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...
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I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.
It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.
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God but the final breach of decorum right before everything goes to hell.
He’s Ody. Not Captain. Not the king. His is a friend and brother. Even after betrayal after betrayal on both sides. Even with the blood of hundreds on both of their hands. Both of them are pleading for the other to understand.
And in the end it doesn’t matter.
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Tag game from @wispstalk: post your 9 favorite album covers. Aesthetics, not necessarily favorite albums.
Got tagged by @dirty-bosmer and @skyrim-forever. Thank you, you know how much I love to nerd about music & related topics. All metal this time because let's face it, we just got the best album covers. We wear them on shirts for a reason 😁
1. Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
I actually have a favourite album artist:
Dave Patchett, responsible for those gorgeous Cathedral album artworks as well as the Electric Wizard debut album and, funnily enough, the infamous artwork of Dance of Death by Iron Maiden. However, the band used the barebones prototype, which resulted in Patchett not wanting to be credited.
What I love about those covers is not just their freaky, Hieronymus Bosh-esque design, but also that they come as posters in the actual booklets, so one can really appreciate all the little details.
2. Kamelot - The Black Halo
I love the sinister undertone of this artwork, befitting a two-album story loosely based on Goethe's Faust.
3. Ghost - Meliora
This is a cover that warrants a second look. At first it's just sinister in the same way how, at night, some people tend to interpret grimaces into everyday things. But then you take a closer look and see that there's some sort of sacrifice going on.
4. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
You look at this artwork and know everything there is to know about the album, from the topic to the sound. And both punch you in the face.
5. Epica - The Holographic Principle
Not much to say here; I just love the use of colour in this piece.
6. Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
I love how this artwork feels like a painting from the late 18th/early 19th century. Also, it's one of those tell-tale artworks. You know this album is atmospheric, brutal, and about Moby Dick.
7. Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud
This is an album artwork where, the longer you look at it, the more details you spot. At first it just looks like an abstract pattern but then...
8. Subrosa - More Constant than the Gods
Minimalist elegance compared to the rest of the list, but no less beautiful and very fitting for the album.
9. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
This artwork fits the album soo well. I love how those people almost seem to interweave, just like their lives are intertwined on the album. I also love how this artwork conveys intimacy despite only depicting two approximations of people. There's also a hint of darkness in there—love it!
Tagging: @elavoria @thequeenofthewinter @miraakulous-cloud-district @littlegalerion @alma-amentet and @nostalgic-breton-girl
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Extremely rough first stab at the Taz Vs. Dracula lineup bc I love them all so so much already and don’t have the time to finish a lineup of characters for fun rn 🥲
Close up sketches, design notes and surprise drac under the break:
Travis’ characters are always the hardest for me to design idk why, but I made him very western inspired with some vampire hunting flair. Lady Agatha Thistle’s breed was one I hadn’t heard of before but I love a good blood hound. I always end up making Travis’s chapters warm toned, they’re all very red/orange coded to me. (Beef would be the exception I think he’s very pink and blue in my mind)
Clint always makes the sweetest roundest characters I love designing his. I wish we had a cannon spelling because there’s so many directions you can go with “Filo” also his characters are usually green or green adjacent to me. I cant wait to see him bust out more booger potions
Justin never misses with a character and I cling onto every single one he makes so quickly and violently it’s getting embarrassing. I like the idea that she would still dress extremely fancy and posh even tho her new body should be in some battle ready armor. Also I made her blue since she is a Frankenstein’s monster and most likely wouldn’t have the blood flow to have a human color. Plus I love the monster high color palettes so I’m referencing a little bit. Justin has very cool coded characters to me, lots of blue and purple and forest greens.
Probably not sticking with this Dracula design but I want him to love a bit more silly and slick, I think having him be lanky and shorter will pair him very well against our rough and rowdy boys
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I was listening to the radio in the car yesterday because my phone was refusing to play through the speakers, and in my head I was spinning it into a positive, like “well now I can see what music is actually popular right now instead of what Spotify picks for me according to my tastes,” like by dosing myself with FM radio I, too, in my twilight years (early 30’s) can cling to cultural relevance and literacy by my fingertips, and then a song came on where a woman sang the line, “like Fortnite, Imma need your skin”, and you know, maybe it would be all right to just uncurl my fingers and let go after all
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