Sorry, but Tobias Sammet is the greatest of all. The Metal Operas from Avantasia are the best musical stories of all time. And he still did Edguy and other Avantasia masterpieces. And you really should listen to Angra's tematic album called Temple of Shadows. One of the best metal stories of all as well. But White Pearl saga is one of them for sure. Glad that the Lighthouse keeper survived and his love, but still a sad story with the distance between them.
I like to think of it as... a miracle. That he survived his attempted suicide from the original and that she survived the wreck miraculously. I know that that's probably a very simplistic reading. But in these dark times, that's what you need sometimes.
+Fiex xD IT IS metal . not death, heavy or black metal. But it is metal. You can't find this kind of emotion, aim, in another styles. It is a mix between symphonic and progressive metal :) metal is not a musical style, it's more a kind of emotion. I listen a lot of musical genres, i'm not closed, i just give my point of view about this kind of song. it is metal :).
Ok, I understand your point, but, You say "Metal no is not a musical style, it's more a kind of emotion." I differ, That "emotion" has all the songs, Are all the songs metal?
Aquí estoy recordando nuestras conversaciones y la música que siempre a tu lado se disfrutaba más... Ahora estás cerca de Dios pero vivirás por siempre en mi corazón. Beso hasta el cielo mi querido bendi 🙌
I was sort of worried about this album because Imperiumi had reviewed it and said it was their worst so far. Then I realized that the public has almost always disagreed with Imperiumi when it comes to Sonata. One of their best albums so far.
NachoFast and at Closer to an animal you said the album seemed not to get good. ;D But i have to say Closer to an animal may be the worst song on the album.
muchos comentarios extremistas.. unos dicen que es el mejor album.. otros que es el peor.. cuando tan solo es un album mas de sonata con bellas y muy emotivas canciones
Never has a song impacted me as much as this. Part one was awesome but this is composed in such a way... It’s a shame this isn’t the standard we hold “popular music” to. Such brilliance.
wonderful, simply amazing... I'm so glad that Tony Kakko wrote a sequel to one of his most beautiful and deep songs... I only think that it would've been better if the title weren't "White Pearl Black Oceans Pt II".... If it were unclear untill the line when he sings "White Pearl" the surprise would have been so great and good...
This is Epic!!! Oh god.. I almost cried when I heard the part ""Memories; I used to have a home in the light.." it brings back all the tragic of part 1.. it is just so sad! My mind cannot stop imagining the horrific scenes. I wish so much there is a play/act on stage for these two songs 1&2 with Sonata singing, that gotta be perfect! Thanks everyone who tried to help to decipher the meaning of the phrases. No doubt, Toni is a genius. This is an Epic Masterpiece!!
lo que interpreto de esta canción es que: el y ella sobrevivieron (él al suicidio y ella al accidente del perla blanca) y ahora están viviendo lejos del mar que tanto daño les causo. Me encanta esta historia!
Él. Estaba en oscuridad.. Gracias a ella Conoció finalmente el Amor.. la luz la paz y la tranquilidad despuès de haber conocido ambos el dolor.. Y con ella el Amor .. (una belleza nueva en él) " la vida" y con ello la transformación del nuevo yo..
También se puede interpretar como que ambos murieron, el acabó en el purgatorio y ella en el paraíso. Por eso el sueña todas las noches con el accidente del navío. Entonces el tiene que ir a buscarla al paraíso para así estar con ella. O bueno, esa es una de las formas en la que interpreto la canción.
its kind of epic in the way that the ending to this epic tale would be ironic in a sense as well. in part one he had fallen in love and when he was left with a broken heart from her leaving and then he thought she had died on the boat that had crashed because he was unable to be the keeper of the light at thr time. So he ends up trying to kill himself which was his way of trying to apologize for all the lives he had caused to die. Then the fact that he ended up living is almost like the souls of the most forgiving him and the ocean gave back by sparing him and for a time taking away the memories of the incident. Then she ends up living and wanting to stay away from town because of what happened making her just like him. And his love for her ended up guiding him to her again.The only other person that would understand how she felt. a beautiful ending.
Perfectly beautiful masterpiece. One of the most theatrical, awe-inspiring songs they've ever made; right up there with Larger Than Life (and White Pearl, Black Oceans pt. 1, obviously). I was excited and anxious when I saw they were going to make a sequel due to the end of part one, but my anxiety is completely gone and I'm still excited to continue to listen to this song over and over. I'm only left with one question in regards to the lyrics: Near the end of the song when he says "A New Face," is that referring to the unborn child from the first song? It would make sense, being that "The beauty" is the woman and "The brand new me" is also a reference from part 1, referring to the protagonist, and there is a mention of her being pregnant in part one that isn't addressed anywhere else in this one. Not sure if anyone else is thinking the same thing or if that's just a stretch, but comment to let me know.
