

The drumming is somewhat repetitive but effective given the context of the song (fun, rocking out to catchy music). This song’s quite a good choice for an opener, being filled with joyful energy, both in the vocal department and in the instrumental section, featuring a superb high-speed solo dead in the middle of the track. Takatalvi starts off with the original version of San Sebastian, meaning that it’s the version from the Successor EP and not the Silence album. My attention has been caught by this enjoyable little seven-song EP because of its last song, whose original version I’m a big fan of (then again, who isn’t? but more on that later). That being said, I’ve been something of an on-off fan of this band since my rather humble beginnings with the excellent genre of music that we commonly call metal. If there’s one band in the whole world deserving the term flower metal, it almost certainly is Sonata Arctica (well, ok, Rhapsody’s close too).
