I went to my first Wacken last year and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Not even just the music (over 200 bands performed), but the people, the food, and the infrastructure that place has is just insane. Massages, metal yoga, cooking lessons, mad max themed shows in the wasteland, video game tournaments, comedy, an underground beer pipeline, a full sized grocery store that they build just for the week, thousands of amazing vendors, and truly the greatest people you'll ever meet from all over the world. Greatest festival ever, I can't wait to go back.
There is same kind of finnish/savo saying: "Mie puhun 4 kieltä: Suomee. Savvoo, Hiljoo ja Kovvoo" meaning "I speak 4 languages: Finnish, Savo (regional dialect/accent), Quitly and Loudly". Savo is otherwise perfectly understandable finnish except savonian people talk like they are Pinochio in Shrek 2(?) when Prince Charming demands to know where Shrek is.
Floor is exceptionally talented, not just with her vocal ability, but also her ability to not fall flat on her face (or ass) after windmilling like mad while wearing heels. I'd be lucky not to fall over wearing sneakers 🤣
Glad to see you guys exploring the heavier side of Nightwish. I hope that sometime soon you'll check out the song "Your's Is An Empty Hope" from the 2015 Wembley Arena show. If you listen really closely to the vocals you'll get a big surprise from Floor. By the way, it's pronounced "Vah-ken". In German the W sounds like V. It's a fantastic three-day festival, I hope I can actually go one day before all my favorite bands retire.
Then why is every german and german tv show saying Wacken and not Vahken? Choose = Wahl not pronounced Vahl.. Winter is not Vinter. Where do you guys get these ideas from?
@@themplar Which shows? Go to Google translate, or Forvo, or any other translation software. "W" is always pronounced "V". That's how I pronounced it during several drives around Germany, and nobody corrected me otherwise.
@@themplar I don't know how they pronounce it up there in Schleswig, have never spoken to a local, but the only people I've ever heard pronounce it with a 'W' are tourists from America. I've never heard a German band playing at the festival pronounce it with an English 'W' either. though the accent to my ears varies between what I would call a V or an F
this is art. I recommend that you listen to other songs of this brilliant group. nightwish army will support you in this. and of course not to forget about the tarja.
So you should check out ReVamp - Disdain (live). It's Floors old band. She was blonde and well you will just be shocked. Also I don't believe you guys have done Epica yet. They are another great Female fronted Symphonic Metal band. There's a live version of their song Sancta Terra with Floor as a guest also.
It's one of the heaviest and coolest songs of Nightwish. Floor has way more aggressive vocals. It also shows how MARCO IS UNDERRATED AS A SINGER IMO: he's great in the parts he sings solo; in harmony with Floor, Marco goes up in key with her, sustaining the note, adding the light raspy tone so characteristic of him.
Commenting as I watch... Pesticide = Kills pests. Romanticide = Kills romance. However, this is not a "romantic" type song. Floor Jansen is just something amazing! She is 6 foot 1 bare footed, wears those 6" heels and has been doing so performing for over 20 years. She's used to it. The keyboard player is the founder of Nightwish, writes 97% of all songs including lyrics and all orchestral and choir parts prerecorded by the London Philharmonic orchestra and choir under his direction.... his name is Tuomas. Marco Bass/vocals Emppu Guitar Troy Pipes, winds, guitar and vocals Jukka Drums Floor Vocals More from this venue will be highly requested, so here's a list of the more popular songs.... Ever Dream Song of Myself Last Ride of the Day Ghost River I Want My Tears Back Wish I Had An Angel Thank you for the video, reaction and comments. Stay safe and stay blessed. 😊❤🤘🤘
It's cool to see that you guys have finally gotten back to some Nightwish. They make such amazing music. I would also like to point out some bands that many people have reacted to that you haven't and I think you would like. Unleash the Archers - Amazing female vocalist power metal band. Best starting song would be Awakening (live studio session) but I would also recommend their newest video Faster than Light. Or any of their other songs. They are amazing. Disturbed - Nu metal/Heavy metal band. Sound of Silence is David Draiman's most powerful singing but Down with the Sickness (any version other than the official video), Inside the Fire, Perfect Insanity, and Another Way to Die are all kickass songs that are more emblematic of the band's sound. The Offspring - Punk/Pop-Punk band. Check out The Kid's Aren't Alright, Self-Esteem, and Pretty Fly (for a White Guy). For a longer song check out Pay the Man. Halestorm - Hard rock band. Lzzy Hale is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist. Check out Miss the Misery, Mz. Hyde, Love Bites (So Do I), and Get Off. I would also like to reiterate my suggestion for reacting to the rock band EarlyRise, who nobody has reacted to. Check out Become Mad, Old Friend, Shell, or Wasteland.
