STRATOVARIUS — Elysium (review)

STRATOVARIUS — Elysium album cover Album · 2011 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
You could probably construct some sort of psychological test based around people's reaction to Stratovarius albumns: they have a very particular sound which they are quite competent at reiterating from album to album, but somehow some albums really capture my imagination whilst others leave me feeling rather lukewarm, and sometimes the distinction relies on really quite minor things. For instance, whilst I really dug Elysium's followup Nemesis, Elysium itself I just couldn't get into - for want of a more specific criticism, it feels just a little bit too "clean" to me, a bit too tidy and orderly, and a bit too reliant on the usual Stratovarius formula. It's clearly competent stuff, but it doesn't push into the upper tier of their material for me.
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