Now were featuring in exclusive Timmo Tolkki’s REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE second album “Age Of Aquarius” in its fresh 2024 reissue including no less than 7 bonus tracks, previously unreleased recordings from the group’s first album sessions.
For this second REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE opus Tolkki was looking for a more ‘band’ sound enlisting a stable line up of musicians, including melodic vocalist Gus Monsanto as main front man. Musically, the approach is much more heavy than previous album ‘New Era’, still melodic and with hard rock overtones yet symphonic passages and a progressive metal development on some tracks. All strong material.
But the interesting thing in this reissue are the bonus tracks: songs recorded during the pre-production sessions of previous album ‘New Era’, some are previously unreleased and some are early versions of the album tracks.
If you ask me, these early versions are even better, muscular melodic hard rockers. And while are listed as ‘demo versions’, the mix and sound quality are fantastic.
01 – Age Of Aquarius
02 – Sins Of My Beloved
03 – Ixion’s Wheel
04 – Behind The Mask
05 – Ghost Of Fallen Grace
06 – Heart Of All
07 – So She Wears Black
08 – Kyrie Eleison
09 – Into The Future
BONUS TRACKS:
10 – Heroes (demo)
11 – Hunting High and Low (demo)
12 – I Did It My Way (demo)
13 – Icarus (demo)
14 – Last Night on Earth (demo)
15 – Loneliness of a 1000 years (demo)
16 – We Hold The Key (demo)
Vocals – Gus Monsanto
Guitars – Timo Tolkki
Bass – Justin Biggs
Drums – Bruno Agra
Keyboards – Mike Khalilov
Backing Vocals – Iva Gluhak, Janette Sainio