Regarding Nightwish, here are some suggestions for you beside the incredible Wacken show, where each song is awesome and should be reacted to: -> „Weak Fantasy“ (Tampere): Kai the beastat the drums, Troy joins in, great duets with Floor and Marco, … -> "Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean" (Buenos Aires) will give you a metal and power blast: Maximum speed and Marco (the singing bass player) becomes Hannibal Lecter ;-) -> "Yours an Empty Hope" from Wembley (have a good look!! at the growls. You'll be surprised.) -> „Dead Boys Poem“ from Buenos Aires (so amazing and emotional) -> Elvenjig / Elvenpath (Buenos Aires): Awesome intro and it continues on that level -> "The greatest Show on Earth" (Tampere) is one of the two most epic songs. The title is not about the gig, but about the topic of the song: The evolution of mankind. -> "The Poet and the Pendulum“ (Wembley) is my personal absolute masterpiece of Nightwish. Be sure to know the background of this song ahead. Here is a short version: Tuomas (the keyboarder and composer) was in depression after the split from their first singer Tarja. He was in the position to either commit suicide in real real life or to write a song about it and die within that song. Luckily he choose the latter option. He is the poet, "killed" by the pendulum. And afterwards there is darkness, silence and just a fading heartbeat. It gives me a shiver every time. As this song is so emotional for him all the others have an eye on him. He even had his the vocals turned off in his in ears. Greetz from a German-Dutch concert photographer
I like this. the others are (probably poorly paraphrased): "English is a language born of Norman lords trying to seduce Anglo Saxon barmaids into bed" and "English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
Some info about W:O:A (Wacken Open Air) for you: The festival was founded in 1990 by some guys (heavy metal fans) from the village Wacken (2000 inhabitans, approx. 50 km north-west of Hamburg) who "suffered" from the lack of their favourite music in the area and thought it would be a good idea to start their own festival. So they invited some local metal bands to play there. They choose a skeleton bullhead as their logo, because they wanted to use something to show that they are "boys from the countryside" and the area there is known for its cattle farms. In the first year there was just 1 (self-constructed) stage with 6 local bands and 800 visitors, who gathered at a gravel pit just outside the village in August. It was a success and over time the festival grew and grew to 9 stages and 200 bands from all over the world with visitors from 84 countries in 2019. There are 75.000 regular tickets which have been sold out every year since 2010. For 2020 the festival was sold out in 21 hours but then had to be cancelled due to Corona-Virus. They then organized Wacken World Wide as a free live stream with the XR(virtual reality) stage and invited some bands to a studio for live gigs but without an audience. Additionally some bands recorded concerts (again without audience) at small venues in their home countries and showed some archived shows from previous Wacken festivals. For this event they changed their usual greeting from "See you at Wacken - rain or shine" to "See you at Wacken - rain or shine...or online". It was not the same because the whole festival atmosphere and all the "metalhead family feeling" at Wacken was missing but it was the best they could do under these circumstances. In the description to the 2019 trailer they wrote "Watch the trailer and get an idea why people call a gathering of 75.000 metal heads a family meeting!" and it really feels like that. Wacken became the Mekka for metalheads. If you are in heavy music, you should do a pilgrimage to Wacken at least once in your life. Absolutely peaceful and people care for their fellow metalheads, just an amazing expierience.
I just realized you guys haven't reacted to Unleash the Archers at all!!! OMFG! Unleash the Archers - Awakening (Live studio session), prepare for your brain to melt. You're going to love it so hard! Also, great Nightwish reaction as always, you guys are amazing! Don't stop! Go to Wacken Music Festival (pronounced "Vacken") for sure!
Since I rediscovered Nightwish thanks to the Dutch tv-show Beste Zangers (FLOOR!), I only listen to Nightwish in my car driving to my work. I AM SO READY FOR BATTLE TODAY!💪 (children daycare😆)
PS: Floor is 6'1". Walking on heels well takes practice. Much more singing and banging the head off on a stage full of cables, equipment and whatever. But Floor has the physical ability and vocal technique to do it all on heels not missing a bit.
Great job men. This one was a killer. Loved your reaction to this burner. See you both for the next one my friends. You better get Smokey a towel and clean him up. Peace out.
Here's what I love about Nightwish. They can play huge crowds like this, or come to Kalamazoo, MI and play a crowd of a hundreds, and they always sound the same. They are a major band, but they don't skimp out on the smaller shows. I saw them live here a few years ago. Was every bit as awesome as you think it would be.
Really liked you talking about the English language. It' nice to hear native speakers too think the pronunciation rules make no sence, if there are any. My favorite example is the words "cease" and "seize". As far as I know they are pronounced exact the same. As a Finn it is impossible for me to understand. We don't have spelling bees in Finland and you seldom hear "How do you spell it?", because spelling is so easy. When you hear a word you automatically know how it's spelled. Every letter has a pronunciation value that's a constant and every letter has to be pronounced. Finnish kids learn to read and write faster and better than English speaking children. But over all Finnish language is very difficult for foregners to learn. One of the most difficult languages there is. Greetings from Helsinki Finland!🇫🇮 (More Nightwish reactions please!)
