Another boring acoustic album!

I am VERY curious about how some of these tracks will sound and be arranged... namely Don't Say a Word, As if the World Wasn't Ending, and On the Faultline.

As I've said in another thread, though, I do wish they'd concert some effort into writing some original acoustic tracks instead of purely covers. After how weak the last album was, I feel like it's been so long since I've gotten some good new Sonata...

(The Ninth Hour and Pariah's Child were excellent, though)

I like what they did with "The Rest Of The Sun Belongs to me". As for the rest, it was nice to hear once. Just once though.

Well, should have been a better timing to bring it out around the x-mas fireplace. wont be returning much to this i guess, some are interesting, others fail to rise to the original feeling... miss them though, but powerful and fast, as they once were...i can dream cant I ? Maybe a symphonic try would have brought more joy....

This is Replica, but not Letter to Dana. If you want Picturing The Past, you have to Unopened Blank File.... because this is not Destruction Preventer, and Last Drop Falls. I hope this is The End Of This Chapter, and we will be in Land Of The Free with Wolf & Raven during Fullmoon once again. Respect The Wilderness!

Written by DarkWingedSoul on 30.01.2022 at 13:53

Well, should have been a better timing to bring it out around the x-mas fireplace. wont be returning much to this i guess, some are interesting, others fail to rise to the original feeling... miss them though, but powerful and fast, as they once were...i can dream cant I ? Maybe a symphonic try would have brought more joy....

I read in an interview with Tony Kakko that they'll record a full on power metal album in 2023, just one more time "before they get too old to play it live". So who knows?

Well thats a ray of hope....

Enjoyed this one a lot more than Volume 2.

Average at best.