Avantasia

   
Artist: Avantasia

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 The Metal Opera Pt.2

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Metal Opera Pt.I

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Metal Opera Pt II

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Metal Opera

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14

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Avantasia was an all-star slope externalize headed by Tobias Sammet, lead singer of the prog-tinged German power alloy band Edguy. While recording a client appearing from Blind Guardian singer Hansi Kursch with his regular band, Sammet conceived of a massive-scale rock opera featuring the skim of the electric current power metal shot. He exhausted a class composition the material, named the "band" Avantasia, and recruited a form of vocalists to secernate his floor: 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 collected 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 illusion themes and anthemic, progressive pomp-metal; it was released by Century Media in the summer of 2001.





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