Good reaction, guys! Recommendations: Kamelot - Elizabeth (Live, from One Cold Winter's Night) Blind Guardian - Valhalla Ayreon - The Day That The World Breaks Down (or for something shorter, Everybody Dies!) Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope And when you guys started going off about the irregularities in English, I just had to remind myself that not everyone is as well-educated or passionate about linguistics as myself.
I have trouble just going up stairs in heels - dancing and throwing my head around like that would have me on the floor (lol accidental pun) in seconds. But then Floor defies the limits of what the human voice is capable of so why should she bother with gravity?
If we're keeping the Nightwish train rolling, you NEED to listen to their song The Greatest Show on Earth with Richard Dawkins as guest. It is quite lengthy, but it's a ride you'll never forget.
I love your reactions, so entertaining to watch! And heels... yeah... it really depends if they're good quality boots and if you're really used to it, and she definitely is used to it! I have 6 inch heels I can't take 2 decent steps in, and then I have heels I can run full speed with to catch a train at the last second. I'm betting those aren't cheap boots she wears for those shows :) Oh and for a next Nightwish song: Yours is an empty hope. I'll sit back to enjoy you taking that ride :)
The higher the heel, the better your legs and hips look but the more difficult it is to keep balance and to move. The size of one's feet can make a difference since there's a different ratio of sole to heel which changes where the center of gravity is. I have size 9W feet, and I can move comfortably in most 4" no-platform shoes. I can still move in 5" no-platform heels, but things that challenge my balance -- like headbanging -- become more difficult. The surface is also really important. Lots of stage flooring is slippery as hell. Stilettos are harder to move in since the metal tends to slip over a lot of different types of surfaces. Language is constantly shifting and always changing. The fastest changes usually come with individual vocabulary. Slang words get introduced every generation. Meanings expand or contract or change altogether: A skyline used to refer to any horizon but now it specifically refers to horizons in a city with buildings; A Kleenex used to be a specific brand of tissue but now it's a generic term for tissue; Nice went from foolish to timid to fussy to careful to delightful, and now it means kind. The next are sound changes with vowels being the most prone to it. If you want to know why English spelling is so messed up, here's a good summary of The Great Vowel Shift from Middle English to Early Modern English: ua-cam.com/video/VOOAb7erAmE/v-deo.html On a side note, we're undergoing vowel shifts all the time. There's one happening right now around the Great Lakes and the so-called Rust Belt (the Northern Cities Vowel Shift). Syntactic (or grammatical) changes can happen slowly or quickly depending on outside pressures. Old English was doing its slow thing for centuries until the Danes decided to settle in some parts of the island, and then suddenly there were a whole lot of grammatical changes that happened relatively quickly. You know how we have different pronouns for different grammatical functions? Like I for the subject, me for the object, and my for the possessive? There used to be different words like that for all nouns and not just pronouns. Because of that word order was freer. In English, you must have the subject first followed by the verb, and then maybe a direct object or indirect object. In Old English, you could rearrange the order of those functions and it might be a little poetic, but it would still be understandable (a bit like Yoda-speak). On a side note, AAVE aka Ebonics is not an area of expertise for me, but I like reading about it when I get the chance, because it is a dialect of English that often incorporates grammatical features that were quite possibly borrowed from West African languages, i.e. the indicative 'is' vs the habitual 'be' distinction. Syntax gets me hyperfocused, which is why I just went on about it for two long paragraphs. Sorry. My point was supposed to be that language is fluid and dynamic and always changing, but if the spelling/orthography doesn't change with it, then you get things like 'knight' and 'bathe' and 'roof.'
If I could I would be next to the time traveler dude, you spoke of in another video. That would be so awesome to be in one of the great live shows. I love this concert, it is just soooo good! The stars moons and planets where in alignment for this show!
“Colloquialism”... can’t mess with me I was the spelling bee champ in school! But yeah I’d bust my ass dancing in 6 inch heels... most women wear heels way more than I do 😩😆
@@Hollywood6IX hey guys you really really need to checkout EverDream & Song of Myself from same Wacken 2013 & be ready to be "Floored" BIGTIME ! cheers
Another band that played Wakan last year you should check out Bloodywook. Ari Ari or Machi Bhasad (Expect a Riot) So hoping concert are back next year. I have a niece that I take to a concert for her BDay. 2020 was going to be an all summer celebration with Ameranthe, ICP, and Eluviette. With more being added.
