The Mystery of Time


The Mystery of Time is the sixth full-length album by Tobias Sammet's rock opera project Avantasia. The album was released on 26 April 2013. This is the first Avantasia release to feature the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg. The cover artwork was painted by Rodney Matthews.
The Mystery Of Time scored high positions in several international music charts and even enabled Avantasia to enter the US Billboard charts for the very first time.
When asked to compare the album to Avantasia's previous efforts, guitarist and producer Sascha Paeth described it as follows:

Track listing

Limited editions of the album include a second CD with instrumental versions of all the tracks on the album, with the exception of the two limited edition bonus tracks.

Story

The album booklet describes the story "So take the time to follow me into a small old English town during the Victorian era and join a young agnostic scientist by the name Aaron Blackwell as he is forced to explore the coherencies of time, God and science; torn between belief in his professional conviction, his spiritual intuition, love and a lodge of scientific occultists."

Personnel

Musicians

ChartNumber
German Albums Chart2
Swiss Albums Chart5
England Rock Albums Chart6
Finnish Albums Chart9
Swedish Albums Chart9
North America Billboard Chart9
Austrian Albums Chart11
Czech Albums Chart12
Hungary Albums Chart15
Japanese Albums Chart17
Norwegian Albums Chart19
Spanish Albums Chart29
French Albums Chart61
Belgian Ultratop 70
Dutch Albums Chart85
Belgian Ultratop 97