Released: 2002
Someone once criticised Bruce Dickinson for making a solo album that sounded exactly like the other band he had been in, and while that was true, it could be sort of forgiven because eventually his albums were better than theirs. Timo Kotipelto is best known as being the singer for Stratovarius and his debut solo effort bears little or no distinguishing features from that group.
Unlike Bruce Dickinson, however, Timo seems to be running on a zero level of inspiration that’s even spilled over onto Derek Riggs, whose surprisingly unspectacular art graces the cover here. It’s true that Kotipelto has gathered a breathtaking array of Europe’s finest metalheads about him to create his Ancient Egyptian myth cycle -- some of whom include Roland Grapow, Michael Romeo, Sami Virtanen and Janne Warman -- but it’s also true that even they can’t save this from being exactly what the promo sheets promised Waiting for the Dawn would not be, and that’s bland, boring rock.
Personally, I can’t stand Timo’s voice because sometimes he sounds like he sings flat on purpose, to see if anyone will notice, but that’s not why I think this is ordinary. I think is ordinary because it is ordinary, and that’s that.
- Intro
- Travel Through Time
- Beginning
- Lord of Eternity
- Knowledge and Wisdom
- Battle of the Gods
- Beauty Has Come
- Vizier
- Chosen by Re
- Waiting for the Dawn
- Arise
- Movement of the Nile
Rating: 30%
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