Sonata Artica Studio Update

SONATA ARCTICA is in the studio recording its next album. Keyboardist Henkka Klingenberg has issued the following update:

December 31st 2006:
"As I write this, I've just sent out the last of my keyboard files to Tico-Tico where everything will be assembled before the mixing begins. These recording sessions have been pretty interesting since we've used a lot of different studios. Like I wrote earlier the rhythm guitars were recorded @ Sonic Pump/Helsinki, also one of our visitors Peter Engberg recorded his stuff there (he played all kinds of weird stringed instruments on some of the tracks). At Tico-Tico/Kemi we recorded the drums and bass as well as some of the vocals. In addition to this we did the string-section and Hammonds at Studio57/Kokkola, Tony recorded a lot of vocals & keys in his home-studio, I played my keys at home and I think Jani will do his solos at home as well.....anyways, the mixing starts next week at Finnvox/Helsinki and I don't envy Mr. Karmila at all, he has a hell of a project to deal with.

From the 20 songs we started recording we've now more or less decided to drop a few ones and concentrate on the ones that fit together best. Obviously we can't put all of the rest on the album either, but rest assured that the upcoming record will be pretty long with a lot of stuff for you to digest. So far we're on schedule and the record will be out before the summer.

Touring-wise we just announced some dates for the fall tour in the US, there will be more to come as soon as we get them confirmed. We're doing some summer festivals as well, those will be announced as soon as the festivals release their programs. In addition to this there will be some shows in Finland this spring.....also TBA in the near future. We'll keep you updated as usual."

Cheers,
~H