Rites Of Passage is the new solo album from progressive fusion legend Coste Apetrea. The album came about as a result of the response Coste got with the band Samla Mammas Manna who he has played in and been working with since 1972. except for a period in the end of the '70s and the '80s where Coste played with and contributed 50/50 in the Jukka Tolonen Band with whom he recorded 7 band albums and 2 acoustic guitar albums. Coste had no idea what the album was going to sound like when he started writing the music but now comments, "I look back and I can see it is a compressed version of what I have been into during my entire career. I have a passion for all kinds of music and all kinds of instruments, but my main instrument is the guitar. The album is pretty heavy and maybe the 'rockiest' I've ever done, and that pleases me because people in my generation seem to cool down making more acoustic and softer music. I didn't intend to make a heavy record it just came out that way, today I feel I wanna go even heavier next time around (to my own surprise)." Instrumental Guitar (Electric (Heavy)/Fusion/Progressive), total running time, 53:25 - Coste Apetrea @ iTunes!