Sonata Arctica announce new album ‘Talviyö’
SONATA ARCTICA have announced a new album!
Titled Talviyö, the upcoming album is the tenth effort from the Finnish metallers and is scheduled to be released in September this year. The upcoming album was recorded between September 2018 and May 2019, produced by Mikko Tegelman and SONATA ARCTICA in Studio57. Additional recordings took place in various other places. The mixing was done by Mikko Tegelman and Pasi Kauppinen and the mastering was handled by Svante Forsbäck for Chartmakers.
Speaking about the upcoming album, keyboardist Henrik “Henkka” Klingenberg says, ““We were speaking about having an album cover made from a photo, and luckily managed to find the award winning photographer Onni Wiljami who actually hails from a village not too far from our hometown. His pictures were just perfect for this album. We recorded a bunch of kick ass songs and tried some new stuff as well. I’m really proud of how we managed to record the band sounding more live, playing together instead of just tracking everything one by one.”
“The idea was to create an album that is musically in line with at least the previous two albums”, says vocalist Tony Kakko and adds: “I am very happy with the songs and the general mood of the album. Some career highlights there, I feel.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming record; titled A Little Less Understanding. Speaking about the new song, Tony Kakko says, “the song is lyrically somewhat a follow up to I Have A Right and talks about the difficulty of making the right choices with the upbringing of a new human being.”
Watch the official lyric video for A Little Less Understanding here:
Talviyö is set for release on September 6th via Nuclear Blast Records.
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