Nightwish

Weird title. But will be nice to hear music. But Nightwish are close to becoming Rhapsody (of fire) when it comes to album sequensing. Start with a quick track, nr 2 and 3 the hits, 4 is a mystical one…Sway will probably be a nice ballad, but Spidersilk will probably be a great banger!
 
Wow. The title and the artwork (and the song titles, to a degree) feel like coming from a completely different band, to be honest, but I don't really mind - it already looks better than the last two albums, at least. I'm getting actually excited.
 
I like the name and cover art is great. And song titles are interesting.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful along Once is my favorite Nightwish albums.

Found this on Reddit:

posted by Soft-Bonus8957:

Very cool things Tuomas said about the album:
1_ Yesterwynde is a made up word by Troy. It stands for that sense of realization you can feel by looking at the past and understanding it's all connected.
2_Tuomas was inspired by those old videos from late '800/first '900 colorized, I've seen a lot of those on youtube and I could never guess they could become an inspiration for a Nightwish album.
3_ Children of Ata is the story of a group of children survived alone on a desert island in 1965.
4_The Antikythera song is inspired obvously by the greek mechanism (the first "computer") but had nothing to do with Indiana Jones (luckly). Tuomas read about it on a science magazine.
5_ Perfume of the Timeless is nearly 10 minutes long. And it's the first single. They're crazy.
6_ It's not the last album by Nightwish.

Tuomas Kerrang interview
 
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Cool interview, thanks. I was surprised they made a new multi album deal.

They still need to do the acoustic album and the orchestral concert begore they end
 
I want more of their earlier style on this album or just more guitar/parts-oriented again (and I kind of feel like it could be different), but looking at the weird title, some of the songs titles, 10-minutes long single(?) and the cover (which is intriguing), I'm not sure. It's all Nightwish though. I'm not excited, but the album's themes sound interesting.
 
Kalata said:
I want more of their earlier style on this album or just more guitar/parts-oriented again (and I kind of feel like it could be different), but looking at the weird title, some of the songs titles, 10-minutes long single(?) and the cover (which is intriguing), I'm not sure. It's all Nightwish though. I'm not excited, but the album's themes sound interesting.
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I don't expect anything that'd slap like Elvenpath or Sacrament of Wilderness, for I'd surely be sorely disappointed, I'm also worried that Tuomas will remain in that obnoxiously preachy mindset, but at least it's all semingly coming rather from a left field, so I can't help but feel somewhat intrigued.
 
The 1st single is very typical and not bad, but at the same time it didn't grab me much. The nice verses and the (effective) chorus has that classic Nightwish vibe. The pre-chorus works for the atmosphere. This could have been a song from the Anette era. The heavy/trash-y part with the ''oh-oh'' vocals is a cool idea and reminds me of their early albums. A needed change of pace. The intro is atmospheric and picture-esque, but a little too long for what's already been achieved (kind of like the outro, but not quite), the main melodic sounds like the one for ''Noise'' and there's no solo/s again or prominent melody(?). Why. Overall, a kind of a solid start, compared to the previous whole album, but far cry from their best. Maybe the album will be like H:II:N (no heavy use of guitar, more keyboards, although this song has riffs) with some twists and an old-school sound here and there.
 
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Just watched the new video. I don't like nor the song nor the video. The melodies are really oppressive and they are all the same on every album since 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful'. Nothing new. No evolution of the NW's sound. The 'Once' album is far and I miss the Tarja era a lot.
 
Listened the new single.

Sounds like Nightwish! I like Nightwish.

As of yet, I don't have particularly strong feelings for either way, but I enjoyed it anyway. Then again, I'm one of those who absolutely love Human :||: Nature too. ;)
 
Song is okay. Heavy interlude was cool. Still can’t help but feel that the band’s sound hasn’t changed much over their last four or five albums, though; still just an orchestra with a band buried underneath it.

The video is exactly what I expected; another biology lesson with enough pretentiousness to fill an ocean. I’m trying to keep an open mind regarding this album, but if it’s anything like their last abomination, it won’t be in my rotation for long.
 
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