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SONATA ARCTICA Schedules Dortmund Signing Session

November 18, 2009

Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA will take part in a signing session before their show in Dortmund, Germany on December 2. The event will take place from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. CET at Idiots Records, Nuclear Blast Shop Dortmund, located at Rheinische Str. 14. Tel. 0049 231/7214723.

SONATA ARCTICA will embark on a North American headlining tour in the spring. Support will come from MUTINY WITHIN and POWERGLOVE. Tickets are on sale exclusively through EnterTheVault.com until December 3, at which point they will be made available through all normal ticketing systems.

"The Days Of Grays", the new album from SONATA ARCTICA, sold around 2,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD landed at position No. 19 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

"The Days Of Grays" registered the following European first-week chart positions:

Finland: #2
Germany: #24
Sweden: #31
Norway: #46
Netherlands: #50

The CD was certified gold in Finland on the day of its release for sales in excess of 15,000 copies.

SONATA's previous album, "Unia", was certified gold in Finland back in May 2007 and is approaching platinum status (30,000 records sold).

"The Days Of Grays" was released on September 22 in North America through Nuclear Blast Records.

The new SONATA ARCTICA video, "Flag In The Ground", can be viewed below.

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