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jj_large_img We have some good news. Earlier this summer, Timo K, Jens and Lauri got together with a guitar player in a forest cottage in west Finland and wrote and arranged some songs. It went extremely well, and we are very happy with the material, the direction, and the general vibe in the band.



We now have over 15 songs written and demoed already, but probably not all of these will make it to the actual album.

We are happy to confirm that our new guitar player is Matias Kupiainen. He was the only guy we even considered seriously. This interesting fellow was born May 11, 1983 and is a native of Helsinki, Finland. You can find some information and pictures on his myspace page which is here ».

Here is a video, there are more on youtube:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qc8liQx1uzM.

Next week, Jörg and Jens will come to Finland as we have booked three weeks of rehearsals and recordings in another cottage. We will then work more intensely on the songs in a real band rehearsal type of situation. Also there is a very good sauna in this place.

We will try to blog a little bit about the progress of the recording and other things. The official band blog can be found here ».

In the forum you can see some information regarding the songs, some working titles etc, and some more pictures, and also discuss this.

Some of the preliminary working titles and miscellaneous other info about the songs are:

Matias 1
TK nopee
Fire in the Sky
Justice for all
Eternal Life
Emancipation
Blinded
King of Nothing
Adrenaline
Old Man
Kick in the ....
Winter Skies
Treadmill
Never meant to be
nro15T186
nro14T160
unidentified but good slow Lauri song
other weird song (nro5)

Swamped because of last minute stuff before the trip, I'll try to upload some more pix later. Or maybe I'll make a brand spanking new blog. Whee!!

Fire in the Sky is a good movie, and a great Hypocrisy song.


Seriously, it all sounds promising, and these added features are cool.

I just had to register so I can shout:

wohooo!

All sounds good!

OMFG

Dammit, this is damn good, what what what!!


This has been the best and most wonderful news in a loooooong time....

Wonderful, you guys together again, and now it's true, now is real, no more speculation, no more shit.

Just music, artists, fun, peace and our favourite old friends here with us. I'm almost crying!!!! We've been waiting for this so many time. I don't have enough words, that is really amazing. Now I can listen to Strato songs again!! Because I didn't while thinking if you are gonna to continue or not, there were so many speculations and nothing real, now, that's real and you look really good in the pics. You guys never get old, it's fantastic. And Matias is sooooo young, it's just like me! 25 years old.


Thans thanks thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanksssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!

Awesomeness.

Good news make Lauri happy !!!!!

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Funfun

This should be a forum emoticon:

Thank you veeeerryyy much for those news!
It all just sounds awesome.

Good luck for the future, I'm sure the songs (nice titles, btw) will be amazing.

Mr. Porra
...
You are awesome

RazielSR wrote:This should be a forum emoticon:

Yeah, because we do not have a thumbs-up emoticon.
Maybe it could be sized down a bit?
Good idea!!!!!

I just added this pic to my saved files----I use thumbs-up/agreement quite a bit, so I'll use it like an emoticon!

browneyedgirl wrote:

RazielSR wrote:This should be a forum emoticon:

Yeah, because we do not have a thumbs-up emoticon.
Maybe it could be sized down a bit?
Good idea!!!!!

I just added this pic to my saved files----I use thumbs-up/agreement quite a bit, so I'll use it like an emoticon!

seconded! i mean .. thirded

:party:

So, party it is!

:party:

haha one of the best emoticons ever

my attention is like hyptonized, I'm staring dummily at it... :w00t:

:party:

mesmerizing!!!

:party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party:

S:party: T :party: R :party::party:A :party:T :party:O

It takes this slowass Webtv about a minute to load the movement on :party: but, when its loaded, it really flies!

Wheeeeeeeee!

perhaps a bonus disk of

Matias 1
TK nopee
nro15T186
nro14T160
unidentified but good slow Lauri song
other weird song (nro5)

unless of course those are the final titles to full songs.

now in that blabbermouth artical it says more agressive and progressive than previus albums, what exactly will that mean in a comparison sense?

icecab21 wrote: now in that blabbermouth artical it says more agressive and progressive than previus albums, what exactly will that mean in a comparison sense?

I just hope not to see Dream Theater 2 in this guys...When I read the word progressive...it scares me because I'm not a big fan of bands like Dream Theater...anyways I like a bit Symphony X.

now in some "progressive agressive music" that i have heard has been anti melody and anti catchy but i'm sure thats not what they mean.

Woooohoooooo!!!!

I'm finally here again! My old account died, so I'm starting with this new one... bah, almost the same

Great, great news!

icecab21 wrote:now in some "progressive agressive music" that i have heard has been anti melody and anti catchy but i'm sure thats not what they mean.

I HOPE.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy. and what about THE NAME, Jens?

RazielSR wrote:

icecab21 wrote:now in some "progressive agressive music" that i have heard has been anti melody and anti catchy but i'm sure thats not what they mean.

I HOPE.

I hope it too!

New material could be sounding a little bit like this;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZqhoS49d8U

Anyway thanks to all accepting me here! I'm very happy to have this opportunity to play and make music with these awesome guys and very suprised about these very very warm welcomes here at the forum!!!

Matias

BE WELCOME MATIAS!

:ola:

The clip sounds great! :banana1:
:party:

Wow, nice to see that things are moving on...

JensJohansson wrote:We will try to blog a little bit about the progress of the recording and other things. The official band blog can be found here ».

What about to consider a videoblog, guys?

Wow! The clip was awesome! :party: :headbang: