Revolution Renaissance: New Era

Just bringing this up now?

I thought it was pretty good. Much better than the last Stratovarius album. Having Kiske and Tobi along certainly didn't hurt either.

I just got around to listening to it. I've had it for 2-3 months. Another writer beat me to the review so I shelved it and have been listening to it for a couple of weeks now. There's just way too much to listen to, hell I haven't even heard a lick off the new Exciter yet! Or the Kiske record...
 
I'd been avoiding this one due to bad memories of Tolkki's solo album & all the Stratovarius drama in recent years.
The samples are decent enough... maybe a bit too much in the melodic vein for my tastes. I may try to chase down a copy of the album.