Cries from the Quiet World: Sonata Arctica "Ecliptica (2008 Japanese Edition Remastered, Avalon, MICP-10768)"

viernes, 3 de noviembre de 2017

Sonata Arctica "Ecliptica (2008 Japanese Edition Remastered, Avalon, MICP-10768)"

Ecliptica is the first full-length album by the power metal band Sonata Arctica. It was released in 1999 through Spinefarm Records in Europe and through Century Media in the United States. It is the band's only album featuring bassist Janne Kivilahti. In 2016, vocalist, keyboardist and songwriter Tony Kakko described the album as "like the extension of our demo, we didn't know what we were doing so that reflects on the album and makes kind of cute if you will."

In 2017, Loudwire ranked it as the 16th best power metal album of all time.

Regarding the track "Blank File", which covers the topic of privacy on the Internet, vocalist Tony Kakko once stated:

“ I had a vision of how things would be in the future [laughs]. Now that we're in the future, it's not as horrendously bad, although people are being really bad about their privacy. If you upload your family pictures online somewhere, even if you think you've erased them from the server, they're still there. "Blank File" is all about that. [...] I didn't consider computers per se at the time. [...] The starting point was all of the phone cards we had at the time, and when you're shopping on the concord, someone knew what you bought. I found that somehow, disturbing. It's great to realize that after so long, your songs are still valid. ”

The theme would be again mentioned in the band's next album, Silence, on the track "Weballergy".

In the song "Letter to Dana", the title character, Dana O'Hara, is named after The X-Files's Dana Scully.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tony Kakko except "8th Commandment" and "Picturing the Past", co-written by Jani Liimatainen