Avantasia
Biography
Avantasia was an all-star side project headed by Tobias Sammet, lead singer of the prog-tinged German power metal band Edguy. While recording a guest appearance from Blind Guardian singer Hansi Kursch with his regular band, Sammet conceived of a massive-scale rock opera featuring the cream of the current power metal scene. He spent a year composing the material, named the "band" Avantasia, and recruited a variety of vocalists to tell his story: Gamma Ray's Kai Hansen, Stratovarius' Timo Tolkki, Virgin Steele's David DeFeis, Angra's Andre Matos, Warrior's Rob Rock, and Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel. For the backing band, Sammet gathered guitarists Jens Ludwig (Edguy) and Henjo Richter (Gamma Ray), bassist Markus Grosskopf (Helloween), and drummer Alex Holzwarth (Rhapsody). The album, The Metal Opera, was filled with tried-and-true fantasy themes and anthemic, progressive pomp-metal; it was released by Century Media in the summer of 2001. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
Selected Discography
Lost In Space, Vol. 1 & 2
2008
Avantasia: The Metal Opera Part II
2002
The Metal Opera Pt. 1
2001
Avantasia
2001
Very impressive Willow. I didnt think you were had the mental capacity to type a message backwards.
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Huzzah! My patience has finally been rewarded - Avantasia has played on my eclectic mixture station at last, thus keeping the musical experiment intact and me quite happy. Yay.
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These guys are slowly growing on me... as is power metal as a genre, I suppose.
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Gah, reading that bio makes me want to add this to my station so badly, but that would invalidate my musical experiment where I only add new seeds if what's there already prompts Pandora to play something by the group I want to add.
Oh well, they're bound to show up soon considering I've seeded or heavily thumbed up just about everything Pandora thinks is similar, heh. |
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Can't you read??!! The lead singer from Edguy formed Avantasia!
Oh wait, I forgot who I was talking to. Sorry willow, didn't mean to taunt your handicaps. |
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This might be cool if it didn't sound exactly like Edguy with a more prominent keyboard part. Unfortunatel y that isn't the case, and it ranks among the most boring power metal I've ever listened to.
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The Metal Opera in general is just awesome. Sign of the Cross is my personal favorite though.
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WILLL, OH get this warning:
Trolling the pandora threads will get you nowhere in life and has wasted your time. I hope that at some point you realize people that know talent don't want to listen to what you call "true metal". This stuff sounds way better. The singer sings, the guitarists play melodic melodies, and the drums have a beat. This is different from "true metal" that simply involves a vocalist that screams, and drum and guitar players that mash everything together on their instruments. |
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@Rule of Aces-- they do have it, it's just under the band name "Tobias Sammet's Avantasia" instead of "Avantasia".
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Aw that's not cool they don't have the album "The Scarecrow". That's my favorite one... Grrr...
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Both Avantasia and Edguy rock! Great music, great concept, awesome all around.
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I think they are the only metal band that comes close to the choral qualities of Dragonforce. Don't get me wrong, their music is better, but the whole choir sound dragonforce has just makes me melt.
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I agree with Unicorn. Bad voice. Otherwise, friggin awesome band.
GO ALL THE WAY TO THE TOWER MUTHAFOOKAS. Kick Dragonforce' s asses anyday. |
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What happens when you take guys from Edguy, Helloween, Gamma Ray, and Angra? You create a metal god band.
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I like it. Not bad for euros who used tobe part of a traveling circus. I heard they were also deep into the quija board stuff. Together with candlemass and N Sync they would do rituals to cast out evil jewish spells set by the music producers who wanted to pay them less on the contracts. kind of sell out if you ask me.
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Whole album is incredible- soooooo tasteful ! These guys, Heavenly(Met a l ) and Age of Nemesis have blown me away. Thanks Pandora- never would have found them (as fast).
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Gotta love Avantasia. The Tower is fan-friggin- t a s t i c . The Seven Angels is really awesome as well. But the storyline! The Avantasia storyline, from what I understand of the Metal Opera Part 1, is actually really complex. It's great!
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I like nice, subtle use of Hammond sound there - it's so refreshing when sound that used to be a part of so many powerhouse songs in a past is heard sometimes. The only keyboard that adds power to songs and ironically, most bands seldom use it. Instead, the whiny synths are used
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I really like Avantasia. As being a fan of Edguy already finding out about this I was stoked. The combinatiohn of singers on this project brings fresh life to what could have been quite terrible but of course the pull it off excellently. A nice fun power metal listen.
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This sounds nothing like Rush...what Rush albums have you been listening to...
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Wikipedia says: 'Avantasia is a symphonic metal project created by Tobias Sammet, vocalist and frontman of the power metal group Edguy. The project's title is a portmanteau of the words "avalon" and "fantasia" ("fantasy") and describes "a world beyond human imagination" (a quotation from the booklet). The project consists of a self-titled EP, two full length albums with the subtitle The Metal Opera, two EPs called Lost in Space, and the recently released album The Scarecrow.' Impressive, most i
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It does like Rush doesn't it, they had a good mixture of people to make this great band.
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Avantasia sounds a great deal like Rush, which is always a good thing! Prog rock/hard rock/harmoni e s / h a r d drumming!
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