I'm just browsing the thread and listening to some of the songs/bands posted.
Strata is pretty cool but it's one of those bands that I wouldn't want to listen to without the video.
I was at Borders buying music, over in the S-T area. I had sampled and decided to buy Tarja's "My Winter Storm" solo album, and I was looking at the Stratovarius marker, and found some random "Strata presents The End Of The World" thing so I decided to listen to this random band out of nowhere.
For a random buy based on 30-second samples I am happy with it.