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In Flames: Crawl Thru Knives (beginning of chorus)
"It's in my hands, the sky" --> "It's in my ass, this guy"

Selena Gomez: Good for You (beginning of song)
"I'm on my fourteen carats" --> "I'm on my farting carrots"

By now he's built himself such a dubious reputation I sometimes wonder how come he still finds people willing to collaborate with him.

SentineLEX wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 9:25 pm Tolkki playing a Polaris song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQWz2AjNdZc

Timo says Erik wanted to do some Strato songs Timo had never played before, and jokingly calls him an asshole for that.

why all the Powermetal bands sound so generic?... is the style of production or what.... :err:

My guess is that "everything" has already been made, and it's simply getting more and more difficult to come up with something original. Theoretically it's possible to create tens of billions of ...

I would recommend Savage Circus for people who enjoy the classic Blind Guardian sound of 90’s. Towards the end of his time in BG the drummer Thomen Stauch had grown dissatisfied with the band’s musical direction, inspiring him to start a band that would play music similar to older BG. In Jens ...

Found this interview from 2004, if somebody can add some English subs, I can only understand their names :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yiy_DbTRzU


There's hardly anything new and interesting. The interview was done when the publicity stunts were going. "Fistfight" between TT and TK ...

some random stuff but also a little behind the scenes of strato story, just found out that Jari K was fired because we wanted to bring his now-wife
to a listening party and Tolkki fired him via text message. cold AF.


In his new book Tolkki says he didn't fire him, but Jari himself wanted to ...

Let’s talk about the books you’ve written … you’ve just released “Loneliness Of A Thousand Years” and a formal autobiography, “Hymn to Live-Entr’acte”. Without going too deeply into the details, what can you tell me about these books?

Yeah, let’s talk. However, the latter one has never been ...

https://www.is.fi/musiikki/art-2000006447903.html

Apparently the biographical book will be released next week in Finland.

No mention about the solo album, I wonder if that's still a going concern?


Didn't he already release a book a few years ago?


I think Loneliness of a Thousand Years ...

Pancio wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2020 7:29 pm
And yes, if I remember well, the guitar arrived to the fan, actually.

Ah ok, cool. I like happy endings.

https://www.is.fi/musiikki/art-2000006447903.html

Apparently the biographical book will be released next week in Finland.

No mention about the solo album, I wonder if that's still a going concern?

Ah, I just remembered. Did he ever give away his guitar? I feel like he didn't.


It looks like Luthor was out of luck on this one.

Lehtiniemi says that Tolkki promised him payment.

”Because I believed money to be tight, it was arranged that I receive my payment in the form of two guitars. In ...

Actually he said he's going to first release a solo album in March 2020 and the rock opera about Jesus is going to be later.

He also made some Hitler jokes.

He hopes a temporary "Strato United" could take place so that they could release a live DVD with that lineup. But he says neither him nor ...

There's a new interview with TT in the Finnish (yellow) press. Here's the URL if someone wants to try it with a translator.

https://www.is.fi/musiikki/art-2000006294322.html

I would like to hear more about the Visions of Europe thing. It's the first time I've heard someone say it's re-recorded in studio.

I believe Kotipelto once said he was getting worried over how much the band were drinking during the Visions tour, especially TT and JM. Maybe the performances weren't ...

mocobhc wrote:
This is such a typical TT, I can't help but laugh. Another chapter from his infamous guidebook "How to piss off people in no time".

"This is very, very bad"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpMe-f0leaA

Kiss of Judas live 25.11.2017 at Nivala, Finland

Jari Kainulainen substituting the absent Lauri Porra.

Omasta mielestäni olisi aika kyseenalaista vetää viimeinen kiertue vanhalla kokoonpanolla. Se saisi Rolfin, Matiaksen ja Laurin näyttämään pelkiltä sijaisilta jotka saivat väistyä syrjään heti kun heitä ei enää tarvittu. Mahdollinen re-union pitäisi IMO toteuttaa mieluummin Helloweenin "Pumpkins ...

Deris still kicks Kiske's ass on the Keepers era stuff.

How can Deris still be doing something he never even started doing in the first place? :P

According to Grapow, one of the reasons he had started to be unhappy in Helloween was they had many good songs they didn't play live because Andi ...

Night Time Eclipse live. Before this it was last played in 1996.

There's a time to live, there's a time to die-yi!

Since Kotipelto wrote the lyrics how can this be about Tolkki's dog???

To my understanding, Tolkki always gave his Strato compositions a title, even if it was someone else who did the actual lyrics.

And yeah, Kotipelto said the lyrics are about an impossible relationship.

btw, "Rape" is a ...

Jens songs are amazing too and they never played more than "king of nothing" "winter skies" and "move the mountain" in their entire life. I hope that changes now, cause dragons and castles in the air are a huge contribution to the whole nemesis.

They did play "Why Are We Here?" and "Glory of the ...

Mormegil wrote:Not bad. Great to see Helloween has the balls to play so many songs from the new album.

I heard they've dropped Burning Sun and WiMM, in favour of I'm Alive and Steel Tormentor.

Lassila.

eternity_strato wrote:Jari Behm has played every instrument in every Strato album.

Even the parts credited to Tuomo Lassila?

GAGAGO wrote: I have been at my first Stratovariusconsert and it was SO fantastic. Today I am very hoarse. Yes I screamed.

Tonight I will go to my second Stratovarius-consert and i will try to scream as best I can. Finland is so awesome. Very clean and nice. The food is good.

tl;dr

NeverendingAbyss wrote: Was it because of bots?

I've heard the forum had been steadily dying for the last 2 years. Someone on the unofficial forum blamed the social media.

I miss the pre-2004 version of Timo Tolkki.

Rebel wrote:So I take it nobody knows what happened to Ragehead?

Not too long ago I saw him posting on the (official) Helloween forum. Butt that board has now been shut down for good, I believe.

Maybe NATO should attack Europe, destroy the Union, restore democracy and liberate the European nations.