The mystery of Time has therefore the difficult position to have to be my huge expectations. And that does not succeed completely.
I have the disc now belongs to me several times on my MP3 player. Stupid for The mystery of Time eventually is that it is there right behind Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child. The music of these two groups is simply to make it similar to Avantasia after a special listening pleasure. The transition must be fluent lift around.
Other than at a live concert where then 7 different singers on stage (horror of the man at the mixer ;-)), you can really distinguish the singer on a CD only to her voice. But since all the songs originate from Sammet's very own spring Also, the tone is very similar.
There have great artists contributed to the album, but all the same music which make individualism but again blurred. (At least no picture) is unique also in the booklet and displayed alone Tobias Sammet. Even the thanksgiving is written only by him, where he was then very politely at the participating artists (and the paying listeners) thanked. The major project Avantasia comes so not over. Too bad.
Please do not misunderstand. It's still good to very good music, but the breaks to the high expectations.
Also instrumental were able to convince more of Wacken the live musicians. Sprawling instrumental passages would probably disrupt the flow of the album / the metal opera.
The album Like (4 star) and I'm going to set Wohla other Avantasia disks, but to me really liked (5 Stars) just still missing the last piece.