I knew all of their songs by heart, but WPBO was my favourite. I've spent such a long time without listening to their music, only now I find out about this... and my heart is crying
Been a huge fan from first album Ecliptica. Witnessed so many changes of their music and sometimes it took a bit to understand but Sonata Arctica never failed to convince me. I love speedy, powerful metal musics too but they are just one who keep evolving in either way. So after album 'UNIA' released, I am all ear to their next album, excited about what will they show me this time. Changing is like gamble. You wouldn't sure what will it become and might be in fear for failing. Still, Sonata Arctica managed to write this awesome masterpiece. That makes me remaining as huge fan even they don't visit South Korea.....
I know your comment is 5 years old at this point but I feel you about their musical changes/experimenting. I love this band and got hooked from their early stuff back around 2004 and Unia and others took time for me to warm up to but have ultimately become favorites of mine even over a lot of older stuff. The songwriting is great regardless of the style imo. Tony’s lyrics and melodies are always really impressive.
I am a bit torn about this song. On it's own, a great composition, and an awesome chorus truly built to show what Tony's voice is made of. The speedy part itself is nice as well, and the lyrics make you think, especially for one who knows the story of the first part. But it simply doesn't feel as one whole, the transitions between the different parts just don't work right for me, and the song might do better if it ended out from the last chorus at 8:25 or so. I guess I would not sound such a critic if Sonata Arctica didn't name this song White Pearl, Black Oceans. The first part was an absolute masterpiece, in melodies, lyrics, pacing, changes of pace, you name it, you had it there spot on. It is just my opinion, but for me, the song is good, very good, but makes me wonder, what could have been ...
This song would've been great had it been about something else. The beauty in "White Pearl, Black Oceans" was that it ended in tragedy and the emotions were so deep and relatable that you felt sad when the man eventually jumps off the lighthouse and dies. This literally throws all of that away and gives us a decent happy ending. I also miss that amazing spine tingling chorus ;-;
ZicherCZ absolutely true! I wish the record label didn't push them to finish the album in such a short time... the end result is obviously uninspired and unpolished!
I agree completely. Dueling 16th note solo parts between guitar and keyboards hasn't really been a feature in their albums since Reckoning Night, and in this case it does seem particularly reminiscent of the last set of solos from The Power of One, and I'll try to word it here objectively; I think it's entirely due to Henrik's rhythmic patterns: 16th notes for two measures, followed by two measures half and quarter note combinations, which is the same exact way he approached his solo parts in The Power of One.
X Ratspam I'm sure he did on Ecliptica, but when you're average at something and you hire someone stronger for the part, I would assume you butt out of it, at least most of the time. Just my two cents.
So I just found out one of my work managers I was close with who was with me from my beginning has left, she has been very supportive and this is the reason I have come here, Sonata Arctica have always gotten me through tough times and this is no exception, they are one of the bands with the most emotional ballads in my opinion and I have decided to dedicate this song to her, Sonata have always done the honours when it comes to ballads and epic songs like this
Lately I've been so lonely and my feelings are high and low sometimes in an instant and this is a song that makes me think of my dreams to travel by ship and watch the moon shining on the ocean. I can't describe in words in enough detail but definitely on high feelings during this.
Such a great song! Better than the first one, the best song by Sonata Arctica! Legendary! So moving and powerfull. I think I could write pages and pages of text just about the melodies of the song and what they represent...
For me they are dead anyway. I’m really, really sorry for them and my heart’s bleeding when I’m thinking about the story from part I, but I love the story as it was, with this cruelly sad ending, and I see that some people agree with me. But part II is a nice song too and I want to accept it in some way. Someone wrote in comments that it’s their life in heaven or purgatory, and it seems to be quite good interpretation, although I think it’s just protagonist’s vision and dreams, when he dies in waves of the ocean. A few quotes match: “The music of my chosen gentle tide Turned into a story on the other side (…) "We are alive"” - this “other side” makes me think it’s not reality independently from the rest of interpretation “All onboard for the very last time Close your eyes, oh calamity (…) See myself in a dream” - it’s only my thought, but it reminds me the final scene of Titanic, when Rose imagine the board where everything’s good and there was no calamity “There was a lady who was saved from the ocean Without a name to tell” - the line right after the one about dream; it sounds like its description or beginning of fairy tale (“there was”, no name) “And the joy we knew is still alive, trees so green”, “Gallop across the moorlands” - well, these green trees and horse also sounds too unrealistically, like symbolic motifs “Music of the seven gentle tides Fade in distance”, “Memories; I used to have a home in the light But the meaning's still escaping me” - a sign that he’s actually dying, and the facts lose their meaning, the most important is what he sees at this moment. Although beside the ideal dreams there is still guiltiness, which appears in some lines. OK, you can say that’s an interpretation of desperate person because there are elements that suggest I’m wrong, but, damn, it would be a good solution. It doesn’t ruin the tragic beauty of part I, but at the same time adds to the ending some warmth, a kind of hope.
