Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
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Artist: NightwishEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Music Label: Roadrunner Records
Soundtracks:
- The Poet And the Pendulum
- Bye Bye Beautiful
- Amaranth
- Cadence Of Her Last Breath
- Master Passion Greed
- Eva
- Sahara
- Whoever Brings the Night
- For the Heart I Once Had
- The Islander
- Last Of the Wilds
- 7 Days To the Wolves
- Meadows Of Heaven
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Free Music Review: Better then expected!
Hit: 5 Stars
Beginning to like Nightwish after Tarja left made it easier I suppose to me to like this album, but I went back and acquired all of the others as instructed. People told me it would change my opinion, but it didn't! Anette is a fine replacement for Tarja! Her vocal skills are not quite soprano, but they are very reputable and she holds her own! "Sahara" is a great track and so is "The Islander", though it takes a bit of getting used to at first. The album is the first step into a new era for Nighwish and with this one as good as it is I can't wait to see where the band will go next!
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Nightwish returns with an ambitious epic metal opus that begins promisingly enough but quickly devolves into another formulaic power rock affair. The band's at its most powerful and convincing on the opening "The Poet and the Pendulum" (all 14 minutes of it), the dynamic "Bye Bye Beautiful," and the infectious pop-inflected "Amaranth." But mid-album tracks such as "Sahara," "For the Heart I Once Had," and the limpid closer, "Meadows of Heaven," retread familiar ground that reminds us of epic metal's more disappointing tendencies--faux pop, bombastic bombast, anemic anthems, and a penchant for the maudlin. With new vocalist Annette Olzon in the ranks, the Finnish outfit stands poised to make a thoroughly convincing and wholehearted classic (listen to "The Islander" for further proof) but falls short, delivering a decent but distracted recording. It's too ambitious, too scattered, and, simply, too long--and that's too bad. --Jedd BeaudoinAlthough it is their sixth studio album,Dark Passion Play marks the beginning of a new era for Finnish symphonic metal masters Nightwish. With new vocalist Annette Olzon onboard, Nightwish returns with their most accessible material to date. Firmly rooted in their trademark symphonic sounds featuring elaborate keyboard and guitar parts blended seamlessly with intricate string and choir sections, Olzon's vocals have more pop sensibility as they are far less operatic than those of her predecessor. This is perfectly exemplified in the vocal melodies in Amaranth, Eva and the scorching duet with bassist Marco Hietala titled Bye Bye Beautiful. Nightwish mastermind Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards) not only wrote all the lyrics and all but two songs on the album, but also helmed the project as one of the producers along with T.C. Kinnunen and Mikko Karmila, who also mixed the album. Dark Passion Play has already made history as Finland's most expensive recording project to date with massive string sections and choirs and it is clearly evident in the impeccable production. Nightwish have taken the symphonic elements of their prior works and infused them with a new voice to create a sound representative of the album title: dark, playful and, most of all, passionate.
2007 Return of the Finnish Band with their Sixth Full Length Album that is Richer and More Varied Than Before, Touching Lightly on More Ethnic Flavours and Being as Ever Bombastic as it Bloody Well Can Be. The Heavenly Voice of New Singer Anette Olzon Carries Through Bright and Powerful - and also More Varied Than that of her Predecessor. She Truly is What Nightwish's Music Deserves.
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