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STRATOVARIUS Singer To Begin Recording New Solo Album

August 12, 2003

STRATOVARIUS vocalist Timo Kotipelto has completed the songwriting process for his second solo album with only "some lyrics [left] to be written," according to a post on his web site. Timo will enter the studio in September to begin recording the as-yet-untitled follow-up to last year's "Waiting For The Dawn" album (issued under the KOTIPELTO banner),due in early 2004 through Century Media Records. The recording lineup for the album will be more or less "the same" as that on the debut, which featured contributions from Mike Romeo (guitars, SYMPHONY X),Roland Grapow (guitars, MASTERPLAN/ex-HELLOWEEN),Arjen Lucassen (guitars, AYREON),Sami Virtanen (guitars, JOE DOAKES),Jari Kainulainen (bass, STRATOVARIUS),Mirka Rantanen (drums, TUNNEL VISION),Gas (drums, H.I.M.),Janne Warman (keyboards, CHILDREN OF BODOM) and Mikko Harkin (keyboards, SONATA ARCTICA). STRATOVARIUS' new album, "Elements Part 2", is due on October 27 through Nuclear Blast Records.

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