Reckoning Night

Reckoning Night
Studio album by Sonata Arctica
Released	22 September 2004
Recorded	April - June 2004 at Tico Tico Studio
Genre	Power metal, symphonic metal
Length	55:20
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Sonata Arctica, Markus Staiger
Sonata Arctica chronology
Takatalvi (EP) (2004) Reckoning Night (2004) Don't Say a Word (EP) (2004)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Metal Storm	[2]
Lords of Metal	(9.2/10)[3]

Reckoning Night is the fourth full-length studio album by the Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica, as well as the first to feature keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg. The track "Don't Say a Word", continues the so called Caleb saga, a series of songs that started on Silence's "The End of This Chapter" and is continued on Unia's "Caleb", The Days of Grays's "Juliet"; The Ninth Hour's "Till Death's Done Us Apart"^[4] and Talviyö's "The Last of the Lambs".^[5]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Tony Kakko, except for "My Selene" by Jani Liimatainen^[6].

• The hidden track "Jam" is on all albums, but is often mistaken for the Japanese/Korean-only bonus track "Wrecking the Sphere". "Jam" is a jammed Flamenco-style tune (as the name implies) and is significantly shorter than "Wrecking the Sphere", which is a typical song.
• Also released as limited and numbered seabag (1,000 copies, available only per Nuclear Blast mailorder) with digipack CD, T-Shirt and gimmicks.

Personnel[]

• Tony Kakko – Vocals
• Jani Liimatainen – Guitars
• Henrik Klingenberg – Keyboards, Deep/harsh backing vocals (on "Wildfire")
• Marko Paasikoski – Bass
• Tommy Portimo – Drums
• Nik Van-Eckmann – Male voice (on "Don't Say a Word", "White Pearl, Black Oceans..." and "Wildfire")

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