The Mystery of Time

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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
Avantasia chronology
The Wicked Symphony/Angel of Babylon
(2010)The Wicked Symphony/Angel of Babylon2010		 The Mystery of Time
(2013)		 Ghostlights
(2016)Ghostlights2016
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Metal Blast 4/5 stars [1]
Time For Metal - Magazin 9.5/10 stars [2]
Metal Traveller 4/5 stars [3]

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.[4] 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.[5][6]

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.[7]

When asked to compare the album to Avantasia's previous efforts, guitarist and producer Sascha Paeth described it as follows:[8]

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It is a more 'fantastic' production, based a little bit more on orchestra work and keyboards. It's more like a film score, to underline the whole story, the rock opera aspect, which was a choice on this one and I think it works out fine. Also, this gives the album a face of its own.

Track listing

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 songs written and composed by Tobias Sammet. 

No. Title Guest Vocalist Length
1. "Spectres"   Joe Lynn Turner 6:09
2. "The Watchmakers' Dream"   Joe Lynn Turner 4:14
3. "Black Orchid"   Biff Byford 6:52
4. "Where Clock Hands Freeze"   Michael Kiske 4:35
5. "Sleepwalking"   Cloudy Yang 3:52
6. "Savior in the Clockwork"   Joe Lynn Turner, Biff Byford, Michael Kiske 10:40
7. "Invoke the Machine"   Ronnie Atkins 5:30
8. "What's Left Of Me"   Eric Martin 5:07
9. "Dweller in a Dream"   Michael Kiske 4:45
10. "The Great Mystery"   Bob Catley, Joe Lynn Turner, Biff Byford 10:03
Limited & Japanese edition bonus tracks
No. Title Length
11. "The Cross And You"   4:14
12. "Death Is Just A Feeling (Alternative Version/Tobias Sammet)"   5:24

Story

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."[9]

Personnel

Special guests

Musicians

Vocalists

Charts

[10][11][12]

Chart Number
German Albums Chart 2
Swiss Albums Chart 5
England Rock Albums Chart 6
Finnish Albums Chart 9
Swedish Albums Chart 9
North America Billboard Chart 9
Austrian Albums Chart 11
Czech Albums Chart 12
Hungary Albums Chart[13] 15
Japanese Albums Chart 17
Norwegian Albums Chart 19
Spanish Albums Chart[14] 29
French Albums Chart 61
Belgian Ultratop (Wallonia) 70
Dutch Albums Chart 85
Belgian Ultratop (Flanders) 97

References

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