Sonata Arctica was born in 1996 on the edge of the world,
in northern Finish town of Kemi. The very first incarnation
of the band was named Tricky Beans. As Tricky Beans, the
group produced three demos (Friend till the End, Agre
Pamppers and PeaceMaker) and played twice in Jyrki S鋒k鰏
irkus. After some personnel changes in 1997, the outfit
changed their name to Tricky Means. Let it be know to the
Metal community that initially the band experimented in
musical styles far from heavy metal.
Turning the page in 1999, Tricky Means recorded new demo
"FullMoon" in Tico Tico Studios located in their hometown,
Kemi. At the time of recording the line-up consisted of:
Tony (vocals/keys), Jani (guitars), Tommy (drums), and
Janne (bass). This new demo was the first exploration More...
Review about Sonata Arctica They never cease to amaze. | Reviewer: Albinosaurus
------ About the song Broken (Album Version) performed by Sonata Arctica
SA is my newest and greatest musical obsession. They play such wonderful music with even more astounding lyrics. I don't think I've ever heard anything to top them. I can relate to many of the emotions conveyed in their songs and that only brings them closer to me. Absolutely astonishing.
love 4 the love song | Reviewer: Chaos
------ About the song Flag In the Ground performed by Sonata Arctica
this song is one of the first songs that i ever heard from Sonata Arctica and every time i here theses lyrics
"Please let me know everything's alright
Thinking about you, 'though you're out of sight every night, when I'm turning in, my tears find me.
Please hurry, dear, come back and rescue me..."
it sends a chill down my spine and a shiver
I do this.... | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Last Drop Falls performed by Sonata Arctica
I'm the girl that does this... It makes me hate myself. There is a guy that I always go back to because I love him and never want to hurt him, but then I find someone else and have to take the chance and leave him again, yet he always takes me back again. I love him, but I don't think I'm in love with him, even though I want to be.
Really speaks me!!!!! :) | Reviewer: Dakotah Rargen
------ About the song Last Drop Falls performed by Sonata Arctica
I really love this song, with my ex me whent on and offf constently and now she hates me cuss well some times she's a bitch
but god i love her and now she love's some one new so ya..but i got a new girl friend but i don't know what this incredible song can do for me.? god i still love you tiff....
i love this son it always gets me a tingly when it gets to this part
"Please let me know everything's alright
Thinking about you, 'though you're out of sight
every night, when I'm turning in, my tears find me.
Please hurry, dear, come back and rescue me..."
it just fills me with hope when you hear about the concern that this person has for there lover ^^
alone | Reviewer: molly
------ About the song Shamandalie performed by Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica is amazing! This song is my favourite from them, besides Tallulah. It drives a stake down into my heart... I lost some very good friends to these sorts. In the end, friends are more important than lovers.
Technology and more..? | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Weballergy performed by Sonata Arctica
This seems to me to be more than just a critique of a technology-obsessed world, it's a critique of masculinity in a sense that to "be a man" and prove yourself, it is very easy to behave badly, acquire "power" (even if it's just in an MMO), and think you're a hotshot because you can pwn noobs online. You think you know everything, and then you wonder why you can't get girls when you show them no respect, on OR offline (particularly when you treat them as if they know nothing about technology).
Sham and a lie | Reviewer: Darthair
------ About the song Shamandalie performed by Sonata Arctica
I disagree with Jenn. When interpreting lyrics, one shouldn't always focus overmuch on the title of the song. And this song certainly does more than "mention" friendship. I would say that the song is mourning an old friendship. One might almost call it an elegy, though it mourns a lost idea, or feeling, rather than the person.
And yes, while it is true that we love our friends, it's not the same sort of love that you have for your lover. Love isn't a single, simple feeling, it's a lot more complicated than that. Could you say that you love your family in the exact same way that you love your friends? Or in the same way that you love a lover? Of course not, it's more complicated than that. And that last type is the most complicated of all. It's something that most humans search for, strive for, reach for. And sometimes think we have found it, only to find that those feelings aren't true. That's the "sham and a lie" of the song, the love that wasn't true.
To say that ALL of what the speaker and this other person had was a "sham and a lie" seems to me a gross misinterpretation. You're taking the title of the song and ripping it out of context with all the rest of it.
once again | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Zeroes performed by Sonata Arctica
another amazing album from sonata arctica and once again it's completely rewritten their sound and is totally different from their previous albums but still distinctly is sonata arctica at their best A***
Progressive/Melodic/Power Metal | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Zeroes performed by Sonata Arctica
It's a completely different style from their original genre of power metal, but it truly is brilliant, the progressive elements of Unia mix with their personalized dark power metal create a beautiful kind of melody
interpretation | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song San Sebastian performed by Sonata Arctica
my interpretation of this song is that San sebastian is the womean as you all agreed and "the sun" is her love, so it is to the "love of san sebastian" that he is singing to, thats why he says that "the sun of San Sebastian is just too hot for me" so that love is too much for him and, i dont know why, but he thinks he doesnt deserve it... this concept can explain every part of the song except for this one that i cant find any scence...
ook what have I done to the San Sebastian
I wasted all my childhood dreams by staring at the sun
Back in time with a dream of mine
I try to find my way back to life
Burning fever, night time screamer, waiting time when I'd come alive
Im sorry if my english is not very good, Im from Argentina... SONATA RULES!
Misinterpretation | Reviewer: Jenn
------ About the song Shamandalie performed by Sonata Arctica
Many people seem to interpret this song as being in love with a friend, simply because it mentions 'friendship.'
But it's called "sham and a lie," meaning whoever the speaker loved and whatever he had, all turned out to be fake in the end.
