Angel of Babylon

Occupation

Angel Of Babylon is the fifth studio album by the metal opera Avantasia of Tobias Sammet. The album was released 3 April 2010 simultaneously with the album The Wicked Symphony. Tobias Sammet, however, insists that there are two independent albums, and not a double album.

Songs

  • Stargazers - 9:33
  • Angel of Babylon - 5:29
  • Your Love Is Evil - 3:53
  • Death Is Just a Feeling - 5:21
  • Rat Race - 4:07
  • Down in the Dark - 4:23
  • Blowing Out ​​the Flame - 4:51
  • Symphony of Life - 4:30
  • Alone I Remember - 4:48
  • Promised Land - 4:47
  • Journey to Arcadia - 7:12

For the first time was with Symphony of Life is a song on the album, not Tobias Sammet wrote. This song was written by Sascha Paeth. He is also the only song by Avantasia until today, in which Tobias Sammet not singing along. He alone is sung by Sunny Yang.

Staff

Band:

  • Tobias Sammet - Vocals, Bass, Keyboards
  • Sascha Paeth - guitar, keyboards
  • Eric Singer - Drums ( songs 5,7,9 and 10)
  • Michael " Miro " Rodenberg - Keyboards

Guest musicians:

  • Jørn singing country songs on 1,2,5,6,9 and 10
  • Russell Allen vocals on songs 1 and 11
  • Michael Kiske singing on the song 1
  • Jon Oliva vocals on the song 4
  • Bob Catley vocals on the song 11
  • Cloudy Yang vocals on track 8
  • Bruce Kulick on guitar songs 5,9 and 11
  • Oliver Hartmann guitar on songs 1,2 and 3
  • Henjo judges guitar on the song 10
  • Felix Bohnke drums on songs 4, 6 and 8
  • Alex Holzwarth on drums songs 1, 2, 3 and 11
  • Jens Johansson keyboards in Song 2
  • Simon Oberender organ in song 9

Background choir:

  • Emilie Paeth
  • Cloudy Yang
  • Amanda Somerville
  • Tiffany Kirkland
  • Ina Morgan
  • Cinzia Rizzo
  • Thomas Rettke
  • Oliver Hartmann
  • Matthias Kontny
  • Michael Voy
  • Tobias Sammet

Review and success

The album gave it together with the album The Wicked Symphony in a box to kaufen.Diese reached the following chart positions: Germany # 2, # 5 Hungary, the Czech Republic # 6, # 7 Switzerland, Austria # 9, # 7 Slovenia, Sweden # 1 ( rock chart, National Charts # 14 ), Finland # 18, Norway # 22, # 26 UK ( Indie ), Holland # 27 ( indie ), Spain # 32, France # 74 and # 89 Japan

Record label Nuclear Blast Compact Disc Digital Audio Genre Symphonic Metal The Mystery of Time
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