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• Song played from tape Music ( Percussion Intro ) Play Video
• Noise Play Video
• Storytime Play Video
• Tribal Play Video
• Élan Play Video
• Sleeping Sun Play Video
• Dark Chest of Wonders Play Video
• Harvest Play Video
• I Want My Tears Back Play Video
• Nemo Play Video
• How's the Heart? ( Acoustic ) Play Video
• Shoemaker Play Video
• Last Ride of the Day Play Video
• Ghost Love Score Play Video
• The Greatest Show on Earth Play Video
• Song played from tape All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World: Ⅷ. Ad Astra ( Floor sang her vocal parts live ) Play Video

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• How's the Heart?
• I Want My Tears Back
• Last Ride of the Day
• Dark Chest of Wonders
• Ghost Love Score
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• Sleeping Sun

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• Nov 22 2022 Resorts World Arena Birmingham, England Start time: 8:45 PM 8:45 PM
• Nov 23 2022 3Arena Dublin, Ireland Start time: 8:30 PM 8:30 PM
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• Nov 27 2022 Ziggo Dome Amsterdam, Netherlands Start time: 8:45 PM 8:45 PM
• Nov 28 2022 Ziggo Dome Amsterdam, Netherlands Start time: 8:45 PM 8:45 PM

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Nightwish kündigten für den Sommer 2023 zwei exklusive Open-Air Shows in Berlin und Gelsenkirchen an. Dabei handelt es sich um die letzten beiden Deutschland-Shows der „Human :II: Nature World Tour“. Die Band plant keine weiteren Sommertermine 2023 in Deutschland!

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Nightwish | announce re-scheduled european tour dates for 2022.

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NIGHTWISH ANNOUNCE RE-SCHEDULED EUROPEAN TOUR DATES FOR 2022

Get  Human. :II: Nature.  in various formats here:  https://media.nuclearblast.de/shoplanding/2020/Nightwish/human-nature.html Get it digitally, here:  https://nblast.de/NW-HumanNatureDigital

More about  Human. :II: Nature. Noise : https://youtu.be/LczGSoibRe8 Harvest :  https://youtu.be/Xy29T7LBM_I Music :  https://youtu.be/rwz7-h9LCDU Shoemaker :  https://youtu.be/Rjp_DfvJimg Pan:  https://youtu.be/bv5CAFlrNWE How’s The Heart? :  https://youtu.be/F8vuyd9M2LU Procession :  https://youtu.be/OZBpu67tbS0 Tribal :  https://youtu.be/s0bG2ce5blo Endlessness : https://youtu.be/DLFI7Cs7qmk

Listen to the  This is NIGHTWISH Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWSyxnRsmciGD?si=KMiV1C7YQ9KOoZ01NCIfpQ

Human. :II: Nature.  was recorded from August to October 2019 at Röskö campsite, Petrax Studios and Troykington castle, as well as at Finnvox Studios, by  Tero Kinnunen,Mikko Karmila  and  Troy Donockley . The mixing was done by  Mikko Karmila  at Finnvox, with  Tuomas Holopainen  and  Tero Kinnunen . Mastering was done by  Mika Jussila  at Finnvox.

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Nightwish will return to London this December to headline the SSE Arena, Wembley, but the rest of their European dates have moved to next year…

Nightwish have – yet again – had to reschedule their long-awaited Human :II: Nature tour.

The band are now set to hit the UK and Europe this time next year, kicking off their arena run at Birmingham's Resorts World Arena on November 22, and finishing up at the O2 Arena in Prague on December 21.

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Before all that, though, they will be returning to London next month to headline the SSE Arena, Wembley on December 13!

Catch Nightwish, Beast In Black and Turmion Kätilöt live at the following rescheduled shows:

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22 Birmingham Resorts World Arena 23 Dublin 3Arena 25 Berlin Max-Schmeling-Halle 27 Amsterdam Ziggo Dome 28 Amsterdam Ziggo Dome 30 Paris Accor Arena

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1 Dusseldorf PSD Bank Dome 2 Luxembourg Rockhal 4 Vienna Stadthalle 5 Munich Olympiahalle 6 Milan Lorenzini District 9 Frankfurt Festhalle 10 Bamberg Brose Arena 12 Hamburg Barclays Arena 13 Leipzig Quarterback Immobilien Arena 14 Gliwice Arena 16 Zurich Hallenstadion 18 Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 20 Budapest Sportarena 21 Prague O2 Arena

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GALLERY: 25.11.2022 Beast In Black & Nightwish @ Max Schmeling Halle, Berlin

On October 25th, 2022, NIGHTWISH with BEAST IN BLACK hit Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin as part of their Natvre Tour . TURMION KÄTILÖT unfortunately, did not play on this occasion.