Also, the end of the first song specifically talked about the afterlife ("looking for the resurrection of the body, when the Sea shall give up her dead, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord).
I absolutely and completely agree with you, Tonks. That's exactly what I thought, and it's the most beautiful and meaningful interpretation of this song, in my opinion.
What? Isn't this the general idea? Why???? I mean if the "solution" was anything else but this it would make the song just a Disney sequel. Absolutely contradicting the meaning of the first part and taking away it's wholeness and just using nostalgia for effect. As I read the lyrics I didn't even think it could mean anything else.
I didnt quite like this happy ending too. Because its not the Sonata that i have come to love. ( But sometimes, happiness is what we need ^^) BUT I think they are alive. First because of " The darkest sea, Refusing me" The sea didnt want him. If he had died, the sea would have "accepted" him Second "Slowly healing for a fortnight" And "every night adds colors to the memory" he is starting to remember sometings.. "lady saved from the ocean" i think this is literally saved. She doesnt remember, feel afraid and leave.. "banish by my townsmen" he also leaves the town "a new face, the beauty.." a new face is probably the child Finally "we are alive" i think its also literally. I like these song interpretations. Cheers guys
When you are in love this masterpiece hits harder, I am currently in love with a girl that loves me too and I feel the song different now Basically made me drop a couple of tears, Only by the greace of the sea...
Guitar tab for this song: www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/sonata-arctica-white-pearl-black-oceans-part-ii-by-the-grace-of-the-ocean-tab-s424214t2?c=58500 www.jellynote.com/en/sheet-music/sonata-arctica/white-pearl-black-oceans-part-ii-by-the-grace#tabs:A
Tony has previously stated, when being asked about why all their songs end in tragedy, something along the lines of "happy endings don't make good stories". "Love" was sort of an exception to the rule of not making happy songs, and I've read somewhere that this song was made due to popular demand.I have to say though, I do really like this one.
At first I thought the melody of the first line of the 'chorus' in this song was a rehash of the main melody in When the Wild Wind Blows (Iron Maiden), but then I realised that both of them are actually Auld Lang Syne :') This is an awesome song, though, I'm so happy Tony's inspiration appears to have returned :D
Guys, you should all be commenting these wonderfully nice things in the comment section of the actual SA youtube channel - not here 😂 like this they will never know. The original only has 2 comments right now 😥
Vale no quiero sonar como una groupie pero esta caNCIÓN ME VUeLVE LOCA JODER, me encanta. ME. ENCANTA. Me casaría con ella si pudiera, sin dudarlo. No puedo ni expresar lo mucho que me encanta. No me canso de escucharla y eso que dura 10 putos minutos, que con cualquier otra canción estaría tirándome de los pelos porque dura mucho pero ESTA, esta no quiero que acabe nunca xdxd Me encanta. :`)
I don't get this part very well: "I've become a true blight I huddle in the daylight Banished by my townsmen With blood in my hands" I feel it's a bit sudden. Blood in his hands, how? And, while healing, was him all the time in the town he was from?
It's because he failed in his duty as keeper of the lighthouse, as a result - everyone on the White Pearl perished. He was summoned to the town court and banished after that.
He wasn't though, he was set free by the court for the white pearl incident. And this section I mentioned is a good time after his judgement, after he tried to suicide but survived and lost his memory.
Hmm? I didn't really get the part when he was set free by the court. Could you point it out? After I heard 1st part years ago, I thought he was banished and then commited suicide by throwing himself onto the reefs. Here we learn that he didn't suicide, in fact.
He was set free, and called innocent, remember: "Defining innocence is hell after all that has passed." He wasn't banished physically, but he was a social outcast because despite the ruling, most blamed him anyways. "Blood in my hands" probably refers to how he couldn't live with what he had done in the previous song, regardless of whose fault it was.
Perhaps he was banished for while he tried to commit suicide, he was away from the lighthouse once again, and this time for even longer (two weeks), vanishing without a trace or word.
Id argue that this ruins the beauty of the first song. The fact that both characters die in twisted irony gave the song life and meaning even if it was super dark. Saying "Oh they both survived by some deus ex machina effect" is just not right. If they wanted to continue the song It would've been better if they sung on what happened to the town after, or the legacy they left.
If there's one thing I do not generaly like about the sequel / part 2 type of songs is that they, most of the time, take away from the meaning of the original, slightly changing the meaning of the story and the events occurred or their endings. I have mixed feelings about this song; while it sounds great as all Sonata's songs, I can't think of anything which potentially follows-up in the characters' plots from the first WPBO.
