Stratovarius - Destiny review
| Band: | Stratovarius |
| Album: | Destiny |
| Style: | Power metal |
| Release date: | October 05, 1998 |
| Guest review by: | The Silent Man |
01. Destiny
02. S.O.S.
03. No Turning Back
04. 4000 Rainy Nights
05. Rebel
06. Years Go By
07. Playing With Fire
08. Venus In The Morning
09. Anthem Of The World
10. Cold Winter Nights [European bonus] [2016 re-released bonus]
11. Dream With Me [Japanese bonus] [2016 re-released bonus]
12. Blackout [Scorpions cover][American bonus] [2016 re-released bonus]
[Live Visions Of Destiny 2016 re-released bonus]
13. Destiny [live]
14. Paradise [live]
15. Speed Of Light [live]
16. S.O.S. [live]
17. Anthem Of The World [live]
18. Forever Free [live]
19. Black Diamond [live]
20. The Kiss Of Judas [live]
21. Distant Skies [live]
22. Forever [live]
Destiny is one of those friendly album, which every listener can enjoy immediately: just push play and let the songs carry you away. Trust me, this album will remain in your cd player for a long time. Why? What's the secret? If you loved Visions, you should know it: excellent melodies based on minor scales. In fact every song has good vocal melodies and a melodic guitar solo. What I really love about this record is Timo Kotipelto's vocals: sad, cold and surprisingly high. The songwriting, all by Timo Tolkki, is good and quite 'simple? (if we can call 'simple? a power metal song): the songs are created around one or two melodies and they are embellished with fast melodic guitar solos, choruses and unfailing Tolkki-Johansson guitar-keyboard duets [a true trademark in Stratovarius? sound].
The structure is various: a memorable 10 minutes long opening title track [which shares my top three with Dream Theater's A Change Of Seasons and Savatage's Believe], a fast 'No Turning Back', a slow 'Years Go By', a beautiful ballad called '4000 Rainy Nights' and 'Anthem Of The World', the perfect lyrical continuation of 'Paradise'. In conclusion, Destiny is not a masterpiece, but is the ideal follow-up to Visions, a good work easy to catch, although one step down his predecessor.
Written by The Silent Man | 22.09.2003
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
Guest review by
ErnilEnNaur
ErnilEnNaur
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Rating: 6.2 |
Destiny is the album that introduced me to the Finnish power metal giants Stratovarius and in retrospect, I must say that it wasn't a very good place to start. I later went on to discover the greatness of their previous release Visions, but Desinty never grew on me and I still don't like it much even today. The reason for this is that it suffers from uninspired, unimaginative songwriting and doesn't even come close to realizing the band's true potential. Read more ›› |
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| Stratowarrior Posts: 135  |
according to piano man to me "destiny" is the best stratovarius album also with "episode" and the song destiny is the best song ever on earth i love stratovarius and hail to finland!!!!
---- power metal 'til death!!!!!!!!!
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| Stratoman Posts: 73  |
as an album i have to say is not their best album as it is said, but i think as visions it has a lot of their best songs, as an album i prefer episode...anyway that's my personal opinion.. farewell
---- Metal Is Made For All Men, But Not Every Man Is Made For Metal
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| Stratoman Posts: 73 |
as an album i have to say is not their best album as it is said, but i think as visions it has a lot of their best songs, as an album i prefer episode...anyway that's my personal opinion.. farewell
---- Metal Is Made For All Men, But Not Every Man Is Made For Metal
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I just purchased this album recently when I was in the states. It's good, they've done better albums, but this is still good, the best song on that album i think is "No Turning Back", WoW! I find that the production is not up to par in comparison to their other albums, but oh well 
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
My favourite song is "Destiny" and I agree that this is an "easy-listen" but that doesnt dimish its value. The vocals are impressive. Of course I don't need to mention the guitar work for its something so obvious and ridiculously superb  Overall, i think I would give it a 8.5.
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| Uirapuru Liver Failure Posts: 2955  |
the epic first track ''Destiny'' wins the album... its just one of the greatest masterpieces of song i've ever heard.. the other songs are okay too xD
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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| Morphis Posts: 80  |
For me this was another perfect album that i sometimes still ear. Episode, Visions and Destiny one word...timeless!
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8669  |
Best album by Stratovarius
---- My rest seems now calm and deep Finally I got my dead man sleep 
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| Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469  |
"Destiny" is a good PM album. The only thing I dislike about it is, like any other album Stratovarius released after this one, the drums are recorded way too loud. They're so much on top of everything it gets annoying very quickly if you're not in the right mood. After a while, you have the impression to hear only that fucking snare.
---- "Why would we fear death, when life is so much more frightening?"
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