Fourth Dimension (Stratovarius album)

Fourth Dimension
Studio album by
Released11 April 1995 (1995-04-11)
RecordedJune–October 1994
StudioSoundtrack Studios, Helsinki
Genre
Length59:20
LabelNoise
ProducerTimo Tolkki
Stratovarius chronology
Dreamspace
(1994)
Fourth Dimension
(1995)
Episode
(1996)
Singles from Fourth Dimension
  1. "Against the Wind"
    Released: 1995

Fourth Dimension is the fourth studio album by power metal band Stratovarius, released on 11 April 1995 through Noise Records.[1] The album is the band's first to feature vocalist Timo Kotipelto as well as the last with keyboardist Antti Ikonen and drummer Tuomo Lassila, thus being the last Stratovarius album to date featuring an all-Finnish line-up.

Founding member and guitarist Timo Tolkki, who had served as the band's vocalist for their first three albums, still provided background vocals on Fourth Dimension before handing over lead singing duties to Kotipelto for all subsequent albums. The track "030366" is likely a reference to Tolkki's birthday of 3 March 1966.

For a couple of months, the recording sessions for this album ran parallel and in the same studio as Tolkki's then-upcoming solo studio album Classical Variations and Themes. In said album, Lassila and Ikonen also provided drums and keyboards, respectively.

  1. ^ "Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension (album)". finnishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.