Sonata Arctica are going to play at Sziget Festival, Budapest (H) this year. The festival takes place between August 8th – 14th, for more information check the festival‘s website.

Sonata Arctica have been confirmed to play at Finland’s Sonisphere Festival in Helsinki on July 2nd, 2011.
For more information and how to order tickets – check this website: Sonisphere Finland

Another festival confirmation! Sonata Arctica will play at this year’s Getaway Rock Festival (July 7-9) at Gävle, Sweden. The correct show day will be confirmed later.
For more information: www.getawayrock.se

The opening acts for the upcoming European tour are now confirmed.
LABYRINTH (ITA) will support the entire tour, 4TH DIMENSION (ITA) will support the first part of the tour (24.02. – 08.03) and TRIOSPHERE (NOR) the second part (10.03 – 31.03.).

Check all the upcoming tour dates here.

Sonata Arctica are playing at ARTmania Festival in Sibiu, Romania on August 13th. Check the festival’s website for more information.

Watch the last part of the South American tour documentary below.
If you missed the first 7 parts you can find them here.

Dear Fans,

We’re writing this in order to clear up some confusions about where, when and how we’re going to film our next DVD. When the orginal DVD show in Milano was postponed when Elias broke his hand, we put off the preparations for the time being. Some days ago as we were starting to finish the preparation for the show, we realized that we’ve been mislead about some of the costs for doing the DVD shoot. Mainly we’re talking about the pyrotechnics permits, which would have cost roughly 10 times more than anywhere else. This, along with some other unexpected expenses, came as a total surprise to the band. In order to make things work we had to pull the plug on the shoot in Milano and move it to Finland we’re we can afford to do a proper DVD shoot. Our management jumped the gun here and told our webmaster to change the info on the website, without us knowing about it and without an explanation.

So, that’s the situation we’re in right now. We can not even by a longshot afford to do a proper DVD shoot in Milano and will do it in Oulu instead. By doing so we realize that we’re letting down all our fans who were planning to come to the show. For that we apologize sincerely. We will play the show in Milano, with all the planned extra numbers, as well as a couple of extra tricks to make up for this mishap ….only the cameras won’t be rolling this time. Rather than disappointing all our fans around the world who truly deserve a perfect live DVD we have to let down some of you. We are very sorry that things turned out this way.

Yours,

Sonata Arctica

SONATA ARCTICA will be touring Finland again in April 2011 for the second part of the “Days of Grays Finland” tour.

Tickets will be on sale on December 1st!

06.04. Tampere / Pakkahuone
07.04. Helsinki / Tavastia
08.04. Helsinki / Tavastia
09.04. Lahti / Finlandia-Klubi
15.04. Oulu / Club Teatria
16.04. Tornio / Umpitunneli
21.04. Pori / Bar Kino
22.04. Seinäjoki / Rytmikorjaamo
23.04. Turku / Klubi
24.04. Turku / Klubi
27.04. Helsinki / Nosturi
28.04. Jyväskylä / Lutakko
29.04. Kuopio / Puikkari
30.04. Joensuu / Kerubi

SONATA ARCTICA is going to play at Germany’s Bang Your Head festival on July 16th, 2011. For more information check the festival’s website: www.bang-your-head.de

All upcoming tour dates can be found in the tour info section.

Ever wondered what it would be like to be on tour?

All the ups and downs, drinks and burgers from the South American Tour of Sonata Arctica will now be brought to you absolutely free. Starting with Part 1 on Monday the 15th of November, the movie has an undisclosed number of parts with a new part being released every Monday. Join the band as they travel through South America, starting from Finland on October 14th and all the way through the adventures until they get back home on November 1st.