Tobias Sammet recorded a really strong album with record afterwards and the project went back with a new and fresh story and interesting songs almost six years later by inventing something completely new that got finally away from the power metal roots and fantasy topics of the first two records. It was a wise step to take a break from that project after the big efforts, high amount of creativity and the loads of passion that has especially been put into the first strike. If there weren't "The seven angels" and "The final sacrifice", this album would have been the project's weakest effort and I would not even have given the rating of a traditional school passage result. The album is only based on fast power metal tracks, boring ballads and average hard rock tracks but even if it is that simple, the songs aren't catchy at all and are somewhat difficult to approach. The last good track on this record might be the enjoyable "Neverland" but it has not the class of the two outstanding tracks on this record. The fact that this song is suddenly included on this disc has probably three major reasons: First of all, Tobias Sammet realized the strong potential of this killer song, second, he had no more creative ideas to include on this follow up and third, there is not such a thing as a perfectly sought concrete story line as on the first and rather linear record. The only time a part of the opener when the albums gets a little kick of genius is with the heaviest track in the project's history, the straight "The final sacrifice", easily the best and most outstanding track on the record but we have already had this song on the "Avantasia" single almost two years ago. There are two or maybe three really good songs and a truly beautiful cover artwork but that's about everything.Ī part of the epic opener "The seven angels" that is somewhat a résumé of the first part where all the important personalities appear again and remind of the unique brilliance and diversity of the first strike, this album only presents the usual amount of average up speed power metal tracks like "No return", rather ordinary hard rock songs like "The looking glass" and poor kitsch ballads such as "In quest for". Musically, this album is not only mostly pointless but also disappointing. After the great first part of this power metal musical with many memorable songs Avantasia seems to have decided to put the cut off filler material on a second disc to satisfy the high demand and good selling rates.
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