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Title: What was he thinking?!
Review: What on Earth was going through Timo Tolkki's head when he wrote this piece of garbage. Nothing about this album has anything to do with the true reason Tolkki's in the music biz (which is, of course, Stratovarius!) Tolkki is a great guitarist, but this puts his skills as a musician to utter waste. Instead of an album in the classic style of Stratovarius, we get bland, boring, completely un-metal pop! And I don't mean a la Motley Crue! I mean the f***in' Police, who are fine, but not what Tolkki should have done! Also, what a waste to have Michael Kiske and Sharon Den Adel (two more excellent metal voices) sing on two tracks. I will say this, though, it's great to have the original Strat keyboardist, Mika Ervaskari, back with Tolkki, but that's about it. Avoid Tolkki's horribly un-metal solo stuff at ALL COSTS, and stick to Stratovarius or Kotipelto (the solo project of the OTHER Timo in Stratovarius.)
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