Advantages: It is Sonata Arctica.......just Disadvantages: Changed their style for this album, what a shame
UNIA- A REVIEW BY ADDY
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Released May 25, 2007
Recorded December 2006-January 2007
Genre Power metal
Length 58:34
Label Nuclear Blast
THE BAND
NAME: Tony Kakko
INSTRUMENT: Vocals, Keyboards
DATE OF BIRTH: May 16th 1975
PRESENTLY LIVING IN: Finland
JOINED SONATA ARCTICA: 1996
NAME: Tommy Portimo
INSTRUMENT: Drums
DATE OF BIRTH: September 5th 1981
PRESENTLY LIVING IN: Kemi
JOINED ...
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Advantages: Great first half, slight new direction for the band. Disadvantages: Second half is not so good.
While Unia is a great album in its own right, it is a little different to the previous albums. It almost feels like it is split into 2 halves. When i first listened to it the songs on the first half (before "The harvest") are quite catchy after a few listens but in a different way to the catchyness of Ecliptica and Winterhearts guild. There seems to be a much darker feel to the rest of the album with a lot more tense, minor, dischordant almost and ...
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Advantages: Catchy, well produced Disadvantages: off the bands beaten track, takes getting used to
For Sonata Arctica this album is... unusual. Not they're the most normal band in the world to begin with, but this.... is plain wierd!
I bought the album thinking it was going to be more of their trademark high speed power metal, but its really not... its more geared towards the technical side of things - changes from 4/4 to 3/4 and back again, lots of - as tony once put it - vocal masturbation, and suprisingly catchy lyrics.
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Release Date: 2007-05-28, Audio CD, Nuclear Blast