Power metal titans Sonata Arctica have announced that they have re-recorded, and will be releasing their first album ‘Ecliptica‘.

This is very exciting news as the album is a personal favourite of one of our members in The Metalist office, and be re-recorded with the modern touch and the current line-up is certainly an enticing thought. There is always that worry that they could decide to change things on the classic songs, but those fears were put to rest by keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg who said the re-recordings stick to the original layouts.

He released a statement below:

“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.”

‘Ecliptica – Revisited‘ will drop October 24th via Nuclear Blast Records.