SONATA ARCTICA will play a handful of headlining dates prior to and at the end of their North American tour with DRAGONFORCE. All tickets will be honored for the new location. In other news, SONATA ARCTICA's Octoconcert has been switched from the Rex Theater in Pittsburgh to the Ches-A-Rena in Cheswick, Pennsylvania - approximately 11 miles from the original venue.

The single 'Flag In The Ground' will have its premiere on the band's MySpace page on September 4. You worked hard to complete the artwork in extremely limited time frame. And honestly, I think you are all winners, and you should think so too. So we actually had to build an extremely complex voting system to come up with the winner and even then it was not all that easy. I think at the end we all had our own personal favorites! But there can be only one! In this case one winner, one second and one third. He added, 'The range of different ideas and styles was staggering and our decision was far from easy. The second- and third-prize winners will get signed SONATA ARCTICA items.Ĭommented singer Tony Kakko: 'On behalf of the whole SONATA ARCTICA, I would like to thank all of you, who sent artwork suggestions for our promotional single 'Flag In The Ground'! Fantastic!' The winner will also get tickets to an upcoming SONATA ARCTICA show as well as an opportunity to meet the band. Second-prize winner was Dilyana Delcheva (Bulgaria),while the third prize went to Rodrigo Larreteguy (Argentina). The winning piece was created by Simo Heikkinen (Finland). The contest has now come to an end and the group has picked its personal favorites.

Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA recently launched a fan contest where people could design the cover artwork for the band's promotional single for the song 'Flag In The Ground'.

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