Successor (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Successor
Type = EP
Artist = Sonata Arctica


Released = October 18 2000
Recorded = 2000, Tico Tico studios
Genre = Power metal
Label = Spinefarm
Producer = Sonata Arctica
Ahti Kortelainen
Last album = "Ecliptica"
(1999)
This album = "Successor"
(2000)
Next album = "Silence"
(2001)

"Successor" is an EP by Sonata Arctica, released through Spinefarm Records on October 18 2000.

Track listing

# "FullMoon" (Edit) − 4:00
# "Still Loving You" (Scorpions cover) − 4:33
# "I Want Out" (Helloween cover) − 3:52
# "San Sebastian" − 4:46
# "Shy" − 4:18
# "Replica" (Live) − 4:48
# "My Land" (Live) − 4:22

Bonus tracks:
*"UnOpened" (Live)~ − 4:04
*"FullMoon" (Live)~ − 4:54
*"8th Commandment" (Live)+ − 3:54
*"Letter to Dana" (Live)+ − 5:32
*"Kingdom for a Heart" (Live)^ − 3:40

Album info

Successor comprises some live versions of Sonata Arctica's songs, an edited version of the song "FullMoon" from the full length album "Ecliptica", two new songs and two cover songs from German bands.
*~ Japanese and South American versions only
*+ French and South American versions
*^ South American versions only

The cover songs are:
*"Still Loving You", originally recorded by the Scorpions in their LP Love at First Sting (1984).
*"I Want Out", originally recorded by the power metal band Helloween in the 1988 album "Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. II".

The two songs composed for the album are "Shy" (originally a demo from when the band were still called Tricky Means), a ballad and "San Sebastian", that was re-released on the 2001 album "Silence".

Live tracks were performed on June 16 2000 at Provinssirock Festival, Seinäjoki, Finland.