The Great Divide offers a substantial change in that former Stratovarius guitarist and main composer, Timo Tolkki took on the challenge to write and produce the new recording.

Oh dear.

(I haven't actually listened to it)

Is it a Crimson Glory cover?

Remove Jorn and Russell, and you'll get a typical Tolkki album. Like a 6/10 album

Although I've been skeptical about Tolkki lately, I'm curious to hear the full album

Written by Introspekrieg on 19.09.2014 at 00:50

Is it a Crimson Glory cover?

It is not, I was curious about that as well. As for the song itself.. well, much like everything Jorn lately, crap as far as I'm concerned.

Song is okay. No Jorn would make it better. He should stick to shitty Dio tribute songs.

I love it

Jørn is such a predictable vocalist. I loved his voice when I first heard it. However, I now realize, he's not versatile at all, and that's a problem. I think Russell is a much better singer, but of course he doesn't get nearly as much attention on this (and all the previous Allen-Lande albums) as he deserves. Jørn has like 5 solo songs, and Russell has what? 3? And on the songs they sing together, Jørn gets to sing much more than Russell. The balance isn't right here.

On top of that, the music isn't really all that good to begin with, so I don't know why I bother. I hope the next SymX album will be better than this.