Wacken Open Air is freaking awesome. Been there three times. Europe's biggest heavy metal festival with 85,000 visitors. But it can also be a struggle if it's raining. Living a week in a tent on the German field in a mud :) But hey, that what you would do to see all those great bands (over 100 or so) and meet awesome metalheads all over the world. Pity that next year is always sold out like a day after party is over. I highly recommended to visit.
Here's a few recommendations: Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem Live (From Wishes For Eternity DVD) Nightwish - Pharaoh Sails To Orion Live (From Wishes To Eternity DVD) Nightwish - Sleeping Sun Live (End of an Era DVD) Nightwish - Slaying The Dreamer Live (End of an Era DVD) Nightwish - The Siren Live (End of an Era DVD) Tarja - Lost Northern Star Live (Act I DVD) Tarja - The Reign Live (Act I DVD) Tarja - Still Of The Night (Act I DVD) Tarja - Never Enough Live at Summerbreeze 2014 Tarja & Mike - Led Zeppelin Medley Words can not describe my love for Tarja 😂💕
I love you Guys an your Reaction, Your last Reaction from Gohst Love Score was one of the honest in the Web, Thanks, stay safe and greetings from Germany
Hey guys nightwish is on tour...they had to postpone it because of corona but hopefully will start in the near future and there are some north american dates...great reaction..
Guys here is a little funfact to floor when she comes to nightwish this was litteraly few weeks bevor wacken and the band says to her that she has to learn the whole set list by heart in only 72 hours
Yes the trouble pronouncing Waken is English speakers trouble with German. Closest sound I have ever heard like that slide at the end: Racing engine winding up to redline.
Checkout Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata ( 3rd Movement ) Tina S Cover , At the time of recording Tina S was 17yrs old, 6 mins and not a note played wrong, with a rye smile at the end to say i just nailed that,, a great shread version that must have taken hours to practice
Honestly the whole concert in Wacken 2013 is great. Floor is almost flawless, and the mixing is amazing. Even if you don't want to react to all of it I would suggest watching it all eventually. My personal favorites are "Song of Myself" and "Ghost River".
Great reaction guys!🤘🤘 I know get a lot of requests, but i highly recommend Sabaton with 82nd all the way and then Amaranthe's cover of the same song! Freaking epic!
The best Emppu (guitar) hydration episode just might be the one in the official live video for Wish I Had an Angel, the original Tarja version. Pretty sure you'll get a kick out of it, with a matching "chug, chug, chug..." colloquialism ))). Oh yeah, the song rocks too, one of their bigger hits....
8:49 is the funniest thing in this video. Emppu walking behind Floor and you see how insanely tall she is, granted she has heals but still, he looks like a friggin hobbit 🤣
Thanks for the good show and smash song from Wacken, near Hamburg in Germany. 80.000 Metal-Fans and 2022 sold out!
I have seen them live. It was DIVINE ❤! This band is a symphony orchestra!
"Yours Is An Empty Hope" !! Stay safe. Floor has a Suprice in that one !
I would recommend the Nightwish Cruise, as the sound mixing was better than Wembley 2015.
Oh, yes )
Totally agree. They gonna die haha
more nightwish
Floor is metal to the core - strong, dominant, aggressive - but also unmistakably *feminine*. She has such a cool presence!
I went to my first Wacken last year and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Not even just the music (over 200 bands performed), but the people, the food, and the infrastructure that place has is just insane. Massages, metal yoga, cooking lessons, mad max themed shows in the wasteland, video game tournaments, comedy, an underground beer pipeline, a full sized grocery store that they build just for the week, thousands of amazing vendors, and truly the greatest people you'll ever meet from all over the world. Greatest festival ever, I can't wait to go back.
"I only speak two languages. English and bad English"
Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element
Best f-ing movie ever.
There is same kind of finnish/savo saying: "Mie puhun 4 kieltä: Suomee. Savvoo, Hiljoo ja Kovvoo" meaning "I speak 4 languages: Finnish, Savo (regional dialect/accent), Quitly and Loudly". Savo is otherwise perfectly understandable finnish except savonian people talk like they are Pinochio in Shrek 2(?) when Prince Charming demands to know where Shrek is.
Love it!
Floor is exceptionally talented, not just with her vocal ability, but also her ability to not fall flat on her face (or ass) after windmilling like mad while wearing heels. I'd be lucky not to fall over wearing sneakers 🤣
Ayreon - The day that the world breaks down.
ayreon is good
I second that
Bamp !
And still 'Wishmaster' is Nightwish best album ever! 🤘❤️
Guys react to Nightwish- Devil and the deep dark ocean- live in Buenos Aires 2018 please
Check out.....Travis Barker Remix “Forever” Drake Kanye Lil Wayne Eminem
Yeah, in heels AND corset....sometimes capes....sometimes all three lol
We need more Nightwish!
Nightwish Tarja & Marko. Planet Hell End of an Era. Thank you from Finland. Kiitos.
