Released 26 April 2013 The Mystery of Time
(2013) Ghostlights
(2016) Release date 29 March 2013 | Length 62:00 Artist Avantasia Label AVALON | |
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Recorded June 2012 - January 2013 Genres Heavy metal, Power metal, Symphonic metal, Hard rock Producers Sascha Paeth, Tobias Sammet Similar Ghostlights, Angel of Babylon, The Wicked Symphony, The Metal Opera, The Scarecrow | ||
The Mystery of Time is the sixth full-length album by Tobias Sammet's rock opera project Avantasia. The album was released on 26 April 2013. This is the first Avantasia release to feature the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (the same orchestra that performed on Edguy's album Hellfire Club). The cover artwork was painted by Rodney Matthews.
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The Mystery Of Time scored high positions in several international music charts and even enabled Avantasia to enter the US Billboard charts for the very first time.
When asked to compare the album to Avantasia's previous efforts, guitarist and producer Sascha Paeth described it as follows:
Spectres avantasia
Track listing
Limited editions of the album include a second CD with instrumental versions of all the tracks on the album, with the exception of the two limited edition bonus tracks.
All tracks written by Tobias Sammet.
Story
The album booklet describes the story "So take the time to follow me into a small old English town during the Victorian era and join a young agnostic scientist by the name Aaron Blackwell as he is forced to explore the coherencies of time, God and science; torn between belief in his professional conviction, his spiritual intuition, love and a lodge of scientific occultists."
Personnel
Musicians
Vocalists
Songs
1Spectres6:09
2The Watchmakers' Dream4:14
3Black Orchid6:55