [Muse] – Sharon den Adel
• Vocals [Mystic] – Michael Kiske
• Vocals [Nightmare] – Dee Snider
• Vocals [Scientist I] – Robert Mason
• Vocals [Scientist II] – Geoff Tate
• Vocals [Spirit] – Bob Catley
• Vocals [Temptation] – Jorn Lande
• Vocals [The Watchmaker] – Marco Hietala

Barcodes

• Barcode: 4 527516 015541
• Rights Society: JASRAC

Companies

• Manufactured By – Marquee Inc.
• Licensed From – Tobias Sammet
• Mixed At – Gate Studio, Wolfsburg
• Mastered At – Gate Studio, Wolfsburg

Short intro

Ghostlights is the seventh full-length album by Tobias Sammet's metal opera project Avantasia. It was released on 29 January 2016. The opening track and first single Mystery of a Blood Red Rose was a candidate for the German representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, along with nine other songs. Ghostlights' is taken from Tobias Sammet's masterpiece 'GHOSTLIGHTS'. Tobias is the seventh full-length album by Tobias Sammet's rock opera project Avantasia. Ghostlights scored the highest positions of any Avantasia release in sever. Album 2016 12 Songs. More by Tobias Sammet's Avantasia. The Scarecrow. Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose - Single. Featured On. Avantasia Essentials. Avantasia: Next Steps. Albums You May Also Like. Ghostlights is the seventh album released by Tobias Sammets Avantasia. It was released on January 29, 2016. The album is the sequel to its predecessor The Mystery of Time which follows the journey of scientists to make the world a better place by changing the personalities of all people. They then find that changing their personalities, even for the betterment of the world, is like controlling them. Sammet exclaims that the ending of the story is left open and up to the listeners' interpretation. Ghostlights Q&A. Producers Sascha Paeth & Tobias Sammet. Writers Tobias. Complete your Tobias Sammet's Avantasia collection. For this album, Sammets Edguy bandmate Felix Bohnke played drums on all the tracks. For Ghostlights, there are a wide variety of guest vocalists. Some are Avantasia mainstays, others returned after an absence of one or more albums, and several appear for the first time. Perhaps the most surprising guest is Twisted Sisters Dee Snider, who wouldnt seem to fit the bill for a power metal band. He shows his power metal chops on The Haunting, alternating between subdued crooning and full-out belting. With -Ghostlights, Avantasia take listeners on a 70-minute ride filled with great singing, first-class arrangements and ample variety. Avantasia, Tobias Sammet's Ghostlights. melodic metal. 2016 Nuclear Blast studio album 12 tracks Release date: January 29, 2016. Track listing. RR Album Poll 2016: 11 Studio album 7 The new Avantasia album, Ghostlights, does not only deliver exciting surprises, it presents a stellar array of guest musicians, who unite on this record to continue with the concept of the previous album The Mystery Of Time and impressively take the listener on a journey. Avantasia - Ghostlights. Spiner202. Album is signed in loving memory of Tobias Sammet's father, Ernst Sammet, who died on December 21st, 2013. Official music videos: - Mystery of a Blood Red Rose - Draconian Love Official lyric video: - Mystery of a Blood Red Rose - Ghostlights. Recording information: Written, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered between October 2014 and November 2015. EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet's AVANTASIA project released its seventh studio album, Ghostlights, on January 29 via Nuclear Blast. The twelve-song CD was produced by Tobias and Sascha Paeth at Gatestudio in Wolfsburg, Germany. Paeth engineered and mixed Ghostlights, while the mastering was done by Michael Rodenberg. A new four-and-a-half-minute video clip in which Sammet discusses the concept behind Ghostlights can be seen below. AVANTASIA released a new digital single, Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose, on December 11