Mystery of a Blood Red Rose

"Mystery of a Blood Red Rose"
Single by Avantasia
from the album Ghostlights
Released11 December 2015
Length3:51
LabelNuclear Blast Records
Songwriter(s)Tobias Sammet
Producer(s)Sascha Paeth and Tobias Sammet
Avantasia singles chronology
"Sleepwalking"
(2013)
"Mystery of a Blood Red Rose"
(2015)

"Mystery of a Blood Red Rose" is a single and opening track to the German power metal project Avantasia's album Ghostlights, released on 11 December 2015 with a lyric video. It was one of the ten candidates to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. The song was between the final three finalists, but eventually was defeated by "Ghost", performed by Jamie-Lee Kriewitz.