Although we realized it was very far from what we were before. I think our band needed that little shaking. Unia is one of the closest albums to me personally.ĭrummer and founding member Tommy Portimo said that Unia "brought many good things. To be honest, in that time it would have been better to do a solo album, but there was no time nor possibility for it. Commenting further on the album, he also stated: īack then our band thought we are in some kind of pit and that we needed to do something different. From there we took slowly some other direction". He also described it as "a liberating experience.
Vocalist Tony Kakko has once admitted that Unia being released just after Reckoning Night "was probably a shock to many people". It has been described as a significant "turning point". Unia is darker and more aggressive than Sonata Arctica's earlier work, with mid-tempo songs, more inclusion of 7 string guitars and a minimal amount of solos. The limited edition came with a differing track listing and bonus tracks "To Create a Warlike Feel" and "Out in the Fields". The album was also released as a limited edition noble book in 7" size (1000 copies), exclusively available via mailorder from Nuclear Blast records. The album was mixed at Finnvox Studios, and mastered at Cutting Room Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. This is also the last album that features Jani Liimatainen, who was later replaced by Elias Viljanen after the album was released. The first single from the album was " Paid in Full", released on 27 April 2007. Unia (English: Dreams), released on, is the fifth full-length studio album by the power metal band Sonata Arctica, following the album Reckoning Night.
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