It removes the deepened bass but, keeps the linger of heartache through well-played piano keys. While holding an acoustic vibe in its origin, this is a dazzling version that holds up flawlessly with its predecessor.Īs per the classic, a piano carries us in and Tony’s vocals repeat on the same note, without missing a moment. A truly wondrous recreation of a classic tale that still holds the strength of its original, as if truly ‘for the sake of revenge’.Ī classic track, “Tallulah” settles into this album with ease as a timeless metal ballad from the 2001 album ‘Silence’. It’s slow, low, and fueled by fear and memory.

Frigid wandering through a frozen wasteland, struggling to move forward with the haunting flicker of torchlight at the corner of your eye. The snowy black and white with the unsettling darkness dwindling. A journey of ferocity is brilliantly recreated in both acoustic style and as a newly released music video dropping on YouTube on January 21 st, 2022. It’s intense with rhythmic, with fire and passion. “For the Sake of Revenge” makes itself known, tearing out of the shadows as the first from the new acoustic album. From the birth of ‘Ecliptica’, to 2019’s ‘Talviyo’, Sonata Arctica has shared its fair bit of dream albums, and not so desirables, offering us up much of ‘ Unia’ and on this first set of acoustic pieces with tracks like “Paid in Full”, and “For the Sake of Revenge” making early appearances. “Acoustic Adventures – Volume I” is, as it says, only the beginning of our take on the acoustic versions of some Sonata Arctica favourites. Their story-driven, lyrically deep, and piano-strengthened tracks are, by definition, epics, and have been performed, played, and turned into CDs have scratched, playlists were lost, and the pandemic took a toll. Slow, and melodic, Tony’s vocals would fit seamlessly with the style, especially when a few of the slower, tragic tales are near acoustic in style already.įormed in the early 90’s as Tricky Beans, and later Tricky Means before finally setting on what we know today, Sonata Arctica began as a Power Metal band that shifted into melodic over the last two decades, leading to no surprise that an Acoustic series would break the waves in the future. Fitting it would seem for Sonata Arctica to release several their songs as Acoustic variants as their overall concept with many tales has been told as ballads.

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