The Mystery of Time
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| Studio album by Avantasia | ||||
| Released | 26 April 2013 | |||
| Recorded | June 2012 - January 2013 | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal, symphonic metal, hard rock, power metal | |||
| Length | 62:00 | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Sascha Paeth and Tobias Sammet | |||
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| Time For Metal - Magazin |
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| Metal Traveller |
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The Mystery of Time is the sixth full-length album by Tobias Sammet's rock opera project Avantasia. The album was released on 26 April 2013. This is the first Avantasia release to feature the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (the same orchestra that performed on Edguy's album Hellfire Club). The cover artwork was painted by Rodney Matthews.
The Mystery Of Time scored high positions in several international music charts and even enabled Avantasia to enter the US Billboard charts for the very first time.
When asked to compare the album to Avantasia's previous efforts, guitarist and producer Sascha Paeth described it as follows:
Limited editions of the album include a second CD with instrumental versions of all the tracks on the album, with the exception of the two limited edition bonus tracks.
All tracks written by Tobias Sammet.
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."
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