| This article does not cite any references or sources.For the album, see Stratovarius (album).Stratovarius and Sentiment in Tavastia, April 5, 2006.Stratovarius is a Finnish power metal band that formed in 1984 and is still active today.Although the German band Helloween is considered the earliest pioneer of the genre, Stratovarius is often regarded as crossing from classic power metal to keyboard heavy modern power metal, influencing numerous bands to emerge during the 1990's.In 1988 they released their first two singles, "Future Shock" and "Black Night", followed by the 1989 debut album "Fright Night"."Twilight Time", released in 1992."Twilight Time" through Noise Records the next year.The song "Against the Wind" was filmed without any single support.Both of these were filmed."Destiny" was released in 1998, and "Infinite" in 2000.In these years, Stratovarius released in total three new compilation albums; "The Choosen Ones" in 1999, "14 Diamonds" in 2000 and "Intermission" in 2001.In 2003, the band released its most epic project yet, the two album suite named "Elements".The first album, "Elements, Pt.The same year, it was followed by "Elements, Pt.Michael leaving after a very vaguely explained conflict.Tolkki hired a new singer, Katriina "Miss K" Wiiala, and Anders Johansson of Hammerfall (Jens' brother) temporarily on drums.The rest of 2004 saw virtually complete silence from the band.While touring in Spain Tolkki was announced to be attacked by a furious fan.Rock magazines and tabloid papers showed pictures of the stabbed guitarist.However, some time later news begun to spread that no stabbing actually happened.Around the same time Tolkki was hospitalized because of severe mental illness.In June 2005, Tolkki announced that the band's bassist, Jari Kainulainen, had left the band due to personal reasons.He was replaced by Lauri Porra, young and talented Finnish musician."Stratovarius" in September 2005.During this time, Stratovarius began a world tour, starting in Argentina, which included a North American leg, where they toured the United States and Canada for the first time in the band's history.They played at such events as Atlanta's ProgPower, and in well known venues such as "B.April or September 2008 featuring eleven tracks.Impact
Stratovarius's style and lyrical themes are considered influential to modern power metal music.They also reinvented its use as a solo instrument, something first pioneered by Van Halen.The band also introduced the "sad rush" sound when Timo Tolkii was the singer, achieving its peak in Dreamspace.The sound was also featured in the following album, Fourth Dimension.Although considered widely influential, some critics and Power Metal fans consider the band as overrated, and consider that their music somewhat deviates from the genre; this was prominent with the release of the 2005 album Stratovarius, with a more Heavy Metal sound than previous releases.Shortly after, Timmo Tolkki declared that the next album will be more closely related to the classic Stratovarius, and that they don't play any songs from it anyway.Most recently, Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom cited Stratovarius as a huge influence on their music and metal in Finland in general.Strangely enough, Timo Tolkki has even gone as far as to say Children of Bodom ripped off Stratovarius in 1999, due to the very classical like sound on their album Hatebreeder, which was released two years after Stratovarius released their highly successful concept album Visions.Studio Albums
Fright Night (1989)
Stratovarius II (1991)
Twilight Time (1992)
Dreamspace (1994)
Fourth Dimension (1995)
Episode (1996)
Visions (1997)
Destiny (1998)
Infinite (2000)
Elements, Pt.Singles
Future Shock (1988)
Black Night (1989)
Break The Ice (1992)
Wings of Tomorrow (Vinyl) (1995)
Father Time (Japan only) (1996)
Will The Sun Rise?Music videos
Future Shock (1989)
Against The Wind (1995)
Black Diamond (1997)
The Kiss Of Judas (1997)
S.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Stratovarius is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius.United States and Canada.The album displays a notable change in direction for Stratovarius.Timo Kotipelto also attempts a different vocal approach, avoiding the high notes he is more well known for.This page was last modified 19:01, 4 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.At Wacken Open Air next Saturday, Stratovarius will perform a new song from their forthcoming record.Plisken2h 33m 52sYour story with Stratovarius stratoplayer2h 46m 40sJens Interview with Roland!The Question Game kptmoller20h 4m 48sWhat are you Doing Right Now?US president 2008: Candidates, browneyedgirl20h 20m 11sPUTIN is TIME's Person of the browneyedgirl21h 17m 5sNow playing stratohawk21h 43m 53sI Am The Thread Killer Beast_Pete23h 48m 21sSongs you couldn't get out of *Deni*23h 51m 58sDrugs !!STRATOVARIUS 2005
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