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Ghostlights
Sign in to saveGhostlights is the seventh full-length album by Tobias Sammet's German metal opera project Avantasia. It was released on 29 January 2016. The opening track and first single "Mystery of a Blood Red Rose" was a candidate for the German representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, along with nine other songs. The Digibook edition of the album included a bonus track and a bonus CD entitled Avantasia Live, which featured songs recorded mainly during Avantasia's 2014 performance at Wacken Open Air Festival.
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Ghostlights U.S lineup - Matt Pacey (guit) and Jason Fawcett (drums) from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ghostlights London,UK - Katrina Andariel (Vocals) and Sam Morrison (Guitars) Thundering rhythms, unforgettable hooks and atmosphere so thick you could cut it - this is Ghostlights. Led by Australian-born multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Morrison, Ghostlights blends electronic rock with powerful atmospherics, and features contributions from some of the alternative scene's most talented arti
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- Album.name
- Ghostlights
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- Avantasia
- Album.cover
- Ghostlights by Avantasia.jpg
- Album.released
- 29 January 2016
- Album.recorded
- October 2014 – November 2015
- Album.studio
- Gatestudio, Wolfsburg, Germany
- Album.genre
- Power metal
- Album.length
- 70:03
- Album.label
- Nuclear Blast (International release) Avalon (Japanese release)
- Album.producer
- Sascha Paeth Tobias Sammet
- Album.prev_title
- The Mystery of Time
- Album.prev_year
- 2013
- Album.next_title
- Moonglow
- Album.next_year
- 2019
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- 2016-01-29
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Ghostlights is the seventh full-length album by Tobias Sammet's German metal opera project Avantasia. It was released on 29 January 2016. The opening track and first single "Mystery of a Blood Red Rose" was a candidate for the German representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, along with nine other songs. The Digibook edition of the album included a bonus track and a bonus CD entitled Avantasia Live, which featured songs recorded mainly during Avantasia's 2014 performance at Wacken Open Air Festival.
Ghostlights scored the highest positions of any Avantasia release in several international music charts and marks the second time Avantasia has entered the US Billboard 200 albums chart.