Over the last days I listened a lot to King Gizzard & The Lizar Wizard's "PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation", my AOTY2023.
The sequence of the songs "Witchcraft", "Gila Monster" and "Dragon" is 10/10, simply perfect.
Ok, Winterheart’s Guild is a weird album. There is so much cringeworthy cheesy stuff on it that makes me wanna stop listening. E.g. "Draw Me" is such an awful song.
But then there are some real bangers, like "The Cage" or this one:
Some of you wrote that Sonata Arctica has some style changes throughout their career.
Their 4th studio album "Reckoning Night" is, however, still very much #PowerMetal
Well, at least the opener sure sounds like it...
Other than that, #Unia is my favourite Sonata Arctica album so far. There is not much left of their power metal roots, except some keyboards and chimes. And the cheesy stuff.