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June 13 th 2008, Tokyo, Japan<br />
Robert Hunecke, Sascha<br />
Paeth & Oliver Hartmann<br />
Tobias Sammet<br />
& Jorn Lande<br />
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Felix Bohnke<br />
Sascha<br />
Paeth<br />
June 5 th<br />
SWITZERLAND<br />
June 7 th<br />
SWEDEN<br />
June 10 th<br />
RUSSIA<br />
June 13 th<br />
JAPAN<br />
June 15 th<br />
MEXICO<br />
June 18 th<br />
ARGENTINA<br />
June 20 th<br />
CHILE<br />
June 22 nd<br />
BRAZIL<br />
July 10 th<br />
CZECH REPUBLIC<br />
July 24 th<br />
ROMANIA<br />
July 26 th<br />
ITALY<br />
August 1 st<br />
GERMANY<br />
August 13 th<br />
HUNGARY<br />
Rocksound Festival<br />
HUTTWIL<br />
Sweden Rock Festival<br />
SÖLVESBORG<br />
DK Gorbunova<br />
MOSCOW<br />
Shinagawa Prince Stella Ball<br />
TOKYO<br />
Circo Volador<br />
MEXICO CITY<br />
Obras<br />
BUENOS AIRES<br />
Caupolican<br />
SANTIAGO DE CHILE<br />
Credicard Hall<br />
SAO PAULO<br />
Masters Of Rock Festival<br />
VIZOVICE<br />
Festivalul Peninsula<br />
TIRGU MURES, TRANSYLVANIA<br />
Rockin Field Festival<br />
MILAN<br />
W:O:A<br />
WACKEN<br />
Sziget Festival<br />
BUDAPEST<br />
Oliver<br />
Hartmann<br />
Bob Catley<br />
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Bob Catley, Jorn Lande, Amanda<br />
Somerville & Andre Matos<br />
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Kai Hansen & Tobi at Masters Of Rock,<br />
Czech Republic, July 10 th 2008<br />
Andre Matos<br />
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Tobi as “The Toy Master“ - Wacken, August 1 st , 2008<br />
Tobi & Andre Matos, Sweden Rock Festival, June 7 th , 2008<br />
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01. Twisted Mind<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboards & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air,<br />
Germany on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
”The Scarecrow“<br />
02. The Scarecrow<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Jorn Lande - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air,<br />
Germany on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
”The Scarecrow“<br />
03. Another Angel Down<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Jorn Lande - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air,<br />
Germany on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
”The Scarecrow“<br />
04. Prelude<br />
05. Reach Out For The Light<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Andre Matos - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air,<br />
Germany on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
”The Metal Opera“<br />
06. Inside<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - lead vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard<br />
Recorded at Masters Of Rock Festival,<br />
Czech Republic on July 10 th , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Metal Opera pt. 2“<br />
07. No Return<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Andre Matos - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Masters Of Rock Festival,<br />
Czech Republic on July 10 th , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Metal Opera pt. 2“<br />
08. The Story Ain‘t Over<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Bob Catley - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Masters Of Rock Festival,<br />
Czech Republic on July 10 th , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“Lost In Space“-EP<br />
09. Shelter From The Rain<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Andre Matos - lead vocals<br />
Bob Catley - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air,<br />
Germany on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Scarecrow“<br />
10. Lost In Space<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Masters Of Rock Festival,<br />
Czech Republic on July 10 th , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Scarecrow“<br />
11. I Don‘t Believe In Your Love<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Oliver Hartmann - lead vocals & guitar<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Masters Of Rock Festival,<br />
Czech Republic on July 10 th , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Scarecrow“<br />
12. <strong>Avantasia</strong><br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air,<br />
Germany on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Metal Opera“<br />
13. Serpents In Paradise<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Jorn Lande - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
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Jorn Lande<br />
at sound check<br />
Olli Hartmann<br />
at sound check<br />
Sound check<br />
in Chile<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air, Germany<br />
on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Metal Opera“<br />
14. Promised Land<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Jorn Lande - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air, Germany<br />
on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“Angel Of Babylon“<br />
15. The Toy Master<br />
Kai Hansen - lead vocals<br />
