SONATA ARCTICA keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg checked in with the following update:

"Hiyaahh !

A couple of lines about what I've been up to. Since the tour been over, I've mostly just been loitering around the house, reading, playing games etc. etc. The occasional poker evening with my friends breaks this routine up, and now finally it's time to start working again.

For the past few days I've been recording the keyboard parts for (Sonata Arctica guitarist) Elias' third solo album. It's kind of a fast job since it's a very guitar-oriented album, so there's not too much space for keyboards. Other guys you might know, that are contributing, is Mr. Kainulainen on bass (EVERGREY, ex-STRATOVARIUS) and Mikko on drums (APOCALYPTICA). The other guys are working in Tampere but I'm recording in my own studio-shack. I pretty much use what I've been using in the past, for this record.....basically: Korg Triton, Karma and M3 , Kurzweil K2500 and Roland JV2080 & Fantom XR. I'm gonna try to get some new stuff for the upcoming Sonata album.....just for the hell of it.

As for the SILENT VOICES stuff, I still have a couple of solos and some random stuff here and there to play, other than that the music is done for our fourth album. Currently we're in deep hell , trying to figure out the lyrics for the songs. More on that later....

MCF is still dormant, as a matter of fact I've only been drunk once since the SA tour ended so as long as the bottle is closed nothing will emerge. We made a new song some time ago, and as soon as I get the time to record the vocals, we'll put it up on MySpace......I think....

What else ?? We start rehearsing with SA around the middle of February, so if everything goes well the album shoud be done before the autumn. THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT WILL BE IN THE STORES BY THEN, just to make that clear, the releasing schedule is mostly up to our label to decide. We do have something else brewing but more of that as soon as we'll find out if it'll happend or not.

I don't know what more to tell ya. More news to come, I'll try to make it asap as the things unfold.

The kid's awake....gotta run....later !!!"

Cheers,

Lance