Pues mira, para entender porque esta canción es un final feliz debiste haber escuchado primero White Pearl Black Oceans, en la que nos cuentan la historia del cuidador del faro, quien carga en su conciencia la muerte de todos los que estaban a bordo de un barco llamado White Pearl, entre ellos la mujer que él amaba, pues la noche que el barco se accidentó con el arrecife él no estaba en su puesto (el faro), entonces se le hizo un juicio donde lo declararon inocente, pero el no pudo con la culpa y se intentó suicidar. El encanto de esta canción es que, años despues de que la otra canción salió a la banda se le ocurre contarnos buenas noticias para variar, sucede que la mujer "sobrevivió" al accidente y al parecer el intento de suicidio que nos imaginamos en la primera canción tampoco dio resultado, el punto es que ambos se reencuentran y viven felices por siempre. Bonito ¿No? :v
Una de las canciones más hermosas que escuché, puedo escucharla un millón de veces y siempre me voy a emocionar, una obra de arte
es correcto, amo esta canción de igual manera
muy infravalorada
Lo mismo me pasa a mí,le he escuchado muchas veces,Tanta nostalgia,pena,alegría,🙁☹️😄,todo junto se siente con esta canción.Una maravilla..🤗
Holy fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck when he says "White Pearl" and the theme from the first song plays
Zakk Potter I had an erection in that part.
@@NoxAqua423 indeed
I KNOW RIGHT 😢
everybody can say whatever he wants about the music, but no metal band in the world has a deeper songwriting than sonata arctica
Tony Kakko is a genius
It would be amazing if one day Tony decides to write a book
For sure! I'm waiting patiently for his solo album :D
Sorry, but Tobias Sammet is the greatest of all. The Metal Operas from Avantasia are the best musical stories of all time. And he still did Edguy and other Avantasia masterpieces. And you really should listen to Angra's tematic album called Temple of Shadows. One of the best metal stories of all as well. But White Pearl saga is one of them for sure. Glad that the Lighthouse keeper survived and his love, but still a sad story with the distance between them.
I'm gonna throw Kamelot in there. Epica & The Black Halo are both beautifully interconnected concept albums with brilliant story-telling.
I like to think of it as... a miracle. That he survived his attempted suicide from the original and that she survived the wreck miraculously. I know that that's probably a very simplistic reading. But in these dark times, that's what you need sometimes.
That is what Tony himself explained about the song.
thise dark times... pah, look at us now...
lol
This song has the most addictive Chorus. It repeats in my head all day and it won't stop. I love it!!! The best sequel to one of Sonata's best songs.
Para que luego digan que todo el Metal es satanico... por Dios, si esto es una obra de arte.
Esto no es metal.... xD
La gente esta enferma amigo
+Fiex xD IT IS metal . not death, heavy or black metal. But it is metal. You can't find this kind of emotion, aim, in another styles. It is a mix between symphonic and progressive metal :) metal is not a musical style, it's more a kind of emotion.
I listen a lot of musical genres, i'm not closed, i just give my point of view about this kind of song. it is metal :).
Ok, I understand your point, but, You say "Metal no is not a musical style, it's more a kind of emotion."
I differ, That "emotion" has all the songs, Are all the songs metal?
+Fiex xD don't know if it's alcohol or by your fact, but I don't understand your question 😊 (or maybe i'm not sure about the sense)
Quien dijo que las segundas partes no eran buenas.. Sólo el met@l puede crear esta obra de arte.
Aquí estoy recordando nuestras conversaciones y la música que siempre a tu lado se disfrutaba más... Ahora estás cerca de Dios pero vivirás por siempre en mi corazón. Beso hasta el cielo mi querido bendi 🙌
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I was sort of worried about this album because Imperiumi had reviewed it and said it was their worst so far. Then I realized that the public has almost always disagreed with Imperiumi when it comes to Sonata. One of their best albums so far.
That is why I never read reviews ;)
NachoFast and at Closer to an animal you said the album seemed not to get good. ;D But i have to say Closer to an animal may be the worst song on the album.
sorry. you said that you hope that the rest of the album won't be the same as Closer to an animal. my bad! ;DD
Ultimate Finnish xD I agree. Closer To An Animal was the worst song from The Ninth Hour.
I loved closer to an animal, life was the only meh song in my opinion
muchos comentarios extremistas.. unos dicen que es el mejor album.. otros que es el peor.. cuando tan solo es un album mas de sonata con bellas y muy emotivas canciones
Never has a song impacted me as much as this. Part one was awesome but this is composed in such a way... It’s a shame this isn’t the standard we hold “popular music” to. Such brilliance.
wonderful, simply amazing... I'm so glad that Tony Kakko wrote a sequel to one of his most beautiful and deep songs... I only think that it would've been better if the title weren't "White Pearl Black Oceans Pt II".... If it were unclear untill the line when he sings "White Pearl" the surprise would have been so great and good...
