Fourth Dimension

Fourth Dimension is the fourth studio album by power metal band Stratovarius, released on 11 March 1995 through Noise Records. The album is the band's first to feature vocalist Timo Kotipelto as well as the last with keyboardist Antti Ikonen and drummer Tuomo Lassila, thus being the last Stratovarius album to date featuring an all-Finnish line-up. Founding member and guitarist Timo Tolkki, who had served as the band's vocalist for their first three albums, made the decision to leave the vocals to Timo Kotipelto who the band had already known some time before. Tolkki still provided background vocals on Fourth Dimension before handing over lead singing duties to Kotipelto for all subsequent albums. The track "030366" is likely a reference to Tolkki's birthday of 3 March 1966. The album seen Stratovarius take off both commercially and artistically. As they redefined its style, with a mix between melody, speed and technical guitar passages. For a couple of months, the recording sessions for this album ran parallel and in the same studio as Tolkki's then-upcoming solo studio album Classical Variations and Themes. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)