The venue welcomed Finland’s power metal act, BEAST IN BLACK , with loud cheers. Bass player  Máté Molnár  and guitarist  Kasperi Heikkinen  greeted the ecstatic crowd with beaming grins of delight as they dove into the opening number, “ Blade Runner .” The high energy and good-times vibe spread quickly as vocalist  Yannis Papadopoulos  belted his first notes. The room was riled up on numbers like “One Night in Tokyo ” and “ From Hell With Love .” The disco beats, wailing guitar solos, and spirited synths had everyone jumping up and down for the majority of the show. The 3-stringed players would often line up and move to some choreographed bit, which had similarities to how the greats like  IRON MAIDEN  and  SCORPIONS  do it. The whole set was a genuine dance party. 

NIGHTWISH  ignited the crowd with the full force of their opening song “ Noise ” from their latest album, “ Human. :||: Nature. .” This was also my first time seeing NIGHTWISH without long-time bassist and vocalist Marko Hietala . However, WINTERSUN bassist Jukka Koskinen did a fine job. Unsurprisingly, they drew deeply from the most recent albums that feature Floor Jansen , with only “ Sleeping Sun ” (from 1998’s “ Oceanborn “) surviving from the pre-2004 albums. It’s the later music that got the biggest cheers, perhaps a reflection of their more recent popularity. During “ Ghost Love Score ,” the audience just got caught up in the song’s emotion, as the music was so pleasing and satisfying to the ears and mind. During the last song, “ The Greatest Show on Earth ,” NIGHTWISH once again gave everything on their musical spectrum: sensitive guitar sounds and piano accompanied by orchestral music. When Floor Jansen began to sing with her crystal clear voice, she was illuminated from behind by a spotlight. When the drums started with hard, fast beats, the guitar riffs also became faster, andthe band’s full force just staggered the arena. At the end, Floor thanked the fans in German.

Overall, the show was massive and fantastic!

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Die Höhle, in der die Musik geboren wurde – NIGHTWISH führen uns in der Einleitung ihres 9. Studioalbums “HUMAN. II: NATURE.” an diesen Ort, zu dieser Zeit, als aus Klopfen und Stimmen erstmals Rhythmen und Harmonien wuchsen. Im Verlauf der Jahrtausende führte die Evolution dieses wunderbaren Kulturguts schließlich über Bach und Beethoven zu Blues, Rock und Heavy Metal – was die Finnen in ihrem Song ‚Music‘ im Zeitraffer nachvollziehen.

Bereits in diesem ersten Track bringen NIGHTWISH all die Elemente ins Spiel, die sie im Verlauf ihrer Entwicklung, seit der Gründung im Jahr 1996 in der karelischen Kleinstadt Kitee, zu ihrem eigenen, unverkennbaren Sound verschmolzen haben. Das Keyboard, welches für Bandkopf, Hauptkomponist und Lyriker Tuomas Holopainen am Anfang der Entstehung jedes seiner Alben steht, kommt ebenso zum Einsatz wie die Uilleann Pipes des nordenglischen Multiinstrumentalisten Troy Donockley. Dessen traditionelle Klangfarben und Stimme stellen seit dem Album „Dark Passion Play“ (2007) und mit Troys Aufnahme als festes Bandmitglied im Jahr 2013 gewissermaßen die letzte, große Bereicherung des Sounds der Finnen dar. Natürlich drückt auch Gitarrist Emppu Vuorinen „Music“ mit einem rockenden Solo seinen metallischen Stempel auf – ebenso wie Ausnahme-Schlagzeuger Kai Hahto, der seit den Aufnahmen zu „Endless Forms Most Beautiful“ (2015) bei den Finnen sein vielseitiges und ebenso hochpräzises wie gefühlvolles Trommelspiel einsetzt. Das pointierte, warme Bass-Spiel des finnischen Rock-Veteranen Marko Hietala, der außerdem seine markante Stimme beiträgt, stützt als zweiter Rhythmus-Grundpfeiler das komplexe Klanggewölbe, dessen imposanter Überbaubau von grandiosen Chören und Streichern veredelt wird.