This is Epic!!! Oh god.. I almost cried when I heard the part ""Memories; I used to have a home in the light.." it brings back all the tragic of part 1.. it is just so sad! My mind cannot stop imagining the horrific scenes.
I wish so much there is a play/act on stage for these two songs 1&2 with Sonata singing, that gotta be perfect!
Thanks everyone who tried to help to decipher the meaning of the phrases. No doubt, Toni is a genius. This is an Epic Masterpiece!!
lo que interpreto de esta canción es que: el y ella sobrevivieron (él al suicidio y ella al accidente del perla blanca) y ahora están viviendo lejos del mar que tanto daño les causo. Me encanta esta historia!
Entiendo lo mismo, espero que sea sea así jajaja
Él. Estaba en oscuridad..
Gracias a ella Conoció finalmente el Amor.. la luz la paz y la tranquilidad despuès de haber conocido ambos el dolor..
Y con ella el Amor ..
(una belleza nueva en él) " la vida" y con ello la transformación del nuevo yo..
Alch yo entendí que se murió y se encontró con ella y el nuevo él, supongo que se refiere al niño nonato que menciona en la primera parte :u
También se puede interpretar como que ambos murieron, el acabó en el purgatorio y ella en el paraíso. Por eso el sueña todas las noches con el accidente del navío. Entonces el tiene que ir a buscarla al paraíso para así estar con ella. O bueno, esa es una de las formas en la que interpreto la canción.
@@mateocarrere3178 también jaja
Por lejos el mejor tema del álbum!!!! me hace sentir muy tranquilo y agradecido por disfrutar de esta maravilla...
its kind of epic in the way that the ending to this epic tale would be ironic in a sense as well. in part one he had fallen in love and when he was left with a broken heart from her leaving and then he thought she had died on the boat that had crashed because he was unable to be the keeper of the light at thr time. So he ends up trying to kill himself which was his way of trying to apologize for all the lives he had caused to die. Then the fact that he ended up living is almost like the souls of the most forgiving him and the ocean gave back by sparing him and for a time taking away the memories of the incident. Then she ends up living and wanting to stay away from town because of what happened making her just like him. And his love for her ended up guiding him to her again.The only other person that would understand how she felt. a beautiful ending.
Perfectly beautiful masterpiece. One of the most theatrical, awe-inspiring songs they've ever made; right up there with Larger Than Life (and White Pearl, Black Oceans pt. 1, obviously). I was excited and anxious when I saw they were going to make a sequel due to the end of part one, but my anxiety is completely gone and I'm still excited to continue to listen to this song over and over. I'm only left with one question in regards to the lyrics: Near the end of the song when he says "A New Face," is that referring to the unborn child from the first song? It would make sense, being that "The beauty" is the woman and "The brand new me" is also a reference from part 1, referring to the protagonist, and there is a mention of her being pregnant in part one that isn't addressed anywhere else in this one. Not sure if anyone else is thinking the same thing or if that's just a stretch, but comment to let me know.
it can also be a way to say that new him is a new face, but i think thats a bit far to stretch, i think you are right with the child theory
Or maybe they later had a child together. (And in that case, she maybe miscarried the first child.)
I totally agree with you. The "new face" is the unborn child from 1st part, in my opinion.
....... They took arguably one of their most tragic songs and completely turned it around....... x3 .... i love happy endings
Not such a happy ending for her previous family lmao
@@obZenism She was leaving them anyway. Doesn't sound like her babydaddy was all together anyway...
I knew all of their songs by heart, but WPBO was my favourite. I've spent such a long time without listening to their music, only now I find out about this... and my heart is crying
Been a huge fan from first album Ecliptica.
Witnessed so many changes of their music and sometimes it took a bit to understand but Sonata Arctica never failed to convince me.
I love speedy, powerful metal musics too but they are just one who keep evolving in either way.
So after album 'UNIA' released, I am all ear to their next album, excited about what will they show me this time.
Changing is like gamble. You wouldn't sure what will it become and might be in fear for failing.
Still, Sonata Arctica managed to write this awesome masterpiece.
That makes me remaining as huge fan even they don't visit South Korea.....
I know your comment is 5 years old at this point but I feel you about their musical changes/experimenting. I love this band and got hooked from their early stuff back around 2004 and Unia and others took time for me to warm up to but have ultimately become favorites of mine even over a lot of older stuff. The songwriting is great regardless of the style imo. Tony’s lyrics and melodies are always really impressive.
@@peacockfilletsteak I feel you as well mate. I still listen to their music. Keep on mate, keep on. 🤘
Tremenda obra de arte
Otra masterpiece por parte de Sonata Arctica, como era de esperarse.