Wacken is a town in Germany where the huge Wacken Open Air festival is held.
Glad to see you guys exploring the heavier side of Nightwish. I hope that sometime soon you'll check out the song "Your's Is An Empty Hope" from the 2015 Wembley Arena show. If you listen really closely to the vocals you'll get a big surprise from Floor.
By the way, it's pronounced "Vah-ken". In German the W sounds like V. It's a fantastic three-day festival, I hope I can actually go one day before all my favorite bands retire.
Tampere performance is also great.
Then why is every german and german tv show saying Wacken and not Vahken? Choose = Wahl not pronounced Vahl.. Winter is not Vinter.
Where do you guys get these ideas from?
@@themplar Which shows? Go to Google translate, or Forvo, or any other translation software. "W" is always pronounced "V". That's how I pronounced it during several drives around Germany, and nobody corrected me otherwise.
@@themplar I don't know how they pronounce it up there in Schleswig, have never spoken to a local, but the only people I've ever heard pronounce it with a 'W' are tourists from America. I've never heard a German band playing at the festival pronounce it with an English 'W' either. though the accent to my ears varies between what I would call a V or an F
It's an English thing... caricatures of Germans speaking English, e.g. German Officer: You vill get out of ze house and stand against ze vall
Yeah more nightwish
this is art. I recommend that you listen to other songs of this brilliant group. nightwish army will support you in this. and of course not to forget about the tarja.
You 2 are hilarious, and yes you need to react more to Nightwish
Nice to see rappers enjoying Nightwish again🤘
"I just want concerts to come back...please, PLEASE!!!"
Quote of the decade, my man.
So you should check out ReVamp - Disdain (live). It's Floors old band. She was blonde and well you will just be shocked.
Also I don't believe you guys have done Epica yet. They are another great Female fronted Symphonic Metal band. There's a live version of their song Sancta Terra with Floor as a guest also.
YES to both of these
Yes
They did Epica ft. Floor
There's another Revamp show where she's a redhead. Unfortunately it's indoors and dark.
I’ve been extremely lucky to have seen Sabaton open for Nightwish, my favourite concert ever
It's one of the heaviest and coolest songs of Nightwish. Floor has way more aggressive vocals. It also shows how MARCO IS UNDERRATED AS A SINGER IMO: he's great in the parts he sings solo; in harmony with Floor, Marco goes up in key with her, sustaining the note, adding the light raspy tone so characteristic of him.
Been loving your videos. Like you I am finding all kinds of new groups. This is one of my recent favorites.
Commenting as I watch...
Pesticide = Kills pests.
Romanticide = Kills romance. However, this is not a "romantic" type song.
Floor Jansen is just something amazing! She is 6 foot 1 bare footed, wears those 6" heels and has been doing so performing for over 20 years. She's used to it.
The keyboard player is the founder of Nightwish, writes 97% of all songs including lyrics and all orchestral and choir parts prerecorded by the London Philharmonic orchestra and choir under his direction.... his name is Tuomas.
Marco Bass/vocals
Emppu Guitar
Troy Pipes, winds, guitar and vocals
Jukka Drums
Floor Vocals
More from this venue will be highly requested, so here's a list of the more popular songs....
Ever Dream
Song of Myself
Last Ride of the Day
Ghost River
I Want My Tears Back
Wish I Had An Angel
Thank you for the video, reaction and comments. Stay safe and stay blessed. 😊❤🤘🤘
Gidday from New Zealand
love the Nightwish train.
great to see you gentleman's reaction nightwish again. always enjoy your performance to reaction music thanx and have great day there.
It's cool to see that you guys have finally gotten back to some Nightwish. They make such amazing music.
I would also like to point out some bands that many people have reacted to that you haven't and I think you would like.
Unleash the Archers - Amazing female vocalist power metal band. Best starting song would be Awakening (live studio session) but I would also recommend their newest video Faster than Light. Or any of their other songs. They are amazing.
Disturbed - Nu metal/Heavy metal band. Sound of Silence is David Draiman's most powerful singing but Down with the Sickness (any version other than the official video), Inside the Fire, Perfect Insanity, and Another Way to Die are all kickass songs that are more emblematic of the band's sound.
The Offspring - Punk/Pop-Punk band. Check out The Kid's Aren't Alright, Self-Esteem, and Pretty Fly (for a White Guy). For a longer song check out Pay the Man.
Halestorm - Hard rock band. Lzzy Hale is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist. Check out Miss the Misery, Mz. Hyde, Love Bites (So Do I), and Get Off.
I would also like to reiterate my suggestion for reacting to the rock band EarlyRise, who nobody has reacted to. Check out Become Mad, Old Friend, Shell, or Wasteland.
