New Sonata Arctica Song!

[Diamond45]

Sounds awesome! Sounds like their earlier material, which I love! Hope the CD is available at PP USA.

Thanks to No-Mercy who let me know this was on YouTube!

Edit: Original video was yanked from YouTube. Here's the official video from Nuclear Blast Europe!

 

[DarkOne]

Thanks for posting. I like this one!

Steve in Philly

 

[Spiderpact]

Wow, I was totally NOT expecting a song like that.
What a pleasant surprise!

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

Not bad at all.

 

[TribunalRecords]

*YAWN* same song, different year. talk about beating a long dead horse. first three records are must haves the rest you can toss.

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

I dunno. If SA were on TribunalRecords I reckon you would be raving about it

*YAWN* same song, different year. talk about beating a long dead horse. first three records are must haves the rest you can toss.

 

[nailz]

I'm a fan, and I havent liked a lot of what they've been doing lately.

 

[Palabra de Dios]

That chorus is awesome. These guys might be back to form! Now I'm actually excited for the new one. Unia was a letdown for me...but oh man, this song sounds great.

 

[dionysus11]

i sure hope this is not the best song on the album, because it sounds very tired and boring like they write this same song on every album. I was hoping for a little bit more from sonata, but i guess it's like polaris(stratovarius) just average, but maybe we can all get crazy over Cain's Offering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That will be amazing!

 

[adaher]

Now this is what I was waiting for!

Unia was just bad.

 

[SeaStorm]

It's interesting how half the haters (in all the SA threads, not just this one) say they make the same songs every year/album, while the other half say all the newer stuff is garbage and they need to go back to copying what they did on the first couple albums.

I like it. Then again, I like quite a bit of what they've done on every album.

 

[zedowns]

It's interesting how half the haters (in all the SA threads, not just this one) say they make the same songs every year/album, while the other half say all the newer stuff is garbage and they need to go back to copying what they did on the first couple albums.

I like it. Then again, I like quite a bit of what they've done on every album.

+1

This song doesn't sound like anything off Unia, anyway. So I don't really understand how TribunalRecords could say that.

Unia is my favorite Sonata album and this song sounds pretty cool. I hope they don't completely abandon the Unia sound, though.

 

[SharkBlack]

Sounds cool, looking forward to the release... Sonata Rule!

 

[Spiderpact]

+1

This song doesn't sound like anything off Unia, anyway. So I don't really understand how TribunalRecords could say that.

Unia is my favorite Sonata album and this song sounds pretty cool. I hope they don't completely abandon the Unia sound, though.

From what I've heard review-wise and from band interviews, it doesn't sound like they were giving up on the Unia-esque direction. I think that we'll see plenty of that variety in this new one.

 

[adaher]

A couple of observations:

1) I've noticed most critics of power metal bands will say that anything that is fast is the same as everything else that's fast. Yet an album filled with nothing but slow to midtempo songs with little variation in tempos is "creative". Unfortunately, a lot of power metal bands have bought into this crap and have slowed down, while not actually being any more diverse than they were before.

2) Bands doing different things with their sound is a wonderful thing. Provided it's actually done well. Tony Kakko is really good at writing power metal songs. He's a pretty fair balladeer as well. He's not so good at writing complex prog songs. If you try to change your direction, make sure it's a direction that you actually have talent for. It's better to do the same thing over and over again and do it well, like AC/DC or Dragonforce, then to do something different and bad just because you feel the need to try something different.

Is anyone really aching to hear Hammerfall try their hand at a prog album?

 

[Wandrail]

It's interesting how half the haters (in all the SA threads, not just this one) say they make the same songs every year/album, while the other half say all the newer stuff is garbage and they need to go back to copying what they did on the first couple albums.

Very true.

 

[Wandrail]

Is it just me or do Tony's vocals sound a bit weak on this?

 

[TychoCelchu]

Tony has never been a very strong singer, which may be why Sonata's biggest appeal for me is their slower songs and ballads, or at least the ones that showcase melody. Sometimes his voice works over high-energy songs (Misplaced), but in other songs, his lack of sheer power shows.

 

[TribunalRecords]

I dunno. If SA were on TribunalRecords I reckon you would be raving about it

haha, it's awesome. EVERY messageboard i go to the comebacks are always the same. glad to know progressive metal posters are the same as hardcore scene kids when it comes to put downs. wait, you left out how fat i have become again and that you wish my van would flip!

but back to the point of SA becoming tired. there are plenty of other waste of space power metal bands i could list on here besides SA, but their new song was posted so i said something.

actually, i wouldn't sign SA to my label right now given the chance. i mean yes if i was a money grubbing whore i would do it, but since i am not that type of label i would pass. also, not faulting labels who have been with bands since the beginning and capitalizing on all their hard work getting there. that is not my use of "money grubbing" here, what i would be doing signing a popular power metal i do not care for, would be.

i have signed plenty of big bands before their prime so i do know what it's like to sell good quantities of albums hence TR being around in it's 10th year. with TR it's more about supporting bands i enjoy listening to whether it be hardcore, AOR or death metal. if i don't like something why put it out?

 

[TychoCelchu]

So you are the Tribunal Records that released PFC's The Rain in Endless Fall? That's awesome! That is one of the most important records in metalcore history and I don't feel that it gets enough credit ten years later. If this is so, reading some of the "past bands" listed on the Tribunal website is bringing back a lot of memories. Hyde, Facedown, and Apathemy used to play so many shows around the southeast MI area that I saw during my teen years. Ah, those days.