Formed in: 2000
Genre: Symphonic Power metal
Guitars:
Henjo Richter (Gamma Ray)Jens Ludwig (Edguy)
Norman Meiritz
Timo Tolkki (Stratovarius)
Bass:
Markus Grosskopf (Helloween)Drums:
Alex Holzwarth (Rhapsody of Fire)Eric Singer (KISS, ex-Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper)
Keyboard:
Tobias Sammet (Edguy)Piano:
Frank Tischer Vocals:
Gabriel Laymann - Tobias Sammet (Edguy)Lugaid Vandroiy - Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween)
Bruder Jakob - David DeFeis (Virgin Steele)
Bailiff Falk von Kronberg - Ralf Zdiarstek
Anna Held - Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation)
Bishop Johann von Bicken - Rob Rock (ex-Impellitteri)
Papa Clemente VIII - Oliver Hartmann (ex-At Vance)
Elderane el Elfo - André Matos (Shaaman, ex-Angra)
Regrin el enano - Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray)
Mysterious Voice of the Tower - Timo Tolkki (Stratovarius)
Árbol del conocimiento - Bob Catley (Magnum)
Tracklist:
01. The Seven Angels - 14:17 [Lyric]02. No Return - 4:29 [Lyric]
03. The Looking Glass - 4:53 [Lyric]
04. In Quest For - 3:54 [Lyric]
05. The Final Sacrifice - 5:02 [Lyric]
06. Neverland - 5:00 [Lyric]
07. Anywhere - 5:29 [Lyric]
08. Chalice of Agony - 6:00 [Lyric]
09. Memory - 5:44 [Lyric]
10. Into the Unknown - 4:29 [Lyric]
Lyrics:
1. THE SEVEN ANGELS
[Believers:]
Fire falling from the sky
Rage of god is coming down
Armaggeddon's drawing nigh
Sinner cry ! Heathen die !
Hear the toll of pain, gloria, gloria
In the fiery rain
Fire falling from the sky
Rage of god is coming down
Armaggeddon's drawing nigh
Sinner cry ! Heathen die !
Hear the toll of pain, gloria, gloria
Now the time has come, the end's begun
And the only one will come
[Gabriel:]
It has been foretold
By the visions of the old
And the madness in their eyes
Said his angel will arise
That's what they know : "Holy Lord it's over, oh god
We have done no wrong
So we go where we belong
To the neverending dream
But for those who lived in sin"
They claim to know : "Holy Lord it's over, oh god"
[Pope:]
Hey Angel, can you tell me
Will you lead us to the place
Full of heat, in the fire
For we only brought disgrace
[Lugaid:]
He is not the one. If they only knew
[Bishop:]
Hey Angel, will you take us
To the judgement of his rage
Hey will we die
For we couldn't close the gate
[Lugaid:]
To the knowledge as they have been told
[Gabriel:]
I don't know how could I prove
Nothing but the cloven hoof
Reigning over them as well
While they keep on fighting hell
Babylon the scarlet whore has come
We are the seven, judgement of heaven
Why don't we know : We are the angels
It's revelation, soul castignation
Fire will burn us away
We are the seven, judgement of heaven
Why don't we know : We are the angels
It's revelation, soul castignation
Fire will burn us away
[Pope:]
Redeemer, devastion
Hope it only has been ment
For the sin of the dreamer
who broke the low you'd sent
[Lugaid:]
He is not the one. If they only knew
[Jakob:]
Hey, don't know but i wondered:
When we lost the seal again
Maybe stoned by the incense
Do we rise or just descent
[Lugaid:]
He is not the one. If they only knew
[Gabriel:]
I don't know how could I prove
Nothing but the cloven hoof
Reigning over them as well
While they keep on fighting hell
Babylon the scarlet whore has come
We are the seven, judgement of heaven
Why don't we know : We are the angels
It's revelation, soul castignation
Fire will burn us away
We are the seven, judgement of heaven
Why don't we know : We are the angels
It's revelation, soul castignation
Fire will burn us away
[Solo: Henjo Richter]
[Voice of the tower:]
Woe to you longing for the wisdom
Woe to you longing for the light
All my sons bring me back what is mine
Or you'll end burning in this night
Woe to you longing for the wisdom
Woe to you longing for the light
All my sons bring me back what is mine
Or you'll end burning in this night
[Solo: Timo Tolkki]
[Gabriel:]
Once I have been lost in what they told me to believe
Until I felt in burning deep inside to set my spirit free
And I escaped to another world to help the little men
who make me plunge into philosophy - to feel my
mind again... No one left to hold me tight - on the
`real`other side - but her in chains
I had been alone till the madman come along
With the knowledge and silver long beard
He was the first man ever teaching how I could be free
Helping me to find - oh - the mind and the soul
They've been trying to hide away...
