Hi, I'm a British expat who currently lives in Poland. I teach English and travel. I keep a blog ca...
Hi, I'm a British expat who currently lives in Poland. I teach English and travel. I keep a blog called "A Band A Day" If you'd like to check it out http://www.muscineverdied.com
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Nightwish more or less perfected the female fronted Symphonic metal sound throughout the late 90s and beginning of this millenium culminating in the commercialy uber-succesful album Once in 2004 which reached no.1 in the album charts in the majority of Europe (somehow only got to no.102 in the UK..), from that moment on it was bound to take something awesome to beat what they had done. Whilst a lot of praise has to go to the quality of the musicians, a lot of the band's sound came from the enormous range of vocalist Tarja Turunen.
Dark Passion Play was the first album without her, there had been a 3 year break and everyone was wondering how Swedish vocalist Anette Oldon would fair. By this time Nightwish had already started to become incredibly predictable and commercially everywhere that they were beginning to get on my nerves.
This album was the chance to redeem themselves by creating something new with the new line-up, it seemed to me though that the album was a poor version of some of their older work with little new forcing it's way into the fray. I've basically given up on the band due to this album, Once was commercial and predictable but still very good, this has the same heavy songs to ballad ratios and there are no unexpected twists yet it's lacking something and simply isn't as good as Once. Dark Passion Play is for me, not only commercial but poor too!
Disc: 1 1. Poet And The Pendulum 2. Bye Bye Beautiful 3. Amaranth 4. Cadence Of Her Last Breath 5. Master Passion Greed 6. Eva 7. Sahara 8. Whoever Brings The Night 9. For The Heart I Once Had 10. Islander 11. Last Of The Wilds 12. 7 Days To The Wolves 13. Meadows Of Heaven
Disc: 2 1. Poet And The Pendulum 2. Bye Bye Beautiful 3. Amaranth 4. Cadence Of Her Last Breath 5. Master Passion Greed 6. Eva 7. Sahara 8. Whoever Brings The Night 9. For The Heart I Once Had 10. Islander 11. Last Of The Wilds 12. 7 Days To The Wolves 13. Meadows Of Heaven
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Finally I found someone who shares my opinion on their new album...
I think they are getting tired and just hope they will get better again, as I really liked the band
Feb 17th, 2009
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