SONATA ARCTICA - California (Official Music Video)

Taken off the album "Clear Cold Beyond" (March 8th, 2024)
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Front-man Tony Kakko adds, "This is a song about persons who think that it's possible and okay to charm and have any and all people for themselves - use and lose - and who don't care about the amount of pain and broken hearts left behind. And now you're the target, but you know better and make sure that this will not happen until 'California falls into the sea,' what I've come to understand is impossible and will never happen, at least in the sense of science fiction. Simply put: The track deals with self-protection. If you're strong enough, you can of course give such persons a serving of their own poison what can be satisfying."
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Music & Lyrics: Tony Kakko
Mikko Karmila at Finnvox Studios
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers West
Video credit: Jarkko Piipari @mediapiipari
Additional footage by Tony Kakko and Timo Kauppinen @timokauppinenmusic
SONATA ARCTICA is:
Tony Kakko - Vocals & Keyboard
Elias Viljanen - Guitar
Pasi Kauppinen - Bass
Tommy Portimo - Drums
Henrik Klingenberg - Keyboard
Lyrics:
So, you think you now have found yourself a game
With smiles and lies you climb the walls
To every heart, far apart
The seer’s thousand faces share a name
A thousand tales, unfolding now within a day, everywhere
Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love’s a game, a chore
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I’m yours on the day when
California falls into the sea
The birds know the way and fly away, if one day
California falls into the sea
You’ll never find the way, the key
To lock me down, I’m free
Now, as you have failed to hear me out, again
Made deaf by your own open mouth…
I think it’s only fair I live my life
Enjoy the day, go find my beach
And have my moments in the sun
Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love’s a game, a chore
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I’m yours on the day when
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
The day you find a way to lock me down
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
You wait for
California to fall into the sea
I cannot find a tongue you speak
I’ve tried them all, can you leave me be?
Preeeeego!
When California falls into the sea
When California falls in to the sea
It’s safe to say
We’ll never see the day
#sonataarctica #clearcoldbeyond #metal #finland #california #melodicmetal #powermetal

[@snakeeyes3308]

Its a new San sebastian😊❤

[@ArcticHearted90]

For me who has listened already this great album, it's funny watching people despise the song before it even came out just because of its name, ignorance... but what awaits them is one of the faster and catchier songs in this beautiful album

[@Graywolf335]

The songs that have the kookiest named song they have tend to be some of the best hahaha

[@massimilianogranella9248]

the real sonata arctica died in 2004

[@Punttipate62]

​@@massimilianogranella9248nope, that's just ignorant. every album released afterwards has gems.

[@massimilianogranella9248]

@@Punttipate62 if you listen to this latest album, you will notice that there is not a well-made musical idea, but a jumble of clichés heard thousands of times in metal, you are ignorant.....it is a record that leaves you with nothing in your mind. heart.....the band should have disbanded, there is no point in existing, it's true after 2004 there are some listenable pieces, some ballads, but in the latest albums there is nothing....

[@Punttipate62]

@@massimilianogranella9248 I disagree completely with you. I love the first few albums just as much as everybody else but it's good that the band evolved and didn't stay stuck doing one thing only. if you can't find anything good about their post 2004 albums, that's on you.

[@el_anubis4553]

Y asi señores es como se debe hacer el power metal a la vieja escuela 🔥🤘!!!

[@JtrainMedia]

My goodness. When Sonata Arctica decides to make power metal there is nobody better.

[@conneryfan]

Great album ❤‍🔥 I love songs Dark Empath 🖤Teardrops 💙Angel Defiled

[@IgorAlves9808]

Great song, great album, great band! Come to Brazil!!! 🇧🇷

[@Carrot880]

You know you're getting old when your teenage year's favourite band is turning grey and round

[@giovannicordova4803]

Old Sonata Arctic is back... 😍

[@TheArcticCloudberry]

Love Sonata Arctica, Tony’s beautiful voice, amazing songwriting and the musicianship of them all. ❤

[@guillaumedeotto5944]

The album just goes non stop in my earphones.
It's always a pleasure to discover new songs from Sonata Arctica, and this one brings me back to the first albums.
I can't wait to see them back on stage.
I thank them very much 🤘🤘🤘

[@eowynemi]

Great song and great video, long live to Sonata Arctica!!

