What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

STRATOVARIUS "eternal" cd, 2015

career stats:
studio albums.......16
singles.................23

this album..................#5 Finland...#22 Switzerland...#23 Japan
singles:
"shine in the dark"......no chart info available

ok,
so sixteen albums(this one is #16)....
released their first in 1989....
these guys from Finland reside in the Metal genre's of Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal and Neoclassical Metal....
I have no idea what their back catalogue is like because I only heard of them earlier this year when I posted the single off the album....
to me this sounds like a cross between the sounds of Europe(remember them and their one solitary hit "the final countdown"?) and Iron Maiden...
I guess the hard rock, pseudo metal sounds come from Iron Maiden and the symphonic/progressive sounds come from Europe...
either way, this is not a bad album, it is pretty hard to listen to this on one solitary sitting because a lot of it sounds the same to me(that doesn't make it bad, just makes it monotonous for me)....
a couple o dislike and a couple I love, the rest I like...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: my eternal dream
best track: the lost saga

[video=youtube;p0uaG7G1gGs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0uaG7G1gGs[/video]

tracks:

1...my eternal dream *
2...shine in the dark ***
3...rise above it ***
4...lost without a trace **
5...feeding the wire *
6...in my line of work **
7...man in the mirror **
8...few are those **
9...fire in your eyes **
10.the lost saga ***

3s=3
2s=5
1s=2

rating: 2.1