Ghostlights

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.

For other uses, see Ghost light.
Ghostlights
Studio album by
Avantasia
Released29 January 2016
RecordedOctober 2014 - November 2015
StudioGatestudio, Wolfsburg, Germany
Genre
  • Power metal
  • symphonic metal
Length70:03
Label
  • Nuclear Blast (International release)
  • Avalon (Japanese release)
Producer
  • Sascha Paeth
  • Tobias Sammet
Avantasia chronology
The Mystery of Time
(2013)		 Ghostlights
(2016)		 Moonglow
(2019)
Singles from Ghostlights
  1. "Mystery of a Blood Red Rose"
    Released: 11 December 2015
  2. "Draconian Love"
    Released: 12 May 2016

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.

The plot of the album concludes the story started on The Mystery of Time. Musically, it shows a darker and more theatrical tone than its predecessor, which Sammet claims to have been spontaneous, not planned.

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