Stratovarius

One of the most influential power metal groups to come out of Europe, Finland's Stratovarius emerged in the mid-'80s alongside genre heavyweights like Helloween, Gamma Ray, and Blind Guardian. Employing a versatile blend of hard rock and progressive, symphonic, and neo-classical metal, the band has issued over a dozen studio LPs since debuting in 1989, with highlights arriving via 1997's ambitious, Nostradamus-inspired concept album Visions, 2003's two-volume Elements, and 2013's grandiose Nemesis, all three of which topped the Finnish charts. Showing no signs of slowing down,...