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After 2 weeks delayed, the wait is finally over and Tobias Sammet’s AVANTASIA will release next Friday its new album “Moonglow”. The new opus once again features several stellar guest vocalists. This time round, Tobias worked not only with well-known faces such as Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids), Jorn Lande, Eric Martin (Mr Big), Geoff Tate (Operation:Mindcrime), Michael Kiske (Helloween) or...
Tobias Sammet’s AVANTASIA project will release a new album this month, “Moonglow”. As an exclusive advance, Sammet has arranged to release an EP available only thru Rock Hard Magazine #381 (German version). Titled “More Moonglow ; The Rock Hard EP”, it includes previously unreleased material. “More Moonglow ; The Rock Hard EP” includes two songs from the upcoming album. One...
New year, and many new interesting releases coming up. Here’s some great advanced singles.Less than two years since the release of “The Missing Peace” — the first L.A. GUNS album since 2002’s ‘Waking The Dead’ to feature founding guitarist Tracii Guns and vocalist Phil Lewis — the group will issue a follow-up effort, “The Devil You Know”, on March 29...
New year, and many new interesting releases coming up. Here’s some great advanced singles.BURNING RAIN, the hard rock band founded by guitarist extraordinaire Doug Aldrich (REVOLUTION SAINTS, THE DEAD DAISIES, WHITESNAKE, DIO) and vocalist Keith St. John (MONTROSE, KINGDOM COME), will release its fourth studio album, “Face The Music”, on March 22 via Frontiers Music. First single ‘Midnight Train’ encompasses...
For the first time, the two volumes of Tobias Sammet’s AVANTASIA “The Metal Opera” are being released on high quality SHM-CD in Japan. This “The Metal Opera Part I” includes as bonus track a special version of the song ‘Avantasia’. For the uninitiated with these 2 Avantasia first albums, “The Metal Opera” actually isn’t operatic but rocking. Tobias Sammet wanted...
For the first time, the two volumes of Tobias Sammet’s AVANTASIA “The Metal Opera” are being released on high quality SHM-CD in Japan. This “The Metal Opera Part II” carry on the story begun in The Metal Opera first album, with the same characters. For the uninitiated with these 2 Avantasia first albums, “The Metal Opera” actually isn’t operatic but...
Near the end of 2018, some great advanced singles are coming from much anticipated 2019 releases.Awesome AOR combo FIND ME consisting of lead vocalist Robert LaBlanc, drummer Daniel Flores, keyboardist Sören Kronquist, rhythm guitarist Philip Lindstrand, lead guitarist Michael Palace and bassist Johnny Trobro have released their song “No Tears In Paradise” from their upcoming third studio album ‘Angels In...
Tobias Sammet’s AVANTASIA project will release its seventh studio album, “Ghostlights“, on January 29, 2016 via Nuclear Blast. The twelve-song CD was produced by Tobias and Sascha Paeth at Gatestudio in Wolfsburg, Germany.It’s too easy to lump Avantasia into the heap of all-star projects that are all the rage these days. However, for all of Sammet’s trolling about ‘never writing...
Many major bands and promising newcomers got ready their new albums to be released next year, so let’s take a look to the advanced singles from the most interesting acts from the bunch. Seems 2016 will be the years of super-groups, being RESURRECTION KINGS among the most notable featuring great guitarist Craig Goldy (DIO, GIUFFRIA, ROUGH CUTT), singer Chas West...
* German musician Tobias Sammet fronts the humorous, high energy heavy metal band Edguy, but since 2000 the man has been developing a side project: AVANTASIA, which has unveiled his latest opus “The Mystery Of Time” to be released next week. There’s not many occasions where a side project not only has become equally, if not more popular than the...
