Avantasia stream Ghostlights lyric video

By Scott Munro
( Classic Rock )
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View promo featuring title track from 7th album - as mainman Tobias Sammet confirms German Eurovision slot

Avantasia have released a lyric video for the title track from their upcoming seventh album.

Ghostlights will be issued on January 29 via Nuclear Blast and will be the follow-up to 2013’s The Mystery Of Time.

They issued a stream of their track Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose last month, along with a teaser trailer for the record featuring five tracks.

Mainman Tobias Sammet has also revealed he and the band have been asked by their label to take part in the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest.

He says on his website: “My mother’s gonna be proud. Or not. We’ll see. Anyway, it seemed like a quite unusual idea to compete with anyone in music – to play music against someone… like in jazz music.

“However, who am I to get in the way of a great promotional opportunity? Three minutes to show millions that something like us exists? Gimme that stage.”

Ghostlights is available for pre-order via Nuclear Blast’s online store in a variety of packages including coloured vinyl and a limited-edition box set containing live material and a karaoke CD.

Avantasia Ghostlights tracklist

  1. Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose
  2. Let The Storm Descend Upon You
  3. The Haunting
  4. Seduction Of Decay
  5. Ghostlights
  6. Draconian Love
  7. Master Of The Pendulum
  8. Isle Of Evermore
  9. Babylon Vampyres
  10. Lucifer
  11. Unchain The Light
  12. A Restless Heart And Obsidian Skies
  13. Wake Up To The Moon (bonus track)
Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.