Came here for nightwish, stayed for the "fishes" debate
I heard one reactor this week refer to the band as "Nightfish" - his friends gave him a full-size ration
Go home Mia, you're on drugs.
@@Red-Brick-Dream too late
If you want to hear more of Marco check out "The Islander" Live at Tampere, one of their best shows imo
In fact "Wacken" is the name of a german village where the Open Air takes place. So english doesn't matter at all at how to pronounce it.
Regarding Nightwish, here are some suggestions for you beside the incredible Wacken show, where each song is awesome and should be reacted to:
-> „Weak Fantasy“ (Tampere): Kai the beastat the drums, Troy joins in, great duets with Floor and Marco, …
-> "Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean" (Buenos Aires) will give you a metal and power blast: Maximum speed and Marco (the singing bass player) becomes Hannibal Lecter ;-)
-> "Yours an Empty Hope" from Wembley (have a good look!! at the growls. You'll be surprised.)
-> „Dead Boys Poem“ from Buenos Aires (so amazing and emotional)
-> Elvenjig / Elvenpath (Buenos Aires): Awesome intro and it continues on that level
-> "The greatest Show on Earth" (Tampere) is one of the two most epic songs. The title is not about the gig, but about the topic of the song: The evolution of mankind.
-> "The Poet and the Pendulum“ (Wembley) is my personal absolute masterpiece of Nightwish. Be sure to know the background of this song ahead. Here is a short version:
Tuomas (the keyboarder and composer) was in depression after the split from their first singer Tarja. He was in the position to either commit suicide in real real life or to write a song about it and die within that song. Luckily he choose the latter option. He is the poet, "killed" by the pendulum. And afterwards there is darkness, silence and just a fading heartbeat. It gives me a shiver every time.
As this song is so emotional for him all the others have an eye on him. He even had his the vocals turned off in his in ears.
Greetz from a German-Dutch concert photographer
The English language is three languages on each other's shoulders wearing a trench coat.
I like this.
the others are (probably poorly paraphrased):
"English is a language born of Norman lords trying to seduce Anglo Saxon barmaids into bed"
and "English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
pirate speech
More than 3.
Some info about W:O:A (Wacken Open Air) for you:
The festival was founded in 1990 by some guys (heavy metal fans) from the village Wacken (2000 inhabitans, approx. 50 km north-west of Hamburg) who "suffered" from the lack of their favourite music in the area and thought it would be a good idea to start their own festival. So they invited some local metal bands to play there. They choose a skeleton bullhead as their logo, because they wanted to use something to show that they are "boys from the countryside" and the area there is known for its cattle farms. In the first year there was just 1 (self-constructed) stage with 6 local bands and 800 visitors, who gathered at a gravel pit just outside the village in August. It was a success and over time the festival grew and grew to 9 stages and 200 bands from all over the world with visitors from 84 countries in 2019. There are 75.000 regular tickets which have been sold out every year since 2010. For 2020 the festival was sold out in 21 hours but then had to be cancelled due to Corona-Virus. They then organized Wacken World Wide as a free live stream with the XR(virtual reality) stage and invited some bands to a studio for live gigs but without an audience. Additionally some bands recorded concerts (again without audience) at small venues in their home countries and showed some archived shows from previous Wacken festivals. For this event they changed their usual greeting from "See you at Wacken - rain or shine" to "See you at Wacken - rain or shine...or online". It was not the same because the whole festival atmosphere and all the "metalhead family feeling" at Wacken was missing but it was the best they could do under these circumstances. In the description to the 2019 trailer they wrote "Watch the trailer and get an idea why people call a gathering of 75.000 metal heads a family meeting!" and it really feels like that. Wacken became the Mekka for metalheads. If you are in heavy music, you should do a pilgrimage to Wacken at least once in your life. Absolutely peaceful and people care for their fellow metalheads, just an amazing expierience.
AND: Floor got children. She´s a mother! What a Goddess!
I just realized you guys haven't reacted to Unleash the Archers at all!!! OMFG! Unleash the Archers - Awakening (Live studio session), prepare for your brain to melt. You're going to love it so hard!
Also, great Nightwish reaction as always, you guys are amazing! Don't stop! Go to Wacken Music Festival (pronounced "Vacken") for sure!
Ya do this^^ I'll write my own comment as hoping they'll see it haha
We see
@@smokeyrameriz478 Indeed, seen
Since I rediscovered Nightwish thanks to the Dutch tv-show Beste Zangers (FLOOR!), I only listen to Nightwish in my car driving to my work. I AM SO READY FOR BATTLE TODAY!💪 (children daycare😆)
I have worked in a daycare, so I know you probably need it.
@@k.l.7788 i love it but it's draining energy yes. Luckily i am an energetic person😄🤸♀️
@@mjoezic3198 you are the true heroes in life. 😎
@@k.l.7788 🙏🫡 That is kind of you
PS: Floor is 6'1". Walking on heels well takes practice. Much more singing and banging the head off on a stage full of cables, equipment and whatever. But Floor has the physical ability and vocal technique to do it all on heels not missing a bit.
