SONATA ARCTICA

Release Year: 2019
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: catchy melodic powerful heavy metal

the North-men admit that they are not about jumping over themselves, and rather prefer to keep playing what they have been honing lately, pushing the primeval power metal zeal towards more progressive and diverse sound field: Winter Night is an eleven track offer, which sounds more lively due to musicians performing together in studio, speeding up the intensity line every now and then, but still it is more about melody and mid tempo than anything else, enriched with acoustic melancholy, while Tony Kakko’s vocals more often adopt a restrained, narrative delivery, subtly shifting registers and allowing lyrics about the fragility of human nature, mistakes, and inner struggles to unfold without excessive dramatics, as keyboard touches and apt guitar harmonies shape highly atmospheric sound where mood and emotion take priority; German gatefold sleeve double black vinyl edition