And he promised we'd help Anna if I'd help him to
go all the way
[Lugaid:]
Go all the way into the world of minds
Open the gate and do not close behind
Prevent them from hiding the light away
Prevent them from tellin' us tales
Or the end of all they scare us with will be a
million empty brains...
[Gabriel:]
I could bring you what you told me
The seal they need to close the gate forever
But still I haven't found a meaning
Anna will we ever be together
[Regrin:]
You've been fighting for your soul
And sometimes it takes a toll
Hope one day you'll understand
What it means to hold in hands
What they call a fantasy
It is nothing but a key
To the world that now you're in
That they call a wicked dream
[Elderane:]
When you're walking on your own
When you're broken and alone
You may feel us from inside -
on the other side of life.
Ohohohoh...
[Gabriel:]
I've been fighting for my soul
And sometimes it takes a toll
Hope one day we'll understand
What it means to hold in hands
What we call a fantasy
But it's nothing but a key
To the world that now I'm in
That we call a wicked dream
Oh, walking on my own
When I'm broken and alone
I may feel you from inside
From the other side of life
2. NO RETURN
[Lugaid:]
Mental vigour's been right on the egde
To a 'stupefying' hole of no return
Now we dance a holy war is won
But there must be more we got to learn
[Gabriel:]
Don't you know that I'm here I must go
Into the morning light - illuminate the night
Be the guide on our side - the Gnosis
No return - I will go, follow the call of my spirit
No return - I must know all that I never could ask
No return
No I still can't leave the world in here
Soon I feel that I am gonna get her free
But I've smelled at and I long for more
Take me in, oh i beg, philosophy
Oh I got to know, more now so I must go on
Into the morning light - illuminate the night
Be the guide on our side - the Gnosis
No return - I will go, follow the call of my spirit
No return - I must know all that I never could ask
No return
Solo: Henjo Richter
[Eldrane:]
No return - maybe you must pay
Many've been in quest for truth
Insanity has swallowed away
No return - but I wish you all the best
Go and face the tree of knowledge and be free
[Gabriel:]
No return - I will go, follow the call of my spirit
No return - I must know all that I never could ask
3. THE LOOKING GLASS
[Gabriel:]
Drawn by the sound of that wild raving pound
No one has told me
I gotta know all about hell and below
They never told me
The quest for nexus
In your life and for all that's beyond...
[Gabriel:]
When I gaze at the man who is gazing at me
When I stare into the looking glass
When I ask what he sees
Then I'm asking for more and the more
that i wanna know
I know what I'll never know
[Tree of Knowledge:]
From far away, from the state of decay
You've come to wisdom
Many've been led, into madness instead
Toll of my kingdom
The quest for nexus has brought
Many men of genius to insanity
[Gabriel:]
When I gaze at the man who is gazing at me
When I stare into the looking glass
When I ask what he sees
[Tree of Knowledge:]
Then you're asking for more, and the more that
you wanna know
You know what you'll never know
[Solo: Henjo Richter]
[Tree of Knowledge:]
As long as you long for the whole
You can't get a part of at all
How proud would the buildings of Rome
Look without a single stone
[Gabriel:]
When I gaze at the man who is gazing at me
When I stare into the looking glass
When I ask what he sees
Then I'm asking for more and the more
that i wanna know
I know what I'll never know...
