I can say that their music is like a picture with many bright colors. Great melodic guitars lead the way along with some awesome keyboards who create a great picture.
On this CD you can find 13 very good Melodic Power metal songs that will appeal to any fan of Power Metal. Silence is not way different than their first CD but of course the guys are more mature now and you can see that through their music arrangements. Here we have their second full length album. They have influences but they work a lot on their ideas. They don't plain copy the bands I mentioned above. They have something magical in their music. I can't deny that they sound a lot like Stratovarius (with the Keyboards), I also can't deny that they have a lot of Helloween and Gamma Ray arrangements but hell there's something about Sonata Arctica that makes me like them a lot even if I hate the bands who sound a lot with my childhood heroes, Helloween. Sonata Arctica have as their starting point the bands I mentioned above but they have add something that made them to stand out of the crowd. What is the biggest drawback of the new Melodic Power Metal bands? Most of them sound like Helloween, Gamma Ray and Stratovarius. There’s no doubt about the band making a big impression on the whole scene with this CD.Sonata Arctica is without any doubt one of the strongest newcomers in the European Melodic Power Metal scene. The guitar playing is strikingly good, and the keyboards go well with the music. The vocals remind here and there of Joey Tempest (!), though Tony Kakko has a much greater range. Sure, the great melodies are still there, but I think the debut had a stronger identity. The songs are a little more anonymous, as you don’t remember them all when the last song fades out. However, this CD doesn’t have as strong songs as the debut, “Replica”, which took the scene by surprise. What makes these kids stand out are the incredible melodies they make, as well as their great guitar player. Sailing up as the outsiders to throne now that Stratovarius wisely have decided to take a break, Finnish Sonata Arctica releases their second full length CD.
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