I'm always looking for the lowest prices (my nationality says it all I guess )

Ah, Sonata Arctica. Why the hell didn't I start a topic about them?! They're one of my favourites.

Yes, Ecliptica is a very good album. Lots of my favourites are on it, not bad for a debut album. But Takatalvi is good, too, despite it has only 7 songs. I only don't have Winterheart's Guild, because it's that expensive. I'm always looking for the lowest prices (my nationality says it all I guess )

And in december I'll see them live, a present from my sister for finishing my exams

You should come to FInland.
Even gas stations have SA cds here and the prices are... well... Low.

You should come to FInland.
Even gas stations have SA cds here and the prices are... well... Low.

Wow! Really?
How much costs a Sonata Arctica CD in Finnland?

As soon I'm able to figure out how the paypal thing works I want order my copy of The days of grays+T-shirt.
The price of 38,99 Euro is fair to me. The CD costs 18,99 on Amazon and Fan-shirt for 20 Euro is standard.

Usually most places have them for 7.50€ to 12.90€
Some places have even 5€ or 6€ at times

Just noticed that Ecliptica is neither on Amazon nor on Nucl.blast available.

The Days of Grays

Everything Fades to Gray (instrumental): 7½/10

Beatiful calm and a bit creepy intro.
really atmospheric.

DeathAura: 9/10

Amazing majestic massive bombastic and at times very fast yet progressive.
No one can blame them for lacking speed or say the lack of speed causes the boringness.

Last Amazing Grays:10/10

My favourite so far. Beatiful catchy and I even like the solo a lot even as a ton of people are complaing it to be nightwishtic.
I Don't like NW at all but this just awesome.

Flag in the Ground:8/10

Happy cheering and beatiful.
Nice all-around basic song.

Breathing:8/10

Calm nice ballad growing towards the end.
at first this didn't seem so good when I listened it (among the 5 other songs I checked) Yesterday. But Now it is just great.
Really good song after a while.

Zeroes:9/10

Nice Song after a while.
Dark and a bit machine (well un-organic in a way) like song with the "Dancing on The Borderline" that at first is making you go crazy but now it is really nice and catchy after ehm 4 listens of the song.

Dead Skin:9½/10

Quite happy considering the name.
Until it turns a bit darker really good song that progresses well and rolls smoothly with nice speed.
Great solo with some heavy guitar and drum work turning into a piano melody.
Reminds me now of Lady in White by Olympos Mons now that I think of it.
Yet LIW is a bit more upbeat (Go check them out they are quite good power metal and now sorry for offtopic commecialism)
after the solo the song turns insanely ravaging and dark.
Followed by another short solo similar to the first one.
Really nice ending now that vocals kick in again.
Great chorus in the end.

One of the most supringly great songs of the whole album.

Juliet: 9/10

Vocal filled song really similar to Caleb in a way.
I like it very much great vocal melodies and keys at times very fats and at times very calm and smooth.
Beatiful vocal filled.

No Dream Can Heal a Broken Heart: 8/10

At first I wasn't quite exited by the intro and beginning but it ended up being really catchy and beatiful song.
I just love the vocal lines and Female vocals do well in the middle of the song.
Another very smoothly rolling song.

As if the World Wasn't Ending:8/10

Great variety in this short song.
more steady and serious quite epic vocal driven song.
Really serious and strong slow.

The Truth is Out There:10/10

Great really changing epic different sorrowful and well moving song.
Some really nice vocal melodies again and nice exotic solos.
Towards the end the song grows to become just purely awesome!
I just love the Chorus:
Wake up, I only want to wake up,
Don't wanna fall asleep, but
I'm already dreaming
I feel my skin is peeling off.
What I've been concealing??
Something underneath...

One of the jewels of this album definately.

Everything Fades to Gray (full version): 8½

Dark whispering tragic and great vocals on the already tragic piano melody. Until blasts to a bombastic melody really massive ending for the album leaving you stunned.
After the song ends you will just sit still for a while and think after a minute of stting. wow that was great.

Bt more is to come

In the Dark:8½

Starts with just piano and vocals but soon the piano is replaced by guitar.
Soon Guitars get keyboards backing them up and the song becomes full with melodies.
a semi-ballad with some good vocal hooks and emotions in the melodies and a vocal driven story .

Overall: 9/10
So far it seems maybe even better than Unia that was my favourite Sonata album up to this point.
Lots of Vocals and piano.
Lots of them but the other instruments are lacking a bit.
But who needs them to be so controlloing in each of the albums.
This one was just one for Tony.
A great album for someone liking symphonic metal and for most power metal lovers too. Not for all though. it is more serious and tragic dark bit proggy but still has nice variety and typical PM in it.
Atmospheric and Beatiful are two words describing this album well along with emotional, dark, tragic and at some times catchy, fast, and even typical power metal can be found.

Orchestral cd

Deathaura:
Really orchestra driven with Tonys typical one man vocal show.
Tragic filmscore type.
Could be a part of a movie soundtrack.
Really majestic and totally different.
Good still.

Last Amazing Grays:
The more emotional and massive majestic and B-e-a-utiful.
EPIC!

Flag in the Ground:
Basically vocals only version with beatiful symphonic orchestra playing instead of the band.
Fits this song better than I expected.
Especially towards the end it gets just massive and epic.

Juliet:
Just great harmony and really symphonic song.
and the orchestra even fits the more agressive parts the song holds and some choirs to back Tonys one man show.
Yet it lacks the same strenght in the end as the normal version.
Yet the more tragic parts are backed by the orchestra well.

As if the World Wasn't Ending:
Not especially different.
Not as serious as the result of the lacking instruments.

The Truth is Out There:
The thing this song has which I can't describe comes out better on this version yet it lakcs the strenght but is by no means any worse.
I just don't think there is any word for the feelings this song awakes in me.

In the Dark:
Once I first heard this song I thought the Orchestral part is going to be definately something great.
It was lacking the guitars and keyboards but it wasn't that bad thing for the epicness and the uplifting feeling is more present.

Overall:8½/10
The Orchestral cd was really suprisingly good and It is good for relaxing.
I bet I'm going to listen to it almost as much as the actual cd.
Definately worth the money and worth making.



Now sorry for my writing I have been writing this for hours and I feel absolutely amazing now after the full listening session lasting over 90 minutes.
and still it seems no one has even read this but oh well.
I mainly wrote this for myself.