Sonata Arctica new album

 Sonata Arctica va entrer en studio aux alentours de Septembre pour enregistrer son prochain album à paraître en avril 2014, soit juste un an après Stones Grow Her Name. D'après le magazine Soundi, Le chanteur du groupe, Tony Kakko, voudrait faire un album plus heavy, et il a déjà commencé à ébaucher environ 50 chansons, tant pour son album solo que pour Sonata.

SONATA ARCTICA - First Official Promo Photo Of New Line-Up Posted


SONATA ARCTICA's long time bass player Marko Paasikoski left the band due to personal reasons at the end of August. Pasi Kauppinen (SILENT VOICES, ex-REQUIEM, WINTERBORN) has now taken over the low-frequencies for the band. Below is the first official promo shot of Sonata Arctica's new line-up:


Sonata Arctica keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg recently checked in with the following update:

"Hola People! Just wanted to let you all know that we're alive and well and the new album is under work. We're really excited to enter the studio to start recording our new stuff. Enjoy the fall and keep the metal alive!"

Sonata Arctica recently released a video clip to their song ‘Alone In Heaven’, taken from their latest album, Stones Grow Her Name. Released on May 18, 2012 via Nuclear Blast, Stones Grow Her Name achieved gold status in the bands’ home country after just one week and additionally entered charts worldwide. Among those entries were the top 5 of Sweden Rock Charts (#5), Canada Rock Charts (#7) and UK Rock Charts (#9) and the record debuted at #9 of the US Billboard Heatseeker Charts.


Commented vocalist and keyboardist Tony Kakko: “’Alone In Heaven’ got sparked lyrically after I had suffered few personal losses in relatively short period of time. Those will make you think about a possibility of after life and such things. At least for me it was like that. I will always remember those passed on thru this song every time we play it. I was initially a little hesitant whether or not this is a suitable track for Sonata, being rather 'hard/soft rockish'. But the guys fell in love with it immediately and it fell right in on the quite mellow mooded Stones Grow Her Name album. I think it's a nice emotional rock song with some extremely beautiful parts to it. It has become a little bit of a fan favorite and crowd pleaser, being quite approachable and straight forward arrangement wise. Very live friendly track we'll surely play also in the future. The video is like the song, fairly simple and …soft. Enjoy.”

SONATA ARCTICA - Alone In Heaven (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

SONATA ARCTICA – New Album Pariah’s Child Due In March; Cover Revealed


On March 28th, the new SONATA ARCTICA album called Pariah’s Child will be released via Nuclear Blast. It is the band’s eight studio album and the follow up to their successful Stones Grow Her Name.



The beautiful cover artwork for Pariah’s Child has been revealed (above) and vocalist Tony Kakko explains he thoughts behind the album title and the artwork:

“As always it's pretty hard coming up with a name for the new baby. I tried to approach it from many angles; how this is our 8th album and how easy it would be to abuse that fact. All the symbolism of figure eight, eternity and so on. But that just did not feel right as it's been done so many times. Then I started to think how we'd in ways abandoned our "totem animal", the wolf and all what comes with the territory. As the music on the album is bowing more towards the "old" Sonata, meaning more power metal style elements and wolves in many of the songs in one form or another, it was clear we need a wolf on the cover. An abandoned wolf. A pariah. Or Pariah's child, actually. The new generation to bring the old logo back.”



In April, Sonata Arctica will hit the road to support Pariah’s Child with dates throughout Europe. Keyboard player Henrik “Henkka” Klingenberg talks about the upcoming tour: “It’s been a while since we last toured Europe, so I’m very happy that we can announce our first tour with our new album. Since the album will be out in March 2014, we don’t want to waste any time but will head out for a full European Tour. Our tour will start in Eindhoven, NL on April 10th, 2014. The whole band is really looking forward to play some new songs for you and introduce our new bass player, Pasi, for all our fans. He’s a monster live, you’ll see. We’ll see you in a few months!”

For more details on Sonata Arctica and their tour schedule visit Sonataarctica.info.