Finland's AMBERIAN DAWN have issued the following update:

"We are proud to announce that Mr. Jens Johansson, keyboard player of STRATOVARIUS is going to appear on our next album.

Before joining Stratovarius, Jens contributed his talent to bands like DIO and YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN.

On this new Amberian Dawn album, Jens is playing two keyboard battles with Tuomas Seppälä of AD. There's going to be electricity on the air when these two gentlemen meet each other on the battlefield of keyboards!"

Twisted Talent Concerts earlier reported:

"Twisted Talent proudly announces that we have the honour to welcome Amberian Dawn on our roster. We will be in charge of Amberian Dawn’s booking in Europe, the world and furthermore take over the band’s management.

The Finnish band has released two albums so far – River Of Tuoni and The Clouds Of Northland Thunder.

Struck by the impressive virtuosity of guitar and keyboard player Tuomas Seppälä, the fragile and complex melodies and the clear, mellow voice of classical soprano singer Heidi Parviainen on River Of Tuoni, it got more and more obvious to us, that we had found a very special band.

This impression was overwhelmingly assured after listening as well to their second album, The Clouds Of Northland Thunder. Symphonic metal meets extreme technical skills, talent, poesy, a great voice and dark, mythical, beautiful stories packed in extraordinary songs.

To complete the picture with one more interesting component, Amberian Dawn have released 2 of their songs on Rockband Network so far. 5 more songs are to come very soon and it is planned to release all other songs of their current albums in the near future as well, so stay tuned!

The Rockband Network page is based on the idea that bands can upload their songs in a game-compatible (we’re talking about the video game Rock Band, of course !) way in order to give fans and gamers all around the world the opportunity to download the tunes and to compete with their favourite musicians – oh, by the way... Amberian Dawn’s songs are classified as difficulty level “5” – the most difficult one."

More on Amberian Dawn at this location.