Avantasia "The Mystery Of Time"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Rock opera
Label: Nuclear Blast
Release date: March 29, 2013
Tracklist: 

1. Spectres - 6:09
2. The Watchmakers' Dream - 4:14
3. Black Orchid - 6:52
4. Where Clock Hands Freeze - 4:35
5. Sleepwalking - 3:52
6. Savior in the Clockwork - 10:40
7. Invoke the Machine - 5:30
8. What's Left Of Me - 5:07
9. Dweller in a Dream - 4:45
10. The Great Mystery - 10:03

Line-up: 
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals, bass guitar
Sascha Paeth - guitars
Miro – keyboards
Russell Gilbrook - drums
   With
Bruce Kulick: guitars on tracks 3, 6, 10
Oliver Hartmann: guitars on tracks 4, 7, 9
Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon): guitars on track 2
Joe Lynn Turner (ex-Rainbow, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen): vocals on tracks 1, 2, 6, 10
Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween, Place Vendome, Unisonic): vocals on tracks 4, 6, 9
Biff Byford (Saxon) : vocals on tracks 3, 6, 10
Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids): vocals on track 7
Eric Martin (Mr. Big): vocals on track 8
Bob Catley (Magnum): vocals on track 10
Cloudy Yang: vocals on track 5

Description/Reviews: 

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."

Also read the review by Robert Garland at sputnikmusic.com

Media/Samples 
Entire album online
Invoke The Machine

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