★★★★★
The soap opera that is Nightwish kicked offa new season in 2012 with the mid-tour departure of lead singer Anette Olzon, and this collection records the off-stage shenanigans captured during their hastily re-routed road trip and triumphant arrival at the Teutonic metal Valhalla of the Wacken festival.
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-12-06
★★★★★
Nightwish have released the score to their eagerly anticipated movie ?Imaginaerum? The Album features 13 grandiose, unreleased re-interpretations of ?Imaginaerum? tracks by Petri Alanko. It is largely orchestral, dark, emotive and surprisingly effective ? I am not generally a fan of scores without the imagery that they are designed to support or improve but here the music has its own power and story...
- www.music-news.com
2012-12-16
★★★★★
Sound: First of all, if you expect the "old Nightwish" opera sound you won't get it. I would say that this is a new band. But I prefer their new sound. I know that most Tarja fans would want to kill me after the last sentence. This is Ultimate-Guitar so I guess I should say a bit about Emppu Vuorinen's great guitar playing. It's, again, on a very high level, great riffs some hard shredding (in Master Passion Greed) and a typical Nightwish guitar...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Angels Fall First was initially the second demo album of the now famous Symphonic Metal Group known as Nightwish, and turned into their debut album after they signed with Spinefarm Records. Nowadays, Nightwish is one of the most epic metal bands out there, and has even moved people to tears on occasion, but back in 1997, Nightwish sounded very different...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: It seems so long ago that Nightwish's symphonic brand of metal crossed over into the mainstream, with songs like "Nemo" becoming popular across several European countries. It's not coincidental, particularly considering the success of other female fronted bands in contemporary metal; bands like Lacuna Coil and Within Temptation. Nightwish has a reputation for being heavier than the music actually is...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Impression: Nightwish is one of my hard/heavy rock favourites of all times, because of their wonderful mixture of deep, touching melodies and probably one of the best female vocalists in the world, Tarja Turunen. Make no mistake here; Tarja alone is a *very* good reason for buying at least one Nightwish album!! The groups fourth studio album starts well. Bless the child is as classic Nightwish as it gets - and Tarja Turunen sings like an angel...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: For those of you who haven't heard Nightwish, you don't know what you're missing. They are one of the greatest bands out there. To describe their sound, it's power/goth metal with some more heavy songs and some amazing ballads. The first thing one would notice listening to this album is the intricate and incredible guitar work of guitarist Emppu. The riffs are fast, intricate, and catchy, with enough power to make you head bang, especially in "Romanticide"...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Now I understand why many music lovers have been proclaiming Imaginaerum as Nightwish's greatest album. The record - a concept album about an old composer on his deathbed - is an epic adventure, which straps you down, right at the front of this gigantic, ambitious and masterful rollercoaster of composition, and leaves you breathless...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2012-01-19
★★★★★
"... the latest masterpiece from Nightwish is a sonic journey through a character's imagination that tempts the listeners to open theirs. There are songs that combine strange, bold, daring, sensual, bombastic, and above all epic elements." Somewhere in a small Finnish town, a bizarre carnival of the mind exists. It is filled with death-defying feats of both wondrous and terrifying acts. It is a fun house of horror and macabre that forces the mind into a roller coaster of cascading terror...
- www.metalunderground.com
2011-12-13
Loading...
