April 2012

Do you want to listen to the new SONATA ARCTICA songs while reading the according lyrics? Check out SONATA ARCTICA’s whole discography, biography, tour dates, news, info on the new album „Stones Grow Her Name“ (out 18.05.12 in EU) and be able to purchase any album or merch directly on your smartphone!
All you have to do is bookmark the following URL on the home screen of your smartphone and you’ll be able to access it over and over again like a usual mobile app:
http://songpier.com/sonataarctica

Some more news:

The third and last part of the Making Of Stones Grow Her Name is now online.
Furthermore, you can find nice Sonata Arctica wallpapers here.

And last but not least, another summer festival has been confirmed: Jurassic Rock in Mikkeli, Finland on August 11th.

The official video clip of “I Have A Right” is now on Youtube, watch it here!
Furthermore you can listen to the full song on Nuclear Blast’s website. Check it out!

Sonata Arctica have been confirmed to play at Sonisphere Festival in Madrid, Spain on May 25th. More information click here.

On May, 18th, the new SONATA ARCTICA album “Stones Grow Her Name” will be released. The media response is already overwhelming, expect a unique, rocking and progressive jewel.

On Friday, April 20th – German TV station iM1 (formerly iMusic1) premiers the new SONATA ARCTICA video for the single “I Have A Right” – first at 17.00 CET on their homepage www.imusic1rocks.com and one hour later at 18.00 CET at their legendary “Rocks” show on TV.

The band just finalized the second part of the album making-of; you find both chapters here:

• Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m640SGyYQsQ
• Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHvIHaDMd6k

Read following, what bandleader Tony Kakko says about “I Have A Right”:

“I Have A Right” was the very last song I wrote for this album. At that point Tommy had already played his last track for “Stones Grow Her Name”, gotten ready to go to sauna AND opened his first beer for that night, when I sms’d him to check his e-mail and record yet one more “easy track”. He was mildly pissed. And perhaps fueled by that he nailed the song on the first take. It was a very emotional moment for him, I was told. The song hits home, if you know the subject and can relate to the subject. To put it short it’s a song about how we should not pass the burden we get from the past generation on the shoulders of our future offspring. Children’s rights subject. Not the most metal subject ever, I suppose, but then again I think it fits our band well and is pretty universal. Funny to actually have fans from each age group this song speaks about. Let’s see what comes of it. Choosing the first single and video from this album was not very easy this time around as we had so many candidates. The best possible problem to have! “I Have A Right” won the vote. The playing parts for this video were shot in our home town Kemi, here in Finland. The location was an old, abandoned school building. Somehow spooky and COLD. It was mid march. Could say we were lucky the weather was unseasonably warm, yet way below zero. Director Tuukka Temonen and his crew did a great job with editing and all the additional footage. All in all, from my point of view, this was the easiest ever Sonata Arctica video to make. No 12 hours standing in a room filled with bird shit, no freezing my ass off on the ice in the middle of the sea from 8am to 10pm, or running in the woods in the middle of the night and not sleeping for 48 hours…had all that with the past videos. I am more than pleased. I hope you like the song and video as much as we do.

“Stones Grow Her Name” will be released on May 18th, 2012 via Nuclear Blast.

A few things have been added to the website. Today is the release date of the digital single “I Have A Right” (physical release will follow later) – info about this has been added to the discography section. Furthermore, there are new band member profiles online with new photos and questions asked by Sonata Arctica fans. Check them out in the band section.

Here is the second part of the Making Of “Stones Grow Her Names”

In addition to the digital release of “I Have A Right” on April 18th, there will be a special limited edition of the single (physical copy, signed by the band) available at the Official Sonata Arctica webshop from May 18th. More information about this here.

Please note that the release date is initial, the singles will be shipped right after they have been signed

Sonata Arctica have been confirmed to play at Qstock (Oulu, FIN) on July 27th.

More information: Qstock 2012.

The first of three parts. Watch the Making Of the new album “Stones Grow Her Name”.