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Cheese, please! European keytar metal to cheer up Boise

Submitted by Michael Deeds on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 11:53am.

King Henry: Put them in the iron maiden.
Bill and Ted: Iron Maiden? Excellent!

Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica will perform Sept. 11 at the Knitting Factory (still called the Big Easy as of now). For kids recently turned on to power metal by comically quick happy-metal band Dragonforce, this is a rare, must-see example of fine, aged cheese. (Sonata Arctica has been around for a decade.) Witness Sonata Arctica’s “Don’t Say a Word”: specifically, the faces and posturing from keytar player — yes, KEYTAR player — Henrik Klingenberg. (Keytar solo at 2:38, followed by face-melting guitar shred.) Angry American metalheads have sooooo much to learn from their pleasantly ridiculous European brothers.