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warrencurrymetal wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:41 pm

Fight me!

Second best behind E1ements

>My 2 solo albums
Even Tolkki regrets Saana

Enjoy! ( I guess!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awdi2dTlvbI Unfortunately, as Infinite Visions did not meet it's crowdfunding goal there will be no album and the band will not continue. As a farewell to the fans, Infinite Visions are posting the five songs that were recorded for their demo, incl...

Vidi, Veni

Also I will soon release a double CD + sex tape with Stratomembers but they have not responded to my emails yet

Will Union Magnetic bear any resemblance to the Metallica album with a similar name?

Maybe it's because they're standalone but I feel like the song would sound better without the backing vocals. The rest I feel like you did a much better job than the actual band did with the production!

This is from 2011 but I couldn't find any topic on it and it's pretty cool. It's Eagleheart in Russian! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrs2uXlaTdI The lyrics have been changed a little bit to make the meter/rhyme fit the language but otherwise it's a pretty faithful translation. One thing I particu...

AAAAAAAAAA wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:45 am

Nice!

Do you have an ultra high resolution photo of Timo Tolkki with a blue stripe across his face? I need it for a school project.

NeverendingAbyss wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 24, 2020 6:51 pm

Neat. And it's a nice simple tune too. How did you find it?

You don't listen to Strato in your home theater sitting an equal distance from all 5.1 audio channels?

Thought it was appropriate for the season.

Although honestly this is one of my least favorite songs Timo has ever written.

Flavio is Jens's shitposting account

Incredible.

It's in the same key as A&O but I don't think there is enough time to fit that track into the intro. Maybe it's half and half or entirely in A Drop in the Ocean.

Agree that Dragonforce + Sabaton got big by basically being meme metal. I think Sabaton has the same sort of effect on history nerds who don't realize the entire genre exists but know about Sabaton because they sing about a bunch of historical events. Only ones I listen to on this chart on a regular...

Infinite is off by one song but they did play one of the bonus tracks live. What's missing from Destiny?

Also I missed this rarity (which also brings Elements Pt. 1 up to minus-one with Infinite):

Happy very belated birthday Jens!

Tolkki told me he is starting his new band Infinite Key to Visions of Universe (including the grammatical errors) that will perform exclusively Strato singles from 1996-2003 live and will be fronted by a 19-year-old Chilean woman

Happy birthday Rolf!

The cover printed in this video shows two copyrights for track 12: 1994 Dark Wings, and 1995 NEMS (the discogs version doesn't have any year for Dark Wings) Ah, this means that there are other versions released in South America which contain Solitude. The Discogs catalogue is incomplete. I did find...

I actually didn't realize it was TK singing until you brought it up. W H O O P S The cover printed in this video shows two copyrights for track 12: 1994 Dark Wings, and 1995 NEMS (the discogs version doesn't have any year for Dark Wings) I did find more info from a thread on the forum from 2006: htt...

I only discovered this song today after listening to the entire first TT solo album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGH8T63gCc I looked around but I couldn't find it on the B-side of any of the singles, despite being on the "Singles B-Sides" bootleg. It's credited to Stratovarius but given the lin...

robocop wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 19, 2020 2:40 am

Macaroons taste better than maricones.
I thought that was the same thing till now.

Emmanuel Macaroon

They played Visions in full before, right? That would be nice to hear their newer albums played in full. Episode and Visions both. And I agree, something like Eternal in full would be cool... I don't know how many people at the typical Strato concert only know the old songs and how many have listen...

Into the Legend is fantastic. It's a throwback to the band's earlier success. I found the production to be minimal compared to their other albums. Maybe because of money constraints? It's more raw and less sophisticated, but that's what makes it good. I can better appreciate the music and chorus th...

Soul of a Vagabond or I Walk to My Own Song (sounds even better when they played it in D minor) From the new era, Feeding the Fire is underplayed and it's a better version of Paradise. Man in the Mirror/Fire in Your Eyes haven't been at all. Both sound like they'd be fun to sing along to. From the o...

That's an awesome, under-rated album by the way! On...theeeee...waaay....tooo....ainor! :twisted: It was the album that got me into them :) Symphony of the Enchanted Lands took a while to grow on me, but I've enjoyed Frozen Tears since the first listen! Eliza Martin (Dark Moor) didn't exactly growl...

There is a blast beat if you want to call it that at the start of Abandon. Next album: Matias writes a death metal song and Kotipelto goes full ROARRRRR. :lol: There's always a first time for everything. Fabio Lione did do some harsh vocals on Rhapsody's Frozen Tears of Angels and it wasn't half ba...

Next album: Bass solos and kotipelto singing as high as possible over blast beats. You want timo tolkki back to stratovarius :lol: There is a blast beat if you want to call it that at the start of Abandon. Next album: Matias writes a death metal song and Kotipelto goes full ROARRRRR. :lol: There's ...

robocop wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:54 am

Next album:
Bass solos and kotipelto singing as high as possible over blast beats.

Porralis

The RR demo sounds better than New Era but it's literally a Strato album so it doesn't count. +1 for Trinity. I think it is the last time Tolkki tried to do something new and didn't retread on his former work. I liked In Paradisum and Avalon 1, and a few songs on 2/3, but all of those seem like pale...

My question is: Why paying 20 bucks for something amateurish, poorly written that you can have for free? I have the "Golden Handbook" and some advices are actually good and effective but the book itself is full of coarse and sketchy Infos like: "Place the mic three fingers from the rim" or pointles...