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A friend of mine of sent me the news of the japanese music magazine "Burrn!" , they tell that Timo Kotipelto and Jani Liimatainen has formed a new band called Cain´s Offering . They are going to release the debut
album this July, and the title is
"Gather The Faithful".



Is this true or an April Fools?

I think it's april joke. I can't find anything of this band from internet..

the article says the members are :

Jani Liimatainen (guitar, ex-Sonata Arctica),
Mikko Harkin(key,ex-Sonata Arctica),
Jukka Koskinen(bass,ex- Norther/Wintersun),
Jani Hurula(drums),
and the vocalist,Timo Kotipelto.

Cain´s Offering would be a great band :headbang: though

the "Burrn!" is not a gossip magazine..you can trust it

That would be awesome !!!

awesome news!!!!!!!

the article looks serious
(here's the magazine, with its headlines: http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/hokeypokeyyoud ... 44466.html)

but I still feel some doubt... I mean, Cain's Offering, isn't that rejected by the God? because it's not faithful or something...
and the album is called "gather the faithful"?
it still makes a cool name, but i have to say, this is weird.

wow!!! is awesome!! I want to hear them

I found mentions here and here, but I have no idea what it is about.

This is going to be great!

I was just about to post this too! It was in the recent burrn magazine and Jani offically announced it on his myspace! OMFG, Jani, Miko, and Timo!!!

I wonder if it'll be more HR oriented like Altaria or Kotipelto's stuff or if it'll be like Sonata Arctica's Silence...I definitely wouldn't mind another album like Silence or Altaria's Divinity!


either way this is sooooo awesome IMO!

Timo K and Jani had a gig this Friday 3.4. in Jyväskylä.

Hi folks I found this : http://www.myspace.com/cainsoffering
and

http://cainsoffering.com/

very nice indeed!!! and not a joke at all

Jani Liimatainen (guitar, ex-Sonata Arctica),
Mikko Harkin(key,ex-Sonata Arctica),
Jukka Koskinen(bass,ex- Norther/Wintersun),
Jani Hurula(drums),
and the vocalist,Timo Kotipelto.

=epic win

This will be cool, can't wait to hear it when it comes out.

Great news! Can't wait for the debut album! :banana1:

They should have gotten Jari K. on Bass

nefertari wrote:A friend of mine of sent me the news of the japanese music magazine "Burrn!", they tell that Timo Kotipelto and Jani Liimatainen has formed a new band called Cain´s Offering . They are going to release the debut album this July, and the title is "Gather The Faithful". Is this true or an April Fools?

No april's fooling. Yes, TK and Jani indeed have been cooking up some music, up there in West Finland, quite recently.

I haven't heard any of it yet except for some very rough demos last year at some point. I wasn't sure when it was done and when or how it would come out, or what the project's name would be! I'm also quite curious about what it will sound like.

Hey, more stuff for you guys to listen to!

This is so awsome for me. I can't wait to hear what they came up with.

JensJohansson wrote:

nefertari wrote:A friend of mine of sent me the news of the japanese music magazine "Burrn!", they tell that Timo Kotipelto and Jani Liimatainen has formed a new band called Cain´s Offering . They are going to release the debut album this July, and the title is "Gather The Faithful". Is this true or an April Fools?

No april's fooling. Yes, TK and Jani indeed have been cooking up some music, up there in West Finland, quite recently.

I haven't heard any of it yet except for some very rough demos last year at some point. I wasn't sure when it was done and when or how it would come out, or what the project's name would be! I'm also quite curious about what it will sound like.

Hey, more stuff for you guys to listen to!

But this is just a project, right??...that is cool, but don't forget Strato please,

I hope between this and Stratovarius he still has time for his solo stuff. ;_;

OMG! Excellent news!!

Star_Ocean wrote:I hope between this and Stratovarius he still has time for his solo stuff. ;_;

I do hope so too.
but TK is a smart man, I think he has a plan when he does action.he never disappoint us

Verdades Parias wrote: But this is just a project, right??...that is cool, but don't forget Strato please,

+1

Cain's Offering is not just a "project".
Jani mentioned that he has formed the new band with TK.
by the article, at least it doesn't mean the limited project

JensJohansson wrote:

nefertari wrote:A friend of mine of sent me the news of the japanese music magazine "Burrn!", they tell that Timo Kotipelto and Jani Liimatainen has formed a new band called Cain´s Offering . They are going to release the debut album this July, and the title is "Gather The Faithful". Is this true or an April Fools?

No april's fooling. Yes, TK and Jani indeed have been cooking up some music, up there in West Finland, quite recently.

I haven't heard any of it yet except for some very rough demos last year at some point. I wasn't sure when it was done and when or how it would come out, or what the project's name would be! I'm also quite curious about what it will sound like.

Hey, more stuff for you guys to listen to!

Yes it´s not a joke at all. The news just came so suddenly like behind the wood. Now I remember when I met Mikko Härkin last October in Helsinki, he told that he is working with an interesting new project with some great guys... and it will be great news.
We will have another awesome album to wait for . Mikko is one of my favourite musicians and master of the keys...just like Jens

that's some great news i really like Jani and the keys guy and also the man in the bass cos i love also wintersun but the guy i dunno is the one behind the drums, and i you are interested i have also some info about the band :
Timo Kotipelto (Stratovarius) has joined great known finnish musicians for a new project called Cain's Offering, and they will release their debut album "Gather the Faithful" on July 2009.


The band members are:

Jani Liimatainen (guitar, ex-Sonata Arctica),
Mikko Harkin (keys, ex-Sonata Arctica),
Jukka Koskinen (bass, ex- Norther/Wintersun),
Jani Hurula (drums),
Timo Kotipelto (vocals, Stratovarius)

More info on:

http://cainsoffering.com/
http://www.myspace.com/cainsoffering

Really great news!

:party:

Verdades Parias wrote:But this is just a project, right??...that is cool, but don't forget Strato please,

Well, it's an interesting question without a really good answer. This distinction between what is "just a project" and "this is the real band" is somewhat artificial, in a way.

I know that in Japan especially it is felt that it's very important to fans (and magazines, and record companies!) that each person somehow "belongs" to this band, or another band, as a member.

I was often very surprised by this before I understood it. Like so often with Japan, there is a lot of stuff going on that you just don't get.

I don't want to speak on behalf of TK, but anyway I feel he stands behind anything he sings on 100%. I do know that he is committed to Stratovarius, we have all worked hard for more than half a year making this record and are about to start doing lots of gigs too... so of course none of us are forgetting Strato, and TK is a member of Stratovarius the same way he has been now, for 15 years or whatever

Having said that, if eg. Hellborg asked me to do a gig with the band "Art Metal" and if I had time, I probably would do it, because it might be fun. If I during that gig would be a member of "Art Metal", and Stratovarius would be considered just some project, I couldn't say. To me it would just be a gig, the same way Art Metal was a record with some interesting people.

To which leads the inevitable question:

Q: how many members were there in ABBA?

A: Eight. There were Stickan Andersson (nicknamed "the fifth ABBA"), then there were the four members, and then three of those themselves had members.

But of course the more I think about this now, maybe Stickan should have been nicknamed "the seventh and eighth member of ABBA".

( In Swedish it becomes a little easier: "Hur många medlemmar har ABBA? Två med lemmar, två utan". )

I thought TK has 100% commitment only with Stratovarius

Now I understand why he made only 3 songs for Polaris!

BTW: Why to made this on secret!???