"Tutankhamen"- A song about King Tutankhamen with a very interesting middle eastern feel to the song in the way the melodies were written. Very nice and an underrated song in the Nightwish discography. This one is underrated and demonstrates what Nightwish sounded like before they wanted to be a metal band. A very nice acoustic guitar ballad with synth and Tarja's awesome and soothing voice. The 2001 remake with Tony Kakko is better. However, during the bridge, Tuomas sings again! Oh no! So the song is really amazing, but Tuomas' singing knocks this song off one point. The lyrics are very poetic and Tarja really gives a great performance again. "Astral Romance"- A great intro and a nice medium paced power metal song. The song just does not do it for me at all. For one, Tuomas' singing just flat out ruins it for me, no offense Tuomas, especially in the chorus. This song was the single of Angels Fall First and I think this is one of the weaker songs on the album. "The Carpenter"- A song about Jesus with a middle eastern feel to it. The live version with Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica is better in my opinion.
Tarja, however, comes through and saves this one. It is very progressive in style, and has some very cool melodies and riffs, but the fall of this song is with Tuomas singing it.
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"Beauty and the Beast"- A song obviously inspired by the Disney movie "Beauty and the Beast". Tarja gives a nice vocal performance on this one and the rest of the band performs well too. The song is about Tolkien and Lord of The Rings. "Elvenpath"- A nice medium paced power metal number to start the album. So to review this album, I am going to do a track by track review:ġ. Jukka Nevalainen is the drummer of Nightwish, and his input helped Nightwish achieve new heights as did the rest of the band. At this point in time, Emppu Vuorinen was playing both guitar and bass guitar, leaving the group to have a session bassist while they performed live. He writes most of the material for the band. Nightwish is led by Tuomas Holopanien as their keyboardist and composer. Musically, the band was inspired by a lot of the metal bands that were popular at the time, especially Stratovarius who was Finland's most popular band in 1997. At this point in time, seeing a classically trained operatic female singer in a metal band was almost unheard of at this point in time. The world was ready to hear Nightwish, a very fresh and unique band with a female soprano named Tarja Turunen. The band just signed to Spinefarm Records, which paved the way to many great Finnish metal acts. Nightwish's debut album was Angels Fall First in 1997.
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They are also an inspiration to me in my creative thinking as well and doing a review series of this band is in a way a tribute to them and their music. This band needs no introduction as they are perhaps one of the most unique bands of the last 15 years. To celebrate one of my favorite metal bands, I have decided to review chronologically the discography of Nightwish.
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