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Since yesterday there is a Dutch Sonata Arctica Fanclub. If you want to become a member please contact. info@sonata-arctica.nl or surf to the following adress: http://www.sonata-arctica.nl/forum

who is sonata arctica?

Oh. That just hurt. "Who is Sonata Arctica?".

http://www.sonataarctica.info/

You've got to be kidding me...

why don't you stop fantasizing about Jens, pull your head out of your ass, and try listening to some good music, instead of having dreams about getting to bed with the Strato members!

sonata is ok, I really like "My Land"
a really great song!!

my favortie song is 'Blinded no more' it's very good.tallulah is cool,too

LoL sonata arctica with that liimatainen guy.... :P

yep.
Liimatainen with the spiderfingers

LIIMATAINEN!!!!! :headbang:

I haven't listened Sonata very much... My friends propaganda haven't reach me.. Anyway they showed sonata's last year concert at Tavastia club, Helsinki on TV. It sounded pretty cool... I think I'll buy one of their records.

That will be a good idea I have two of their albums. Silence and Ecliptica. Very good cd's!!

I don't like Sonata that much... Too many double-bass drumming. But they DO make great ballads like Shy or Tallulah. And Jens' solos on Winterheart's Guild are amazing

What about their "slows" in Winterheart's Guild?
However I agree with Mafiaboy...Jens' solos are great!!!!

I don't like Sonata Arctica too much. They are a perfect Strato-copy, I think.

Errr....I don´t think they are a Stratocopy..
I have to say SA is my fav band and if they would be so similar to Strato i would have liked Strato from the first song i heard.. Reality was that i turned the CD Player off and didn´t listen to them anymore till i started writing with Pete and i tried other songs but it still took me a lot of time to get used to them.
They are definitely not the same and everybody who says this has to check his ears...
I think they are both good and it´s up to personal taste..

(1601+13)

Not a Stratoclone imho. Of course they are encouraged by Strato's music, but this doesn't mean, that they copy them.

I like this band as well. But my favourite band is Stratovarius, and the reason is, that they make a more variative style of metal. SA plays mainly speed metal, which can become very boring after some minutes or hours. Of course it's awesome live, but they should play some more power/melodic stuff as well. (like for example: Champagne Bath and White Pearl, Black Oceans)

as much for personal taste i don´t like these songs too much

Please compare Speed of Light and 8th Commandent or Picturing the Past with any Yngwie-riff.
But it is true, SA has more elements from Pop music. OK.They aren't a perfect copy, nobody is a perfect copy

Sonata Arctica is excellent!
I really like San Sebastion:

"Sun of San Sebastion eighteen years young today, she is all I ever dreamt but now my skies are turning grey."

I love that line for some reason
I really like Victoria's Secret, The Cage, etc etc. I think WHG is their best album.

Hellovarius the Simple wrote:Please compare Speed of Light and 8th Commandent or Picturing the Past with any Yngwie-riff.
But it is true, SA has more elements from Pop music. OK.They aren't a perfect copy, nobody is a perfect copy

Listen to 8th commandment and then listen to Yngwies forever is a long time, the beginning riffs are so similar to eachother.

Anonymous wrote:who is sonata arctica?

shame on you man

I am a big, big Sonata's fan. I cannot say they are a stratocopy, they are into the melodic metal scene and that ain't mean that all the bands who arfe ivolved into melodic metal are stratocopies or whoever copies.

As a matter of fact, Sonata Arctica has developed it's own catchy style, (a lot of prog stuff btw in their recently albums) which just kick ass.

I've been following them since Ecliptica came out, but i've heard some old stuff when they were not Sonata Arctica, but Tricky Beans/Tricky Means...they have great songs

I don´t like WHG too much...
Ecliptica and Reckoning Night are my favourits...

And ok 8th Commandment is on their first album but I think they sound really different now. But you might be right they tried to sound like Strato at their beginnings. I bet here are a lot of people here that have their own bands and try to play the songs of their fav band.
Listen to Reckoning Night- I don´t think this sounds like a Stratocopy

neonlightchild wrote:

Anonymous wrote:who is sonata arctica?

shame on you man

yeah shame on him......

sonata rulz the las album is a very good rocking one but not my favourite album.....

neonlightchild wrote:I am a big, big Sonata's fan. I cannot say they are a stratocopy, they are into the melodic metal scene and that ain't mean that all the bands who arfe ivolved into melodic metal are stratocopies or whoever copies.

As a matter of fact, Sonata Arctica has developed it's own catchy style, (a lot of prog stuff btw in their recently albums) which just kick ass.

I've been following them since Ecliptica came out, but i've heard some old stuff when they were not Sonata Arctica, but Tricky Beans/Tricky Means...they have great songs

I think Sonata have a big ispiration by Stratovarius but I feel theme different...maybe I'm crazy but I think they are influenced by epic metal, too.
I have this idea after listening some tracks in the last two album...Epic metal is another thing but some keyboard atmospheres are similar.
:pissed4:

well they satrted doing some stratovariius songs ...they used to talk about the startovarius influence but now in the rechoning nightis easy to see that they are taking another level or step....

theyare not in the stratovarius way, now they sound like Sonata Arctica

Stratovarious wrote:well they satrted doing some stratovariius songs ...they used to talk about the startovarius influence but now in the rechoning nightis easy to see that they are taking another level or step....

theyare not in the stratovarius way, now they sound like Sonata Arctica

That´s exactly what I think...
There´s no band without influence from others, everybody has to start somewhere..

I will see SonatA on the 24th April!
It's damn nice, the first time they will come in North America!!

JF Knight Of Steel wrote:I will see SonatA on the 24th April!
It's damn nice, the first time they will come in North America!!

They'll be here in NY 10 days before, I am trying to go, but there are a lot of things in the way, but I won't give up the fight!

I will buy Silence next time I'm in Times Square, since it is the only album there. . .shame on this city! and on Virgin Megastore!

Equinox wrote:

JF Knight Of Steel wrote:I will see SonatA on the 24th April!
It's damn nice, the first time they will come in North America!!

They'll be here in NY 10 days before, I am trying to go, but there are a lot of things in the way, but I won't give up the fight!

I will buy Silence next time I'm in Times Square, since it is the only album there. . .shame on this city! and on Virgin Megastore!

Try to see them man, they won't come back in America for maybe a while after..

What a shame man! Even here I can find their CDs in stores!!! And I am in a remote town of Canada haha.. xD