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SONATA ARCTICA are offering fans a fantastic chance to win one pair of WEEKEND TICKETS (camping ticket included) to this year’s BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR METAL FESTIVAL, Catton Hall, Derby, UK on 13th – 15th August 2010!
Just message us with your full name, address and a contact phone number and mention “Bloodstock Competition – Sonata Arctica” by 15th July 2010 and the winner will be selected at random.

Update:
Due to technical problems the e-mail contact had to be changed. The new one is now:
bloodstock@nuclearblast.de
All those who have sent a mail to the formerly announced e-mail address of course will be considered. The winner will be announced July 16th.

Below some additional Finnish summer festivals for SONATA ARCTICA:

12.06.2010 – Sauna Open Air, Tampere
26.06.2010 – Nummirock, Nummijärvi
18.07.2010 – Simerock, Rovaniemi
30.07.2010 – Qstock, Oulu
21.08.2010 – Satama Open Air, Kemi

For the complete list of upcoming festivals and other live dates, please check the tour info.

SONATA ARCTICA have been confirmed to play at Jurassic Rock on August 14th, 2010 taking place in Mikkeli, Finland. For more information check: Jurassicrock.fi

Sonata Arctica’s guitarist Elias Viljanen will be playing at the Ultimate World Guitar Exhibition 2010 taking place in Bologna, Italy on May 15th. The event has no entrance fee.
Check www.ultimateworldguitarexhibition.com for more information.

SONATA ARCTICA has once again teamed up with long-time partners, Royal Artist Club, to bring you an exclusive competition! The guys killed some time at the Helsinki airport before kicking off their US tour by filling a brand new Nokia phone with never-before-published pics, video footage, text messages, and audio clips. None of the content on the phone is available anywhere else and the cover has been autographed by the whole band.

Now is your chance to win this very device for yourself – and to find out what the guys have been up to! To participate, simply go to www.royalartistclub.com/sonata_arctica and find the post titled EXCLUSIVE CONTENT UP FOR GRABS. Once you have found it, simply leave a comment to the post telling what type of content you would like to see on the band’s Royal Artist Club blog in 2010. The competition kicks off on Wednesday, the 14th of April and closes a week later on April 21st.

Good luck!

Recording their second DVD September 30th, 2010 at the ALCATRAZ in Milan

SONATA ARCTICA are extremely excited to announce their upcoming recording of their second DVD which will take place at the ALCATRAZ in Milan, Italy on September 30th, 2010.
SONATA ARCTICA will perform a pretty unique show of at least 120 minutes. Next to songs of their latest albums “The Days Of Grays” and “Unia” they also will perform some of the older songs from previous albums plus some very rare songs they didn’t play live during the last years. For sure this will be an unforgettable event and a journey from the beginning of their career as one of the most popular Finish metal bands until now – you definitely shouldn’t miss it.

The DVD will be released in spring 2011 (tba) thru Nuclear Blast records and Marquee Inc. in Japan and will, next to the show in Milan, contain another show, recorded 2009 during the SONATA ARCTICA Open Air Festival in their hometown Kemi, Finland. And of course there will be massive bonus material such as “The Making Of”, interviews, and plenty of video footage the band recorded the last few years during their career on tour.

On sale: April 28th through www.ticketone.it
www.sonataarctica.info
www.myspace.com/sonataarctica
www.continental-concerts.de
www.nuclearblast.de
www.liveinitaly.com

The next festival confirmation is here! SONATA ARCTICA will play at Provinssirock (Seinäjoki, FIN) on June 19th, 2010. Check out the festival’s website for more information.

SONATA ARCTICA have been confirmed for two more summer festivals. They will play at Peace & Love 2010 in Borlänge, Sweden (please note: the correct show date will be announced at a later point) and at Ruisrock in Turku, Finland on July 11th, 2010.
For more information about upcoming tour dates please check the complete list.

Henrik is doing a live interview & Q&A on www.royalartistclub.com/jaymefoxx today at 14:00 (GMT+2) Finnish time.

SONATA ARCTICA have their own Twitter account now. So follow them if you want to get news directly from the band.