SONATA ARCTICA: High Quality Pictures from Holland Available

High-quality photos of SONATA ARCTICA and DELAIN's December 10, 2009 performances at Paradiso in Amsterdam, Holland can be found at Metal-Experience.com.

SONATA ARCTICA's setlist was as follows:

01. Everything Fades To Gray (intro)
02. Flag In The Ground
03. Paid In Full
04. Caleb
05. The Last Amazing Grays
06. As If The World Wasn't Ending
07. FullMoon
08. Last Drop Falls (with Charlotte Wessels)
09. Juliet
10. Keyboard/Guitar Solos
11. Replica
12. 8th Commandment

Encore:

13. We Will Rock You (QUEEN cover)
14. In Black And White
15. Don't Say A Word
16. Vodka (Hava Nagila)
17. Everything Fades To Gray (outro)

Video footage of the "Last Drop Falls" performance (featuring a guest appearance by DELAIN singer Charlotte Wessels) can be viewed below.

SONATA ARCTICA was forced to cancel three shows last month (Graz, Vienna and Munich) due to singer Tony Kakko's infection of vocal cords.

SONATA ARCTICA will embark on a North American headlining tour in the spring. Support will come from MUTINY WITHIN and POWERGLOVE. Tickets are on sale through EnterTheVault.com and all normal ticketing systems.

"The Days Of Grays", the new album from SONATA ARCTICA, sold around 2,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD landed at position No. 19 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

"The Days Of Grays" was released on September 22 in North America through Nuclear Blast Records.