Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Tracklist
01. Blank File02. My Land
03. 8th Commandment
04. Replica
05. Kingdom For A Heart
06. Fullmoon
07. Letter To Dana
08. Unopened
09. Picturing The Past
10. Destruction Preventer
11. Mary-Lou [Japanese bonus]
12. Letter To Dana (Returned To Sender) [2008 remaster bonus]
Additional info
Recorded at Tico Tico Studio, by Ahti Kortelainen.Mixed by Mikko Karmila at Finnvox Studios and mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios.
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Hailing from Finland, Sonata Arctica was one of the revelations of the year 1999 . The young band played very fast tempo melodies [the so-called speed metal], enhanced by splendid keyboards and breathtaking guitar lines. "Ecliptica" was their first full-length album and was the beginning of the arctic phenomenon. Read more ›› |
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| LordHypnos
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Posts: 1567 Written by [user id=135634] on 02.10.2012 at 01:40 Well, there's your problem.....You can't listen with your eyes
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| LordHypnos
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Posts: 1567 Written by [user id=135634] on 02.10.2012 at 13:32 ....that's true
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"If I only had a heart - IF I ONLY HAD A HEART!" This is one awesome album. 
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Brilliant album. A lot of cheese of course, it's euro power metal after all ffs. Some people simply love cheese from time to time, others can feel free to go back chewing their black metal potatoes 
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Very typical late 90's Stratovarius-inspired Finnish power metal with cheesy lyrics, happy sing-a-long choruses and all the other cliches. I remember hearing these songs first time some time around early 2000's when some teenage school band played covers of them on TV. At first I didn't enjoy this kind of flowery metal, but now I feel like the autotune-filled musical hell of late 2010's and 2020's has taught me to appreciate even these cheesier albums a helluva lot more than I used to.
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I have to say over the last few years I have grown alot more tolerant to this type of flower power metal style, for someone who has been an avid black metal listener for years, I have grown fond of bands I thought I would never warm to, but unfortunately Sonata Arctica I have struggled with most. I admit there are a few tracks on this album I quite like, "Blank File" and "My Land" probably my picks of the bunch, eventough the lyrics are a wee bit ridiculous. Unfortunately the rest of the album has defeated me in terms of the sheer amount of cheesiness, and the songs "Kingdom For A Heart" and "Fullmoon" I just found lame tbh. This is definitely not a bad album by all means, in fact overall it's actually pretty good, it's just corny as hell.
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Listening to this after rather long time, I forgot how good this album is. 
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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Blank file, My land, Kingdom for a heart and Destruction preventer are amazing. Replica, Fullmoon and Letter to Dana are fantastic. The rest are great as well. What a debut!
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