4. IN QUEST FOR
[Tree of Knowledge:]
Coming from the wastelands
Full of reason, common sense
Where their principles are blocking minds
And you don't understand
Giving you belief,
You never touch, you never see
But if you dare to try to grip it
you're accused for heresy
[Gabriel:]
Here I stand to find the truth
and for ought I know
You're the one to show me
You can tell my spirit how to grow
No, the more I try
The more confusion on my mind
And no matter how I try
I feel my eyes seem to stay blind
[Tree of Knowledge:]
No use in analysing, forget about alchemy
Because the secret of all truth
Is the quest for - and you'll feel
When you knock right on the door
"Forever locked" they say
A little man will let you in,
For you have always tried - to get inside
You're in quest for more to find the core
Your journey still ain't over
Your quest is your purpose, go on
You're in quest for more to find the core
It will be - never- over
Your quest is your purpose, go on ...
You're in quest for more to find the core...
5. THE FINAL SACRIFICE
[Gabriel:]
Staring into the lake, watching for heaven's sake
faces screaming in fear
Crying like at the stake, in the fiery waves
I can see all the souls how they suffer and howl
in their eternal pain
Service taking its toll, living life in hades
All the souls that left their mortal
frame if it's been dead or not
All the deaf who did not hear the truth
Get ready for the brimstone-
getting blisters on the eyes
The power of the spirit was their final sacrifice
Get ready for the brimstone-
getting blisters on the eyes
The power of the spirit was their final sacrifice
[Jakob's voice:]
Someone pullin' me out to come back to my flesh
Or I'm going insane !
In a world under Rome, in the fiery waves
Can't you see all the souls, how we suffer and howl
In our eternal pain
Service taking the toll, living life in hades...
Oh I see you standing on the
shore of castigation now
We don't wanna burn no more so pull us out,out,out
Get ready for the brimstone-
getting blisters on the eyes
The power of the spirit was our final sacrifice
Get ready for the brimstone-
getting blisters on the eyes
The power of the spirit was our final sacrifice
Get ready !
[Solo: Jens Ludwig]
Get ready for the brimstone...
6. NEVERLAND
[Bishop:]
Cought in neverland, no purpose to be seen
There's no point of destination
Neverending wastelands, such a wicked odyssey
Don't know what we have done wrong
Lead us back to Rome to follow you again
Bring you the power, get salvation
I know less than all but more
than many who know less
I know it's keeping us strong
[Gabriel:]
And while they are pulling strings
While they are in command
They're hanging on strings
And fate they do commend into another hand
Cought in neverland, heat and fire, snow and ice
They call nether world what we call a paradise
Cought in neverland and their spirits cannot rise
From the nether world, they can't see a paradise
And the Roman whore, the masters and the slaves
Raging on without they don't know
Good intentions on their minds
Can't ask for why they bow out
[Bishop:]
Lead us to Eden, judge those who bite off more
than they can chew to serve, without they ask
Or call in doubt the ask
[Gabriel:]
Cought in neverland, heat and fire, snow and ice
They call nether world what we call a paradise
Cought in neverland and their spirits cannot rise
From the nether world, they can't see a paradise
[Solo: Henjo Richter]
Cought in neverland in the place of many eyes
Make it be what they are allowed to realize
Cought in neverland, heat and fire, snow and ice...
