Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
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Free Music Review: Incredibly SAD, from now on Nightwish is dead to me.
Hit: 1 Stars
If I knew that the new singer was this bad, I wouldn't have even bothered spending my money on this tragic ending to a once stellar band. New vocalist is tone-deaf, I swear.. I knew I should have sent in my demo when they were searching, and I very much regret not doing so. I feared that this would happen as soon as Tarja was asked to leave the band.
This is the end of Nightwish. I cannot wait to sell this album, I might just chuck it out my window the more thought I put into it. Musically, it isn't that bad but the vocals are absolutely horrendous. Any true fans of Nightwish must be weeping their little hearts out at the thought of this new downgrade they added to the picture. (New singer)
I bought it in good faith, but was seriously let way way down. Are we heading into a generation with no sense at all? I think so, and the feeling I had for Nightwish will stay with them for all albums past. There really is no excuse for this travesty and I can only hope to grow fond of Tarja's new solo album, but I think it will take some time.
My heart goes out to anyone who heard this album and was also incredibly let down.
Free Music Review: To the Next Level
Hit: 5 Stars
Okay, I decided to really digest and take my time on reviewing this one, and yes, I've concluded that it is most definitly a 5-star album.
While the new singer does not have the operatic reach as we're used to with Nightwish, but rather more of a "pop-ish" voice/range, it doesn't matter because it fits and the music is truly spectacular. While "ONCE" is a true masterpiece, this one actually outdoes it musically.
The opener, "THE POET & THE PENDULUM" is a magnificent opener, similar is scope to one of Nightwish's other powerful songs, "Ghost Love Score." This 11 minute tune blisters-- truly divine.
Some other standout songs include "Bye, Bye Beautiful," "Amaranth," and the pop-ish, yet majestic, "For the Heart I once Had."
For the metal heads there is "Whoever Brings the Night."
And then there is the acoustic, folksy "The Islander" which I positivly adore. It sounds like a tune the Hobbits may gather together to sing while out at a campfire.
This is just a flat out awsome album. They've tweaked, evolved, changed, whatever you wanna call it, but I can honestly say, it works.
Free Music Review: Fabulous!
Hit: 4 Stars
My first Nightwish cd was "Once". I really enjoyed it, but musically, "Dark Passion Play" is superior. I like the new female vocal lead. She has a very 'listenable' voice. My favorite track is "Amaranth". I could put that song on a loop and listen to it all day!In a time when most pop cd's barely have 40 minutes of tunes, this CD has 75 minutes of music, which is a bargain for the price. Free Music Review: A new direction
Hit: 4 Stars
It's the rare band who can replace their long time lead singer and still have success. When the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish fired their singer Tarja Turunen back in 2005, their fans panicked. After all, Nightwish's claim to fame was Tarja's delicate vocals over some pretty slamming metal. With the addition of singer Anette Olzon, however, Nightwish seems to have regained its equilibrium, and "Dark Passion Play," the first album with Anette singing, is at once the band at its most familiar and taking steps towards evolving.
Go on any message board with a Nightwish topic and the battle lines are fiercely drawn between those who believe that Nightwish is awful now without Tarja and those who think the band has improved with Anette. Personally I was never fond of Tarja, whose voice is beautiful but looked like an overly painted marionette at live shows. Anette, while perhaps not as technically perfect a singer as Tarja, is nonetheless an impressive vocalist who actually looks like she's having fun onstage. That spirit shows in songs such as the downright bouncy "Amaranth" (I know, Nightwish and bouncy, odd combination). She also acquits herself admirably on "Eva" and the lead-off opus "The Poet and the Pendulum." As these songs were originally written long before she joined the band, for the most part she does a great job.
The bad blood between Nightwish and Tarja comes to a boil in two songs, both mostly sung by bassist Marco Hietala. "Master Passion Greed" is a snarled rebuke of Tarja's husband, who many believe started the friction between her and the band, while "Bye Bye Beautiful," arguably the album's best song, is keyboardist/songwriter Tuomas Holopainen's scathing kiss-off to his one-time school friend ("Did we get this far just to feel your hate/Did we play to become only pawns in the game/How blind can you be, don't you see/You chose the long road but we'll be waiting").
Overall, "Dark Passion Play" is Nightwish's most accessible album yet. It's not perfect--Tuomas, PLEASE stop reading Tolkien and watching Disney movies before you write albums--but there is a warmth to the music now that was missing with Tarja at the mike. Nightwish is a different band with Anette singing--and in this case, it's quite all right.
Free Music Review: They still got it...
Hit: 4 Stars
The new album with Anette...honestly, I didn't even want to get this album because I knew nothing could to compare to Tarja's classically trained powerhouse voice.
But I'm glad I did get it. The writing is awesome as usual, and it was extremely refreshing and exciting to hear "The Islander" and "Last of the Wilds" with Celtic twists. It was new but perfect for the band's new album. I'm also partial to "Bye Bye Beautiful" and "7 Days to the Wolves".
The point is, this album is filled with good songs. Tuomas still remains one of the greatest composers out there. But, I miss Tarja. Anette is a great singer, but the absence of the operatic vocals is so un-Nightwish that I feel sometimes like I'm listening to girl power rock music or something...But still, good job Nightwish, I will definitely still remain a loyal fan.