After the Fall US tour, Sonata Arctica has intensively toured in Europe. The caravan also reached Gothenburg on December 14, and BogFires was present in the Trädgårn hall, a good venue with a capacity of 1,700 people. The house was not full, but probably more than 1,000 people witnessed the band that played flawlessly and with high energy. It is nice to see how much liked the band is also among our western neighbours, although seemingly many Finns also appeared in the audience. Sonata shows are usually events with jovial atmosphere, this time Tony Kakko and others were in an even more cheerful mood that usually, regardless of heavy touring. Tony spent a considerable time between the songs chatting with audience.
The set list consisted of both slow and swift Sonata songs, generating a very impressive dramatic lifeline for the show. The visual aspects of the show were beautiful and powerful at the same time. The lights created various different ambiances onstage and cleverly accentuated the details of the wildlife motif on Sonata's trademark background sheet “As if the World Wasn’t Ending” and “Don’t Say A Word” may have been the atmospheric highlights of the evening, as was the duet of Tony’s and Charlotte Wessels of Delain in the “Last Drop Falls”. Delain itself played before Sonata but did not made a big impression, largely due to the bland song material of the band. The opening band “Winterborn”, a fairly new Finnish group playing slightly progressive power metal, was in turn a positive surprise and very much fun to watch.
I didn’t write down the set list of Sonata, but remember it being the same as in the two preceding shows in Amsterdam and Oslo:
Everything Fades To Gray Intro
Flag In The Ground
Paid In Full
Caleb
The Last Amazing Grays
As If The World Wasn't Ending
Full Moon
Last Drop Falls (with Charlotte Wessels from Delain)
Juliet
Keyboard / Guitar Solos
Replica
8th Commandment
Encore:
We Will Rock You (Queen cover)
In Black And White
Don't Say A Word
Vodka / Everything Fades To Gray Outro
TMK
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