Best song in the album, and one of the best songs of Sonata Arctica...
I am a bit torn about this song.
On it's own, a great composition, and an awesome chorus truly built to show what Tony's voice is made of. The speedy part itself is nice as well, and the lyrics make you think, especially for one who knows the story of the first part.
But it simply doesn't feel as one whole, the transitions between the different parts just don't work right for me, and the song might do better if it ended out from the last chorus at 8:25 or so.
I guess I would not sound such a critic if Sonata Arctica didn't name
this song White Pearl, Black Oceans. The first part was an absolute
masterpiece, in melodies, lyrics, pacing, changes of pace, you name it,
you had it there spot on.
It is just my opinion, but for me, the song is good, very good, but makes me wonder, what could have been ...
Couldn't agree more... :(
This song would've been great had it been about something else. The beauty in "White Pearl, Black Oceans" was that it ended in tragedy and the emotions were so deep and relatable that you felt sad when the man eventually jumps off the lighthouse and dies. This literally throws all of that away and gives us a decent happy ending. I also miss that amazing spine tingling chorus ;-;
ZicherCZ absolutely true! I wish the record label didn't push them to finish the album in such a short time... the end result is obviously uninspired and unpolished!
Am I the only one that feels the solos of this song are like "The Power of One" ?
Good to have that Sonata back! Hope to see them in Finland
I agree completely. Dueling 16th note solo parts between guitar and keyboards hasn't really been a feature in their albums since Reckoning Night, and in this case it does seem particularly reminiscent of the last set of solos from The Power of One, and I'll try to word it here objectively; I think it's entirely due to Henrik's rhythmic patterns: 16th notes for two measures, followed by two measures half and quarter note combinations, which is the same exact way he approached his solo parts in The Power of One.
The Power of One keyboard solos were done by Mikko Harkin. Henrik did not join the band until Reckoning Night.
X Ratspam I'm sure he did on Ecliptica, but when you're average at something and you hire someone stronger for the part, I would assume you butt out of it, at least most of the time. Just my two cents.
Tomorrow at the Circus in Helsinki ;)
Colin Betts Actually Tony wrote all The keyboard parts until Reckoning Night
Muchas thanks, nice trabajo, keep asi :)
jahajajjajajajaja te la rifaste! xD
Te la sonatamamaste :v
xD Thank Tú
Bellísimo tema , amo las historias 😍😍
The old sonata bruh 😭💔
Thanks for coming back.
I can't stop humming and whistling that melody.
nada mas sublime para mi, que escuchar esta canción me transporta al más allá gracias x traducirla ahora me gusta más de lo que pence....
So I just found out one of my work managers I was close with who was with me from my beginning has left, she has been very supportive and this is the reason I have come here, Sonata Arctica have always gotten me through tough times and this is no exception, they are one of the bands with the most emotional ballads in my opinion and I have decided to dedicate this song to her, Sonata have always done the honours when it comes to ballads and epic songs like this
Lately I've been so lonely and my feelings are high and low sometimes in an instant and this is a song that makes me think of my dreams to travel by ship and watch the moon shining on the ocean. I can't describe in words in enough detail but definitely on high feelings during this.
Se agradece demasiado que no arruinaran mi cancion favorita de Sonata
Such a great song! Better than the first one, the best song by Sonata Arctica! Legendary! So moving and powerfull. I think I could write pages and pages of text just about the melodies of the song and what they represent...
Que belleza
For me they are dead anyway. I’m really, really sorry for them and my heart’s bleeding when I’m thinking about the story from part I, but I love the story as it was, with this cruelly sad ending, and I see that some people agree with me. But part II is a nice song too and I want to accept it in some way. Someone wrote in comments that it’s their life in heaven or purgatory, and it seems to be quite good interpretation, although I think it’s just protagonist’s vision and dreams, when he dies in waves of the ocean. A few quotes match:
“The music of my chosen gentle tide Turned into a story on the other side (…) "We are alive"” - this “other side” makes me think it’s not reality independently from the rest of interpretation
“All onboard for the very last time Close your eyes, oh calamity (…) See myself in a dream” - it’s only my thought, but it reminds me the final scene of Titanic, when Rose imagine the board where everything’s good and there was no calamity
“There was a lady who was saved from the ocean Without a name to tell” - the line right after the one about dream; it sounds like its description or beginning of fairy tale (“there was”, no name)
“And the joy we knew is still alive, trees so green”, “Gallop across the moorlands” - well, these green trees and horse also sounds too unrealistically, like symbolic motifs
“Music of the seven gentle tides Fade in distance”, “Memories; I used to have a home in the light But the meaning's still escaping me” - a sign that he’s actually dying, and the facts lose their meaning, the most important is what he sees at this moment. Although beside the ideal dreams there is still guiltiness, which appears in some lines.
