SONATA ARCTICA a intitulé son nouvel album "Pariah's Child". Il sortira le 28 mars via Nuclear Blast.

Vous pouvez découvrir sa pochette ci-contre et retrouver l'explication du chanteur Tony Kakko au sujet de celle-ci, dans le détail de la news.

Dans la foulée de la publication de son 8ème album studio, SONATA ARCTICA sera en tournée européenne, en avril/mai prochains.

2 dates françaises au programme, le 23 avril au Bataclan de Paris et le 04 mai au Transbordeur de Lyon. Le groupe passera également en Belgique (le 11 avril au Durbuy Rock Festival, Bormal-Sur-Ourthe) et en Suisse au Z7 de Pratteln, le 27 avril. (gardian666)

As always it's pretty hard coming up with a name for the new baby. I tried to approach it from many angles; how this is our 8th album and how easy it would be to abuse that fact. All the symbolism of figure eight, eternity and so on. But that just did not feel right as it's been done so many times. Then I started to think how we'd in ways abandoned our 'totem animal,' the wolf and all what comes with the territory. As the music on the album is bowing more towards the 'old' Sonata, meaning more power metal style elements and wolves in many of the songs in one form or another, it was clear we need a wolf on the cover. An abandoned wolf. A pariah. Or Pariah's child, actually. The new generation to bring the old logo back."