Sonata Arctica - Acoustic Album And Touring Plan Announced
Today, Finnish melodic metal titans Sonata Arctica announce the release of their first acoustic album, Acoustic Adventures - Volume One, to be released in October 2021 through Nuclear Blast Tonträger Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH. To promote this release, the band will embark on a journey through 17 European countries, where they will be supported by the Swedes Eleine, who will also be presenting an acoustic set.
"This acoustic form of Sonata Arctica has been slowly brewing for years", comments vocalist Tony Kakko and explains: "The first manifestation of it, besides the few acoustic versions of songs released throughout the years, was the 'Acoustic Adventures Tour' in 2019, which proved to be a great success, sparking an idea to get these songs also recorded and out on an album. Or two albums, at least for starters. Our songs have always been based on beautiful melodies, which makes it very easy to transform and rearrange them perfectly into the acoustic form as well. I should mention that many of the songs work so well dressed in acoustic garments."
Acoustic Adventures - Volume One will be the first part, followed by a second acoustic record, to be released in 2022. "I hope you love these albums as much as we do. There are many, many songs we had to leave out of these "Volume One" and "Volume Two" albums, so nothing would please me more than adding few more volumes in the future", smiles Tony Kakko and adds: "Looking forward to seeing you on tour again as soon as possible!"
Keyboardist Henrik "Henkka" Klingenberg comments: "Since our 'Talviyö World Tour' is more or less over, it's time to look ahead for the next challenge and since we've had so much fun with the acoustic stuff we decided to make an album as well, and of course we will hit the road immediately after that to celebrate the release of it. As of now we have managed to set up an extensive European Tour and we're really looking forward to getting out there an play some music for all of you."
"This acoustic form of Sonata Arctica has been slowly brewing for years", comments vocalist Tony Kakko and explains: "The first manifestation of it, besides the few acoustic versions of songs released throughout the years, was the 'Acoustic Adventures Tour' in 2019, which proved to be a great success, sparking an idea to get these songs also recorded and out on an album. Or two albums, at least for starters. Our songs have always been based on beautiful melodies, which makes it very easy to transform and rearrange them perfectly into the acoustic form as well. I should mention that many of the songs work so well dressed in acoustic garments."
Acoustic Adventures - Volume One will be the first part, followed by a second acoustic record, to be released in 2022. "I hope you love these albums as much as we do. There are many, many songs we had to leave out of these "Volume One" and "Volume Two" albums, so nothing would please me more than adding few more volumes in the future", smiles Tony Kakko and adds: "Looking forward to seeing you on tour again as soon as possible!"
Keyboardist Henrik "Henkka" Klingenberg comments: "Since our 'Talviyö World Tour' is more or less over, it's time to look ahead for the next challenge and since we've had so much fun with the acoustic stuff we decided to make an album as well, and of course we will hit the road immediately after that to celebrate the release of it. As of now we have managed to set up an extensive European Tour and we're really looking forward to getting out there an play some music for all of you."
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| WorpeX Made of Metal Posts: 1347  |
It hasn't felt like they've enjoyed making SA material for a long time, they really should just hit the pause button on the band and do some other projects which are more interesting to them. I'm sure its not that easy with record deals and all but man it really feels like they just keep forcing the SA name on records which can't decide if they want to be metal or pop. An acoustic album sounds like its right in line with this same thing. They don't want to do something heavy but SA is making them money.
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| Chidder Posts: 165  |
Giving the fact that the last album sounded heavy by force, it's good that they making such album. You can hear that they wanted to do something lighter. November tour though? Sorry, won't happen.
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| Kais Posts: 610  |
I've been a fan since their Unia days and I can agree with the above suggestion that the band just doesn't want to do the heavy stuff anymore. That said, I've heard the acoustic versions of some of their songs - and it's really a hit or miss. Their live acoustic performances from 2019, I believe, weren't as coherent as one might've thought. I don't know if I look forward to a whole record of the same material... but maybe they'll surprise us, who knows...
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