The Mystery of Time
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The Mystery of Time is the sixth full-length album by Tobias Sammet's rock opera project Avantasia. The album was released on 29 March 2013.[4] 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.[5][6]
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. [7]
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 are written by Tobias Sammet
| No. | Title | Guest Vocalist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Spectres" | Joe Lynn Turner | 6:09 |
| 2. | "The Watchmakers' Dream" | Turner | 4:14 |
| 3. | "Black Orchid" | Biff Byford | 6:52 |
| 4. | "Where Clock Hands Freeze" | Michael Kiske | 4:35 |
| 5. | "Sleepwalking" | Cloudy Yang | 3:52 |
| 6. | "Savior in the Clockwork" | Turner, Byford, Kiske | 10:40 |
| 7. | "Invoke the Machine" | Ronnie Atkins | 5:30 |
| 8. | "What's Left Of Me" | Eric Martin | 5:07 |
| 9. | "Dweller in a Dream" | Kiske | 4:45 |
| 10. | "The Great Mystery" | Bob Catley, Turner, Byford | 10:03 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 11. | "The Cross And You" | 4:14 |
| 12. | "Death Is Just A Feeling (Alternative Version/Tobias Sammet)" | 5:24 |
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." [8]
Personnel
- Tobias Sammet - lead vocals, bass guitar
- Sascha Paeth - guitars, producer
- Miro - keyboards
- Russell Gilbrook - drums
Special guests
Musicians
- Guitars
- Bruce Kulick (on tracks 3, 6, 10)
- Oliver Hartmann (on tracks 4, 7)
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen (on track 2)
- Organ
- Ferdy Doernberg (on track 2)
Singers
- Joe Lynn Turner (ex-Rainbow, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen) (on tracks 1, 2, 6, 10)
- Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween, Place Vendome, Unisonic) (on tracks 4, 6, 9)
- Biff Byford (Saxon) (on tracks 3, 6, 10)
- Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids) (on track 7)
- Eric Martin (Mr. Big) (on track 8)
- Bob Catley (Magnum) (on track 10)
- Cloudy Yang (on track 5)
Charts
References
- ^ "Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time". Metal Blast. 2013-04-05.
- ^ "Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time Review". Time-For-Metal.eu (Germany). 2013-03-26.
- ^ "Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time Review". Metal Traveller. 2013-04-08.
- ^ http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/discography/details/2891865.71066.the-mystery-of-time.html
- ^ http://www.tobiassammet.com/eng/index.php
- ^ http://www.musikreviews.de/artikel/Avantasia-The-Mystery-Of-Time-Listening-Session-62/
- ^ http://www.metal-rules.com/metalnews/2013/05/10/avantasia-the-mystery-of-time-debuts-at-9-on-billboard-heat-seekers-chart-33-on-hard-rock/
- ^ AVANTASIA - The Mystery Of Time (PRE-LISTENING), NuclearBlastEurope
- ^ http://www.rock-it-magazine.de/blog/2013/04/09/avantasia-auf-2-in-den-deutschen-albumcharts/
- ^ www.tobiassammet.com
- ^ http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Tobias+Sammet%27s+Avantasia&titel=The+Mystery+Of+Time&cat=a
- ^ "Top 40 album-, DVD- és válogatáslemez-lista – 2013. 14. hét" (in Hungarian). Mahasz. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
- ^ "TOP 100 ALBUMES" (PDF) (in Spanish). PROMUSICAE. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
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