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STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEW
One interesting name on the
Finnish Top 40 list is Stratovarius, which represents the heavier
genre of music. They are still in Top 10 after five weeks and now
on the sixth place. Here are the bass player Jari Kainulainen and
vocalist Timo Kotipelto from the band. Tell us guys, has the
success on the album chart surprised you ?
TK: This has been a really big
surprise and we just want to thank everyone who has bought
Visions. We expected that if everything went well, we would make
it to Top 15, but we went straight to the 7th place, and when we
went to number 4 we were just wondering what the heck is this ???
And now that we have come down just by one step a week on the
list, it feels really great to be a Finnish metal man!
Visions is the 6th album for
the band. What kind of process was it to record this album and is
it usually hard for the band to make a record ?
TK: This was surprisingly easy.
Basically Episode was harder to accomplish because when we did
the demos for the album, we didn’t know yet who would be
playing in the band. Then we got these two great musicians; Jens
Johansson and Jörg Michael. Now that we have toured together
around the world it was really easy to record this album, almost
surprisingly easy ! Although the aims were set high again and we
tried to do a better job on this album than on Episode, and I
think we succeeded in doing that.
JK: Yes, we played so much
together and learned to know each other better, so it was so much
easier to do the recording this time.
TK: It takes a lot of time of
course to record an album, but we always want to do the best
possible job and if it takes more money, then we’ll use more
money. Anyway, this album didn’t cost as much as Episode,
so... But of course we are talking about considerable sums of
money. We don’t do it the easy way, we do it how it must be
done.
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