While currently on yet another successful World Tour, this time to support their latest studio-album “Pariah’s Child”, Finnish melodic metal heroes Sonata Arctica swung by the studio to re-record their debut album “Ecliptica”, which was released 15 years ago.
This new version will be released on October 24th, 2014 under the banner “Ecliptica – Revisited; 15th Anniversary Edition” on Nuclear Blast.
Back then, “Ecliptica” was recorded at Tico-Tico studios and mixed at Finnvox by Mikko Karmila (Nightwish, Children of Bodom and more). The album was promoted live on tour with Stratovarius and Rhapsody.
Henrik “Henkka” Klingenberg comments: “When it first was suggested to us by our Japanese label that we'd re-record our debut album "Ecliptica", it felt a bit weird, but somehow the idea grew on us. Being that only Tony and Tommy played on the original one, we thought that it would be a fun thing to do, to give these great songs another run. We're definitely not trying to re-write history, the original "Ecliptica" is the starting point of this band and a very special album with a certain feel of innocence and enthusiasm which cannot be recreated as such since we're not teenagers anymore. Having said that, this new version is more of a tribute and an update on how these songs sound when played by our current line-up. We wanted to stay true to the original album as much as possible and not turn this into some weird re-arranged project where you couldn't tell which song was being played. So here it is, the 15th anniversary version of "Ecliptica". Hope you enjoy it, we certainly had a good time digging into these songs and laying down the tracks”.
Tracklist:
01. Blank File
02. My Land
03. 8th Commandment
04. Replica
05. Kingdom for a Heart
06. Fullmoon
07. Letter to Dana
08. UnOpened
09. Picturing the Past
10. Destruction Preventer
11. I Can't Dance (Genesis cover) [bonus track]
The first (digital) single of the CD will be “Kingdom for a Heart”, out on September 12th, 2014.
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