Stop putting this seperation between friendship and love. Just because you're in a steady relationship with someone doesn't mean it isn't a friendship. You must be close friends with someone in order to love them, anyhow.
I also wanted to comment on something 'paul' said: Are you basing all girls off of an experience you had with one girl? Seriously, you speak as if the male gender always thinks before acting. Whether or not someone makes a mistake that ruins a relationship is unrelated to gender. Keep that in mind before turning the events of one experience into a fact that represents over half the world's population.
anonymous | Reviewer: kpton
------ About the song Replica performed by Sonata Arctica
men i heard this song every day...
i really like that song...
when i was in the institute in my contry, my teacher we put it this song for we learn and we sing.
so, i just wanna say that, this song is 1 of the best song got it sonata arctica.....
something at minute 11:30 of this song. | Reviewer: Nelson
------ About the song The Power Of One performed by Sonata Arctica
PEOPLE!!! I FOUND SOMETHING VERY STRANGE IN THAT SONG! in the end, of the totally complete song, at minute 11:30, the singer says something, I thinks that it's "I'm fucking touch the mike, hold on" or something... PLEASE, IF SOMEBODY KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, WRITE TO ME!!! I'M NOT KIDDING! (nelson_2005_river@hotmail.com) sorry for my bad english
Wooow!!! | Reviewer: Erika
------ About the song Full Moon performed by Sonata Arctica
I just read the lyrics and I'm in shock! o_O
I don't even know how to feel... sad for the ending of this great story, or amazed for the beauty of this song as a whole!!! o_O
Sonata arctica is simply the BEST!!!
great album after all | Reviewer: S. Omebody
------ About the song Zeroes performed by Sonata Arctica
I ordered the album and first I didn't like it, because I thought it was too slow and too different from their old stuff. But I kept playing it and I really started to like it. So after all it's a great album and I really enjoy listening it.
=3 | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Caleb performed by Sonata Arctica
As I see it, Caleb's father want's him dead but his mother save him and trick the father into beliving he's dead. So the mother raise Caleb in secret, but she's not the caring mother Caleb want's to belive she is. She hates Caleb and his father, who she raised Caleb to be a portrait of. She then manipulates Caleb into killing his father.
And all this is the background story to the story told in The End Of This Chapter, Don't Say A Word and Juliet.
I think it's awesome and I've really enjoyed following it. It's interesting how it's been spread out over so many years. But I suppose it's ended with Juliet and his death.
I kinda relate to this song because I love my best friend for 2 years now, but I never had the guts to ask her or say anything to her.. After reading these lyrics, I don't know what to do anymore..
I mean, I love her more than anything else in the world, but I couldn't bare to see our friendship shatter because of love.
Since a week or two she got into a relation with my other best friend, it hurts to see them together, but I'm afraid that if I say anything to her I could ruin both friendships, but that wouldn't be worth it. IF she says yes, then i'll still ruin the friendship with my other friend, but if she says no, then I might ruin the friendship with her and maybe my other friends won't talk to me again either ..
I just don't know what to do anymore..
It's all so confusing..
New | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Zeroes performed by Sonata Arctica
This is an awesome song!
it's weird... it doesn't really sound like Sonata Arctica... none of their new stuff really does tho. It's still very very awesome!!!!! this is my favourite song.
their new stuff is very different from their old stuff, I didn't like it at first but now I LOVE it, its slower, lyrics are clearer and Tonny sings in a different way. <3
White pearl black oceans | Reviewer: Arif
------ About the song White Pearl, Black Oceans performed by Sonata Arctica
My version of the review:
The intro lyrics are basically the whole story.
A lighthouse keeper who had spent most of his life by the sea, and was raised in his home, a lighthouse. Judging from the lyrics, he rarely goes down to town but when New Years eve came he thought about spending the night at town. In the town he met this beautiful woman, they fell in love and spent the night together and enjoyed a memorable moment. After that, someone attacked him. "I never had a chance to stop what hit me" he wasnt able to see his attacker and so he somewhat fainted from the attack. After long hours of unwilling sleep (fainted from the attack), he was awakened by a nightmare, he had forgottened to guide the ships from the lighthouse thus making them lose thier way and destroyed them. He killed the people on the ship that sailed the black ocean.And the woman was on the ship he ahd destroyed.
The next day, he was captured and sent to court. "Please tell me everything is alright", it seems that he didnt know what had happened and why he was brought there. The people in there looked at him with anger and disbelief because he did not know what had happened and why he was brought there. He felt scared and couldnt keep his tears and cried.
"All on the board the White Pearl have died!
Coastal reef has tolled their lives,
and you are the light of the night!"
The judge told him what had happened, he didnt remember anything before he fainted. But he could remember one thing of his attacker, he had the name of the woman he spent with last night tattoed to his arm. So his attacker somewhat had connections with the girl he spent the night with, maybe he was her husband because she was pregnant at that time, she decided to run away but then met this lighthouse keeper and fell inlove. This guy saw the light house keeper and his woman going through the door that had her name on it. This explains how he remembered he had seen the name on teh tattoo somewhere on a door. He was found not guilty and was released to become a free man. But he felt so full of guilt he hated himself, he wanted to commit suicide.
He thought that if he commited suicide the hatred of the people towards him would end. He hadnt knowned that one night in town could make his life a living hell. He climbed his 10000 round and round steps in the light house until he was at the top, and jumped off into the black ocean, he commited suicide.
"I hereby commit my body to the deep,
to be turned into corruption,
looking for the resurrection of the body,
when the Sea shall give up Her dead,
and the life of the world to come,
through our Lord.
Amen."
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