Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Tracklist
01. Misplaced02. Blinded No More
03. Ain't Your Fairytale
04. Reckoning Day, Reckoning Night...
05. Don't Say A Word
06. The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Real Puppet
07. My Selene
08. Wildfire
09. White Pearl, Black Oceans...
10. Shamandalie
11. Jam [hidden track]
12. Wrecking The Sphere [Japanese bonus]
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There's always something special when one of your favorite band releases a new album, don't you think? Well, now that special moment has come for me again, for the third time this year, and this time it's Sonata Arctica's turn. And I was really excited before putting this into my player, because once again I was stunned by the beautiful cover, damn, the covers are getting better and better, and I didn't think they could do a better one than "Winterheart's Guild", but damn, how wrong could a man be? Read more ›› |
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6.6
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When you see this CD standing on a shelf in your favourite CD-store, don't let the wonderful cover art fool you, yes it is beautiful, yes it is creative, yes it has the Sonata Arctica logo on it, but this album certainly isn't beautiful or creative, and in fact doesn't even really sound like Sonata Arctica either. Read more ›› |
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This might actually be my favourite Sonata Arctica album, actually.
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Same here. I love this one, though I still don't get why so many people dislike it. Almost all songs I like a lot, A LOT, and the lyrics are great as well. If not my favorite SA album, definitely one of my favs.
---- love is like a jar of shit with a strawberry on top
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My absolute favorite from SA, this is where the band(or Tony I must say) started to focus more on composition, rather than making guitar-keyboard solo dueling, that's why I like it.
---- If this grand panorama before me is what you call God Then God is not dead.
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It's definitely one that takes more time to get to know because the production is quite different for them - so that puts people off from the first line. There's all kinds of stuff on here though, so when you've got used to it all it really is an amazing album... "White Pearl, Black Oceans" might be my favourite.
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Do not understand how "Wrecking The Sphere" is a bonus track. It's a great song!
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If they cut the forced crap such as "Misplaced" and "Ain't Your Fairytale", this would have been one of my top ten albums... ever? But the rest makes up for it big style. WPBO is the best SA track to this date, and "The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Real Puppet" takes the cake as my personal favorite SA track. That's their only vaguely proggy song ever and is it good.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Posts: 13287 Written by Milena on 14.06.2012 at 22:48 "Ain't Your Fairytale" is an awesome track!
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Posts: 4603 Written by Baz Anderson on 15.06.2012 at 16:39 I go through stages of hating it and loving it  it was forced though. Tony was putting pressure on himself to write "Sonata Arctica songs" instead of just "songs", so most of the faster tracks on this album were penned when he hit the studio, set the metronome to one of these ridiculous speeds and tried to write a song around it.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Posts: 13287 Written by Milena on 15.06.2012 at 22:04 Well if that is true, I wish he did that now...
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Posts: 4603 Written by Baz Anderson on 16.06.2012 at 03:25 Yeah, now he's forcing himself to write in a more simple way. Just damn, dude. Make up your mind already.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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White Pearl, Black Oceans is absolutely one of my top 5 Sonata Arctica songs and always will be. They don't write like that anymore...
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Really didnt liked their aproach on this one. It felt just mediocre.
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Never got into this album and hence this is the last album I've heard from them. Now I'm not 100% sure if the album is way worse than their previous stuff or if it just lead me to realizing that I didn't even like the band that much in the first place. Well, either way, AFAICR they used to do it better, and the only thing that is really good about this album is "White Pearl, Black Oceans", beside the front cover image.
---- My vision is augmented
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That's awesome! After having discovered the first three albums, Reckoning Night was the first Sonata album I actually bought and it got me hooked on a vacation in Germany. I just preferred blasting this album in the car rather than doing anything else, good memories. Unia left a bad taste and I lost my interest in the band for a few years, but I am now rediscovering their music. Enjoying The Ninth Hour at the moment, and surprisingly looking forward to a new album!
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A good Album .... not a ecliptica or a silence but good!
---- Um, Dois, Três, Quatro! Yeah! PORRA!!!
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I love this album. I know people will disagree but this album finds always its way into my playlist. The album is just so balanced. An album with a head and a tail. The older albums wear me out, the later ones are boring. This one is perfect
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