Kotipelto

   
Artist: Kotipelto

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Heavy
   Metal: Power
   

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Discography:


   
 Coldness

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Waiting For The Dawn

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Beginning (single)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 1


   
 [2002] Waiting For The Dawn

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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Kotipelto is the brainchild of a vocalist/songwriter Timo Kotipelto, best known as the frontman for the popular Finnish metal kit Stratovarius. Kotipelto specializes in majestic/melodic Euro-power metal in the Iron Maiden tradition, with lyrics often centering on antediluvian Egyptian themes. Kotipelto's first loss, Wait for the Dawn, came out in 2002 via Century Media in the United States during a abatement in activeness for Stratovarius. The album featured an all-star lineup of progressive/power metal musicians, including bassist Jari Kainulainen (Stratovarius); guitarists Michael Romeo (Philharmonic X), Roland Grapow (erst of Helloween), and Sami Virtanen (Warmen); keyboardists Janne Warman (Children of Bodom, Warmen) and Mikko Harkin (Sonata Arctica); and drummers Mirka Rantanen (Tunnel Vision) and Gas (HIM). While the band's style of music is still for the most part out of mode in the U.S. (regular if it does have its share of diehard followers), Kotipelto has been commercially well-received in their native Finland, landing themselves in the Finnish Top Ten singles graph with songs such as Waiting for the Dawn's "Offset."