[@KingdomOfSteeel]

Tanto tiempo extrañando su sonido!!! Sonata está de vuelta a sus orígenes, saludos desde Ecuador!!!

[@danielyupe6196]

Exelent sonata is back the king of power metal

[@Im.k.m.aka.kalaashnikov]

I miss seeing this band more often!!

[@EstevanDrummer]

So happy to see this 😍

[@GustavoMaiato]

CALIFORNIA FALLS INTO THE SEAAAAAAAAAAA

[@charlesajones77]

That does seem to be the song's main point.

[@ornvik481]

Started to listen to the band while they were singing about walking in the cool night air without underwear. Really enjoy this new album. Thank you guys.

[@Chris-zi6ki]

Man, those vocal harmonies in the pre chorus are sooooooooo damn good. Tony has always been one of my absolute favorite vocalists 🤘🤘

[@yordip8246]

Yes! This is the sonata we love. And they are back

[@jenireerangel7150]

I’m so lucky to still being a fan after AAAAAALLLLL this time and to keep having the pleasure to enjoy every new song. I love u guys 🥺❤

[@metal_dio]

Great song!

[@JoelRdz]

Loving the album 😍 can’t wait to hear these songs live

[@juanogerrard088]

Te esperé tanto Sonata Arctica para volver a escuchar este Power Metal de la vieja escuela, emocionado y excitado

[@GARYBLONDER]

A mostly typical Power Metal tune, but unusually the lyrics don't have a wizard, a dragon or a sword to be seen anywhere. Proof you can be a Power Metal band and actually live outside Middle Earth. So it's enjoyable enough, with a good hookline in the chorus, with the high quality production, vocals and shredding you expect of this subgenre. Most worthy of the playlist. My Score: Good 3*

[@gergelyszabo8961]

Stratovarius is another good example for that

[@SMJSmoK]

Even back in the day when they were almost exclusively power metal, they didn't have fantasy lyrics.

[@rdz109]

Rock on Sonata!

[@anjaevers848]

Sonata Artica is and stay one of my favorite Power Metal-Bands!!

[@thelonespecter]

I see California and automatically RHCP comes to my mind 😂😂😂

[@Reliving_Metalheads]

There are so many songs with the word "California" like Hotel California, it is another, Or, California, from Sonata Arctica

[@ciroheadbanger2008]

​@@Reliving_Metalheads Now check Bloody Lake California of Deceased Capybara Head

[@БазараНоль-ж7й]

Это уже поинтереснее, чем первая песня, где клип в метро.

[@Hecu.]

Hieno levy 🤌🏻🤝🏻
excellent album

[@Elementrius]

WE ARE SO BACK BABY

[@PowerMetalReviews]

I'll be reviewing the new album, really hyped to be honest the singles, videos and promotion has been really great so far with this album; I feel it's going to be good stuff already to be honest just based on the energy in the songs released so far.

[@みやこ鈴木-z5n]

Wonderfulandthanks

[@MasaHeadbanger]

Awesome!🔥

[@Azariel-wp9ik]

Old sonata returns

[@MatiasMauro-g4c]

💥👏👏👏👏👏👏 excelente gracias gracias

[@Koppi73]

Hellvetin kova!! you're back and We L🖤VE you again!