OK, you can say that’s an interpretation of desperate person because there are elements that suggest I’m wrong, but, damn, it would be a good solution. It doesn’t ruin the tragic beauty of part I, but at the same time adds to the ending some warmth, a kind of hope.
Also, the end of the first song specifically talked about the afterlife ("looking for the resurrection of the body,
when the Sea shall give up her dead, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord).
I absolutely and completely agree with you, Tonks. That's exactly what I thought, and it's the most beautiful and meaningful interpretation of this song, in my opinion.
THIS ❤️❤️❤️they are absolutely not alive!
What? Isn't this the general idea? Why????
I mean if the "solution" was anything else but this it would make the song just a Disney sequel. Absolutely contradicting the meaning of the first part and taking away it's wholeness and just using nostalgia for effect.
As I read the lyrics I didn't even think it could mean anything else.
I didnt quite like this happy ending too. Because its not the Sonata that i have come to love. ( But sometimes, happiness is what we need ^^)
BUT
I think they are alive. First because of " The darkest sea, Refusing me" The sea didnt want him. If he had died, the sea would have "accepted" him
Second "Slowly healing for a fortnight"
And "every night adds colors to the memory" he is starting to remember sometings..
"lady saved from the ocean" i think this is literally saved. She doesnt remember, feel afraid and leave..
"banish by my townsmen" he also leaves the town
"a new face, the beauty.." a new face is probably the child
Finally "we are alive" i think its also literally.
I like these song interpretations. Cheers guys
And the father of the unborn child? Nobody ever thinking of him lol
they both almost died because he has rage issues lol
yeah I think at this point everyone thinks "F@#& him" o.o She wasn't bound to him anyway she was LEAVING
Let's not forget that she cheated on him...
But what about the child actually
Welcome back, good old Sonata :3
Wow. You do this magnificent song justice. Thank you.
Truly amazing. Any word can't describe it.
GRACIAS POR SUBTITULAR LA CANCIÓN, MUY BUEN TRABAJO, espero que subas todas
I fucking love this beautiful song😢 my heart bleeding with every note. Greetings from Spain for all metalheads around the world 🖤🤘🏻
Excelente todo, las imagenes, la cancion... todo.
Tremendo significado lleva está cancion
I'm speechless, it's beautiful...
Sí, Aquí seguimos!!
Elias provided probably one of the best solos he's ever done with sonata in this song.
Sonata una gran banda de metal pronto te veremos en Chile
Hermosa historia y hermosa canción mil gracias SONATA ARCTICA
When you are in love this masterpiece hits harder, I am currently in love with a girl that loves me too and I feel the song different now
Basically made me drop a couple of tears, Only by the greace of the sea...
Just as beautiful as the first, I love them
Perfect Mix from Poesie and metal 💛🤘🤘
A new face, the beauty and the brand new me 🖤
muy buena traducción, mil gracias
thanks for putting a ad in the middle of the song
Hoy desperté con ésta canción dándome vueltas en la cabeza.
Tremendo rolon!!
Whem he said "i found the Lady who was saved by the ocean"...bro, i really felt that
6:36 best part
Hermoso :') 🖤
OMG so beatiful!!!!
Me alegra que tenga su final feliz me traume con la primera parte 😢
I was expecting Wildfire pt 2-3 level of music, however I am pleasantly surprised at the direction this story went
Guitar tab for this song:
www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/sonata-arctica-white-pearl-black-oceans-part-ii-by-the-grace-of-the-ocean-tab-s424214t2?c=58500
www.jellynote.com/en/sheet-music/sonata-arctica/white-pearl-black-oceans-part-ii-by-the-grace#tabs:A
Master piece 😭😭
esta hermosa la cancion :)
cambiaron la tragedia por un final feliz :D
Sonata usually hasnt done well with happy endings in my book. "love" from the last album for instance. But this is good.
Tony has previously stated, when being asked about why all their songs end in tragedy, something along the lines of "happy endings don't make good stories". "Love" was sort of an exception to the rule of not making happy songs, and I've read somewhere that this song was made due to popular demand.I have to say though, I do really like this one.
El solía tener un lugar en la luz la vida que ya no puede recordar 😢😢😢😢
At first I thought the melody of the first line of the 'chorus' in this song was a rehash of the main melody in When the Wild Wind Blows (Iron Maiden), but then I realised that both of them are actually Auld Lang Syne :') This is an awesome song, though, I'm so happy Tony's inspiration appears to have returned :D
Haha, that hadn't occurred to me!
Good job man!!!!
Charlie Escobedo Thanks!
This is the greatest fucking song of all time. Period.
