GERMANY - The Mystery of Time, the latest release from German composer and vocalist Tobias Sammet's, Avantasia, is out now in North America on Nuclear Blast Records. Featuring a 60-piece-symphonic-orchestra, the German Filmorchestra Babelsberg (Rammstein, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams) and guest appearances by Biff Byford (Saxon), Michael Kiske (Unisonic, ex-Helloween), Joe Lynn Turner (ex-Rainbow, ex-Deep Purple), Eric Martin (Mr. Big), Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids), Bruce Kulick (ex-Kiss, ex-Meat Loaf), Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon), Bob Catley (Magnum), Russell Gilbrook (Uriah Heep) and more, The Mystery of Time can be purchased online through the Nuclear Blast web-store: http://smarturl.it/AvaMysTi and Amazon.com: http://smarturl.it/avmytiamz, or digitally via iTunes: http://bit.ly/avamotit.
While Sammet has sold more than 3 million discs worldwide, The Mystery of Time easily set Avantasia sales records when it released in Germany earlier this month; it sold more than twice as many copies as any previous Avantasia album in the first week of its release, while rocketing straight to #2 on the official German Mediacontrol album charts. The record also cracked the Top 10 in Finland, Sweden and England.
1.) Spectres
2.) The Watchmakers' Dream
3.) Black Orchid
4.) Where Clock Hands Freeze
5.) Sleepwalking
6.) Savior in the Clockwork
7.) Invoke the Machine
8.) What's Left of Me
9.) Dweller in a Dream
10.) The Great Mystery
Check out the music video for "Sleepwalking" on YouTube at: http://smarturl.it/SleepwalkingVideo, as well as a lyric video for "Invoke the Machine" at: http://youtu.be/WfQEclxbQrs.
Avantasia online...
www.facebook.com/avantasia
www.nuclearblast.de/avantasia
www.tobiassammet.com
Additional Avantasia multimedia...
The Mystery of Time Album Trailer: http://youtu.be/JTq8Q94eLDk
The Mystery of Time Studio Reports: http://youtu.be/k8tFi-8zyUk
"Invoke the Machine" Lyric Video: http://youtu.be/WfQEclxbQrs
Tobias Sammet talks about his guests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OdsSoPjqYTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WdhVXZ20irc
