( Sonata 2014, cut to save your friends page )

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There are more on their YouTube channel.

I'm going to Peabody's in Cleveland tomorrow night (gotta go to bed after this entry - 6-hour drive here I come!) and Detroit Friday night! Who else is going to any shows?

ALBUM PREVIEW!

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What do you guys think? My friends are all raving about it but I personally think it's too soon to tell. I can't just listen to snippets of songs and know how I feel about them. I think quite a few sound the same, but there are only parts of the songs on there. Tony's voice sounds amazing as always though, and I am super excited.

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I know we all know that there was another North American tour this year, and it's almost over, so I'm curious to find out how many people went! Which venue did you go to, and how epic was it on a scale of one to ten ( Read more... )

Hi! So last night during my neighborhood's blackout I decided to create a Fan Community for Elias Viljanen. I'm hoping that I can post something every day which would be centered around him and if it's really awesome, then the band. So i'm hoping some of you will add the community! If people actually join i'm going to try to get Elias to do a ( Read more... )

Not a whole lot of new info, but at least he's talking more than on the one with Marko ;)

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My friend Misery is a concert photographer, and she finally got the pics of Sonata's last gig opening for Dragonforce in LA up on her website. Sorry about the copyright, people like stealing her pics and putting them everywhere without asking her =/

ANYWAY!!

Here they are!!

Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA will embark on a North American headlining tour in the spring. Support will come from MUTINY WITHIN and POWERGLOVE ( Read more... )

I had to share this! I just saw it today so sorry if any of you have seen it already. There was a blackout and Tony decided to continue on without the rest of the band. The keytar solo was hilarious! This was great, good job Tony haha!

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I saw Sonata at the TLA in Philadelphia last night (opening for Dragonforce with opener Taking Dawn, which is a band that thinks they are way more hardcore than they actually are). Setlist and pictures under the cut! Features include Henkka being an overall nice guy to Elias and more pictures of Marko than ever existed.

( TLA, 10/11/09 )