During one of her performances at Graspop she hurdles a speaker...in heels.
"Yours is an Empty Hope" at Wembley,
"Last Ride of the Day" at Wacken
Epica - "Sancta Terra ft Floor Jansen"
It's so satisfying how you do the intro the exact same way every time.
Bow down to them all cause they all are great...Tuomas specially... cause he makes this all possible.
Smokey you are always dropping the knowledge.
Great job men. This one was a killer. Loved your reaction to this burner. See you both for the next one my friends. You better get Smokey a towel and clean him up. Peace out.
The islander. Let Marko shine. :)
Here's what I love about Nightwish. They can play huge crowds like this, or come to Kalamazoo, MI and play a crowd of a hundreds, and they always sound the same. They are a major band, but they don't skimp out on the smaller shows. I saw them live here a few years ago. Was every bit as awesome as you think it would be.
Love your reaction
always thumb up for nightwish ;) ....go guys
You guys are going to LOVE Ghost River!!!! From Wacken!!!
Yep.... you are ready for
AYREON - The Day That The World Breaks Down
Really liked you talking about the English language. It' nice to hear native speakers too think the pronunciation rules make no sence, if there are any. My favorite example is the words "cease" and "seize". As far as I know they are pronounced exact the same. As a Finn it is impossible for me to understand.
We don't have spelling bees in Finland and you seldom hear "How do you spell it?", because spelling is so easy. When you hear a word you automatically know how it's spelled. Every letter has a pronunciation value that's a constant and every letter has to be pronounced.
Finnish kids learn to read and write faster and better than English speaking children.
But over all Finnish language is very difficult for foregners to learn. One of the most difficult languages there is.
Greetings from Helsinki Finland!🇫🇮
(More Nightwish reactions please!)
I wondered where you guys had gone. But welcome back anyway. Right choice y´ve done.
Good reaction, guys!
Recommendations:
Kamelot - Elizabeth (Live, from One Cold Winter's Night)
Blind Guardian - Valhalla
Ayreon - The Day That The World Breaks Down (or for something shorter, Everybody Dies!)
Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope
And when you guys started going off about the irregularities in English, I just had to remind myself that not everyone is as well-educated or passionate about linguistics as myself.
As others have said: Ayreon - The Day That the World Breaks Down
Much respect to a pair of guys who truly want to expose themselves to new music
"WOOF!" Great reaction guys.
Try Ghost River and Song of Myself from the same Wacken show.
Subscribed and dinged.
please react to "I want my tears back" Nightwish (LIVE FROM BUENOS AIRES)
insane crowd
will do
Floor dances all over the stage while wearing heels and "armor".
@@alanfoster6589 - I call it a cross between Nordic warrior goddess and dominatrix.
I have trouble just going up stairs in heels - dancing and throwing my head around like that would have me on the floor (lol accidental pun) in seconds. But then Floor defies the limits of what the human voice is capable of so why should she bother with gravity?
The guy on guitar, Emppu, is also in a band called Brother Firetribe i fully recommend!
Emppu is a awesome guitarist, Also Marko(Odis) is an amazing singer. Tuomas is the keyboard player. Jukka the drummer is a legend :D
A no words needed for Floor...
If we're keeping the Nightwish train rolling, you NEED to listen to their song The Greatest Show on Earth with Richard Dawkins as guest. It is quite lengthy, but it's a ride you'll never forget.
Loving the Dropkick Murphy shirt! When will you guys do more of that?
I love your reactions, so entertaining to watch! And heels... yeah... it really depends if they're good quality boots and if you're really used to it, and she definitely is used to it! I have 6 inch heels I can't take 2 decent steps in, and then I have heels I can run full speed with to catch a train at the last second. I'm betting those aren't cheap boots she wears for those shows :) Oh and for a next Nightwish song: Yours is an empty hope. I'll sit back to enjoy you taking that ride :)
The higher the heel, the better your legs and hips look but the more difficult it is to keep balance and to move. The size of one's feet can make a difference since there's a different ratio of sole to heel which changes where the center of gravity is. I have size 9W feet, and I can move comfortably in most 4" no-platform shoes. I can still move in 5" no-platform heels, but things that challenge my balance -- like headbanging -- become more difficult. The surface is also really important. Lots of stage flooring is slippery as hell. Stilettos are harder to move in since the metal tends to slip over a lot of different types of surfaces.
Language is constantly shifting and always changing. The fastest changes usually come with individual vocabulary. Slang words get introduced every generation. Meanings expand or contract or change altogether: A skyline used to refer to any horizon but now it specifically refers to horizons in a city with buildings; A Kleenex used to be a specific brand of tissue but now it's a generic term for tissue; Nice went from foolish to timid to fussy to careful to delightful, and now it means kind.
