SONATA ARCTICA has once again teamed up with long-time partners, Royal Artist Club, to bring you an exclusive competition! The guys killed some time at the Helsinki airport before kicking off their US tour by filling a brand new Nokia phone with never-before-published pics, video footage, text messages, and audio clips. None of the content on the phone is available anywhere else and the cover has been autographed by the whole band.

Now is your chance to win this very device for yourself – and to find out what the guys have been up to! To participate, simply go to www.royalartistclub.com/sonata_arctica and find the post titled EXCLUSIVE CONTENT UP FOR GRABS. Once you have found it, simply leave a comment to the post telling what type of content you would like to see on the band’s Royal Artist Club blog in 2010. The competition kicks off on Wednesday, the 14th of April and closes a week later on April 21st.

Good luck!

Recording their second DVD September 30th, 2010 at the ALCATRAZ in Milan

SONATA ARCTICA are extremely excited to announce their upcoming recording of their second DVD which will take place at the ALCATRAZ in Milan, Italy on September 30th, 2010.
SONATA ARCTICA will perform a pretty unique show of at least 120 minutes. Next to songs of their latest albums “The Days Of Grays” and “Unia” they also will perform some of the older songs from previous albums plus some very rare songs they didn’t play live during the last years. For sure this will be an unforgettable event and a journey from the beginning of their career as one of the most popular Finish metal bands until now – you definitely shouldn’t miss it.

The DVD will be released in spring 2011 (tba) thru Nuclear Blast records and Marquee Inc. in Japan and will, next to the show in Milan, contain another show, recorded 2009 during the SONATA ARCTICA Open Air Festival in their hometown Kemi, Finland. And of course there will be massive bonus material such as “The Making Of”, interviews, and plenty of video footage the band recorded the last few years during their career on tour.

On sale: April 28th through www.ticketone.it
www.sonataarctica.info
www.myspace.com/sonataarctica
www.continental-concerts.de
www.nuclearblast.de
www.liveinitaly.com

The next festival confirmation is here! SONATA ARCTICA will play at Provinssirock (Seinäjoki, FIN) on June 19th, 2010. Check out the festival’s website for more information.

SONATA ARCTICA have been confirmed for two more summer festivals. They will play at Peace & Love 2010 in Borlänge, Sweden (please note: the correct show date will be announced at a later point) and at Ruisrock in Turku, Finland on July 11th, 2010.
For more information about upcoming tour dates please check the complete list.

Henrik is doing a live interview & Q&A on www.royalartistclub.com/jaymefoxx today at 14:00 (GMT+2) Finnish time.

SONATA ARCTICA have their own Twitter account now. So follow them if you want to get news directly from the band.

SONATA ARCTICA has been confirmed to play at two more festivals next summer:

21.05.2010 (H) BUDAPEST / Metalfest Open Air
22.05.2010 (CZ) PLZEN / Metalfest Open Air

There have been a couple of changes concerning some venues of the upcoming USA/Canada tour and one new show was added as well. See the updated list of tour dates below:

02.04.2010 (USA) Philadelphia, PA / Trocadero
03.04.2010 (USA) Worcester, MA / Palladium
05.04.2010 (USA) New York, NY / The Blender @ The Gramercy Theatre*
06.04.2010 (CAN) Québec City, QC / Imperial
07.04.2010 (CAN) Montréal, QC / Club Soda
09.04.2010 (CAN) Toronto, ON / Opera House
10.04.2010 (USA) Detroit, MI / Blondie’s
11.04.2010 (USA) Chicago, IL / House of Blues
12.04.2010 (USA) St Paul, MN / Station 4
13.04.2010 (CAN) Winnipeg, MB / WECC
15.04.2010 (CAN) Calgary, AB / The Republik*
16.04.2010 (CAN) Edmonton, AB / Starlite Room
18.04.2010 (CAN) Vancouver, BC / Venue
19.04.2010 (USA) Seattle, WA / El Corazon
20.04.2010 (USA) Portland, OR / Peter’s Room
22.04.2010 (USA) San Francisco, CA / Slim’s
23.04.2010 (USA) Santa Ana, CA / Galaxy Theatre
24.04.2010 (USA) West Hollywood, CA / House of Blues
25.04.2010 (USA) Mesa, AZ / U.B.‘s
27.04.2010 (USA) Austin, TX / Emo’s
28.04.2010 (USA) Houston, TX / Meridian
29.04.2010 (USA) Tulsa, OK / Marquee**
30.04.2010 (USA) Atlanta, GA / Masquerade
01.05.2010 (USA) Raleigh, NC / Volume 11
02.05.2010 (USA) Springfield, VA / Jaxx

*venue change/update
**new show

On March, 28th the new SONATA ARCTICA album »Pariah’s Child« will be released.
It is the band’s eighth studio album and the follow up to their successful »Stones Grow Her Name«.

Today SONATA ARCTICA release their 4th studio trailer, featuring Henrik Klingenberg.

Watch it here: http://youtu.be/fUa01uAyNTg

Another summer festival confirmation:

SONATA ARCTICA will play at Metal Camp in Slovenia (July 6th-10th, 2010). The band’s show date will be announced later. For more information check: www.metalcamp.com