"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.

Sammet said it could be a great promotional opportunity[5][3] and commented:[3] To me it means that I can play my music in front of an audience that conceivably don't know that an act like us still exists.

[...] I like the idea of keeping the flag high for this kind of music [...] and it is a music genre, that doesn't get much attention in the mass media.When asked if he was afraid conservative fans would dislike Avantasia's participation due to the pop, commercial nature of Eurovision, Sammet replied:[3] What kind of Metal band are we, if we would worry about what is proper or not ?

At the end of the day the Eurovision Song Contest won't have any influence on the things I'm doing.He remarked it will be "weird" to compete with other people in art, which he sees as "subjective".

In the final round, "Mystery of a Blood Red Rose" received 21.6% of the public vote, finishing in third place.