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1. First clip is a wonderful B4 from the song Inside from the first Avantasia album (2001). It is done in a very soft manner compared to Sammet's usual high notes.
2. Now we have a C5 from the Edguy song Painting On The Wall from the album Mandrake (2001). This is where he still used his operatic technique and didn't blend much chest into his higher notes, hence the light and clean sound.
3. Time for a change! C5 from the song Journey To Arcadia from the newest Avantasia album Angel Of Babylon (2010), this one is totally different, it is possibly done in 100% chest voice, sounds very rough and raspy. This is the style Tobias is focusing on now.
4. Now his best C5, fantastic ending of the Avantasia song The Story Ain't Over from the Lost In Space Part I EP (2007). Very resonant and powerful mixed voice note.
5. This one is very well blended C#5 from the song King Of Fools (Album - Hellfire Club (2004)). This is the time he started changing his vocal style and the whole Hellfire Club album represents the peak of his vocal abilities as it mixed both his clean and rough approach. He never nailed this note live to my knowledge.
6. Similar sounding note, just a semitone higher, D5. The song is The Spirit Will remain (Again Hellfire Club) and it is Tobi's absolute best vocal performance. It's worth checking out.
7. Time to get a little rougher. Totally raw and more screamy. The pitch is D5 (with harmony F5) and the song is The Wicked Symphony, the tittle track of another new Avantasia album (2010).
8. Almost the same note, just without harmony notes, the song is Sex Fire Religion from the Edguy album Tinnitus Sanctus (2008). This song is Tobi at his rawest.
9. Time shift back to 2001 and Avantasia song Farewell. One of my favourite notes of his, a briliant Eb5! I prefer Tobi's present style, but I miss notes like this one. The whole song is a vocal win, with Michael Kiske singing at the end.
10. Super sustained Eb5 from the Edguy epic The Piper Never Dies (Hellfire Club), simillar in tone to the note before it. Clean head voice note, great vibrato.
11. Another clip from Hellfire Club, this time the song is Mysteria and we hear a scale up to Eb5 (with a harmony G5).
12. Time to move to Sammet favourite high note, E5, first there this stellar E5 from the Edguy song Spooks In The Attic which unfortunately didn't appear on any album, just on Superheroes Ep (2005).
13. Next we have one of his most acclaimed songs, Reach Out For The Light from the first Avantasia album. We get to hear this amazing serie of 3 E5's in one breath.
14. Ladies and gentleman, Tobias Sammet's best note ever, you can bet it wlll amaze you. Incredibly powerful head voice E5 from the ending of Edguy song Golden Dawn from the album Mandrake (2001). No comment is needed.
15. Time to get higher than E5, where males usually have to thin their voices. This is just one short Eb5 with a trill to F5 from the song Forever which is on the album Hellfire Club (2004).
16. Now watch out for the harmony vocals, where Tobi sustains a D5 and then hits a short but solid F#5 on the magnificent The Spirit Will Remain!
17. This is how power metal singing should be done, high phrase from the song We Don't Need A Hero (album is Hellfire Club) which tops at F#5. This doesn't seem to be much to hard for Tobi.
18. Next clip is a bit scary G5 from the song Flight Of Torek which is a part of the metal opera Aina(2003). Unfortunately, this is the only song on which Tobi appears.
19. This one sounds much better, it's a note from the live performance of the Edguy song Babylon from Los Angeles (year is 2007). It's a sustained G5 with G#5 trills and it's most definitely head voice, bacause he lands on a head voice F5 and there is no switch.
20. Another live clip, now from a 2009 performance of the anthem Tears Of Mandrake. He first hits one strong Eb5 and then goes up to G#5!
21. This one goes even higher, a scale from a live performance of Shaaman song Pride on which Tobi is a guest singer. The scale goes up to sustained A5!
22. Now this is something unusual for Tobi! Very Halfordish high phrase which tops at A5. The song is The Final Sacrifice from the second Avantasia album (2002).
23. And finaly, the highest Tobias Sammet note, a strong Bb5 which drops down to a sustained F#5! I'm not sure if it falsetto or head voice. It is also from the phenomenal 2004 album Hellfire Club! The songs is called Rise Of The Morning Glory.
24. Now time for some singing passages. This is the bridge of the Edguy song Speedhoven from the album Tinnitus Sanctus (2008). He hits some super chesty C#5's and this is the most powerful his chest voice has ever been.
25. And for the end, this is what I believe to be his finest moment. Ending of the song What Kind Of Love from the Avantasia album The Scarecrow. Highest notes are sustained D5's.