SONATA ARCTICA

Release Year: 2008
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: expressive melodic power heavy metal

sophomore full-length [2001] of rapidly growing up heroes in traditional energetic melodic power/heavy metal continues from where their emotional and impetuous debut has left off, further emphasizing the importance of piercing harmonies with a cinematic touch, adding more color and depth to the sound, hitting with very high-tempered, memorable and powerful hits [Wolf and Raven], soul-touching ballads [Tallulah] and newly introduced subtle progressive hints: loud sing-along anthems is still their credo, much like the double lead guitar tricks, and talented ensemble performs all these tasks with good care and ease, while dynamic repertoire also features Timo Kotipelto on extra guest vocals; recent European pressing comes with a remastered sound, expanded with three rare bonuses from singles and limited editions