There is some displaced (in all honesty) multi-layered sounds coming through on this song, which adds to the 'metal' moments of the album.

The band has moved its sound to a place I have not heard from them before, and it is bit more than reminiscent of a band like Kamelot than Sonata Arctica. The song is wandering and builds to a classical sounding crash. The band then uncharacteristically open the second track, 'Deathaura' with a female vocal supplied by the sweet voice of Johanna Kurkela. The Days of Gray opens with a beautiful instrumental in 'Everything Fades to Gray,' which has majesty and a nod to classical music. The band has certainly changed their style over the last two albums, but this change has evolved more with The Days of Gray when compared to Reckoning Night, their last gasp at the Wolves years as I like to call the earlier works and Unia, the more 'pop' sounding Sonata Arctica. I have listened with great anticipation to the new Sonata Arctica The Days of Gray CD more than a few times. Standout tracks: Deathaura, Zeroes, Juliet, As If The World Wasn't Ending The Days of Grays and Unia provide another side of this band, and I think that any Sonata Arctica fan will enjoy this with some repeated listens. Sure, some of the fun aspect of it had to be killed off in the process, but the other super fast power metally albums still exist for you to listen to when you want a fix of that. I mean really, how many years do you think a band should spend rewriting the same album? I for one am very impressed with the added maturity of Sonata's songwriting nowadays. I love ALL of Sonata Arctica's stuff, but I feel like this evolution/change in their sound is not a bad thing. In reality, this album is a logical progression from the sidestep that Unia was. The people who say bad stuff about this album will likely be the same people who disliked ments like 'not enough super fast songs', 'where is the double bass', etc.

This is NOT a bad thing, as the fantastic vocal lines and soaring melodies lend themselves wonderfully to both genres. Sonata Arctica have definitely evolved into more of a progressive outfit than a power metal outfit. This album, like many other great albums, takes some getting used to. I'm going to have to disagree greatly with the other 2 reviewers.

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