Infinite - Stratovarius

This follows pretty much the same path as the album 'destiny' although I find this album is lacking the passion of destiny and becomes to progressive on some of the songs namely mother gaia. The single hunting high and low is a pretty catchy but I find still it does not match the bands earlier works, and they went downhill from here on to elements and then coming up with a completley new sound for there latest ...  Read the complete review

Having defined themselves as Finland’s premier heavy metal band over the course of eight increasingly exciting albums, Stratovarius stumbled into the new millennium with ‘Infinite,’ an enjoyable but disappointing backwards step for a band soon to fall into steep decline and literal insanity. Pertaining to be something of the definitive symphonic metal CD with its grandiose cover art (produced by Iron Maiden artist Derek Riggs), ‘Infinite’ continues the trend of each Stratovarius album sounding pretty much like the last one, but this time looking backwards instead of forwards. Stratovarius’ symphonic approach to the classic European power metal sound paved the ...  Read the complete review