Angels Fall First - Nightwish

Advantages: Some old favourites, brilliant first album
Disadvantages: very raw, not as polished as later albums (not necessarily a 'disadvantage'!)

......"But I'm still here". OK, not technically the same album (line is from End of All Hope, from Century Child), but a good link, I feel. :) Nightwish are a Finnish metal band. Their debut album, "Angels Fall First" was first released in 1996, but the digipak was released in 2002, along with all previous albums to Century Child. As far as debut albums go, this is pretty good, I think. It feels like the opening act to something great - you get a teaser of what they can do, but their talent and ability is still very raw and untapped. There are a few songs on "Angels..." that are still firm favourites with the band's fans - such as "Beauty and the Beast", which is performed on the album by [former] singer Tarja Turunen and Tuomas (keyboards). I have heard this performed live, with Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica doing the male voal... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic debut, original,
Disadvantages: bad male vocals, 1 or 2 cheesy lyrics

...Nightwish are from Finland, and formed in 1996, Angels Fall First was their first album. Members: Tarja Turunen - Vocals Tuomas Holopainen - Keyboards Jukka Nevaleinen - Drums Emmpu Vuroinen - Guitar Sami Vanska - Bass 1) Elvenpath Elvenpath is an excelent opening song to the album, it starts of with a small spoken passage from Tarja, and then the songs gets heavy with Emmpu's riffs, its a very fast and energetic song, and sounds kind of power metally, the song ends with a nice solo by Emmpu. 2) Beauty and The Beast In this song Tuomas decides to sing and the result is awful, i'm quite used to his vocals and don't mind them, but newcomers to the band will hate it along Tarja's skilled operatic vocals. Back to the beginning of the song, it starts out with keyboards and rhythem riffs, before opening into the verse where Tuomas... Read review

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Advantages: Good Sound and new male vocals
Disadvantages: More than half of songs are old songs

...Firstly when I bought this album, my friend told that it is an EP album. Although this album is an EP, but it contains 10 awesome songs. 1 cover song, 1 new song, 1 old song, 1 remake song and 6 songs taken from their concert. Opening with Gary Moore song "Over the Hills and Far Away" and continue with "Tenth Man Down", listener has to have a middle age battle feeling. It then cool down with "Away". At 4th track, they remake "Astral Romance" from old album "Angels Fall First", new male vocal appeared in this song. 5th to 10th were taken from concert in Tampere on 29.12.2000 : The Kinslayer She Is My Sin Sacrament Of Wilderness Walking In The Air Wishmaster Deep Silent Complete Male voices appeared in this EP are Wilska, Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica) and Tuomas Holopainen himself. Overall, this EP is more like full album, I recommend... Read review

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