Musicwise, album opener “Welcome to the Shadows” and “Kill the Pain Away” address hard to Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” and other 1980’s features as the soundtrack of “Streets of Fire” with all their tonal conception adapted to Metal music. As a matter fo fact, the keyboards of tittle track “The Moonflower Society” tell this tale. Maybe that’s the main idea Mr. Tobias Sammet prepared for the album. Just try it, my dear child of the night. Well, after all it’s an opera with Metal, or a Metal opera, whichever works better in your mind my dear child of the night. The team Mr. Tobias Sammet built up here is impressive. A lot of his old acquaintances duel with him in the vocal department: Eric Martin, Michael Kiske, Ronnie Atkins, Geoff Tate or Bob Catley. Of course, each track mirrors its vocal duo as “The Inmost Light” with Michael Kiske, for instance. “I Tame the Storm” sounds pretty near Edguy, Mr. Tobias Sammet other band – other band is totally fair here to say. The album combines lots of melody with the most sacred Power Metal features with some Symphonic symbols and some Old School Metal. Did I say sacred? Yeah, I did. My guess is that Mr. Tobias Sammet gave some more strength here. But the album is much more than expected. If I say paranormal, will my child of the night think ill of me?
If my dear child of the night listens to the album while reading the songs’ tittles it all will make sense. Images will flow to your mind and the music will take to somewhere far from this this sad and lonely and pathetic little planet. The fantastic will fill up your mind with some characters. Some encounters may even happen. For the ones with some diverse spiritual experience know what I’m talking about.
P.S.: It was worth it every minute of it.
Avantasia “A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society” will be released on October 21st via Nuclear Blast Records.
Track Listing:
- Welcome to the Shadows
- The Wicked Rule the Night
- Kill the Pain Away
- The Inmost Light
- Misplaced among the Angels
- I Tame the Storm
- Paper Plane
- The Moonflower Society
- Rhyme and Reason
- Scars
- Arabesque
Watch “The Moonflower Society” official music video here:
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