Good Folk Metal requires a careful balance. Too much Metal, and it loses its charm and becomes just your run-of-the-mill Extreme Metal. Too much...

Following the discords in the band around 2004, many were right to assume that Stratovarius would join the myriad of bands that were massively...

The 2000's saw an expansion of Folk Metal - a genre that, until then, had not been played by many, with many bands mixing...