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Amanda Somerville, Epica’s replacement vocalist, has posted a new video blog from the Avantasia world tour, that you can watch below.

Avantasia will rock Sziget on August 13, starting at 21:30 hours, at the Hammerworld Stage.

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As you all know, Tobias Sammet of Edguy has a new solo project, Avantasia, that will be playing Sziget this year. Sammet has just revealed  the touring line-up for this summer, a very interesting one. It will feature, according to Sammet “Jorn Lande (ex-MASTERPLAN), André Matos (ex-ANGRA), Amanda Somerville, Olli Hartmann, Bob Catley (MAGNUM — not all shows), Sascha Paeth, Miro, Robert Hunecke, Claudy Yang and Frank Lindenthal who is gonna replace Eric Singer who’ll be playing with KISS. Despite all rumors Michael Kiske will not be there, as he didn’t wanna do it and I respect that!”. Sammet promises a huge epic show on the tour, so it’s gonna be well worth checking out their performance at the Hammerworld stage this year.

 

We told you about Jamiroquai playing at Sziget this year a few days ago, today it is officially confirmed (with a date, too -  August 14th), along with a few other names. Here are the most important of them: Goran Bregovic Wedding & Funeral Band will be playing the World Music Stage, Serj Tankian (a name that many wished for), Avantasia, Lacrimosa, Flogging Molly, The Wombats, Anti-Flag, At The Gates, Mademoiselle K  and Delinquent Habits.