New Sonata Arctica Song!

[shreddy]

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

Yawn is right

Same lame Powemetal band comments, same comment, different band/post. talk about beating a long dead horse.

Joking aside...

You must not have really sat down and listened to Unia because that disc is very different from their other releases. Unia is actually more prog than anything they've done before. Unia gets slammed even though it has some of the band's most ambitious songs. It sounds like they've used some of those dense vocings and layers from the last disc on this newer song. Should be another great release.

 

[Diabolik]

I agree.....the song is good. I wasnt a huge fan of Unia...I liked maybe like 4 of the songs....but Sonata have 2 styles of songs......slow and fast. I knew where this song was going before it got there.....is it a bad thing??? no, you eat certain foods because you know it is something you like and taste good....you listen to certain bands because you know what to expect.

It is funny....people complain about bands changing thier sound. Then they complain about when they sound the same, album after album. It is kind of funny.

 

[TribunalRecords]

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.

Yes, that is me and same record label. i agree it gets ZERO credit i think due to the horrible production we got out of the lame engineer at the time. but hey, it was our first album, their first time in the studio we didn't know how to bust engineers balls back then to get it sounding good.

and for the newbies in the room. BEFORE there was Between The Buried & Me (who i am sure you ALL saw on the DT tour a few years back) there was PRAYER FOR CLEANSING 10+ years ago. It was my label's first release back in the summer of 1999 and when they broke up they then formed BTBAM from the ashes (basically just removing the lead singer from PFC)

funny you mention all the michigan/canadian bands. back in the early days it was the second home to tribunal, basically. you guys had a hotbed of great bands up that way.

also, i have UNIA sitting on my cd shelf gathering dust. only reason it's still there is because of GARY MOORE/LIZZY cover song. which was really good.

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

Sooo angry and combative

Reminds me of an old Lizzy Borden song for some strange reason.

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?

 

[Kimavir]

Sounds more like pre-Unia to me. Which is a good thing; even if Unia was ambitious... I didn't like it.

 

[TribunalRecords]

haha, i am the last person to be combative. although i guess people who have seen me on stage or heard my band's music might think otherwise, but i am really just a bearded teddy bear.

 

[adaher]

SA gets credit for trying with Unia, but they just didn't pull it off. When you have an epic fail like that, you have to go back to what you know, get your fans back, before you can start experimenting again.

Maybe the new SA album is more like Unia, but the fact that they cared enough to put out a listenable single to tell their fans they are listening to the criticism is a good sign.

 

[YearsOfMetal]

I like it.

 

[Heavenly Call]

I like this song ALOT. Definitely grabs me better than when I first heard Paid In Full.

 

[See You In Hell]

I actually like this new song and I've also found a couple of other new songs off this album on YouTube played in a live setting that sounded pretty good too. I'm definitely in the minority as I enjoy ALL of Sonata Arctica's works, including........wait for it..........Unia. Granted some albums are better than others, as is true with any band, but on the whole I enjoy everything they have produced.

I'm looking forward to the release of this new album and hope it is followed-up with a headlining tour of the States in 2010. I see they're opening for Dragonforce on a small-scale tour but that one doesn't come anywhere near me unfortunately.

 

[rdyfrde]

Sounds more like pre-Unia to me. Which is a good thing; even if Unia was ambitious... I didn't like it.

It is, by about 11 years. It was originally written in 1996. Though it was put on a shelf to gather dust back then. They dusted it off this year and remade it.

And this song is nothing like the rest of the CD. The only reason Nuclear Blast picked it was because it sounded like the older songs. The rest of the album supposedly sounds more like a cross between of Reckoning Night and Unia.

 

[SeaStorm]

I'm definitely in the minority as I enjoy ALL of Sonata Arctica's works, including........wait for it..........Unia. Granted some albums are better than others, as is true with any band, but on the whole I enjoy everything they have produced.

I guess you can put me in the super-minority then, because I like every album (in varying degrees), but Unia the best. In fact, every time I've reached for an SA album in the last year, I find that I rarely grab the old ones because I'm still enjoying Unia the most and don't tire of listening to it.

I was just listening to Unia on the way home from work today and I got to thinking, even if people hate the album overall, you must still enjoy In Black and White and Caleb, don't you? Those should be right up the alley of most of the fans.

 

[adaher]

Well, a cross between Unia and Reckoning Night would probably be pretty good. Reckoning Night was great work, IMO.

 

[adaher]

you must still enjoy In Black and White and Caleb, don't you? Those should be right up the alley of most of the fans

I only really enjoyed Paid in Full, which was sorta like Don't Say a Word. Black and White and Caleb were a taste of classic SA, buy they just weren't that good. It almost seems like Tony needed a couple of speedier songs but didn't really have his heart in it.

 

[No-Mercy]

yep, it is awesome sonata material. looking forward to this album...i was nervous after Unia did not go over so well with me, but it sounds like this will have some great work

 

[rdyfrde]

They have full samples on this website:

http://peoplesmusicstore.com/catalogue_items/501378

If you keep hitting the button after 30 seconds you can hear the whole song

Though the quality is less than stellar...

 

[No-Mercy]

if anyone wants to see the actual video, they just put it up

[ame]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=62494467[/ame]

incase the video doesnt show up for someone here is the link to it.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=62494467*

-just get rid of the *..had to put them so it wouldnt post the vid again

 

[SeaStorm]

I just pre-ordered the new CD. I found this text on the Nuclear Blast site regarding it. I'm pretty sure we'll have another slew of pissed off fans, which is fine by me.

"Even with an honored recipe for success, SONATA ARCTICA members would rather risk an ambitious shift than to become complacent in their songwriting. While the band could have easily written Unia revisited, The Days of Grays demonstrates how change is food for the soul and how as a relatively young band, they still have an endless supply of musical styles left to explore."

 

[Zingababla]

...it slays! I can't wait for the new album to come out!

 

[SkiBumMSP]

I guess you can put me in the super-minority then, because I like every album (in varying degrees), but Unia the best. In fact, every time I've reached for an SA album in the last year, I find that I rarely grab the old ones because I'm still enjoying Unia the most and don't tire of listening to it.

I was just listening to Unia on the way home from work today and I got to thinking, even if people hate the album overall, you must still enjoy In Black and White and Caleb, don't you? Those should be right up the alley of most of the fans.

Tell me about it! Perhaps I just never got what all the pissing and moaning was about with regards to Unia. I personally thought that album was truly awesome, and still think it is. It seems whenever I queue up Sonata Arctica, I find myself mostly listening to Silence, Reckoning Night, and Unia, even though I have all of their albums. For that matter, "Caleb" is definitly my favorite track on Unia. Maybe I am just not as picky, or rather, anal, as some folks on here seem to be, or I find that the band attempting to try something as ambitious as Unia to be quite refreshing instead of rehashing the same old over and over again (can we say HammerFall)? Perhaps it is both.

Anyway, listened to this new track and personally, I thought it was quite good. Of course, being the SA fan that I am (and actually became quite good friends with the band itself - you should've seen how Henrick came jumping off the bus and gave me a hug when I saw them last summer at Jaxx), I'll definitely pick this new one up. In addition, I sure as hell hope they come back to the states to tour again. I'll do everything within my power to see them, even if having to ditch work for the day.