I don´t think I ever heard any albums after Theater of salvation, I lost interest in most straight-up power stuff somewhere around the late 90s, but they had both some catchy songs and some cool songs on those first two, three albums.
Yeah, I get some real whiplash from late 90s stuff being over 25 years old now. To me the mid 90s feels like a long time ago and the late 90s much less so.
No shit, time just zooms by and seems to be getting faster…I learned Sing In Silence by Sonata Arctica and then I looked it up, it was 2001 !! I couldn’t believe it was almost 25 years old.