Guys, you should all be commenting these wonderfully nice things in the comment section of the actual SA youtube channel - not here 😂 like this they will never know. The original only has 2 comments right now 😥
That isn't their official channel. Someone made it and uploaded their songs
Amoooo!
VERY GOOD!! thank you my friend,
Belleza de canción
Wow🥰never heard this before now🥳
:'3 Sonata es lo mejor❤
I personally like part 1 more but this is fine
Vale no quiero sonar como una groupie pero esta caNCIÓN ME VUeLVE LOCA JODER, me encanta. ME. ENCANTA. Me casaría con ella si pudiera, sin dudarlo. No puedo ni expresar lo mucho que me encanta. No me canso de escucharla y eso que dura 10 putos minutos, que con cualquier otra canción estaría tirándome de los pelos porque dura mucho pero ESTA, esta no quiero que acabe nunca xdxd Me encanta. :`)
10 minutos que se vuelven eternos
wonderful i like this song
7:45 - 8:32 .... !!!!!! ❤️❤️
Melhor música 🙏
The ending suggest that some of the passengers survived as well
nice pics!
Dia 13 que não chega logo, que agonia para assistir essa banda FODDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I don't get this part very well:
"I've become a true blight
I huddle in the daylight
Banished by my townsmen
With blood in my hands"
I feel it's a bit sudden. Blood in his hands, how? And, while healing, was him all the time in the town he was from?
It's because he failed in his duty as keeper of the lighthouse, as a result - everyone on the White Pearl perished. He was summoned to the town court and banished after that.
He wasn't though, he was set free by the court for the white pearl incident. And this section I mentioned is a good time after his judgement, after he tried to suicide but survived and lost his memory.
Hmm? I didn't really get the part when he was set free by the court. Could you point it out? After I heard 1st part years ago, I thought he was banished and then commited suicide by throwing himself onto the reefs. Here we learn that he didn't suicide, in fact.
He was set free, and called innocent, remember: "Defining innocence is hell after all that has passed." He wasn't banished physically, but he was a social outcast because despite the ruling, most blamed him anyways. "Blood in my hands" probably refers to how he couldn't live with what he had done in the previous song, regardless of whose fault it was.
Perhaps he was banished for while he tried to commit suicide, he was away from the lighthouse once again, and this time for even longer (two weeks), vanishing without a trace or word.
in some places the song reminds me of Hammerfall's angel of mercy must be the piano sequences glad the story got the turn for the better
이노래를 지금 2백번도 더 듣고있어
어떻게 이런 곡을 만드는거지?
도무지 질리질 않네
so is the girl the one from pt 1 or is she new?
The same girl, she survived too. The story has a happy ending. :)
MIRN3S thanks for clearing that up for me, great song!
Id argue that this ruins the beauty of the first song. The fact that both characters die in twisted irony gave the song life and meaning even if it was super dark. Saying "Oh they both survived by some deus ex machina effect" is just not right. If they wanted to continue the song It would've been better if they sung on what happened to the town after, or the legacy they left.
someone said that it's still a sad ending, that everything that happens is in his afterlife.
I pray that it is. Giving this story a happy ending is just asking to be called bad.
Linda....
If there's one thing I do not generaly like about the sequel / part 2 type of songs is that they, most of the time, take away from the meaning of the original, slightly changing the meaning of the story and the events occurred or their endings. I have mixed feelings about this song; while it sounds great as all Sonata's songs, I can't think of anything which potentially follows-up in the characters' plots from the first WPBO.
ya 1 año qué recuerdos :'v
awesome
Love overcomes all
no entiendo.. de quien es la nota del final?.. ?
how can it even compare to first part?
De que trata realmente la cancion? cual es la historia?
Pues mira, para entender porque esta canción es un final feliz debiste haber escuchado primero White Pearl Black Oceans, en la que nos cuentan la historia del cuidador del faro, quien carga en su conciencia la muerte de todos los que estaban a bordo de un barco llamado White Pearl, entre ellos la mujer que él amaba, pues la noche que el barco se accidentó con el arrecife él no estaba en su puesto (el faro), entonces se le hizo un juicio donde lo declararon inocente, pero el no pudo con la culpa y se intentó suicidar.
El encanto de esta canción es que, años despues de que la otra canción salió a la banda se le ocurre contarnos buenas noticias para variar, sucede que la mujer "sobrevivió" al accidente y al parecer el intento de suicidio que nos imaginamos en la primera canción tampoco dio resultado, el punto es que ambos se reencuentran y viven felices por siempre. Bonito ¿No? :v
Tenes q escuchar la parte uno para entenderla
0:17 looks alot like the harbor of Kemi
If i directed a castlevania movie, it will be set in the 1970s and this will be the opening credits.
I have no idea how you tied Sonata Arctica to Castlevania but as a fellow Sonata and Castlevania fan I’m glad to see your comment. 😂