So wohlklingend die Männerstimmen von Marko und Troy auch sind, denen Tuomas auf diesem Album mit ‚Harvest‘ und ‚Endlessness‘ jeweils einen herausragenden Song auf deren stimmliche Klangkörper geschrieben hat – die gesangliche Führungsrolle liegt eindeutig bei Floor Jansen. Um den vollen Werdegang der Niederländerin zu erfassen, die im Oktober 2012 zunächst aushilfsweise und zwölf Monate später als festes Mitglied bei NIGHTWISH an Bord ging, braucht es ein Buch. Bereits bei den im Jahr 1995 gegründeten und im Jahr 2009 aufgelösten Symphonic-Metallern AFTER FOREVER machte Floor mit ihrer starken Bühnenpräsenz und ihrem kraftvollen, stilistisch vielseitigen Gesang auf sich aufmerksam. In ihren Anfangstagen fällt schon auf, wie hart und zielstrebig die charismatische Frontfrau an sich arbeitet. Ihr unbedingte Wille, die eigenen Grenzen stets zu erweitern, offenbart sich erneut auf “HUMAN. II: NATURE.” Bereits auf dem Vorgängeralbum, „Endless Forms Most Beautiful“ aus dem Jahr 2015, lieferte Floor eine Weltklasseleitung ab, die NIGHTWISHs Orchester-Arrangeur Pip Williams, einem Musikdozenten mit absolutem Gehör, zu der berufenen Aussage brachte, dass „Floor die beste Sängerin für NIGHTWISH ist, da sie alle Stile perfekt beherrscht.“ Auf “HUMAN. II: NATURE.” demonstriert die Niederländerin erneut auf beeindruckende Weise, wie sie technisch höchst anspruchsvolle Passagen mit scheinbarer Leichtigkeit meistert und obendrein mit erstaunlich emotionalem Tiefgang zum Leben erweckt.

Floor steht stellvertretend für ein Charakteristikum der Finnen: Tuomas und NIGHTWISH streben stets nach dem Besten für ihre Musik. Nur allzu oft scheinen Folk-Metaller ihre Instrumentalisten im Pub um die Ecke zu rekrutieren. NIGHTWISH hingegen haben sich mit Troy Donockley einen der derzeit besten Uilleann Piper in die Band geholt. Auch arbeiten Rocker heutzutage gerne mit Orchestern und dabei ist der Preis für viele das entscheidende Kriterium. NIGHTWISH jedoch veredeln ihren Sound mit The London Session Orchestra, die neben Hans Zimmers Orchester in Hollywood an der Spitze ihres Genres stehen. Wie ein Sternekoch, so verfügt auch Tuomas über die Genialität, kompositorisch mit diesen feinsten Zutaten entsprechend virtuos umgehen zu können. Seine potenziert gewachsene Beherrschung der Möglichkeiten des orchestralen Klangkörpers – auch durch die mittlerweile nahtlose Zusammenarbeit mit Pip Williams – findet ihren bislang stärksten Ausdruck im instrumentalen zweiten Teil des Albums, welcher auf einer eigenen CD veröffentlicht wird. Die acht zusammenhängenden, aber weit gespannten Bewegungen des faszinierenden „All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World” sollten als Tuomas‘ „Liebesbrief an diese Welt“ verstanden werden. Dieses musikalische Epos der finnischen Geschichtenerzähler ähnelt in seinem künstlerischen Ansatz beispielsweise den filmischen Betrachtungen irdischer Schönheit des britischen Naturfilmers Sir David Attenborough und können wie diese vielleicht auch zum Nachdenken über den Zustand unserer Erde anregen. Tuomas will NIGHTWISH aber explizit nicht als politische Band verstanden wissen. Die Themenfelder „Mensch“, „Natur“ und „Technik“, „Kunst“ und „Musik“ ziehen sich als roter Faden durch “HUMAN. II: NATURE.”, das aber ausdrücklich kein Konzeptalbum ist. Auch die erste Single „Noise“ und das dazugehörige atemberaubende Video greifen auf selbstironische Weise das Thema des digitalisierten Menschen auf. Letzlich ist “HUMAN. II: NATURE.” eine musikalische Wundertüte, die von Rock bis Metal,von Folk Rock bis Neoklassik und einer immensen stilistischen Spannweite voller magischer Gänsehautmomente steckt, neue Pfade erforscht und dabei doch zu jeder Sekunde 100%  NIGHTWISH bleibt. Als Dreingabe verspricht ein unfassbarer Detailreichtum spannende Entdeckungsreisen, die selbst nach Jahren des intensiven Hörens noch verborgene Geheimnisse finden lassen. Es braucht keine prophetische Gabe, um vorherzusagen, dass die Finnen ihrer Sammlung von 25 Platin- und 20 Goldauszeichnung mit diesem garantierten Klassiker in naher Zukunft noch weiteres Edelmetall hinzufügen werden.

