According to a posting on Edguy frontman Tobias Sammet's MySpace page, Sammet will release a new album from his Avantasia project before the end of the year. More details will be made available soon.

In a recent interview, Sammet stated about his plans for the forthcoming Avantasia CD, "I will do everything to have the biggest production I've ever had. I am negotiating with an orchestra right at the moment and I just wanna have a bombastic, monumental movie for the ears. And for such an undertaking there is no one who is better than Sascha [Paeth; producer, engineer and guitarist of Avantasia project]; he is like a brother to me."

Avantasia filmed its July 10, 2008 performance at the Masters of Rock festival in Vizovice, Czech Republic for a forthcoming DVD.

The latest album from Avantasia , "The Scarecrow", was officially one of the 20 best-selling albums in whole Europe during the fourth week of January 2008, according to a press release.