Avantasia - Moonglow *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 14th March 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

TRACK LISTING
Disc 1 - Side A 1. Ghost in the Moon / 2. Book of Shallows (feat. Hansi Kürsch , Ronnie Atkins , Jorn Lande & Mille
Petrozza) / 3. Moonglow (feat. Candice Night)
Disc 1 - Side B 1. The Raven Child (feat. Hansi Kürsch & Jorn Lande) / 2. Starlight (feat. Ronnie Atkins)
Disc 2 - Side A 1. Invincible (feat. Geoff Tate) / 2. Alchemy (feat. Geoff Tate) / 3. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (feat.
Ronnie Atkins , Jorn Lande , Eric Martin , Bob Catley & Geoff Tate) / 4. Lavender (feat. Bob Catley)
Disc 2 - Side B 1. Requiem for a Dream (feat. Michael Kiske) / 2. Maniac (feat. Eric Martin) / 3. Heart

OVERVIEW
AVANTASIA, the all-star rock opera spaceship piloted by EDGUY singer, songwriter and producer Tobias Sammet,
release their eighth full-length album, 'Moonglow'. Since its beginning in 1999, past AVANTASIA releases have featured
such galactic heavyweights as Alice Cooper, Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker (SCORPIONS), Bruce Kulick and Eric
Singer (KISS), Eric Martin (MR BIG), SAXON’s Biff Byford, ex-TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider and many more.
Just like its predecessor 'Ghostlights', which took the listener on a journey that asked questions about their very existence,
'Moonglow' also is dark, spine-chilling and eminently fascinating. “In a way, its lyrical topics are quite dreamy,” theorizes
Sammet. “There’s no end of the world touch; I see these songs as having a Tim Burton-esque eeriness.” Another
commonality with 'Ghostlights' is that 'Moonglow' is conceptually based. “Yeah, the songs are interlinked,” Sammet
confirms. “Each song is a chapter based upon a creature that is thrown into the world but fails to find its place. It cannot
connect with that environment and turns instead to the dark in the hope of finding shelter there. “The lyrics are very
personal but wrapped up in a fantastic surrounding inspired by writers of dark romanticism, especially gothic novels of the
Victorian era by the likes of Arthur Machen or Algernon Blackwood. Yes, it’s a concept album but don’t expect elves
walking through the forest,” laughs Tobi. Once again Sammet wrote all of the album’s material with the exception of its
cover track, a rocked-up re-make of Michael Sembello’s 'Maniac', a hit from the smash 1981 movie 'Flashdance'. Along
with the aforementioned Sascha Paeth, Tobias also acted as the record’s producer.

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