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About Nightwish

Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The band soon picked up drummer Jukka Nevalainen, and then bassist Sami Vänskä after the release of their debut album, Angels Fall First (1997). In 2001, Vänskä was replaced by Marco Hietala, who also took over the male vocalist role previously filled by Holopainen or guest singers. Although Nightwish have been prominent in their home country since Angels Fall First, they did not achieve worldwide fame until the release of the albums Oceanborn (1998), Wishmaster (2000) and Century Child (2002). Their 2004 album, Once, has sold more than one million copies and was the band's breakthrough in the United States. Their biggest US hit single, "Wish I Had an Angel" (2004), received MTV airplay and was included on three US film soundtracks to promote their North American tour. The band produced three more singles and two music videos for Once, as well as a re-recording of "Sleeping Sun" for the "Best of Nightwish" compilation album, Highest Hopes (2005), before Turunen's dismissal in October 2005. Her last performance with Nightwish was during a concert recorded for the live album/DVD End of an Era. After the concert, the other members informed Turunen with an open letter that she was no longer a member of Nightwish. In May 2007, Nightwish announced Anette Olzon as Turunen's replacement. That September, the band released their sixth album, Dark Passion Play, which has sold almost 2 million copies. The album's lead single, "Amaranth", became one of Nightwish's most successful in Europe. The supporting tour, one of the band's largest, started on October 6, 2007 and ended on September 19, 2009. The band released an EP/live album, Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places), in March 2009 as a CD/DVD, and their seventh studio album, Imaginaerum, was released globally on various days in late 2011/early 2012. On October 1, 2012, Nightwish announced that they had parted ways with Olzon and would be finishing the tour with ReVamp and former After Forever vocalist Floor Jansen. In October 2013, Nightwish made Jansen and longtime session uillean pipes player Troy Donockley permanent members of the band, and they were featured in the acclaimed album Endless Forms Most Beautiful, released on March 27, 2015. Nightwish is the third-best-selling band and musical entity in Finland with certified sales of nearly 900,000 certified copies. The group is also the most successful Finnish band worldwide, selling more than 9 million records and receiving more than 60 gold and platinum awards, having released five Number 1 albums and thirteen Number 1 singles.

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Nightwish are a Finnish metal band, who infuse their heavy-hitting sound with symphonic cutaways and choral backing vocals. They are known as much for their gaudy aesthetic as for their progressive, new age fusion of neoclassical and power metal.

Onstage, they adorn themselves with satin and red velvet, black, shin-length leather coats and silver trinkets, mascara and long, warlock-like locks.

Vocalist and keyboard player, Thomas Holopainen is frequently seen in his cabaret-esque top hat, and vocalist/bassist Marco Hietala is equally impressive, with a meticulously maintained double-platted beard.

Lead female vocalist, Floor Jansen, is partial to the odd bit of studded leather and, being classically trained as a soprano at the Dutch Rock Academy, can belt out operatic wails and death growls interchangeably.

Nightwish are some of the pioneers of the symphonic metal sub-genre, alongside Sweden’s Therion, the Netherlands’ Epica and Norway’s Theatre of Tragedy. They formed back in 1996 and lay the foundation for a new, classically-gilt sound that would take off in Scandinavia and across Europe in the 90s and into the 2000s with a new swathe of Nightwish-inspired bands appearing including the likes of Epica out of the Netherlands, Haggard out of Germany and Norwegian Leaves’ Eyes.

