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Avantasia

Германия

Power Metal
Hard 'n' Heavy

http://www.avantasia.net
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tobiassammet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avantasia

17 мар 2025 :
10 мар 2025 :
5 мар 2025 :	AVANTASIA's TOBIAS SAMMET: Performing Onstage Can Be As Dangerous As Playing Football
21 фев 2025 :	TOBIAS SAMMET Reveals How He Recruited HELLOWEEN’s MICHAEL KISKE For AVANTASIA’s Debut
17 фев 2025 :
13 фев 2025 :
17 янв 2025 :	AVANTASIA Shares 'Against The Wind' Song From Upcoming 'Here Be Dragons' Album
16 янв 2025 :	AVANTASIA’s TOBIAS SAMMET On New Track “Unleash The Kraken” – “Old School, Not Modern!”
12 янв 2025 :	AVANTASIA – H.E.A.T.’s KENNY LECKREMO Revealed As Guest Vocalist On “Against The Wind,” “An Anthemic Powerful Speed Metal Rocket,” Says TOBIAS SAMMET
5 янв 2025 :	AVANTASIA’s TOBIAS SAMMET On New Song “Bring On The Night” – “BOB CATLEY Had Tears In His Eyes When He Sang It”
25 дек 2024 :
23 дек 2024 :	AVANTASIA – “The Moorlands At Twilight” Features MICHAEL KISKE, “A Rampant Speed Metal Anthem,” Says TOBIAS SAMMET
19 дек 2024 :	AVANTASIA - Here Be Dragons Title Track Features GEOFF TATE, “Is The Longest Song On The Album,” Says TOBIAS SAMMET
5 дек 2024 :
28 ноя 2024 :	AVANTASIA Announces 'Here Be Dragons' Album Details
13 ноя 2024 :	AVANTASIA Signs With NAPALM RECORDS
29 июл 2024 :	AVANTASIA Announces 'Here Be Dragons' Album, Spring 2025 European Tour
11 июн 2024 :	KAMELOT Vocalist TOMMY KAREVIK Performs "Dying For An Angel" With AVANTASIA At Sweden Rock 2024; Fan-Filmed Video Available
22 окт 2023 :	Guitarist OLIVER HARTMANN Announces Departure From AVANTASIA - "I Will Deeply Miss These 'Grown Up People's School Trip' Tours"
30 июл 2023 :	AVANTASIA Perform Live At Wacken Open Air 2022; Pro-Shot Video Streaming
22 мар 2023 :	AVANTASIA – TOBIAS SAMMET Working On “Massive” Reissue Of The Scarecrow
21 окт 2022 :
6 окт 2022 :	AVANTASIA – Moonglow Earns Gold Status In The Czech Republic; “I Ain’t Worthy,” Says TOBIAS SAMMET
28 сен 2022 :	TOBIAS SAMMET – “23 Years Ago, We Finished Rehearsing In Hamburg For What Was To Become AVANTASIA”
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9 авг 2022 :

21 фев 2025

TOBIAS SAMMET Reveals How He Recruited HELLOWEEN’s MICHAEL KISKE For AVANTASIA’s Debut

Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to Tobias Sammet about his upcoming album Avantasia album Here Be Dragons which will be released on February 28, 2025 on Napalm Records.

Also in the chat Tobias talks about Avantasia’s origins and guest singers over the years.

On first starting Avantasia:

“I wanted to work with other people, not that I didn’t like working with my band fellows. I wanted to look outside the box and see what else I could experience and learn. I wanted to work with Michael Kiske (Helloween) because he had turned his back on heavy metal and apparently they didn’t want to reunite with Helloween (Laughs). They didn’t want to make a reunion so I said okay somebody’s gotta do it so let me do it. I was a huge fan of Michael Kiske. I’m still to this day and so that was one of the reasons why I did it was because I wanted to have Michael Kiske sing my songs.

“Classical double bass beat power metal songs. I also wanted to work with Bob Catley and David DeFeis and yeah just do an album and look outside the box. I knew his (Micahel Kiske) fan club president and I said like if you could pass on the message that that I have a couple of songs, I’m a real nice guy, I’m not a Satanist and also have a little budget so if he here, here’s my number. And he called me we just talked and we liked each other. He’s a very lovely person and he’s a very good friend now. We hit it off really well and that was the starting point. That was a big important thing about the first Avantasia album. Michael Kiske is the only one who’s been on every Avantasia record so far except for me, Bob Catley who was on every one since the second one which was recorded at the same time as the first one so technically Bob Catley has been there from the start.”

On why Michael Kiske wanted to be called Ernie on the first album:

“That was his own idea back in the day. I wanted to have Michael Kiske and I said I want you to be on the record because you mean so much to me and I made the big mistake telling him like even if I didn’t have your name it’s not because of your name it’s you could be called anything. I just want you and your voice and he said, ‘okay then let’s call me Ernie on the record’ and he put it in the contract. I said, ‘are you serious, Ernie? I mean why don’t we just call you Joe Vocal or whatever’ but no no let’s do it Ernie, that’s his sense of humor.

“I said okay Ernie and Bert, great let’s do it. He (Michael Kiske) was hesitant I believe back in the day because he had announced in advance that he would never return to metal again and metal was music of the devil and you know and it was all said and done back in the ‘80s. He will never return, his heart is elsewhere and all of a sudden he returns to the metal scene appearing on a Metal Opera with Kai Hansen and Markus Grosskopf appearing on nine songs singing speed metal songs. He probably thought people would think that’s weird with everything he said in advance so he said ‘let’s call me Ernie.’ So we did it and everybody knew it was Michael Kiske (on the record). So on the second record I asked him like’ I mean it’s still in the contract but do you seriously want to be called Ernie again everybody knows’ and he said ‘why don’t we just go with Michael Kiske (laughs).”

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