[@leonardogonzalez9362]

The King is back 💪🏼🤘🏼

[@ramiroandregrosso5477]

California rest in peace
simultaneous release
California shut your tears
she's my priestess I'm your priest

[@thelonespecter]

Christ, I'm a sidewinder
I'm a California King
I swear it's everywhere, oh
It's everything

[@davysonsantos3512]

(Go go go!)
Turn up the beat, yeah
(Oh oh oh!)
I wanna feel it
(California)
Don’t you wish that you could come?
Cause we’re never going home
Till the summer’s all gone

[@zanzox]

WELCOME BACK SONATA ❤

[@danymarquis2847]

I listening the new album righ now.this is a great one.first ear and many good song.
It is fast,melodic like the old stuff ❤
Back to the roots!
Great album guys

[@jennyeller197]

Amazing song and album! I love having the power metal back 🖤🤘🏻

[@thedman103]

Power metal is back!!

[@GabrielParr]

Not really, the album Is ok, the last two songs are talviyö sleeping pills

[@cruelkingcat591]

@@GabrielParr silence please

[@Punttipate62]

@@GabrielParr not all slower songs are bad automatically. best things is a good ballad with a good chorus and clear cold beyond is impactful as a closer much in the same vein as on the faultline

[@berserk5270]

Mais ou menos ... Está soando muito forçado ainda ...mais é possível que se encontrem ainda ...

[@riseup_021]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷❤️❤️❤️🎸🎸🎶🎶

[@TheGronkus]

Needs more capybaras

[@EmberMcLain87]

Just started the record this morning, amd got 2 tracks left. Definitely one of my march favorites

[@metvelle]

Just heard the song, can't wait for the video.. for all the old school Sonata fans this song is very the cage/ wolf and raven esque and speed

[@fallefel8132]

OLD SONATA SEEMS TO BE BACK

[@Kakriainen]

Nope. This song is crap compared to the old ones.

[@mmpr-fr]

@@Kakriainen ???!!! Please evolve... as they did, as we all did...

[@mmpr-fr]

They are back !! even if they were always here ;) but this album is clearly for true fans ;-) ;-)

[@fallefel8132]

You guys should listen to the full album. California aint the best one, but its a good one for tour inspired song.

[@granoband]

@@Kakriainenagree. Bored song, al least the guitar.

[@InMyBrokenChair]

We have never been so back

[@yanetcarmona7990]

Está buena la canción !!! Rápida, agradable de oir y buen pegajoso el coro !!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Yo creo que los que se quejan es por qué de seguro ni siquiera podrían componer ellos una canción 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. En este tipo de metal no es tanto que sea rápido y estridente , es saber apreciar las instrumentaciones y los cambios en la música y..... En este caso siento que si cumple con eso el disco en general . Felicitaciones chicos espero volver a verlos en Méxyico !!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Ese día que los ví por primera vez quedé fascinada y espero vuelvan a ir !!! 🎉🎼🎵🎶🥁🎸🎹💙🌍🐺🇫🇮💙🌍🐺🇫🇮

It's official, Sonata Arctica is back!

[@MardukGodSlayer]

Loving this return to their oldschool sound, but does anyone else think the mixing's a bit off? All the songs released so far feel like they're lacking punch in the top end.

[@tomppa3490]

It feels washed away. Bad mixing once again

[@vulnavialionheart1896]

OMG AMAZING!❤❤❤❤❤

[@MaricaBurman]

Just want to see you live , thank you for all of your music❤❤❤😊

[@bellyflopobama7006]

"California falls into the sea..."
That's the dream.

[@juhaleskinen7383]

Should be New York :D

[@windrider6124]

I vote for both

[@prognation7413]

Just the coast fuck the coast my favorite part of the usa is in California

[@WishowMetal]

Sorry not sorry... it sounds like a generic song to me. Nothing about those peculiar melodies from their earliest albums.

[@granoband]

no Jani, no peculiar melodies from early days.

[@WishowMetal]

@@granoband sad, but true

[@santiias]

Deseo que el disco sea cómo dijeron que sería (Power Metal de sus inicios)
Tengo miedo de que no me guste y salga cómo uno de sus trabajos anteriores 🫠😩

[@thelonespecter]

Podés quedarte tranquilo...