7. ANYWHERE
[Gabriel:]
I remember it was long ago
But when I think of her I fell it grow
Something begs me to come home again
Something I can hardly stand
But I'm to defy, I have to ignore her cry
I don't know what to do, I'm missing you so bad
Waiting for tomorrow, for a little ray of light
Waiting for tomorrow just to see your smile again
Take away my sorrow from a blistered heart of mine
Where are you now if you are there anywhere
Please forgive me for how I decide
But before I can come with rapid strides
Don't expect you'll have to understand
Jakob needs my helping hand
First I have to go one out of two ways
Wich both are wrong and I'm to go
So afraid, so ashamed
So deranged - but I know...
Waiting for tomorrow, for a little ray of light
Waiting for tomorrow just to see your smile again
Take away my sorrow from a blistered heart of mine
Where are you now if you are there anywhere
[Solo: Henjo Richter]
Waiting for tomorrow, for a little ray of light...
I can't wait for you - Are you there - anywhere
8. CHALICE OF AGONY
[Gabriel:]
Ah - Hugh !
Show me the way to he hallways
below Rome, I will be there
I've seen them burning in fire
They all bear too much to bear
[Elderane:]
Why don't you think of all those who will come
Don't you waste your life
[Gabriel:]
Don't you try show me the way
Don't need 'good advice'
[Elderane:]
Cold hallways so old, a chalice of gold
A guard as they say, paralyzed
Follow the cries from out of the blood
The wine in the cup
[Gabriel:]
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
[Gabriel:]
Regrin my friend we are passing the gate
Back into my world
[Regrin:]
I am afraid of the guard and I wish
Warnings had been heard
[Gabriel:]
Welcome to Rome, it's our mission
to make tortured spirits free
[Regrin:]
Something's in here, oh I wish I could hide
from its staring eyes
[Gabriel:]
Cold hallways so old, a chalice of gold
And I feel a chill
Staring eyes, while I hear the cries
From out of the blood, the wine in the cup
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
[Solo: Henjo Richter]
No way out, we got to run to the gate
No way out , for some of the souls it's too late
Jakob are you free
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
9. MEMORY
[Falk:]
Oh, I dare not to sleep anymore
Cause I see her face in every nightmare
In all the windows of my haunted house
And when I dream a dream of flowers
I wake up in my hand a bloody rose
'Blood shall come upon you'
So she spoke to me
Never knew she'd come back
Now she's on my dreams
From the faces in my dream
From an evil memory
As foretold in their prediction
From the faces in my dream
They are coming back for me
As it was told in their prediction
Is it just a dream
Or just a wicked memory ... Oh
Now I see her coming on her besom...
The smell of brimstone
And the mark of the beast
From the open window
Is it just a dream
As she's pulling out the dagger to stab
A thousand times into my hurting breast
Wake up from the nightmare
Screaming when I see her stand
with the face of Jakob
A bloody dagger in her hand
From the faces in my dream
From an evil memory
As foretold in their prediction
From the faces in my dream
They are coming back for me
As it was told in their prediction
Is it just a dream
[Gabriel:]
Maybe his conscience
Will send him a dream in his dreams
If I only knew - oh Anna -
If his soul also came free
Or maybe if Jakob
Would talk to the bailiff for you
I can't come for you
I don't know how many souls were set free
To start a rebellion, don't know if I'll still have to flee
[Solo: Jens Ludwig]
Oh that faces in my dream...
From the faces in my dream
From an evil memory...
10. INTO THE UNKNOWN
[Anna:]
Heading for another life
In a new world far away
Why not me, oh Lord
Why did Vandroiy have to die, why
[Gabriel:]
Dreamers come and go
But a dream's forever
Freedom for all minds
Let us go together
Neverending ways
Got to roam forever
Always carry on
Walking down a misty road into the unknown
Heavy winds may blow into our faces
You can't kill the dream in killing the dreamer
Can't tear it down
Always carry on
Dreamers come and go
But a dream's forever
Freedom for all minds
Let us go together
Neverending ways
Got to roam forever
Always carry on
I've seen dreamers come and go
[Solo: Timo Tolkki]
