The Metal Opera

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The Metal Opera
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Length
13 tracks, 64:15
Release Date
22 January 2001
The Metal Opera is the first full-length album by Tobias Sammet's German supergroup project, Avantasia. It is a concept album and a metal opera. The album is followed by the sequel The Metal Opera Part II. Both were written over the course of a year, starting in the last quarter of 1998, and both were produced from October 1999 to June 2000, with the works being interrupted for some weeks so Sammet could produce The Savage Poetry with his other band Edguy. The project claims that the album's title marked the first usage of the term "metal opera". Sammet also cons… read more
The Metal Opera is the first full-length album by Tobias Sammet's German supergroup project, Avantasia. It is a concept album and a metal opera.… read more
The Metal Opera is the first full-length album by Tobias Sammet's German supergroup project, Avantasia. It is a concept album and a metal opera. The album is followed by the sequel … read more

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Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Play track Prelude
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 1:25 82,711 listeners
2 Play track Reach Out for the Light
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 6:23 98,356 listeners
3 Play track Serpents in Paradise
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 7:26 85,846 listeners
4 Play track Malleus Maleficarum
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 1:42 73,374 listeners
5 Play track Breaking Away
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 4:35 91,325 listeners
6 Play track Farewell
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 6:14 133,243 listeners
7 Play track The Glory of Rome
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 5:29 75,013 listeners
8 Play track In Nomine Patris
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 1:04 70,630 listeners
9 Play track Avantasia
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 5:08 106,468 listeners
10 Play track A New Dimension
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 1:39 68,341 listeners
11 Play track Inside
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 7:01 72,814 listeners
12 Play track Sign of the Cross
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 6:26 89,949 listeners
13 Play track The Tower
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 9:43 72,099 listeners

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Avantasia is a supergroup project created by Tobias Sammet, vocalist of the band Edguy. It has been characterized as a , as it features the contributions of various vocalists and musicians and it consists of concept albums. Conceived in 1999 as studio-only, two-album project, Avantasia has since released seven other studio albums and has toured the world multiple times. It can be divided into four periods of activity. The first, 1999–2002, saw the release of a self-titled single and the full-length albums The Metal Opera and The Metal Opera Pt. II. The s… read more
Avantasia is a supergroup project created by Tobias Sammet, vocalist of the band Edguy. It has been characterized as a , as it features the contributions of var… read more
Avantasia is a supergroup project created by Tobias Sammet, vocalist of the band Edguy. It has been characterized as a , as it features the contributions of various vocalists and musicians and it consists o… read more

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