Here Be Dragons
Here Be Dragons finds AVANTASIA shaping rock-opera theatricality and the large uplift of melodic and power metal into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.
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Track List
- Creepshow
- Here Be Dragons
- The Moorland At Twilight
- The Witch
- Phantasmagoria
- Bring On The Night
- Unleash The Kraken
- Avalon
- Against The Wind
- Everybody's Here Until The End
Liner Notes
Here Be Dragons is a 2025 work that AVANTASIA refined around rock-opera theatricality and the great elation of melodic/power metal. The songs have many scene changes, and symphonic thickness, hard guitar and lyrical parts appear alternately. Even after a long career, it is a record on which their creativity has not dimmed in the least.
On “Creepshow,” “Here Be Dragons” and “Unleash The Kraken,” multiple voices ring like characters in a story, and the choruses push the whole work’s scale wide open at once. Songs like “The Witch,” “Avalon” and “Everybody's Here Until The End” breathe the band’s full playing too. While prioritizing drama, each song has a clear hook. It is a full, characteristically AVANTASIA record for those who seek both fantasy and a hard-rock feel at once.