Typically of symphonic metal, their influences are expansive and literary, ranging from cinematic musical scores to nursery rhymes and fantasy novels by CS Lewis, JRR Tolkein and Steven King.

Their songwriting draws strongly on fantastical and mythological themes. “Elvenpath” off their debut, Angels Fall First (1997), and “Wishmaster”, the title track of their 2000 album contain an array of references to Tolkien and other fantasy writers, the latter also taking its title from the 1997 horror film directed by Robert Kurtzman and produced by Wes Craven. “FantasMic”, also off “Wishmaster”, is a tribute to Walt Disney and the animations to come out of Walt Disney Studios, amongst the broad list of references being Fantasia, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, The Lion King and Mulan, and the classic Mickey Mouse, Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck.

Other songs touch on darker, perhaps more mature, themes. “She is My Sin” is about frustrated desire and lust, “The Kinslayer” refers to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and “10th Man Down” deals with civil war.

Lyrically rich, classically trained and nerdily fulfilled, for those that aren’t diehard fans, Nightwish are much to be discovered. They are luminaries of symphonic metal with an impressive gambit of intriguing songs.

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When seeing Nightwish live, you are expecting to see the classic female vocals accompanied by the sweet gentle sounds of the orchestra with the soft piano notes in contrast with the heavily distorted guitars and the fast metal drum beats. The sound of all these instruments combined together creates the gothic atmosphere that everyone sees at a Nightwish concert. Strobe lighting with the fire shooting up and down followed by all the firework explosions is certain as the artists are trying to get the fans energetic and fired up ready for a spectacular show ahead of them. When going to a symphonic metal concert, judging by what I have seen of Epica, Withtin Temptation and Nightwish, the fans are energetically jumping around really enjoying themselves and learning to appreciate the music. Nightwish performs symphonic metal with grandiose female vocals. The string instruments and keyboard create the gothic atmosphere. Their music is known to be complex and layered and their approach is theatrical and operatic. It is “always very melodic with memorable choruses” says critic Chad Bowar. The music of Nightwish had been distinguished by the operatic vocals of Tarja Turunen but when she left Nightwish, they left behind their signature soprano or operatic sound. Now their style of vocals have changed as heard by their current vocalist Floor Jansen. Even though Nightwish’s music is centred around a female lead vocalist, they have done some form of variation by featuring some male vocals on their albums throughout all of their history. Something interesting about the experience I had at the Wacken Open Air Festival 2013 was that there was one unusual part where the bassist spoke about a letter that he or the band received about their anniversary and that they said something funny about that they liked sausages meaning romanticism because they were in Germany. The show itself was just simply outstanding and the highlight of the show was Floor Jansen’s supreme vocals that blew the roof off the stage. It was not just Jansen’s incredible singing ability but the entire line up and the way that the band played was astonishing and really rocked the place. They played with confidence and desire to impress the crowd and they succeeded in doing so with style and perfection. You could just see that they were true professionals with tons of experience when it came to playing with enormous crowds. All 82,000 fans would go ballistic whenever the bassist joined in with the singing which proved to be a great combination. They really knew how to get the fans up on their feet and scream and shout, especially with the melodies that they played. They were so beautiful and breath-taking that everyone’s jaws dropped and they were speechless by the end of the show including me because they were that amazing. Considering that this was my first time ever at a metal festival outside of England, this was an extremely unforgettable first experience and it will live long in the memory. I had always dreamed of seeing Nightwish ever since I first listened to them and this will go down as one of the best concerts that I have ever been to in my life. I really recommend other fans that have never seen them live before to check them out because they will never fail to impress with music of such quality. Symphonic metal lovers will all be amazed by how much of a superb show Nightwish can perform and how Floor Jansen’s vocals flatten all of you with shock of how talented and unbelievably awesome she is at singing. When the string instruments and the keyboard join in, it creates that marvellous gothic atmosphere which all gothic or symphonic metal lovers will adore. The entire ensemble itself is just a master class and they play so mouth wateringly well that it will wow anyone during a live concert of theirs. The special effects will add the extra boost of energy to the fans. The band are so good at doing what the special effects can do that no one could ignore their encouragement, it is almost like an order but a pleasant one.

