NEWS: SONATA ARCTICA KICK-OFF THEIR FALL TOUR WITH LEAVES' EYES AND OMNIUM GATHERUM
Finnish melodic metal quintet SONATA ARCTICA released their new studio album The Ninth Hour. To top off the already great news, the band is kicking-off their 33-date headlining tour of North America on November 6th at The Fillmore in Charlotte, North Carolina.Supporting the band will be German-Norwegian symphonic metallers LEAVES EYES and Finnish melodic death metallers OMINIUM GATHERUM opening for the band.
Advanced tickets for the confirmed tour dates are now available exclusively at EnterTheVault.com. A limited number of VIP Meet & Greet tickets which include a poster will be available for for purchase for each show .
Confirmed dates for the upcoming SONATA ARCTICA 2016 tour with LEAVES' EYES and OMNIUM GATHERUM are:
11/14/2016 Mavericks - Ottawa, ON CANADA
11/16/2016 Dallas - Kitchener, ON CANADA
11/17/2016 Park Street Saloon - Columbus, OH
11/18/2016 Token Lounge - Westland, MI
11/19/2016 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA
11/21/2016 Rave - Milwaukee, WI
11/22/2016 Mill City Nights - Minneapolis, MN
11/24/2016 The Exchange - Regina, SK CANADA
11/25/2016 Dickens - Calgary, AB CANADA
11/26/2016 Starlite Room - Edmonton, AB CANADA
11/28/2016 The Venue - Vancouver, BC CANADA
11/29/2016 El Corazon - Seattle, WA
11/30/2016 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
12/02/2016 Slim’s - San Francisco, CA
12/03/2016 Brick by Brick - San Diego, CA
12/04/2016 City National Grove - Anaheim, CA
12/05/2016 Club Red - Tempe, AZ
12/06/2016 Tricky Falls - El Paso, TX
12/08/2016 Gothic Theater - Englewood, CO
12/09/2016 Granada - Lawrence, KS
12/10/2016 Trees - Dallas, TX
12/11/2016 Your Place Entertainment Center - McAllen, TX
12/13/2016 Alamo Music Hall - San Antonio, TX
12/14/2016 Scout Bar- Houston, TX
12/16/2016 House of Blues- Lake Buena Vista, FL
12/17/2016 The Masquerade- Atlanta, GA
The brand new studio album The Ninth Hour from Finland's melodic metal wolves SONATA ARCTICA was released on November 7th on Nuclear Blast.
"It's always exciting to find out how our latest album has been received and this time around we were blown away by the great chart positions, especially in Germany and Finland", states Henrik "Henkka" Klingenberg. "It'll be really great to see where it'll go from here! Thanks a lot for buying the album!!!"
And to clink the champagne glasses, SONATA ARCTICA now releases a new lyric video for their ballad "We Are What We Are".
"Our third single from our latest album The Ninth Hour will once again be a totally different kind of song from the first two. We decided to showcase this ballad since it's a beautiful song with a special kind of feel to it. Enjoy!"
Watch the clip on the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel!
If you haven't ordered The Ninth Hour yet, you can get it in our shop: http://nblast.de/SonataTheNinthHour
Order the album digitally: http://nblast.de/SonataArcticaDownloads
Check out the three track-by-track episodes, in which the entire band explains the meaning behind the songs on the record. Watch them here:
More on The Ninth Hour:
- "Life" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
- 'Closer To An Animal' OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO
- Album Trailer Part I
- Album Trailer Part II
- Album Trailer Part III
Once again, the upcoming album was produced by SONATA ARCTICA themselves and mixed by Pasi Kauppinen, to create a recognizable yet refreshing sound that defines the spirit of the band in the year 2016.
SONATA ARCTICA members include:
- Tony Kakko – Vocals & Keyboards
- Elias Viljanen - Guitar
- Tommy Portimo - Drums
- Henrik Klingenberg – Keyboards
- Pasi Kauppinen - Bass
Visit SONATA ARCTICA online at:
www.facebook.com/SONATAARCTICA
About LEAVES' EYES: For more than a decade now, LEAVES’ EYES have been setting world history to music and undeniably, by doing so, have raced to the top of the symphonic metal tree.
With their new monumental epic “King Of Kings”, the band now further justifies their leading position as a compass in the genre and re-awakes the thousand-year legend of Norway’s first king, ‘Harald Fairhair’, in the process. Again this band prove their amazing talent of capturing sagas and legends of the past and truly making them come alive in the here and now. Welcome the Vikings!
Visit LEAVES' EYES online at:
www.facebook.com/leaveseyesofficial
www.youtube.com/user/LeavesEyesOfficial
About OMNIUM GATHERUM: Hailing from Finland, OMNIUM GATHRUM is a band playing fierce death metal with breathtaking melodies andprogressive originality for people in the metal field looking for something different that still is catchy. A band that truly walks it's own path proudly and shows some new exciting sides on identifiable character. A band of many directions and styles, some of them clearly visible while others were more unseen - namely working and keeping it all together under the moniker of melodic life-and-death metal and bastardizing it with various influences. Adult oriented death metal that it is!
Visit OMNIUM GATHERUM online at:
www.facebook.com/leaveseyesofficial
