STRATOVARIUS: Rest of the Japan shows and future

STRATOVARIUS mainman Timo Tolkki has posted the following blogentry to his official myspace:

"Writing this from the ancient city of Kyoto that used to be the capital of Japan. Huge amount of temples and sightseeing to do here.
Both Tokyo shows were more than cool, more people than year ago, even without new album.

Time difference is still getting to me...weird, usually it goes away in one week.
Anyway, thanks for all the Japanese fans once again for your love. It all started for Stratovarius here back in 91 and since then it´s been always so cool to play here.

New album is "on ice" at the moment, the drums have been recorded and I am fully concentrating on Saana-Warrior of Light and TK is doing some solo gigs for his album and we do have gigs with Strato as well. You can expect the release for my opera late this year and for R..... R...... either April or September 2008 followed by a massive world tour."