Metal Reviews

So it will suck this should not be news to anyone with a brain stem, but I know you guys will hold your anticipation with baited breath until you hear the album and tear your hair out in pain. Then you will know I was right.

Okay so this will suck. What else is new?

Getting referenced to Edguy circa 2012....cant be good and the song tittles...Shitload of money/.Cinderblox/Somewhere Close To You/Don't Be Mean/The day..unimaginative song tittles can leaves some fans a little skeptical
Even before this album comes out...This band doesn't have much left in the gas tank... This is a far cry from that band that I downloaded in 1999 on Napster..." Wolf and Raven " seems like a song from another lifetime

I expect a good album, but these cats are well beyond their prime at this point.

You tell them Masshole.

Sonata Arctica - "Stones Grow Her Name" Album Teaser 2012


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KYRf5o3q68

Thats pretty much where I stand on them as well.

Something tells me they had a producer that was heavily involved in the songwriting and arrangement early and they have gone away from taking much advice in that regard. I have no idea, but that is usually the circumstances. The song titles alone for about half of these would have resulted in me personally calling the label (you know, if I were the producer and the label hired me, which is usually how it goes, though not always like that these days) I would have A&R discuss with them why exactly the stuff in the past was well regarded and a song title such as "shitload of money" does not fit whatsoever into that.

I'm with you on this.

I like power metal but i was never able to get into Sonata Artica. I tried and tried and gave them a couple of chances but it just doesn't fit me i guess. There is just something about their style that annoy me. I like maybe 2-3 songs from their whole catalog and that's about it.

I wouldn't say they suck but they sure as hell aren't my cup of tea.

They didn't always suck but recent albums don't appeal to me as much as they used to, but I haven't lost interest in SA as much as I have in Edguy. Also re SA I finally received the Blu Ray version of their Live in Finland release it was worth the wait.

Sonata Arctica - I Have A Right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snaiZIDyHTM

W T F ? ? ?

Good stuff.

Oh geez that song fucking sucks

That sounds like something 3 Doors Down would sing.

This sort of thing often happens when foreigners who don't have the best grasp on English try to write songs that are lyrically current. It happens all the time.

When musicians are young, it's cool to write fantastical lyrics...you know, dragons, satan, unicorns, whatever. Cheesy stuff, for sure. When they mature, they start caring about real-life issues, like most of us, and their lyrics/song titles become a different kind of cheese because they're serious now.

Sounds like recent Sonata Arctica to me. Not surprising.

And for the record, it sounds nothing like 3 Doors Down (one of my favorite guilty-pleasure bands). Haha.

Agreed. Just sounds like Sonata Arctica. Somewhere between Reckoning Night and Unia. Not bad at all, I like that they have gotten back to working with a simple melody as opposed to the last two albums that were all over the map.

And no, definitely not 3 Door's Down sounding.

MetalStorm uses popular, "plastic" bands as the standard for suckiness when it comes to Metal. Btw, if everyone here still considered SA to be "true" or whatever, he'd be singing a very different tune.

EDIT: Good song, btw. I'm excited.

Just heard that child monologue in the middle- are SA preaching a economic-political state model? Sure sounds like it

Holy shit. That sucked extreme amounts of male genitalia.