SONATA ARCTICA in Nordic Metal. ROCK IN THE CITY KUOPIO festival review.   SONATA ARCTICA SETLIST FOR ROCK IN THE CITY KUOPIO Closer to an Animal No Dream Can Heal

Rock in the City is a new festival tour in Finnish summer, happening in 9 mid-sized “cities” or more like towns, and the very first in line was Kuopio, the

Sonata Arctica is my ultimate winter time favourite. It’s like a nice hot chocolate with marshmallows on a winter day to make you feel warmer. I associate this band with

1. Closer To An Animal 2. Life 3. Fairytale 4. We Are What We Are 5. Till Death’s Done Us Apart 6. Among The Shooting Stars 7. Rise A Night

1. The Wolves Die Young 2. Running Lights 3. Take One Breath 4. Cloud Factory 5. Blood 6. What Did You Do In The War, Dad? 7. Half A Marathon

1. Only The Broken Hearts (Make You Beautiful) 2. Shitload Of Money 3. Losing My Insanity 4. Somewhere Close To You 5. I Have A Right 6. Alone In Heaven

1. Everything Fades To Gray 2. Deathaura 3. The Last Amazing Grays 4. Flag In The Ground 5. Breathing 6. Zeroes 7. The Dead Skin 8. Juliet 9. No Dream

1. In Black And White 2. Paid In Full 3. For The Sake Of Revenge 4. It Won’t Fade 5. Under Your Tree 6. Caleb 7. The Vice 8. My

1. Misplaced 2. Blinded No More 3. Ain’t Your Fairytale 4. Reckoning Day, Reckoning Night 5. Don’t Say A Word 6. The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Real Puppet

1. Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited 2. Gravenimage 3. The Cage 4. Silver Tongue 5. The Misery 6. Victoria’s Secret 7. Champaign Bath 8. Broken 9. The Rest Of The Sun

1. …Of Silence 2. Weballergy 3. False News Travel Fast 4. The End Of This Chapter 5. Black Sheep 6. Land Of The Free 7. Last Drop Falls 8. San

1. Blank File 2. My Land 3. 8th Commandment 4. Replica 5. Kingdom For A Heart 6. Full Moon 7. Letter To Dana 8. Unopened 9. Picturing The Past 10.

The beginning and Ecliptica (1999) Sonata Arctica began in 1996 under the name Tricky Beans in Kemi, Finland. They released three demos under that name, Friends Till the End, Agre