Meanwhile, Henrik Klingenberg burns up the ivory with synthesized classical runs that would give Richard Andersson goose bumps. All in all, Klingenberg is the main attraction musically on Unia and has been the subject of my attention since he joined Sonata Arctica in 2004, not to mention his work in Silent Voices. Tony Kakko is in his usual cheesy form, singing overly dramatic and emotional airs of troubled and/or failed relationships, a common theme throughout Unia and all Sonata Arctica albums. At times his vocal enunciations seem a bit out of place as if he wasn’t on the same page as the rest of the band, however, he hits the nail right on the head with Queen-like multi-layered voicings on “The Vice” and “My Dream’s But A Drop Of Fuel For A Nightmare”.
Though the album isn’t a complete failure, it is significantly less inspired and focused than anything Sonata Arctica has done to date.
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