Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band formed in Kemi in 1996. The group is signed to the label Nuclear Blast and released its first album, Ecliptica, in 1999.
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Sonata Arctica has played London before. Last time: O2 Forum Kentish Town, October 2026.
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- Latest album
- Clear Cold Beyond (2024)
- Formed
- 1996 · Kemi
- Active since
- 1995
- Label
- Nuclear Blast
About — The artist
Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi. Created as a hard rock band named Tricky Beans, they later changed to Tricky Means and finally to Sonata Arctica, when they shifted to power metal. The current lineup consists of drummer Tommy Portimo, lead singer Tony Kakko, keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg, guitarist Elias Viljanen and bassist Pasi Kauppinen. All the musicians of the band's history except Portimo also acted as backing vocalists.
As of 2024, the band has released eleven full-length albums (three via Spinefarm Records, eight via Nuclear Blast, and one via Atomic Fire).
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Sonata Arctica” (en), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Discography
- Ecliptica 1999
- Songs of Silence: Live in Tokyo 2001
- Silence 2001
- Only Way You Can: Live in Osaka 2001 2001
- Winterheart’s Guild 2003
- Reckoning Night 2004
- 2004‐10‐19: Palladium, Cologne, Germany 2005
- For the Sake of Revenge 2006
- Unia 2007
- Lowlands Festival 2009 2009
- The Days of Grays 2009
- Live in Finland 2011
- Stones Grow Her Name 2012
- Pariah’s Child 2014
- Ecliptica – Revisited 2014
- The Ninth Hour 2016
- Talviyö 2019
- Acoustic Adventures, Vol. 1 2022
- Acoustic Adventures, Vol. 2 2022
- Clear Cold Beyond 2024