Waiting for the Dawn

Kotipelto | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 23, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B000069HM7
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #374,541 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Kotipelto

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid release from a great vocalist, August 4, 2002

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sweepking "guitarist and homebrewer" (Mililani, HI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting for the Dawn (Audio CD)

Being a huge Symphony X/Michael Romeo fan, I bought this cd to hear Michael Romeo's guitar work. As always Michael Romeo gives a stellar performance of mind-boggling, yet melodic, guitar wizardry. It is interesting to hear him in a more relaxed, standard time signature effort. His rhythm tone is a little lighter, but this is still some good stuff. The other guitarists are quite good too. Kotipelto gives a solid performance...I would put him in the same class as Mark Boals, but I think he is better. The songs are interesting and the supporting drums/bass/keys are impressive. Any fan of melodic metal would do well to have this in their collection. Fans of Michael Romeo/SyX should pick this up as well, although it is not on par with the epic stuff SyX puts out.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yes, this is better than Stratovarius!!!, March 6, 2004

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LiseKatherine (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting for the Dawn (Audio CD)

Often when a someone does a solo project, you wonder why they bothered because all they've done is churn out some carbon copy that their band could've easily done, no new ground covered. Well, I have to say I think Timo's been held back a little in Strato (no tragedy that he's left or been kicked out??)since he wrote everything on this album and all the songs are great-not one mediocre tune in the bunch. What makes this so much better is he wisely decided to forgo the familiar power metal genre, which I'm not so crazy about outside of Strato anyway, and make a more straightforward (but not run-of-the-mill) metal album. So what you get here is a killer melodic metal album with a who's who of metal musicians playing backup and none of the aspects that can make some power metal a little repetitive. I was awfully disappointed when I heard a couple of months ago that Timo was no longer in Strato, but now I can see why! I can barely wait until next month when his new album comes out. Actual rating: 4 1/2 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I like this better than Stratovarius!, October 15, 2003

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geetarfreak "Chris Roper" (Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting for the Dawn (Audio CD)

Timo put a great one together here! I am impressed with the quality of his song writing skills. His singing is excellent, the music is phenominal, and his choice of Michael Romeo was brilliant! This album is not as symphony-based as Stratovarius, but has more balls and chunk. Romeo plays on 5 of the tunes, which happen to be the best songs on the album. The other guitarists are good, but they don't hit you like Romeo. All said, every song is excellent and I highly recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Symphony X, Stratovarius, or both. 10 stars!!!

P.S. - Michael Romeo kicks major butt!