The followers of the first two (now almost 10 year old) Avantasia plates was also this time do not get their former style some time ago clearly than hot, the story of the last album continues. The music builds truly up where "The Scarecrow" has stopped, but is a touch of sophisticated design. Strong Power Metal songs, dark rock songs and ballads, and it already seems almost impossible to make a determine flavor group. There is an enormous amount of variety! Besides perfected highlights with spine-tingling factor there but unfortunately also the one or other fillers, the droning rather to himself instead enthusiastically. The creator himself sees the logically always a little different (Quote: "22 full songs and in my humble opinion - No fillers"). Where it already seems a little questionable why one "Promised Land" has now grabbed from the "Lost in Space" Singles on "Angel Of Babylon" with the only difference that now Jorn Lande also sings the 2nd Chrous.
But it falls now now already difficult to find something like a maybe less, although Tobi has artistic sometimes abated pretty. Questionable centers such as in "Scales of Justice", which are bringing the common thread of Arragaments a little confused as only one example of many. But it is as I said art and you can criticize bad if the implementation is adjacent to perfectionism. Technically this is namely already pretty much the pinnacle. Strong vocals from bleak, scraping through to the typical power metal falsetto voice. Interestingly, this time also 3 drummer on board what the whole momentum again gives, as one also has a Felix Bohnke sit at the drums next to Eric Singer times.
A real orchestra (as Tobi times announced) not there (which is not surprising in the cost of a fully loaded Orchestra).
But in times of high Orchestrations software / VST plugins could Miro Rodenberg, who contributed next to the orchestration almost all keyboard elements create a decent sound bed that sounds like Hollywood especially in "The Wicked Symphony". The blending of the sound quality is very bombastic and rear a look at the booklet shows, for example, that at this Avantasia project over 5 Studios participated!
Small disappointment: the buyer Deluxe Edition will also receive a small flyer with a code to get online supplementary material. Instead of further, new bonus songs you get only live versions of "Twisted Mind", "Lost In Space" from The Scarecrow and the shorter radio version of "Dying For An Angel" and who the video for the latter title is not always on video portals on the Internet want to see, it can downloadsponsored as well. Almost laughable is that there announced as "exclusive" Gallery! These are not times 10 images from the above-mentioned first-person show by Tobi from the booklets.
But I think that's why you should not take points the whole product. You get for 30 euros musically very very much needed and fetches the Avantasia trilogy symphonic metal with epic anthems home.
Avantasia is definitely what suitable according to the maker for attentive listeners and not just as background music! ;-)
