About Tobias Sammets Avantasia

About

Tobias Sammet became well known amongst Rock fans all over the world as the singer and songwriter of Edguy. Having sold over one million CDs Edguy is one of the biggest internationally acclaimed German Rock bands in recent music history. They have headlined several tours in more than 35 countries all over North- and South America, Australia, Asia and Europe and shared the stage with the likes of Aerosmith, the Scorpions or Iron Maiden. In 1999 Tobias started his own side project "Avantasia" which quite unexpectedly even exceeded his main band at the time.

And now the the project of projects is back: "Avantasia - The Scarecrow" out on January 25th 2008, featuring producer Sascha Paeth on guitars, Eric Singer of KISS on drums and an army of guest stars like Bob Catley (Magnum), Alice Cooper, Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween), Rudolf Schenker (Scorpions), Kai Hansen (ex-Helloween, Gamma Ray) and many more. First press reactions span from "a walking orgasm" to "these guys are playing in their own league" to "by far the best release of Avantasia to date".

The single "Lost In Space" that just has been released to pave the way for the album has rocketed straight to 9 of the official German single charts upon its release, in Norway it's a 4 and in Sweden the two versions of "Lost In Space" went to 3 and 4. Except from the title track "Lost In Space part 1" and "Lost In Space part 2" are completely different regarding the contains, and despite they are available for the price of a single each, both versions contain tons of first class non-album-material.

"Lost In Space" is without doubt among the catchiest tunes, that you will get to hear in 2007! A good time rock´n´roll song with a chorus as huge as two continets. Impressive - after the first spin, you will never ever get this song out of your head. And thats good!

Get the extended download version of "Lost In Space" featuring Michael Kiske on lead vocals! For only 0,99 € exclusively available at iTunes from November 16th on!