TIMO KOTIPELTO: Talks about his album, alcohol and Stratovarius

Timo Kotipelto who released his 3rd soloalbum Serenity, has been interviewed to a finnish weekly gossip magazine Katso. Below is the translated interview.

A very very tired looking man comes to the interview held in famous Tavastia-club in Helsinki. Timo Kotipelto who just released his 3rd soloalbum titled "Serenity" arrived from Stockholm, Sweden where he was recording another episode for MTV's Headbanger's Ball.

He is about to start his European tour which lasts almost 3 weeks and all the finnish promotion of his soloalbum should be done in just one day!

"When I get on tour, that is easy. I can do the interviews during the day and hit the stage on the evening. Being on stage to me doesn't require much brain really. So one could say that touring for me is like taking a vacation."

I started my own magazine!

The VJ-job of Headbanger's Ball came as a total surprise for Timo. "I have done some stuff to radio in the past but that was very much different. The great thing about this VJ-stuff is that I get to play music that is close to my heart and I can play that to people."

Being a journalist is no stranger to Timo cause he has his own Rock The Metal-magazine.

"I wanted to buy a backcover advertisement on one finnish magazine but they wouldn't sell it to me so I decided to make my own magazine.", Timo laughs.

Relationship to Tolkki is better nowadays.

Timo become famous as a vocalist of Stratovarius. Band has gained a lot of success also outside Finland. During 2003 Stratovarius however went through a deep crisis and as a result of that, Timo and the drummer Jörg Michael left Stratovarius. Especially the relationship between two Timo's were very bad. Eventually the hatchet was buried and according to Kotipelto, the chemistry between members of Stratovarius are good nowadays.

"We have started recording the new album already. Tolkki has composed 10 songs and the drums are recorded already. The album will be out probably sometime next year but we don't have any deadlines for the release date. The relations between me and Timo are very good nowadays. He has the illness which has been diagnosed and he is doing things for it. Which is different from the past cause in the past he didn't do anything for that illness."

Read the entire interview at this location.