Sonata Arctica

Winterheart's Wild

The Best Album

Review Score:

(10/10)
After listening their two first albums, Silence and Ecliptica, I finally got this third studio album to my CD-player. It was very excating. After listening it many times, I am sure it's the best album ever made.
Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited: A very good, fast track. Tony Kakko uses his vocal skills very intelligent. The keyboards in this tracks are excellnt. The message refers to the death of Jesus Christ. This is defintely a religious song. (5 stars)
Gravenimage: This is it: their best track ever. This is really a masterpiece of art with big A. There's very intelligent momets in keyboards. Very good keyboard solos! The lyrics are great, so great that it's hard to understand the message. This is like love song or is it? Well, Tony Kakko probably knows it. The beginning is very silent but then it comes faster all the time. The best moment is "I can change one note and make you cry,in this state of mind Silence is a crime." Well, very good ones! This is Sonata Arctica's Stairway to Heaven. (5 stars)
"The Cage" is a very fast track. It tells about the yearning of freedom. "The dream is alive I can run to the hills every night... This is that kind of Sonata Arctica I've expected. This is like "Weballergy" or "Black Sheep" but faster and better. (5 stars)

"Silver Tongue" is an excellent, different kind of track. It is a heavy track. This tells about a girl that lives in an imagination world and man suffer from it. (5 stars)

"The Misery" is a ballad. It's almost like "Tallulah" for its melody but better. The message is clear: It's like in "Silver Tongue" but this time man has the imagination world. (5 stars)
"Victoria's Secret" is albums' first single track. This is good Sonata Arctica track. Made with feeling. Tony Kakko uses his vocal skills very goood again. The message is this: A girl has big dreams but she doesn't find a boyfriend. Very very sad story. But the track is fast and good. (5 stars)
"Champagne Bath" is a very funny track. It has strange melody. This tells about parties that celebrities have. This is like Led Zeppelin's "Misty Mountain Hop" with keyboards. Tony Kakko has made good keyboards. (5 stars)
"Broken" is a very good track. It's probable their second single choice too. It is very touching but what it is? Is it a ballad or not? Maybe both. This kind of track I've never heard. This defintely is going to be a great success if there's enough advertising. It starts like ballad but there's very tough moments. (5 stars)
"The Ruins of My Life" is a very tragid story. It tells about a man who wages war for his Lord, Wife and King. His wife things all the time that he's dead although he's not. When husband arrives home he sees his wife is dead and buries him. Then it kills himself too. Sad story. This is musically very fast track. The best moment is the final scream, defintely! There's very much sorrow. (5 stars)
"Draw Me" is a ballad, very silent one. There's strange lyrics like in "Gravenimage" it's hard to understand this track's message but probably this is a love song. In the end there's Finnish which is in English "Do you deserve some kind of Greenpeace?" -"Bird roast, hahaha" (4 ½ stars)
Well, this is very much tougher album than Silence. The lyrics are more mature. They've become better. I think everyone should have this album.

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