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| 2.0 poor | TheAJMetal | August 22nd 14 |
The coolest thing about this album is the cover. Look at it nice and deep. Take time to enjoy it, because that's about as much artistic enjoyment you'll get from this entire thing. The instrumental intro track "Everything Fades to Gray" is kinda cool and an interesting way to start an album. Deathaura, the following track, is terribly deceptive into making you think this is going to be a good listen. It is a good song, not even too cheesy. After that, however, is an even worse version of the trash we heard on Unia. We get it, Tony Kakko has a nice emotional voice. We don't need several tracks of softness to showcase it. Their whole power metal tag gets dropped in this album with the exception of maybe two songs. People call this prog, but that is a tricky way to make it sound like something even remotely interesting.
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| 4.5 superb | SomethingSimilar | October 28th 09 |
Sonata Arctica have changed again, in a way not everyone will like.
After a few listens, even, it seems a little plain, and not the Sonata Arctica I'm used to. But a lot of the tracks really shine out if you keep on with it. The Days of Grays is a record that you'll steadily keep on coming back to. Not often. But when you have your library on random, and a Days of Grays track comes up, you can't help but smile.
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| 4.5 superb | Babyss | September 22nd 09 |
When other bands just sit in a chair and write rediculous riffs that everyone can compose, Sonata Arctica are making huge progress in their songwriting abilities and orchestration techniques. Some of the songs of this album are really huge and can stand up to great composers of our time. Theatrical, symphonic metal in its best
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| 3.5 great | Mitch | May 14th 23 |
Flag in the Ground is an amazing song.
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| 2.0 poor | Ossacip Olbap | November 17th 22 |
yep very boring. typical motionsgoing letsmakesummoney syndrome
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| 2.5 average | Xenorazr | August 30th 14 |
Unia wasn't an album to keep me listening and coming back for more. Outside of a couple tracks and select moments, Sonata Arctica's 2007 experiment was an unresolved affair, assuming an impulsive-is-progressive identity. Of all the meals Sonata Arctica could serve, Unia turned out to be a buffet--the Golden Coral, if you will. The Days of Grays, by comparison, is closer to CiCi's; a limited selection and fewer chances to standout.
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| 3.0 good | ANJ45 | September 14th 11 |
Edit: Definitely not digging this as much as I used to. Still decent, but pretty damn cheesy and forgettable in the long run.
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| 3.5 great | b35ty | May 16th 10 |
A more mid-pace style of Sonata Arctica, and this is an album that drags a little bit in the middle. But there are so many catchy hooks and choruses, and some real standout tracks such as the two openers. Awesome album cover too.
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| 1.5 very poor | meepstone | November 19th 09 |
If you listened to their first 3 albums, you would think they could still pump out some amazing power metal albums. The Days of Grays sounds exactly like the title, a group that is 60 years old and fading from existence in their old age.
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| 2.0 poor | SepticReAnimate | November 1st 09 |
Their new style sounds more like crappy pop. The fact that I like the super-cheesy old power stuff attests to the fact that these guys have gone way downhill.
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| 3.5 great | VTK | September 23rd 09 |
Sonata Arctica has evolved - and they're more symphonic - and darker - than ever. In a good way.
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| 3.5 great | Piem | March 12th 24 |
| 3.5 great | bSmith | October 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | KManoc1 | October 23rd 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Quill | October 30th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Mattia | April 10th 21 |
| 2.5 average | mEyck07 | December 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Rosier | February 10th 18 |
| 3.0 good | RAGG | December 2nd 17 |
| 3.0 good | Xurxo | November 8th 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | Elynna | October 8th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Gurzgri | September 4th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Xerian | February 14th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Hybza | September 9th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abraxas | August 16th 15 |
| 2.5 average | Dizchu | April 27th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Faewic | November 22nd 14 |
| 3.0 good | gh02t | October 17th 14 |
| 3.5 great | ariich | October 5th 14 |
| 2.5 average | TJFusk | September 13th 14 |
| 3.0 good | mursu | September 2nd 14 |
| 2.5 average | JSJC | September 1st 14 |
| 3.0 good | daberu | April 28th 14 |
| 2.5 average | ngk44 | April 20th 14 |
| 3.5 great | meowy | March 3rd 14 |
| 3.5 great | arf | January 18th 14 |
| 2.5 average | Oneiron | September 26th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Lours | July 29th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Shabz | July 9th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | 5amue1 | February 26th 13 |
| 2.0 poor | Escain | January 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Omeggia | December 6th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Akmol | November 25th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Legit | October 22nd 12 |
| 3.0 good | Sabaton | September 11th 12 |
| 2.0 poor | Itnas | July 8th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Gapwick | February 23rd 12 |
| 2.5 average | Andrew | January 8th 12 |
| 2.0 poor | Torgo | January 2nd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Zois | November 21st 11 |
| 3.5 great | ppW | November 19th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Oinky | August 1st 11 |
| 4.5 superb | jet22 | April 7th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Murli | February 14th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Sparco | February 3rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | jmmw | January 27th 11 |
| 2.0 poor | Oceans | October 20th 10 |
| 3.5 great | byblos | October 13th 10 |
| 3.0 good | iZac | October 11th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | feanaro | October 7th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Meexxx | October 3rd 10 |
| 4.5 superb | apan | September 27th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Liampie | September 17th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sadax | September 12th 10 |
| 2.0 poor | tom960 | August 31st 10 |
| 3.0 good | Eugor | August 20th 10 |
| 2.5 average | Wamwig | June 8th 10 |
| 1.5 very poor | Boissi | May 27th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Manon | May 18th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Niels | May 16th 10 |
| 2.5 average | bloop | March 28th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | 32left | March 18th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | CutMan | February 17th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | advate | January 18th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Lanx | December 11th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Poet | October 23rd 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | demo321 | October 18th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Kyle Ward EMERITUS | October 2nd 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | IRAI | October 1st 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Awake88 | September 30th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | Sconza | September 26th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | Muninn | September 26th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Marc7 | September 26th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Fuzzboy | September 6th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Altmer | September 6th 09 |
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