Edguy

So my guess is I just drew from this as I drove down there.

Bands included on here, Halloween, Bonfire, Warlock, Doro, Solo, Edguy...

Kingdom Come, Michael Shanker, Macaulay Shanker Group.

Yeah, I know that's a stretch, but hey, Shanker was still in that band.

Yeah, we're going to hear from Avantasia from Germany.

This was a, I don't want to say comeback because the band never really went away, but originally Avantasia was a short-lived two-album side project of Tobias Samet of Edguy.

January 1st, it came out in Japan, The Metal Opera Part 1, followed in 2002 by The Metal Opera Part 2, which was a story about a time-traveling dwarf in the days of the height of Catholicism and the Inquisition and things like that.

So then he took a break from that and just for whatever reason, artistic reasons, he decided he wanted to sort of reboot Avantasia.