[@santiias]

@@thelonespecter Ahora que escuche el disco, ya estoy tranquilo y muy feliz, ese disco está demasiado bueno 🤯😱, Sonata Arctica ha vuelto 🩵🤘🏼

[@brunoarruda119]

Hey, i recognized that City where the airplane landed, in the beginning of the vídeo.
It's my beloved Rio de Janeiro.
Nice video!
We miss you, Sonata!
Come back soon!

[@YTheNightragerY]

Deseé mucho tiempo que Sonata Intentara hacer bien Power Metal de nuevo, y ahora que lo han hecho, encontré irritante el número de veces que repiten el California falls into the sea... Cómo para que pegue a wevo... Pero bueno, seguiré escuchando el disco

[@01AlephZero]

Que si vuelven al power metal, hay pero. Que si tocan como en el Unia, el Stone Grows o el Talviyö, hay pero. Solo disfruta la canción y punto: si quieres que toquen como en los viejos discos, ahí están los viejos discos para que los escuches.

[@YTheNightragerY]

La neta, tienes razón!!
Creo que simplemente yo ya no soy el target de esta banda,y sí, uno siempre conserva las joyitas. Buen día!
@@01AlephZero

[@granoband]

es irritante las veces que lo repiten.

[@YTheNightragerY]

@@granoband Pero cabrón. Hasta siento que lo hicieron con saña! :V!

[@mariogomez9928]

Sounds damn good

[@omrekagan.]

WHOA! HEY!

[@waitingsnydercut1149]

Es buenisima

[@MrLuisucho]

WELCOME BACK SONATA!!!! The sonata we fell in love with finally back!

[@italobarbosa797]

Eu gosto de todos os albuns novos 😅

[@EasternFin-gs6ek]

I love this song! So much power and uplifting! ❤ I've always loved Sonata Arctica! 😍🥰

[@jani4429]

Yeah! Power metal rules!

[@ansiahofficial]

A good album? Been so long since Unia (sorry guys, the band just don't catch me after this one, but now...oh, boy! What a GREAT album) Maybe will be my fav one for 2024.

[@Un.user.random6.00]

Ufff me encanta

[@tallerme23arquitecturaydis50]

Creo que paso el angel de la independencia ????? 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@irasound]

Новый альбом супер❤
Слушаю беспрестанно!

[@ThomasFarny]

Beautiful Song🤘Sonata is back.So a Dame good Group 🤘🤘💞

[@joshbarreras7255]

That’s where I live 🔥🤘🏼🔥

[@Kementtari]

wait wait ?!? We back ? I mean, i suposed they end like many years ago with all the slow, pop songs of the last few albuns o.o.

[@Angeluz2112]

Ohhh! El día del lanzamiento del álbum! Dicen que es una canción de lo más power metal :), que pasen luego las horas

[@matiasveragua6559]

ya lo escuchaste???

[@chefdavetiktok2221]

Anyone know the meaning of this song or what it means? Unless I’m thick I can’t work it out haha . Love the song! ❤

[@Udanax-zs9un]

I usually listen to prog. They are complicated and in that point, I like them. But sometime I feel strong impulse to listen to neo-classical.
They teach me what music is. It might be the experience without any boundary between music and me! Support form JP!

[@Eagle1846ytown]

Awesome song and album!

[@stevegarcia6119]

Sonata de mi ❤

[@JeniferSaid]

Im really happy with this new album!

[@Estefi.6]

Flag in the ground = California 😍😍😍

[@cesarbenitez7769]

Ohhh, no lo puedo creer. Raíces y poder, como en sus principios. Este es el camino. Gracias por darme ganas de respirar, cerrar los ojos y escuchar su arte. Abrazo desde Argentina!

[@Sikkneworld]

Happy metal is back

[@LorenzoPMoura]

Que musica top!!!!!!