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In a way, it’s important to go to a Nightwish concert with a different frame of mind and a very different set of expectations to what one would normally go to a gig with. When one goes to a rock show they’re usually expecting an event that prioritises atmosphere over a note-perfect recreation over what was on the record. This isn’t the case with Finland’s finest and countless other symphonic metal bands, and this isn’t because they’re playing it safe or that they don’t care about playing live, it means quite the opposite. The music that they have on the record is so intense, complex, and epic in the traditional sense of the word, that playing it live exactly as it is on record makes what was on the record sound even more exciting. They need a choir for some songs? They’ll get a choir for some songs. There’s a famous actor reading a monologue during the outro of their latest album opener? They’ll film the actor reading it and play it on the massive screens they have. They have moments of galloping, film-score inspired excitement, with dazzling heavy metal solos, operatic vocals and lyrics about battles between orcs and men? They’ll be perfectly recreated live, except louder and with pyrotechnics, and pyrotechnics make everything better. Yes, it sounds similar to the record, but that’s because, unlike The Libertines, these cats can actually play their songs. So no, a Nightwish gig is not your average rock show, in fact it has more in common with a Classical music concert, where a decent proportion of the show is spent marvelling at the technical ability of the people on stage. Of course, what’s also encouraged at a Nightwish show is singing, dancing, moshing and pyrotechnics, and all of those things, as we discussed earlier, make everything better. Even if you’re not a fan of symphonic metal, Nightwish are a band that anyone who likes the idea of music with an outrageous sense of scale can spend an evening with and love every moment of it.

I have experienced a lot of metal shows over the years. Experiencing Nightwish on their North American tour vaulted them near the top of my list. Their musicianship, stage presence, high energy, and dedication to the highest caliber audience experience was on full display.

They did several songs of the new album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful and several more from Imaginaerum. The Buffalo, NY crowd got warmed up by Delain and Sabaton, so by the time Nightwish took the stage the audience was fully engaged.

Shows at small venues like the Town Ballroom in Buffalo provide the setting for great sound when done right. Nightwish did the sound right. Floor's vocals were powerful, soaring; Tuomas's keyboards provide so much content in the music you may not believe it until experienced in person. Marco and Empuu's bass and guitars drive, grind, flourish, embellish, and move the musical flow. Kai's drumwork is outstanding and simply has to be seen and felt to be believed. Of course, Troy's mixture of pipes and whistles provide perfect punctuation to the driving beat.

One thing you feel is how truly heavy these guys are. Their performance epitomizes the best of what symphonic metal can be. Their songs have passages of power cords and backbeat that are relentless. Combine that with a theatrical flair, feminine lead vocals, and a tightness to envy and you've got something well worth the price of admission. Two solid hours of metal bliss.

See, hear, and feel Nightwish first hand. Make the trip. You will not be disappointed.

I last saw Nightwish in 2005 in what turned out to be original singer Tarja Turunen's last tour. Her replacement, Annette Olsen never really clicked with me although the two albums she recorded with them are pretty good. however that has all changed for me with the arrival of Floor Jansen, someone I am familiar with from one of her previous bands, After Forever.

From the fist moment Nightwish started their show at a sold-out Wembley Arena it was obvious this was going to be a very special night. From the opening song 'Shudder Before the Beautiful' to the closing 'The Greatest Show on Earth', which they performed the first three parts complete with an appearance from Professor Richard Dawkins who contributes spoken word on the album, it was simply stunning.

A very impressive, and fully utilised, moving light show was supplemented with screens, fireworks, and flames, to provide a spectacular show. Everyone in the band looked to be having the time of their lives, always something I look for as a band "going through the motions" is always easy to spot, with great interaction between them and the crowd.

Personal highlights for me were 'Ghost Love Score' and 'The Poet And The Pendulum' but overall it was as near to a perfect gig as I have ever seen.

-1 out of 10.

They changed the start time some weeks before the gig so that meant I couldn't make it in time and missed Amorphis.

Next up, despite the tickets saying we could take bottles of water in, the door staff insisted that we remove the lids from our water bottles. We had to carry two open water bottles around the arena. I can only imagine what imaginary "threat" this measure was designed to counter.

