"Darkest Hours" Single samples online!

[VictorTDD]

check here:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/recsradio/radio/B0046JPPWE

[Rebel]

[AAAAAAAAAA]

I'm impressed!
I have a funny feeling this "Black Diamond" song is going to be a hit!

[rakettitulppa]

hooooly shiit!!!

[Rebel]

If Infernal Maze is somehow a 10 minute song, it'll be Stratovarius' best song ever.

I feel like whereas with Polaris the band leaned too much in a "Happy" direction, both to wipe away the self titled, and try to "Restore to Form", it sounds like the band now has completely realized a youthful identity, and wants to push forward a completely new, darker tone. I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.

[JensJohansson]

The first review is in!

(But I don't immediately understand if it's a good or bad one!?)

I wonder what whoever picked the sample segment for "Black Diamond" was smoking... Not that I mind so much tho!

It's not 10 minutes sadly. 5:35. But there is a lot of stuff in there...

I'm still doing battle with that 20 minute monster song, that's why I am up...

[Rebel]

The first review is in!

(But I don't immediately understand if it's a good or bad one!?)

I wonder what whoever picked the sample segment for "Black Diamond" was smoking... Not that I mind so much tho!

It's not 10 minutes sadly. 5:35. But there is a lot of stuff in there...

I'm still doing battle with that 20 minute monster song, that's why I am up...

OMG. 20 MINUTE SONG? WHAAAAT!?!!?!?

[AGAG]

I wouldn't mind having another "Beautiful lung dogs" in this record, jens. Not at all. The best from fission. How possible is that? I need hitler's heavily distorted voice, screeching doors and what not I like dogs..

[Rebel]

Jens, this record has the potential to top the almighty Episode. Especially if we have you do an absolute shred off with Matias.

[Kosmo]

There better be a bass solo in there! I'm warning you..

Also: Amazing samples.

[Vladimir Horowitz]

I wouldn't mind having another "Beautiful lung dogs" in this record, jens. Not at all. The best from fission. How possible is that? I need hitler's heavily distorted voice, screeching doors and what not I like dogs..

SURE!! Ask them to put a 10 minute experimental rollercoaster in a power metal album!! THAT will work just fine

[Karlheinz Stockhausen]

Jaja. That Ich would like wery much. Hitler deserves eine renessance, Nicht Wahr? On Time I would say...

[Miss Fox]

I am so curious about the 20 minute song~Is it monster？ghost？beast~~
HAHA~~

[AGAG]

I wouldn't mind having another "Beautiful lung dogs" in this record, jens. Not at all. The best from fission. How possible is that? I need hitler's heavily distorted voice, screeching doors and what not I like dogs..

SURE!! Ask them to put a 10 minute experimental rollercoaster in a power metal album!! THAT will work just fine

Even power metal must meet certain doggy-standards..

[JensJohansson]

I wouldn't mind having another "Beautiful lung dogs" in this record, jens. Not at all. The best from fission. How possible is that? I need hitler's heavily distorted voice, screeching doors and what not I like dogs..

I'm sorry to say, nothing like that on this record.

[AGAG]

I wouldn't mind having another "Beautiful lung dogs" in this record, jens. Not at all. The best from fission. How possible is that? I need hitler's heavily distorted voice, screeching doors and what not I like dogs..

I'm sorry to say, nothing like that on this record.

Don't worry though, I have plenty of time and I will wait eagerly for any dog-themed side projects that use terrier chord progressions

[Vladimir Horowitz]

I wouldn't mind having another "Beautiful lung dogs" in this record, jens. Not at all. The best from fission. How possible is that? I need hitler's heavily distorted voice, screeching doors and what not I like dogs..

I'm sorry to say, nothing like that on this record.

Don't worry though, I have plenty of time and I will wait eagerly for any dog-themed side projects that use terrier chord progressions

You could ask them to bring finnish hound packs in their next tour too!

[kameli]

OMG Those samples are fucking great! My expectations for the new album are already so ridiculously high, that I am almost afraid to listen it. That 20 minute song is written by Matias, so it must be a masterpiece!

[RazielSR]

The first thing I noticed in the samples is that FINALLY TK's VOICE SOUNDS AGAIN LIKE IT SHOULD SOUND. Like always sounded with Strato but improving the low notes. I really, REALLY like the versality in the sections and the timbre of his voice in these ones. In Polaris his voice sounds forced many times.

Then, I noticed too, that this album is gonna have something astonishingly special and surely is gonna be in the top with Episode.

Later, I noticed that I wanted to kill amazon.de for doing this...just 30 seconds samples and my face is something like in second 1: in second 29:

But at least we have something!

I can feel that Stratovarius feeling in the songs, seriously. I like a lot the chorus in Infernal Maze (I like this one more than Darkest hours, at least for the samples). Wow, what a fantastic piece of art is gonna be this Elyssium.




CAN'T WAIT













PS. that 20 minutes thing I suppose will be Elyssium. dude, that is gonna be really epic.

[rikkertje]

Oh my! This sounds good.

I somehow think that the chorus of Darkest Hours sounds a bit Nightwish-ish.

[rakettitulppa]

I think this will be the best strato album EVERR!!

[rikkertje]

I can't stand that the sample stopt after 30 seconds. I want it to go on and on and on and on!!!

[RazielSR]

...wondering...if they'll play some of the new songs from Elysium at the beginning of the tour with Helloween. I will see them in Madrid again and I'd like it! Anyway, maybe that will be too soon (15-01-10) and they will play something later in the tour.

[mayhem-for-all]

We need songwriting credits

Please

[Arkash]

Yeah I think the release of this single is for fans to know a few songs of the new album for the next tour, so we can assume that at least, they will play Darkest Hour and Infernal Maze on the "7 sinners tour"!!!!

[Frederic Chopin]

I don't really understand this massive hype.. What's going on? Kalkbrenner finally started giving his lessons or what?

[robocop656]

I don't really understand this massive hype.. What's going on? Kalkbrenner finally started giving his lessons or what?

Needs more shred!!!

[Cheese Grater]

I don't really understand this massive hype.. What's going on? Kalkbrenner finally started giving his lessons or what?

Needs more shred!!!

Well, I'm here and I will do the "finest" job, of coarse. Either way, I am the gratest!

[Frederic Chopin]

I don't really understand this massive hype.. What's going on? Kalkbrenner finally started giving his lessons or what?

Needs more shred!!!

Well, I'm here and I will do the "finest" job, of coarse. Either way, I am the gratest!

Don't mind me, I'm just practicing my thrills

[mocobhc]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG that bit of Infernal Maze forced me to have at least half a dozen sedative pills

Good live versions, too (at least from what one can judge from the Against the Wind sample).

And I fully appreciate the writing credits request


Edit: I can't stop playing them over and over again How often can one listen to the same 1,5 minutes without getting serious issues, I wonder?