[@PauloSantos-yu1tn]

Much better than the last 6 albuns. Great sonata again

[@franciscozarzosogil9075]

The Days Of Grays and Pariah's Child are solid albums. Stones and Talviyo are horrible. Respecting The Ninth Hour, I save it because of WPBO pt. 2

[@dragothica4925]

Incredible new album! Back to the roots!
But would anyone know which song on the album is the traditional "Wolf Song", like Fullmoon or Wolf & Raven etc? I would say Shah Mat is the closest fit but otherwise I don't know. I can hear a lot of throwbacks to older albums but a "Wolf Song" feels like it's missing?

[@alexdzdx]

I'm so glad to see many takes of Brazil

[@riseup_021]

🇧🇷

[@franciscozarzosogil9075]

Como dirían los argentinos: Que bueno que volviste Sonata!!!!

[@NorthernWolf92]

Had the album on repeat since it came early yesterday. Can't get enough of it! Job well done guys 🔥♥️

[@MegaDeathLight]

Ater "California" I had the hope for a brief moment that Sonata Arctica would finally release another album that was even halfway good. I could have saved myself that hope. Apart from the aforementioned California, absolutely nothing that remains in any positive memory. I don't even expect an album as good as Reckoning Night or Unia anymore, as we all know, those days are over. But an album with good songs is really not too much to ask for. I should really stop hoping for something with Sonata Arctica and just accept that the band is just dead for me.

[@efectoinfinito]

Amazing sound 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘

[@AOIXenocide]

"California falls into the sea" what a wonderful thought.

[@arielbro2024]

1:29 TEATRO FLORES, BUENOS AIRES!!

[@ramiroandregrosso5477]

Yo estuve en esa locura, la pasé increíble

[@Moonflush]

Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
So, you think you now have found yourself a game
With smiles and lies you climb the walls
To every heart, far apart
The seer's thousand faces share a name
A thousand tales, unfolding now within a day, everywhere
[Pre-Chorus]
Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love's a game, a chore (Oh oh oh oh oh)
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I'm yours on the day when
[Chorus]
California falls into the sea
The birds know the way and fly away, if one day (Oh oh oh oh oh)
California falls into the sea (California falls)
You'll never find the way, the key (Oh oh oh oh oh)
To lock me down, I'm free
[Verse 2]
Now, as you have failed to hear me out, again
Made deaf by your own open mouth
[Verse 3]
I think it's only fair I live my life
Enjoy the day, go find my beach
And have my moments in the sun
In the sun
[Guitar Solo]
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love's a game, a chore (Oh oh oh oh oh)
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I'm yours on the day when
[Refrain]
California falls into the sea (California falls)
California falls into the sea (Oh oh oh oh oh)
California falls into the sea (California falls)
California falls into the sea
The day you find a way to lock me down
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
You wait for (Oh oh oh oh oh)
California to fall into the sea
I cannot find a tongue you speak
I've tried them all, can you leave me be?
Preeeeego!
[Outro]
When California falls into the sea (Oh oh oh oh)
When California falls in to the sea (Oh oh oh oh)
It's safe to say
We'll never see the day

[@FingerlandEnterprises]

Back to their old style lets go!!!!!

[@БазараНоль-ж7й]

It's a good choice.

[@Chris-zi6ki]

Can’t wait for it to be summer and cruise down the road, windows rolled down, blasting this beautiful song 🔥💚🤘 thank you Sonata 🙏 this album has rekindled my love yall

[@thomascsapo9644]

Gig in Burgos was great. But.. was hoping for some faster bangers like Wolf and Raven and Kingdom for a Heart that were missing.. hope the band reads this! We want the faster classic songs to return!!

[@i9tube1]

🩶🐺🩶

[@janoskovacs9855]

I guess Ecliptica is the best. But they write some great songs in every albums.

[@BloodVampire2008]

top demais a musica 🤟

[@stefaniemarchewka7135]

Has been That Video record This year In america Or somewhere Others ?

[@alejandropower]

is there anything from California on the video?