#Nightwish albums

[hauntedwhispers]

❆ ONCE 20th year anniversary ❆ June 7th, 2004 - June 7th, 2024

(insp. ❆ ❆)

[adastra47]

Thank you Floor for breaking us into a million pieces with your beautiful voice and healing us again with this stunning song...

[machetemaiden27mcx]

HAPPY YESTERWYNDE RELEASE DAY FELLOW SLUTS🥰❤🖤❤🖤❤

[corrupted-llama]

Tarja 💜💜💜

Promo from the 'Dark Christmas' album.

[metal-album-of-the-week]

Metal Album of the Week: Nightwish - Yesterwynde

Release: 2024

Length: 1h11

Thoughts: Nightwish was one of the first bands I listened to when going into metal, inspired by Evanescence, and I never really stopped. Nightwish is the peak of the symphonic genre for a reason. To be honest I hadn't been actively listening to them for about a year but I gave the album a try on my commute and it blew me away.

The album cover has the retro feel of the earlier albums (absolutely gorgeous), while the sound is definitely modern Nightwish. It's more symphonic than metal but the arrangements are just as powerful as any metal band.

I genuinely think Floor is one of the best voices in metal right now, not just in the subgenre. This is my bias but I don't really listen to instrumental versions, because the voice is just as much an instrument in my eyes and it's just not as complete an experience imo. Easy to say when you have a vocalist like Floor at hand of course, her variability is an immense plus for a modern, interesting sound while still adhering to Nightwish's 'brand' (the string arrangements come to mind.) The songs work solo but I think the entire album should be listened to as one piece at least once in a while, since they're so in sync it gets hard to hear the boundaries sometimes.

Favorite songs: An Ocean of Strange Islands, The Weave, Spider Silk, Lanternlight

[indiiglow]

YO NIGHTWISH OFF THE SHITS WITH YESTERWYNDE

[nanoa1foryou]

My favourite thing about the band of the year category is scrolling through the nomination descriptions, being like oh, these could all win and then scrolling past Nightwish with their list of the 12 other awards and the three honoraries they've gotten this year. All for an album that then didn't get nominated for album of the year.

[stackslip]

ive never been a metalhead but maybe i should become one

[haveyouheardmetal]

Pictured: Oceanborn, released in 1998

[myvinylplaylist]

Nightwish: Once (2004)

Roadrunner Records

[black-arcana]

[captainjonnitkessler]

Spin away spin away spin away spin away spin aways spin away spin away oh come spin awaaaaaay

SPIN AWAY THE DELICATE SILVER SILK OF YOUR WEB, OF YOUR MASTERPIECE CUT THE THREAD ONCE YOU'RE DONE WITH THE NEWLY DEAD AND WEAAAVVEEE A NEW OOONNNEEEE

[adastra47]

[sheirukitriesfandom]

So, the new Nightwish album is out and...

I have mixed feelings.

At first I was disappointed. No big surprises, no moments that Floored (heh) me—after the first listen I went right back to something else.

However, after listening to it for the fifth time now, it's growing on me. There are many seeds of ideas on it that just weren't realised fully, like the oldschool keyboards in Spider Silk or the 80s influence in The Day Of...

The album definitely lacks variety and the mixing, especially of the singles, is subpar. However, the songs flow well and are, for the most part, distinct enough to stand on their own. I also like the darker atmosphere of the album and the overall "Theme park ride" feel to it.

So, all in all, could be better and I expected better from Nightwish, but it's still a solid album that needs a few listens to shine.

Also, I hear the absence of Marko. Troy is doing a decent job but the shoes he has to fill are just too big. I wanna hear a Floor & Marko version of Sway...

[a-silent-symphony]

📢 NEWS 📢

Nightwish renews their partnership with Nuclear Blast

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #513:

In 2000, the band Nightwish entered the Finnish pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The band's song "Sleepwalker" scored remarkably well with the public, but the jury was not a fan of the symphonic metal style, leading to the band earning third place overall.

However, the album that the song was first featured on, Wishmaster, went on to be the first of the band's many number one albums. Interestingly, "Sleepwalker" was only included as a bonus track.

[Sources]

'Eurovision pre-selection gems: the '00s edition,' Eurovision.tv.

Wishmaster Album, Nightwish.com.