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Add New Review About The Artist The Reviews about Sonata Arctica (page 1/1) Decent band, but only for diehard Power Metal fans | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/12/09 Sonata Arctica is one of those bands you either hate or love. I say this is for the following reasons: 1. Tony Kakko: I'll give him this, he has a great voice, but NOT a good metal voice. Imagine if Josh Groban or Clay Aiken decided to form a metal band, this is what it would sound like. His voice is too weak and lack the true power of a good metal vocalist. 2. Good music, but silly lyrics sometimes: Sonata Arctica, like a lot of Power Metal bands, have amazing sounding music but have extremely silly lyrics. If you do not mind silly topics and lame love songs, then you can fully enjoy this band. Sometimes, I cringe when I hear those silly lyrics despite the good music. 3. Happier scales and progressions: I can honestly say that unlike death metal, power metal seems to have a "happy" tone to the music. Fans of Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, and Death might have a hard time dealing with this music. To sum it up, I recommend you this band if you love Dream Theater, Blind Guardian, or Stratovarious. These guys have amazing guitar and keyboard playing, but are unfortuneatly somewhat ruined by the wimpy vocals and cheesy chord progressions. Not like other bands. | Reviewer: Greg Wotton | 12/10/08 Sonata Arctica's symphonic power is equalled by their powerful lyrics. No band that I've listened to before has the same kind of sheer power to affect my emotionally from hard rocking to thoughtful to unchecked tears this band is capable of expressing, and evoking, a wide range of emotions. Though I've heard of them being compared to other speed metal and melodic metal bands they are a step above most, if not all of them. They express a wide range of music from speed metal to nearly folk music in range (I suspect there was some folk influence at the beginning when they were "far from heavy metal") "I can change one note and make you cry" they understand the POWER of music and this is something most bands lack. Lots of metal bands are "just metalheads" but SA is obviously coming from a complex musical background. Don't take them lightly, even though I consider "Winterheart's Guild" their greatest achievement to date I expect that even with the power of "Unia" and the movement to seven string guitars there's still more amazing things to come, stuff that's gonna blow our minds. sonata arctica is the beeest | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/12/07 do u listen to dragonforce? if you like the way to play the instruments of sonata arctica you will enjoy this group, the guitar is fantastic. Sonata Arctica is one of the best groups I heard I like the best wolf and raven, san sebastian,shy and fullmoon. UP HEAVY METAL and UP HEADBANGERS good job | Reviewer: manning | 9/11/07 man thats the most fun ive had reading u rea;y coverd the whole shabang and when u update the biography would u email me so i can read it thank you and good job Sonata Arctica | Reviewer: Me | 2/18/06 A Grandiose symphonic power metal band from Finland. Execellent chorus', virtuosity with instruments - fantastic! Recommended to fans of Kamelot, Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, Thunderstone etc Add New Review About The Artist