Tobias Sammet - vocals<br />
Henjo Richter - lead guitar<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Masters Of Rock Festival,<br />
Czech Republic on July 10th, 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Scarecrow“<br />
16. Farewell<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - lead vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Oliver Hartmann - guitar & vocals<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Wacken Open Air, Germany<br />
on August 1 st , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album version available on<br />
“The Metal Opera“<br />
17.Sign Of The Cross /<br />
The Seven Angels<br />
(Medley)<br />
Tobias Sammet - lead vocals<br />
Bob Catley - lead vocals<br />
Jorn Lande - lead vocals<br />
Andre Matos - lead vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - lead vocals<br />
Oliver Hartmann - lead vocals & guitar<br />
Kai Hansen - vocals<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitar<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboard & vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
Recorded at Masters Of Rock Festival,<br />
Czech Republic on July 10 th , 2008<br />
Written by Tobias Sammet<br />
Original album versions available on<br />
“The Metal Opera“ and<br />
“The Metal Opera pt. 2“<br />
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The pyramids - Mexico<br />
Felix, Jorn & Tobi<br />
in Mexico<br />
Jorn & Tobi enjoying<br />
a day off in Mexico<br />
Robert, Cloudy, Tobi, Amanda, Sascha & Miro in Tokyo<br />
Sascha & Tobi, Red Square, Moscow<br />
Ivan the Terrible,<br />
Madame Tussauds,<br />
Moscow<br />
Ivan‘s driver<br />
Moscow<br />
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Tour manager,<br />
nurse, doctor,<br />
slave driver -<br />
Tobis treuer<br />
Vasall: A.C.<br />
Tobias Sammet - vocals<br />
Jorn Lande - vocals<br />
Andre Matos - vocals<br />
Bob Catley - vocals<br />
Kai Hansen - vocals<br />
Amanda Somerville - vocals<br />
Cloudy Yang - vocals<br />
Oliver Hartmann - vocals & guitars<br />
Sascha Paeth - guitars<br />
Henjo Richter - additional guitar<br />
Robert Hunecke - bass & vocals<br />
Miro Rodenberg - keyboards & vocals<br />
Felix Bohnke - drums<br />
The <strong>Avantasia</strong> road crew:<br />
AC Dreffein - Tour manager<br />
Frank “FD“ Dehn - Production manager<br />
Andreas “Stoney“ Stein - Stage manager<br />
Ernst Seider - Sound engineer (Europe)<br />
Manuel Antunes - Lighting engineer<br />
Sascha Gerbig - Guitar technician<br />
Joachim “Piesel“ Küstner - Guitar technician<br />
& sound engineer (world tour)<br />
Michael “Hille“ Hillenbrand - Drum technician<br />
Flo Lange - Monitors<br />
Mixed by Sascha Paeth & Simon Oberender<br />
Mastered by Sascha Paeth & Simon<br />
Oberender at Gatestudio, Wolfsburg<br />
Recorded at Masters Of Rock Festival,<br />
Zlin, Czech Republic on July 21 st 2008 &<br />
Wacken Open Air, Germany, August 1 st 2008.<br />
Photos taken by Alex Kuehr, Friso Gentsch,<br />
Hans-Martin Issler & Joachim Herbert<br />
Artwork by Thomas Ewerhard<br />
(www.thomas-ewerhard.de)<br />
Tobias wants to thank:<br />
Everybody who has been nice<br />
to me, who supports Edguy,<br />
<strong>Avantasia</strong> and me, you all<br />
know who you are and you<br />
are too many to list here.<br />
Thanks to the companies who<br />
support us: Marshall, Mapex,<br />
Paiste, Hercules, Duesenberg,<br />
Shure... You are all great.<br />
The crew: Hille, Flo & Sascha at “work“<br />
Production manager F.D.<br />
at sound check<br />
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In June 2008 a giant all-star ensemble embarked on a world tour to finally bring the legendary Metal Opera<br />
project “<strong>Avantasia</strong>“ to the stage and write Heavy Metal history: For the first time an all-star project like<br />
this did not only gather in the studio to record an album, but set out to a full-fledged world tour.<br />
Within a couple of weeks a band of musicians such as Tobias Sammet, Jorn Lande, Bob Catley,<br />
Andre Matos, Kai Hansen, Amanda Somerville and many more hit the stages around the globe<br />
to delight a total of more than 300,000 fans in Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Chile, Argentina,<br />
Brazil, Czech Republic, Romania, Italy, Germany and Hungary.<br />
This double live album is your chance to relive <strong>Avantasia</strong>'s first appearance in the Czech Republic<br />
in front of 20.000 people and <strong>Avantasia</strong>'s first ever live show in Germany - in front of 80.000 fans!!!<br />
01. Twisted Mind 6:42 02. The Scarecrow 11:53 03. Another Angel Down 5:25 04. Prelude 1:26 05. Reach Out For The Light 6:24<br />
06. Inside 7:01 07. No Return 5:04 08. The Story Ain‘t Over 5:29 09. Shelter From The Rain 7:03 10. Lost In Space 3:54<br />
11. I Don‘t Believe In Your Love 6:50 12. <strong>Avantasia</strong> 5:08 13. Serpents In Paradise 7:26 14. Promised Land 5:37<br />
15. The Toy Master 6:26 16. Farewell 6:15 17. Sign Of The Cross / The Seven Angels (Medley) 17:54<br />
18. Lost In Space (video clip) 3:48 19. Carry Me Over (video clip) 3:53 20. Dying For An Angel (video clip) 4:31<br />
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