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Dreams, Nightmares, and Sonata Arctica

Blood and Thunder

[21 May 2007]

by Adrien Begrand

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'We are not too old yet to renew ourselves; we can use our imaginations.' Begrand talks with Sonata Arctica's Tony Kakko about eclecticism, dreams, Queen, wolves, and his band's ambitious new album, Unia.

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