SONATA ARCTICA – New Album Pariah’s Child Due In March; Cover Revealed
January 9, 2014, 10 years ago
On March 28th, the new SONATA ARCTICA album called Pariah’s Child will be released via Nuclear Blast. It is the band’s eight studio album and the follow up to their successful Stones Grow Her Name.
The beautiful cover artwork for Pariah’s Child has been revealed (above) and vocalist Tony Kakko explains he thoughts behind the album title and the artwork:
“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.”
In April, Sonata Arctica will hit the road to support Pariah’s Child with dates throughout Europe. Keyboard player Henrik “Henkka” Klingenberg talks about the upcoming tour: “It’s been a while since we last toured Europe, so I’m very happy that we can announce our first tour with our new album. Since the album will be out in March 2014, we don’t want to waste any time but will head out for a full European Tour. Our tour will start in Eindhoven, NL on April 10th, 2014. The whole band is really looking forward to play some new songs for you and introduce our new bass player, Pasi, for all our fans. He’s a monster live, you’ll see. We’ll see you in a few months!”
For more details on Sonata Arctica and their tour schedule visit Sonataarctica.info.
