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Summer?

Who's summer? --Dayn 16:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

When I read that I thought you meant 'who is summer?'. It was Henrik who said it would be before the summer so I assume that would be the Finnish summer. Couldnae tell you for sure though. Offski 18:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh awesome, a confirmed release date already. Can't wait. --Dayn 12:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Picture

Couldn't someone find a higher resolution picture for the album cover? It looks kind of cheap right now... Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me! • O))))} 09:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's my bad. I resized it poorly and never got around to fixing it. I'll do it right now, though. GammaShade 05:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And there we go. GammaShade 06:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks that's great! ^^ Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me! • O))))} 10:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Genre

This album has a lot of arena rock and rock opera influences. It's a very ungeneric power metal album (most of Sonata Arcticas songs break the mold of power metal, they don't sound at all like Edguy or HammerFall which are pretty generic) What would be the best way of describing this on the page? 76.102.117.133 03:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC) robberbaron[reply]

Hey there! Just as a tip, please sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~). As for your question, I personally think this album is a lot more geared towards progressive metal than power, but until there are more contributions, I think the genre should stay listed as power metal, since that's what Sonata's genre is listed as on their page. GammaShade 23:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip! Progressive would be a good description in the literal meaning that they are pushing power metal into boundaries that it hasn't seen too much of, though I'm not sure that it features instrumentals outside of the standard 4/4 time signature and there's lots of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-keytar solo-chorus. It would just seem to be incorrect to say that this is totally the same genre as DragonForce or Edguy. Just looking at tracks like "The Vice" and "Under Your Tree" and you'll see what I mean. However, Stratovarius often goes on tangents like this, and they are referred to as simply "Power Metal." 76.102.117.133 03:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC) robberbaron[reply]

No problem! It's good to see some more Sonata fans contributing here. I've noticed that songs like "Caleb" and especially "My Dream's..." toy with different time signatures; the last two and a half minutes of "Caleb", for example, are in 6/8, and I'm still having problems placing all the signature changes in "My Dream's...", though 4/4 and 6/8 are pretty distinct. I'll agree with you there; Sonata are very much not the same as typical power metal bands, and in fact there's been a pretty lengthy discussion of just what they should be classified as on their talk page -- that's not taking into account the new tracks, though. I can try starting up the conversation again over on the main article's talk page to try to get some more opinions, and feel free to chime in there, too. GammaShade 03:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And here is the conversation. GammaShade 03:44, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]