"Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose" is a four minutes song which Tobias described as a short opera within the rock opera. The choirs alone took over 40 hours to record - just for that one song!

Tobias commets: "At first listen it's a straight forward epic rock track in the vain of Meat Loaf meets AVANTASIA, but there are so many details and even though it flows well, it's the most sophisticated and detailed single I've ever released. Except from the chorus and one guitar line not one single part is repeated, even the verses are completely different. If Meat Loaf or Richard Wagner would do that kind of song, I am sure this would be a major hit. I just hope people take their headphones and listen to this in a darkened room and not over their mobile phone speakers, because that's the only way this music unfolds its magic."

Below is the track listing for Ghostlights:

1. Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose - Lead vocals: Tobias / Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
2. Let The Storm Descend Upon You - Lead vocals: Tobias, Jorn Lande, Ronnie Atkins, Robert Mason / Lead guitar: Oliver Hartmann
3. The Haunting - Lead vocals: Dee Snider, Tobias / Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
4. Seduction Of Decay - Lead vocals: Geoff Tate, Tobias / Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
5. Ghostlights - Lead vocals: Michael Kiske, Tobias, Jorn Lande / Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth, Oliver Hartmann
6. Draconian Love - Lead vocals: Herbie Langhans, Tobias / Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
7.  Master Of The Pendulum - Lead vocals: Marco Hietala, Tobias / Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth
8. Isle Of Evermore - Lead vocals: Sharon Den Adel, Tobias
9. Babylon Vampyres - Lead vocals: Tobias, Robert Mason / Lead guitar: Bruce Kulick, Oliver Hartmann, Sascha Paeth
10. Lucifer - Lead vocals: Jorn Lande, Tobias / Lead guitar: Bruce Kulick
11. Unchain The Light - Lead vocals: Tobias, Ronnie Atkins, Michael Kiske / Lead guitar: Sascha Paeth, Oliver Hartmann
12. A Restless Heart And Obsidian Skies - Lead vocals: Bob Catley, Tobias / Lead guitar: Bruce Kulick

The instrumentalists on Ghostlights are as follows:

SASCHA PAETH - Rhythm Guitars, Lead Guitars, Bass, Additional Keys

MICHAEL RODENBERG - Orchestration, Keys

TOBIAS SAMMET - Additional Keys, Bass

OLIVER HARTMANN - Lead Guitars

BRUCE KULICK - Lead Guitars

FELIX BOHNKE - Drums

Or digitally: http://nblast.de/AvantasiaGhostlightsiS

he Mystery of Time, the latest release from German composer and vocalist Tobias Sammet's, Avantasia, charted in 16 countries in Europe, Asia and America, including #2 in Germany. It debuted at #9 on theBillboard "Heat Seekers" chart as well as #33 on the "Hard Rock" chart.

Watch The Mystery Of Time album preview, the video for "Sleepwalking" and interviews with Tobias Sammet on the Nuclear Blast YouTube Channel!

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