While Sonata Arctica has a few weeks off, Henrik will be joining his bandmates in Silent Voices for a short UK-Tour at the end of May. The progressive metal outfit has been together since 1995 and has released 3 albums. Check out www.silentvoices.net for soundclips and the tourschedule.

Comments Henrik:

“I’ve been playing with these guys since we were kids, but naturally we haven’t been working so much these days because of the hectic schedule Sonata Arctica has. At the moment I’m going through songs and programming sounds for our upcoming tour and it’s definitely going to be a blast to play a couple of shows in the UK before the SA schedule resumes. This doesn’t happen very often so don’t miss it !!”

Sonata Arctica have been confirmed to play at Torin Rytmit (Hyvinkää, Finland) on July 10th 2013. For more information see Torin Rytmit website.

For all Sonata Arctica Fans!

We are collecting interesting stories connected to Sonata Arctica. So if you have – or you know anybody who has – an interesting story that somehow relates to Sonata Arctica we are willing to hear it. The story can be anything; a love story connected to a SA song, a SA song at a funeral/wedding, SA tattoos, a song that saved someone’s life… Anything, you name it.

It is extremely important to hear the whole story behind it, with all the emotions. Please send the story to the address:

stories@sonataarctica.info

… or if you know somebody with the story let him/her know it. We don’t publish any of the stories without someone’s permission. So it is also **VERY **important that you add your location, the city and the country where you are living to the message!

Elias will be signing autographs for ESP Guitars at Frankfurt Musikmesse on Saturday, April 13th at 1 pm. Also, Eliass signature series guitars will be revealed for the public at the Messe. You can find the ESP booth from the hall 4.0 (booth C.45).

See you there!

Sonata Arctica will be playing at Festival de la Foire aux Vins in Colmar/France on August 15th.
More information (in French & German) here www.foire-colmar.com

Sonata Arctica have been confirmed to play at Vaski Areena -13 at Lieksa (Fin) on July 28th along with Far n Beyond, Nerve End, Battle Beast.

Sonata Arctica are going to play at Headbangers’ Weekend in Istanbul (Turkey) on May 4th, 2013.

A second show for Buenos Aires has been added on the 16th of March. See the complete list for the Latin American Tour below.

02.03.2013 – Auditorio BlackBerry, Mexico City (Mexico)
04.03.2013 – Peppers Club, San José (Costa Rica)
06.03.2013 – Teatro Metropolitano, Medellín (Colombia)
07.03.2013 – Teatro Jorge Isaacs, Cali (Colombia)
08.03.2013 – Teatro Ecci, Bogotá (Colombia)
10.03.2013 – Via Marques, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
11.03.2013 – Teatro Rival Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
13.03.2013 – Anfiteatro del Banco Central del Paraguay, Asunción (Paraguay) (tickets)
15.03.2013 – Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago (Chile)
16.03.2013 – Teatro de Flores, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
17.03.2013 – Teatro de Flores, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Loud Park 12 Special will be aired on WOWOW, on February 15th 9:10pm (Japanese time)!
Check out the performance from Loud Park!
http://www.wowow.co.jp/music/metal/

A show in Costa Rica has been added – see the updated tour dates below.

02.03.2013 – Auditorio BlackBerry, Mexico City (Mexico) [Tickets]
04.03.2013 – Peppers Club, San José (Costa Rica)  Tickets]
06.03.2013 – Auditorio ADIDA, Medellín (Colombia)
07.03.2013 – Teatro Jorge Isaacs, Cali (Colombia)
08.03.2013 – Teatro Ecci, Bogotá (Colombia)
10.03.2013 – Via Marques, Sao Paulo (Brazil) [Tickets]
11.03.2013 – Teatro Rival Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
15.03.2013 – Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago (Chile) [Tickets]
17.03.2013 – Teatro de Flores, Buenos Aires (Argentina) [Tickets]