Pariah's Child is the eighth studio album by Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica.

It is the first Sonata Arctica release with new bassist Pasi Kauppinen, who replaced Marko Paasikoski.

In a June 2013 interview concerning keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg's own band Silent Voices, he confirmed Sonata Arctica would go into recording for their eighth studio album in September 2013.

[9] On 9 January 2014 the band announced via their official website that the album would be titled Pariah's Child and would be released on 28 March 2014.

"[12] He also commented:[12] I think it sort of started with the fact that our first album was released 15 years ago and now we are going to have an anniversary tour.

[13] The opening track and first single, "The Wolves Die Young", was described by Henrik as a typical Sonata Arctica song.

The band was filmed performing in Lahti on the course of 2 or 3 hours while producer Patric Ullaeus handled the rest of it in Sweden.

Tony said he wrote the lyrics on a train ride to the studio the day after Lou Reed died, and the track was in a way a tribute to him.

[14] Henrik considers "Take One Breath" as the most progressive song of the album, with a piano work that demanded bigger efforts from him.

[16] Kakko wrote it on the course of two or three hours in a morning and showed it to his band mates later that night during a sauna party in his house.

I decided to throw rocks at those people who blindly give their lives away to religion or other weird organizations like cults.

Tommy used two different drum kits in this song, whereas Pasi played the fretless bass guitar.

[16] Kakko created the song after fooling around with some orchestra sounds, by joining different pieces of music together.

[15] The lyrics tell the story of an actor at young age that gets a role that makes him very famous, and life eventually provides him with everything an artist could wish.

[16] In another interview, Kakko, gave a different version of his end, stating the character was frustrated for having nobody to share his achievements with and he ultimately decides to search for someone, who he eventually finds.