#334: Finnish Power Metal Band, Sonata Arctica!

Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, Finland. Created as a hard rock band named Tricky Beans, they later changed to Tricky Means and finally to Sonata Arctica, when they shifted to power metal. The current lineup consists of drummer Tommy Portimo, lead singer Tony Kakko, keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg, guitarist Elias Viljanen and bassist Pasi Kauppinen. All the musicians of the band's history except Portimo also acted as backing vocalists. Sonata Arctica have revealed their first acoustic album, ‘Acoustic Adventures – Volume One,’ which was released in October 2021 through Nuclear Blast Tonträger Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH. The aforementioned effort will be the first part, with a second acoustic record to be released in 2022.

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