Rock and metal flagship AVANTASIA will release their extravagant 10th studio album and Napalm Records debut, Here Be Dragons, on February 28, 2025. Today the band unleashes its energising first new single “Creepshow”!
The new track is one of the catchiest songs of AVANTASIA’s career so far, and it arrives with a cinematic music video shot at the Grade 1 listed, nineteenth-century gothic Allerton Castle in North Yorkshire. The instant classic rings in a new era of AVANTASIA and will be an integral part of AVANTASIA’s spectacular live shows.
Ringleader Tobias Sammet elaborates, “Creepshow is a perfect single. It’s short and catchy, and it emphasizes a facet of my work that has taken a backseat in my music in recent years. It’s light-hearted and the opposite of melancholic. And it’s fresh, boisterous, and unabashed – a straightforward kick-ass anthem. Also, even though it may seem like a reminiscence of my earlier writing, I think we managed to turn the whole thing into a trademark AVANTASIA tune, as we accentuated with the music video. We rented a haunted castle in North England and celebrated a night in the world of spectres and undead creatures. This is the most vibrant and eccentric music video I’ve ever shot in my entire career, not dead-serious, but certainly of serious quality! I can’t wait to play Creepshow live on our tour next year, I can already see the whole venue jumping up and down and screaming along!”
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
NEW STUDIO ALBUM, HERE BE DRAGONS, OUT FEBRUARY 28, 2025 VIA NAPALM RECORDS | PRE-ORDER NOW