STRATOVARIUS Mainman Completes 11 New Songs

October 28, 2006

STRATOVARIUS mainman Timo Tolkki (guitar) has issued the following update:

"I have written 11 new [STRATOVARIUS] songs and we are first going to demo them. This will be completed by the end of the year and we will enter the studio to record that actual album around February. [Timo Kotipelto, vocals] is releasing his third solo album around that time (and what I have heard, it sounds really great) as well and he has naturally promotional activities and I think he is also doing a tour during spring. STRATOVARIUS production will be ready sometime in the summer 2007 and depending on various different things, the album, entitled 'R...... R.......'),will be released in October 2007 or in the beginning of 2008 followed by a massive world tour.

"So all okay here, everybody's happy, the songs are great and we are looking forward to the new adventures."

STRATOVARIUS' latest, self-titled effort was released in the U.S. in September 2005 via Sanctuary. A video for the album's first single, "Maniac Dance", was shot in April 2005 in Helsinki by director and Tolkki's old schoolmate Antti Jokinen (BEYONCÉ, WYCLEF JEAN, KORN, MISSY ELLIOT, NIGHTWISH, SHANIA TWAIN, CELINE DION).

As previously reported, Tolkki will produce the debut album from the Madrid, Spain-based metal band INFERNOISE between November and January 2007. The CD will be recorded in Madrid and mixed at Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki, Finland.

For more information on INFERNOISE, click here.

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