In a little while after the end of the North American tour in February, Sonata Arctica started a Europe tour to promote their forthcoming live DVD " For The Sake Of Revenge". More than 100.000 copies of this album were sold worldwide. Shortly after “ Winterheart’s Guild”, the fourth studio album “ Reckoning Night” was also awarded with the golden disc in Finland, while the band still toured through North America in February 2006. Once again the have captured Finland and for the second time they gained the once-in-a-lifetime goal during one month. In the second half of December 2005, once again the magic of Sonata Arctica was showed: Their third album “ Winterheart’s Guild” received the gold disc, because more than 15.000 copies were sold before the beginning of 2006. The first limited pressing of the compilation was arranged with a DVD, which contains seven acoustic songs. The composition contained a previously unreleased version, an instrumental issue of “ Draw Me” of the album “ Winterheart’s Guild”. The Japanese label Marquee/ Avalon released the compilation album “ The End Of This Chapter”. For the first time, Sonata Arctica had played the same set which would be later released as their first DVD “ For The Sake Of Revenge”, it was recorded in Tokyo. The last show of the Finnish tour wasn’t only a sold out performance with an enormous audience, it was also a good practise for the band for the coming Japan tour. The last gig on this tour was at the newly-formed Finnish Metal Expo at Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki. In October 2004 the band received remarkable news: They would exceeded the Gold record because of their album “ Silence”, which arrived a sale of more than 15.000 copies and finally became to the most sold albums of the band. The band decided to do so and thus they toured with Nightwish through all over Europe and played in arenas with capacities up to 12 000 people! In fact, there should follow a headliner tour after the release, but the band got the unique bargain to play with Nightwish on their European tour as special guest. In Germany it was on place 77, in Switzerland on place 85 and in Norway on place 69. Finland wasn’t the only country, where “ Reckoning Night” stayed in the charts. In Finland the album came up to the second position for the most sold exemplars in the first two weeks. The recording session for the next album now also featured Henrik who added fresh spices to the soup, later on called " Reckoning Night". It entered the charts on the 3rd place and stayed in the top 10 for five weeks.Īfter this, Sonata Arctica signed a contract with Nuclear Blast. The national success continued after " Winterheart's Guild" was released in Finland. After a night in a bar with the two candidates that had been invited, the band voted for Henrik Klingenberg. The band announced the search for a new keyboarder and got a lot of applications from all over the world. Mikko Härkin (ex-Kenziner) became a new member and replaced Tony on the keyboard.Īfter the last show of the Silence tour at Jörisrock in 2002, Mikko Härkin decided to leave the band because of personal matters. Shortly after this release Tony Kakko decided to concentrate more on singing, as opposed to trying to sing and play keyboards at the same time. At first it was only sold in Finland, but other countries were soon to follow.
#Sonata arctica silence full album full
The release of the first real full legend album “ Ecliptica” designated the fall 1999.
![sonata arctica silence full album sonata arctica silence full album](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sonata-Arctica-Ecliptica.jpg)
In summer 1999 the first single “ UnOpened” was released. Meanwhile Tricky Means changed the name to Sonata Arctica. How the destiny wanted it, and with help from Athi Kortelainen and the Tico Tico Studios, the demo “ Full Moon” found the way to the metal label Spinfarm.
![sonata arctica silence full album sonata arctica silence full album](https://flac.rattaprofid.ee/images/225/sonata-arctica-silence.jpg)
The trade marks of the band were a faster and melodical sound, keyboard oriented heavy metal with clear and high vocals. This new demo was the first survey for the band in heavy metal waters. In 1999 the band recorded the new demo “ Full Moon” in the Tico Tico Studios in Kemi. Their first name was Tricky Beans.Īfter some line-up changes in 1997, they changed their name to Tricky Means. In 1996 Sonata Arctica was formed in the northern Finland city Kemi.