The sound for Arch Enemy was absolutely terrible. All I could hear (and feel!) was a smashing low frequency rumble. All the detail, even the kick pedal on drums, was drowned out. Vocals and guitar never had a chance of being heard. I've never heard such a complete and total fuckup on sound. I'd have walked out of it wasn't for

Nightwish's performance was good but the sound still wasn't great - lots of bass and ear splittingly loud. It's not like I'm a stranger to loud gigs but this was something else. Ear plugs helped but it was still _really_ loud. It was much better than for Arch Enemy though, so it didn't completely spoil the performance.

Overall, disappointed. I had the cheaper tickets (£40 a pop) and I'll be hassling Gigantic for a refund. I can only imagine what the £110 ticket holders were thinking.

It was my first time watching Nightwish and it will definitely not be the last! What a show! What a feeling! What an experience!

While I did not know half the songs, because I've mostly heard old Nightwish material, back form when I was 15, 16 and 17, I was not the least disappointed, because the sound - the voice - that Nightwish creates together, is simply amazing. I felt like I was in a fantasy world, both happy, sad and hopeful, and it was a beautiful combination. It wasn't too slow, or fast, just a perfect mix of powerful songs, amazing fire effects, strong pictures, wonderful animation sprinkled with hope for our world and the people living here.

When they played some of my favourites, Wishmaster and Ghost Love Score, I got so happy because they mean a lot to me, and because I recognize them. And when they played My Walden, Shudder Before The Beautiful and Storytime, I was equally enchanted, even though I didn't know these songs. Because apparently, that is something Nightwish masters. And they do it very, very well.

Nightwish, a symphonic rock experience as opposed to a simple gig. The band are one of Finland's most internationally celebrated exports as they have achieved commercial success across Europe. They also have a cult-like fan base in the UK and during their last tour the demand to see them was huge.

Beginning with an introduction by the classical Hans Zimmer, the tone is set and the audience applaud loudly as they walk onstage and take to the vast array of instruments. The classical and the conventional instruments sit well together and blend wonderfully during a melange of 'Storytime' and 'Dark Chest of Wonders'.

The audience reacts in different ways as at parts you feel like you are at a rock show and others it is like watching a classical composer. The band build a great rapport with the audience and put them at ease so the applause come more naturally during 'Ghost River' and 'Ever Dream'. By the final dreamy tones of 'Last Ride of the Day', the audience are in total awe of these talented instrumentalists.

This is the kind o concert the dreams are made of. First a support band I wanted to see as much as Nightwish: Amorphis. What I great show! Then other support band I didn't know that well because their sound is not my style but that gave a such great show that I became a fan. That band is Arch Enemy and gave a true great show. Even if much of the crowd didn't seem to understand what was going on since they were more into more slow bands.

And then Nightwish with a great sound. Not the kind of sound you have in the albuns but a true powerful and 100% metal sound, the kind of sound that is headbangable to the most.

In the end the music, the pyro, the whole atmosphere gave us a concert to remember, and to forget the less great albuns from other times. Sadly some old songs were left out of the set, mainly the hit Wishmaster.

I've been hanging out to see these guys for years. I missed the last time they were in Melbourne and had been kicking myself ever since. I even wrote to them in early 2014 to ask when they were coming back. To my surprise they answered and said to sit tight and they'd definitely be back. The wait was worth it. Almost 2 hours straight through, no bullshit encore and a kick-ass show from start to finish. The band were obviously having a great time and were equally enthusiastic to make sure everyone in the crowd did the same. It's a pity the Melbourne noise curfew meant they had to stop on the button of 11PM. Now I just have to wait til they're back again. One last thing: You can't review this show without giving the support band Taberah a huge wrap too. If they're playing in your neck of the woods don't miss them.

Seen last night in Toulouse. Wonderful show! Perfectly played, great sound but most of all, very thoughtful and supportive.

They even played an older song as a tribute to the enduring spirit we should stick to. All the song had a different meaning last night and the leitmotiv "We were here" meant far more than originally intended.

The show was intense but fun also. Musicians were obviously pleased to play for us and were enjoying it all the way. Emppu was playing tricks on everyone, even undoing the shoe laces of the drummer in the end.

In short: great show, musically excellent, great pyros and very emotional. Every thing you wish for in a show.

note: Floor is wonderful.

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