BLOG: Review Stratovarius - Polaris
06.07.2009
Tero Tolkki of Metal From Finland wrote a review of Polaris-album by Stratovarius. Couple of excerpts below:
"There is little denying what Stratovarius has ment to power metal scene over the years. For sure Stratovarius has been one of the great ones always when it comes to that genre. Unfortunately for Stratovarius they have been known for more than just their music also and their numerous publicity stunts and public fights have kept them on the lipps of metal community for years already. Latest of them being when Timo Tolkki decided to leave Stratovarius and pursue his solocareer. Tons of hateful statements between Tolkki and Stratovarius followed and people once again had the "fun" to witness this madness. Where we are now with all this...well no one really knows.
There are many recognizable elements in Polaris. Perhaps biggest of them being the keyboards of course. Jens Johansson simply has the sound to recognize and of course skills to match. There are many "duels" between Johansson and Kupiainen and those are always fun to listen. Jörg Michael and Lauri Porra makes a perfect rhytmsection.
Sounds on Polaris are top notch. Again...as always. Then let's talk about the songs a bit. Here I just have to pick up one interview where Kotipelto said that Polaris is that good old Stratovarius again...excuse me? Maybe he was referring to something else besides songs cause this surely isn't the good old Stratovarius. You can put Episode, Visions, Destiny, Infinite or even Dreamspace on the same line with Polaris and it would be like putting Ferrari and Lada on comparison. But I think it's useless to talk about good old Stratovarius cause those days aren't coming back. Metallica said that Death Magnetic was like Master Of Puppets...right. Well it wasn't the Master Of Puppets I have heard."
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Comments
Good review, Tero. Just 2 things:
"Metallica said that Death Magnetic was like Master Of Puppets...right. Well it wasn't the Master Of Puppets I have heard."
But was Death Magnetic still a good album? It is impossible to compare any album, even Ride The Lightning with Master of Puppets, because that album was Metallica's Sgt. Pepper. It's hard to resist the urge, but I don't like it when an album gets a bad review just because it's not as good as a previous album.
Don't get me wrong, you didn't do that, but I felt like getting that off my chest.
I can't blame you for feeling this way, though. I once courted a fine lass named Visions that had rainbow hair, meteor showers in her eyes and could suck the moon through a drinking straw, but unfortunately our time had to come to an end and I tried courting her beautiful sisters Black n' Gold and Polaris but they just didn't have the same thrill. LOL.
I do agree with you about their setlists. I said in an earlier post that their lack of Polaris tracks live comes off to me as a lack of confidence in their album. Yes, there aren't enough post-Timo songs yet to go without classics, but there should be more Polaris than not. I don't know if I am going to see them perform when they roll into my town.
Jeremy wrote on 07.07.2009 at 03:41
For me Polaris is one of their best albums. Keyboards and guitars are just amazing !!!
Nemanja wrote on 07.07.2009 at 10:59