Stream New Sonata Arctica Album ‘Pariah’s Child’

[DuchessOfDork]

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/exclusive-stream-new-sonata-arctica-album-pariahs-child/

Definitely seems like old Sonata, which I like. The first song also sounds like a Christmas song, which is fun!

 

[OrionSon]

Sweet. Going to give this a listen later tonight when I'm free. If if floors me I might reconsider my decision to not go to the concert in October.

 

[Fire breath]

The album is odd. I like happy melodic songs like Half a Marathon Man but there are some weird songs on the album with too much talking and stupid weird stuff like X Marks The Spot. It sort of sounds like cartoon music with a metalish soundtrack. The guitars also never really shred anywhere. Bring on a new Cain's Offering cd!



what kind of stupidity is this?

 

[Oblivion Ocean]

I like the album, it seems like a good balance between some of their older roots and their more modern sound.

I agree Fire Breath that at first I was kinda turned off by a couple of the lighter "fun" tracks on the album. When I first heard X Marks the Spot I thought "well I am going to make a playlist of the album minus that song" But the more I listen to it, the more I can go with it. And to be honest, that is how I felt about Cinderblox the first couple of times I heard it, and I love that song now.

 

[TychoCelchu]

I'm loving it.

 

[labarum]

I'm 50/50 on the album so far.

All the songs are just ok on first listen, nothing really to grab me except some of the "silly" sounding songs.

Perhaps it will grow on me the way the stones did....

 

[adaher]

I think they finally found the sweet spot. By far the best since Reckoning Night.

I really dug X marks the Spot, actually.

 

[Stingray11214]

Man, this is good! Me want some more.

 

[AngraRULES]

Glad some of you are enjoying it. To me, it's another dull and boring, uninspired SA album save for a few songs.

 

[Oblivion Ocean]

I am really coming around on this album. It took a few spins (which is typical of newer Sonata) but I enjoy more each time. I am not going to say that it is like their older stuff, but it is their most enjoyable since Reckoning Night/Unia

 

[Riceloft]

I can't get into it.

 

[Sir Exar Kun]

I like the album, it seems like a good balance between some of their older roots and their more modern sound.

This.

I know Tony had talked about going back to their roots, and I hear a bit of that in songs like "Wolves Die Young" and "Cloud Factory", but the vocal lines are still very odd somehow, more like the last few discs.

I will say that on the second spin, several songs were jumping out at me, and I actually could REMEMBER them clearly, which is more than I can say for most of the recent stuff.

I think it's a step in the right direction, but not nearly a full return to the glory days.

 

[labarum]

Am I just crazy, or did they pull it down off of Spotify AND Google music.
What zee heck?