It strayed more away from the more obvious references to melodic “power” metal, and showed promise of a band that was really starting to find its own sound, a band that would yet become something greater. The final shackles of labeling scattered with the release of their fourth album, entitled " Century Child". Just one year after it’s release, and seven years after Tarja’s acrimonious departure, Anette would leave in a similarly dramatic hail of fire, but she left behind her the band’s crowning opus.As four guys looking like they’re fresh out of high-school and a girl in leatherpants played at the legendary rock-venue Lepakko in Helsinki, Finland, no-one could’ve known that one day they would be performing gigantic tours and would become the most successful band to ever come from Finland with album sales in figures with more than six digits, well known by their name NIGHTWISH.įrom their first album of " Angels Fall First" onwards Nightwish gradually grew, or rather evolved. For every Nightwish-on-steroids dazzler like Storytime, Ghost River and I Want My Tears Back, there’s a volte-face like the jazz lounge of Slow, Love, Slow or haunted circus-top horror of Scaretale, while Last Ride Of The Day gave the band their most colourful anthem. Every member of the band puts in the performance of their lives, in particular, Anette Olzon sounds completely at home fronting the band by this point, while stylistically, this is Tuomas’ most ambitious experimental moment to date. Described by Tuomas as a “celebration of life”, their seventh album was a sprawling, wide-eyed wonder that explored the depths of every human emotion and experience, threw everything at the wall and watched it all stick. For newbies, this is the best place to start.Īfter the darkness of Dark Passion Play, with Imaginaerum, Nightwish stepped back into the light.
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With Once, the band perfected their symphonic drama and left their peers in the dust. Once brandishes many of the band’s most famous songs and saw Tarja on the form of her life: the tempestuous Dark Chest Of Wonders, stomper Wish I Had An Angel, wintery anthem Nemo and their career-defining moment, the extraordinary Ghost Love Score. The album that introduced Nightwish to the masses. It’s no surprise this was the record that turned Nightwish into festival and arena headliners. Then there’s The Greatest Show On Earth, a 25-minute show-stopper most bands could only dream of writing.
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From the full-pelt throttle of Shudder Before The Beautiful and cinematic bombast of Weak Fantasy, to the Celtic flourishes of Elan to the life affirming anthemia of Alpenglow, it’s a constant stream of brilliance. Nightwish’s first album with Floor Jansen is a high-concept exploration of evolutionary science, narrated by scientist Richard Dawkins and an absolute triumph.
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“But it definitely saved my mental health.” “It would be an exaggeration to say Dark Passion Play saved my life,” he would tell us later. New singer Anette Olzon’s poppier style works perfectly on those prettier moments while some of Tuomas’ most stunning lyricism is on display here - “ The good in her will be my sunflower field” (Eva). Tuomas poured every drop of his anger, hurt and disappointment into the dark majesty of glorious epic, The Poet And The Pendulum and Bye Bye Beautiful, but this is also a record of devastating beauty. Continuing the magical, Narnia-like atmospherics the band began building on their second album, Oceanborn, on the track, Dead Boy’s Poem, Wishmaster is notable as the moment Tuomas began to explore the Peter Pan-esque concept of lost childhood and innocence, themes he would return to again and again in Nightwish’s later work.įollowing their messy and very public split with Tarja, who was fired in 2005 via an open letter, the band’s next record was an unsurprisingly intense affair.
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Grand designs are evident even at this early stage and the operatic vocals of original singer Tarja Turunen are ever striking, but these simple tracks show little of the pomp and splendour further down the road.Ĭlosing the door on the band’s early power metal chapter, Wishmaster saw the band growing in confidence even if it is their most forgettable collection of songs. Tuomas Holopainen is many things, but a singer isn’t one of them – this album is the only time he would take on co-vocal duties – and let’s not get started on the awkward lust of Nymphomaniac Fantasia. Nightwish’s rough and ready debut has not aged well. Nightwish’s Floor Jansen: “After 20 years of metal, I would like to do something else”.Nightwish's Nemo: The Story Behind The Song.Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen: 10 albums that changed my life.