Stones Grow Her Name
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| Studio album by Sonata Arctica | ||||
| Released | May 16, 2012 (Finland) May 18, 2012 (Europe) May 22, 2012 (North America) May 23, 2012 (Japan) |
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| Recorded | November 2011 at Studio 57, Alaveteli, Finland (bass, drums, hammond) January and February 2012 at Kakkoslaatu Studios (lead and backing vocals, additional keyboards) January and February 2012 at Sonic Pump Studios (trumpets, saxophones, acoustic guitars, viola caipira, banjos, violin, double bass, additional backing vocals, violin) January 2012 at Tico Tico Studio, Kemi, Finland (double bass) |
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| Genre | Heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal, symphonic metal | |||
| Length | 53:16 | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Sonata Arctica | |||
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Stones Grow Her Name is the 7th full-length studio album by Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica. It was released in Finland on May 16, 2012, in Europe on May 18, 2012, in North America on May 22, 2012 and in Japan on May 23, 2012. It was the last album to feature longtime bassist Marko Paasikoski.
Regarding the song "Cinderblox", vocalist Tony Kakko stated:
"As you might figure, it started out as a... joke. Me fooling around with this banjo sound I came across. Wrote a riff which turned into a song. And when we then decided it's gonna be recorded for this album all we had to do was to find someone to play the banjo. We did! [...] This is the one song that still makes me smile every time I hear it."
"Losing My Insanity" was originally written by Tony Kakko for Ari Koivunen's Fuel for the Fire.
The final two tracks, "Wildfire, Part: II - One With the Mountain" and "Wildfire, Part: III - Wildfire Town, Population: 0" continue the story introduced in "Wildfire" from Reckoning Night.
All tracks written by Tony Kakko.
On October 24, 2012 a special 2 disc "Tour Edition" of the album was released in Japan to commemorate the band's appearance at the Loud Park Festival. The first disc contains the standard Japanese version of the album with "One-Two- Free-Fall" serving as the bonus track. The second disc features acoustic versions of "Only the Broken Hearts (Make You Beautiful)" "I Have a Right" "Alone In Heaven" and "Somewhere Close to You" respectively.
On June 1, 2012 the following chart positions for the album were announced on the Sonata Arctica website.
Finland 1
Hungary 13
Switzerland 21
Germany 24
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