Sonata Arctica breekt met gitarist
De heren van Sonata Arctica hebben besloten om gitarist Jani Liimatainen permanent uit de line-up te zetten. Het statement van de band luidt als volgt:
“As many already know, our guitarist Jani Liimatainen has been absent from the line-up this spring and summer. The reason was his messing around with his compulsory military/civil/prison duty, or rather, complete failure to take care of it.
This matter, and everything that goes with it, caused a split between Jani and the other band members. This split was impossible to mend without Jani’s help and co-operation.
Therefore we would like to make known the following: During fall of ’06 and spring of ’07, Jani’s personal matters and actions drove us to a situation where we had no option but to ask Jani to leave the band.
Jani was notified of this in May, and the separation was amicable. We wanted to give Jani the chance to get his life together before making this public, which is why we didn’t make this announcement earlier. We wish Jani well on his chosen path.”
Jani’s vervanger luistert naar de naam Elias Viljanen en zal tijdens de Europese tour, die later dit jaar van start gaat, voor het eerst zijn opwachting maken als volwaardig lid van de band.
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