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PDF-ARTICLES ON THE WEB SINCE 2007! New material with Edguy Tobi + Everything Sweden you didn’t know... The brand new DVD Hallowed PDF-Magazine 96 97 Hallowed PDF-Magazine Design: Caj Källmalm Design: Caj Källmalm Tobias Sammet is a funny bloke. I actually didn’t even need to ask him a question and he TOBIAS had already talked for 15 minutes about him self, Avantasia and Edguy. But then he also said he isn’t good at much things, SAMMET but talking is definitely one. Double victory for the sammet smoth German In 1992 four young Germans in Fulda called Tobias, Jens, Dirk band. The album was a huge suc- Killed tour manager and Dominik started a band cal- cess which ended up in Edguy The weather was excellent this led Edguy. After two demos and doing an own headliner tour in day, both me and Tobias could one self financed CD they got a Sweden. Hallowed country. enjoy a gazing sun and clear blue record deal with German label Here somewhere Tobias Sam- sky. He in Germany and me in AFM-records and in 1997 they re- met, the vocalist and main Sweden. leased their official debut album, songwriter of the band started to - It’s just like Los Angeles, called ‘Kingdom of Madness’. think about something else. But Sammet says enthusiastic! Or Now, ‘Kingdom of Madness’ is by the time it was still just an idea maybe Los Angeles has it like us probably not the most flattering and what Sammet was focusing in Europe. debut album ever released. on at the moment was still Edguy When I tell him that it sure is, Most magazines said Edguy is a and in 1999 he and the band rele- except for the snow outside here wasted project that never will go ased the album ‘Theatre of Salva- it suprices Sammet a lot. anywhere in the world and that tion’ which ended up in another - Do you still have snow in was that. But they were wrong! tour in Sweden, with Hammerfall Sweden? Where in Sweden do In 1998 the band retaliated by re- this time. A huge tour with 17 you live? Text: Caj Källmalm leasing their second album ‘Vain stops in various Swedish cities. As I tell him the closest big- Photo: Halloweds archive (Ellinor SIljeström), Glory Opera’, which to date is And here is where my conversa- ger city is Gävle, Sammet knows Daniel Källmalm & press photos (NB-media) still one of the most liked albums tion with Sammet this day starts. exactly where I am. He has been From: 2011-03-21 - if not the most liked - by the here, but his memories could be >> Hallowed PDF-Magazine 98 99 Hallowed PDF-Magazine Design: Caj Källmalm Design: Caj Källmalm Me and Tobias in early 2004. I was 19 years old here and Tobias 25. Today we are 7 years older. On the right Sammet is 33. better of the place. The birth of Avantasia tal Opera part 1’). pay for the recording and then I bigger names figured with the again, but here I am with a new - I played there with Edguy This tragic event didn’t stop the Now to call ‘The Metal Opera’ wanted to do my thing. Play with current drummer of Kiss (Eric album today. in 1999, but the place where we band to re-record their 1995 self a huge success would be to lie my favorite musicans. My heroes. Singer) and the vocalist of Mag- Yes, it took him just over five played wasn’t the best. It was released album ‘Savage Poetry’ blatantly, but it was some sort of The way that I wanted to do it. num (Bob Catley) as two of the years, but a new Avantasia al- more like a bigger living room or and release it as ‘The Savage Po- success and it did generate some new recruits. This album gave bum finally hit the stores in Ja- something. However, I remem- etry’. And here is where the ideas interest. Perhaps mostly because The growing of Avantasia more response than the first one nuary 2008 and was called ‘The ber it best for the fact that it was Sammet started to have in early of the nice line of guest musi- Avantasia was followed by an but still Avantasia got far from Scarecrow’. During five years the there our (and Hammerfalls) tour 1999, with some sort of concept cans? Well, the goal was never to Edguy album later the same year, the success of recent days. Howe- Avantasia albums had slowly manager died. album where he could work with make a best selling album, Sam- which was followed by Tobias ver, Sammet was finished with grown and grown and grown He died?! his