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Stratovarius – Visions
So at the time that this album came out in 1997 I had already started my little online record store called Acacia Music that mostly sold stuff on eBay and on my old website. I was buying most of my stuff from metal Blade and Century Media directly as they were able to get good priced metal imports to me at wholesale prices. I got to know these guys pretty well and went to LA in Sept/97 to visit with both companies. It was a wonderful experience and I got turned on to a lot of newer bands via that business.
Stratovarius was one of those bands.
While all of their albums are pretty consistent, Visions is the one for me. I really don’t need anything else by them except maybe the corresponding live album which is also pretty awesome.
There’s nothing that I can really sad negative about Visions. It’s powerful. It’s emotional. It’s heavy. It’s tasteful. I would rank this the best euro-power metal album of the 90s easily with Helloween being the best of the 80s.
Written by The Metal Files
June 10, 2009 at 9:48 am
Posted in album reviews, power metal
Tagged with acacia music, century media, euro power metal, los angeles, noise records, stratovarius, the metal files, visions, www.themetalfiles.com
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