heroes and do his own little met means. Sammets first world tour with his project. And he was finished as the main band Edguy had be- - Yeah! It’s not very funny, ac- fantasy thing, was beginning to - No, it wasn’t. Though, I did his Edguy, the Mandrake World as a person too. come bigger and more and more tually. But they found his clothes come alive. He went to the stu- hope it would sell something. Tour in 2001 and 2002. And - I was so exhausted from wor- people heard about the band by about half a year later but I don’t dio to record his ideas and along You know, if you could chose bet- during this time Sammet wrote king with the project that I felt others and by checking where think they ever found him. He with him he had some of the gre- ween 250 000 or 25 sold albums, more for his Avantasia project like dead, Sammet told Hallowed their favorite musicans had guest was murdered and it was in the atest musicans on the planet and what would you chose? But when and this resulted in the second in late 2007 when he was about to appeared. middle of our tour. this resulted in the album ‘The I started with the project I just Avantasia album, called ‘The Me- release ‘The Scarecrow’. I never The interest for something Metal Opera’ (later aka ‘The Me- needed a label stupid enough to SAMMET tal Opera part 2’ on which even wanted to do anything like this new had grown huge during >> Hallowed PDF-Magazine 100 Tobias Sammet online: 101 Hallowed PDF-Magazine Design: Caj Källmalm http://www.tobiassammet.com Design: Caj Källmalm Tobias with his main band Edguy these five years and when the al- But for a long time I just said ted was how big the interest had compared to Avantaisa. Well you bum was released with the most I shouldn’t do another album. grown during this five year hia- can say so, because ninth was The vocalists in Avantasia impressive assemble so far (with Until I realized that it would be tus because the sales was above far from where it peaked. Before such names as Alice Cooper, Jörn done with a bigger budget and be anything imaginable. In Sweden slowly falling downwards the Vocalist (most known from) - songs/albums sung in Lande and Sacha Paeth added so much better so then I though Sammet had both singles on the singled reached the number two Michael Kiske (Helloween) - 15/alla except for most of the people that “why not?” and just went ahead charts top ten at the same time position in Germany, which is David DeFeis (Virgin Steele) - 4/2 had already sung and played on and did it. and during Halloweds conver- the best chart position for Sam- Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation) 2/2 the predecessors). The album sation with Sammet back then, met with any release to date, in Rob Rock (ex-Axel Rudi Pell) 3/2 Ralf Zdiarstek - 4/3 peaked at the top 10 charts in five Lost in Space he got a message from his label any country. Oliver Hartmann (At Vance) 6/4 Andre Matos (ex-Angra) 7/3 countries and top 50 on charts in Before the release of ‘The Sca- with the latest figures in Germa- - Now, the peaks in Sweden Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray) 4/2 Timo Tolkki (Stratovarius) 2/2 13 countries, which is something recrow’, Sammet and the new ny. Which said one of the Lost in was great. I’d had a couple with Bob Catley (Magnum) 7/5 Jørn Lande (Masterplan) 16/4 very few metal bands achieve. Avantasia label Nuclear Blast re- Space singles had reached ninth - Edguy before ‘Lost in Space’ so I Amanda Somerville (Aina) 6/2 Roy Khan (Kamelot) 1/1 - People said I was stupid not leased two singles, called ‘Lost in the best position a Nuclear Blast know there’s a big interest there. Alice Cooper 1/1 Eric Singer (Kiss,) 1/1 to do another Avantasia album, Space pt 1’ and ‘Lost in Space pt band ever had reached on the But there’s quite few people li- Russell Allen (Symphony X) 4/2 Jon Oliva (Savatage) 1/1 Sammet sais on the new DVD, 2’. As an appetizer or what ever German charts by then. ving in Sweden (just above nine Klaus Meine (Scorpions) 1/1 Cloudy Yang 1/1 because of the interest and suc- you want to call it. - Even better than Nightwish! million, about the same as Berlin Tim “Ripper” Owens (ex-Judas Priest) 1/1 cess it had got during the years. What no one could have expec- Well, yeah! Nightwish are puny SAMMET alone, the capital of Germany.