The next are sound changes with vowels being the most prone to it. If you want to know why English spelling is so messed up, here's a good summary of The Great Vowel Shift from Middle English to Early Modern English: ua-cam.com/video/VOOAb7erAmE/v-deo.html
On a side note, we're undergoing vowel shifts all the time. There's one happening right now around the Great Lakes and the so-called Rust Belt (the Northern Cities Vowel Shift).
Syntactic (or grammatical) changes can happen slowly or quickly depending on outside pressures. Old English was doing its slow thing for centuries until the Danes decided to settle in some parts of the island, and then suddenly there were a whole lot of grammatical changes that happened relatively quickly. You know how we have different pronouns for different grammatical functions? Like I for the subject, me for the object, and my for the possessive? There used to be different words like that for all nouns and not just pronouns. Because of that word order was freer. In English, you must have the subject first followed by the verb, and then maybe a direct object or indirect object. In Old English, you could rearrange the order of those functions and it might be a little poetic, but it would still be understandable (a bit like Yoda-speak).
On a side note, AAVE aka Ebonics is not an area of expertise for me, but I like reading about it when I get the chance, because it is a dialect of English that often incorporates grammatical features that were quite possibly borrowed from West African languages, i.e. the indicative 'is' vs the habitual 'be' distinction. Syntax gets me hyperfocused, which is why I just went on about it for two long paragraphs. Sorry.
My point was supposed to be that language is fluid and dynamic and always changing, but if the spelling/orthography doesn't change with it, then you get things like 'knight' and 'bathe' and 'roof.'
You need to do Yours is An Empty Hope by Nightwish next!
Full Throttle, Adrenalin pumping song :)
So good!
If I could I would be next to the time traveler dude, you spoke of in another video. That would be so awesome to be in one of the great live shows. I love this concert, it is just soooo good! The stars moons and planets where in alignment for this show!
Within Temptation-Our Solemn Hour. The live version with the full orchestra and choir is 🔥🔥🔥
You guys -and we all others are witnessing performance that is the best entertainment so far in the 21st century made by Nightwish only.
glad to see you guys!! funny you mentioned Sabaton....Floor Jansen is married to their drummer...Hannes Van Dahl.......
Floor’s husband is the drummer for another band called Sabaton, check them out when you have the time.
Y'all definitely should check out In This Moment. Maria Brink is another great female singer. Big Bad Wolf or Gun Show Preferably!
“Colloquialism”... can’t mess with me I was the spelling bee champ in school! But yeah I’d bust my ass dancing in 6 inch heels... most women wear heels way more than I do 😩😆
LOL
@@Hollywood6IX hey guys you really really need to checkout EverDream & Song of Myself from same Wacken 2013 & be ready to be "Floored" BIGTIME ! cheers
When you reacted to Phantom of the opera it was at the Hartwall Arena in Finland 2005. It was the final tour with the then current singer
Another band that played Wakan last year you should check out Bloodywook. Ari Ari or Machi Bhasad (Expect a Riot) So hoping concert are back next year. I have a niece that I take to a concert for her BDay. 2020 was going to be an all summer celebration with Ameranthe, ICP, and Eluviette. With more being added.
Wacken Open Air is freaking awesome. Been there three times. Europe's biggest heavy metal festival with 85,000 visitors. But it can also be a struggle if it's raining. Living a week in a tent on the German field in a mud :) But hey, that what you would do to see all those great bands (over 100 or so) and meet awesome metalheads all over the world. Pity that next year is always sold out like a day after party is over. I highly recommended to visit.
Here's a few recommendations:
Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem Live (From Wishes For Eternity DVD)
Nightwish - Pharaoh Sails To Orion Live (From Wishes To Eternity DVD)
Nightwish - Sleeping Sun Live (End of an Era DVD)
Nightwish - Slaying The Dreamer Live (End of an Era DVD)
Nightwish - The Siren Live (End of an Era DVD)
Tarja - Lost Northern Star Live (Act I DVD)
Tarja - The Reign Live (Act I DVD)
Tarja - Still Of The Night (Act I DVD)
Tarja - Never Enough Live at Summerbreeze 2014
Tarja & Mike - Led Zeppelin Medley
Words can not describe my love for Tarja 😂💕
no its floor time now ,go to tarja .
Nightwish is playing October 5th new york 2021 I'm going!
Digging the Dropkick Murphys shirt!
Nightwish Yours is an empty hope
I love you Guys an your Reaction, Your last Reaction from Gohst Love Score was one of the honest in the Web, Thanks, stay safe and greetings from Germany
Hey guys nightwish is on tour...they had to postpone it because of corona but hopefully will start in the near future and there are some north american dates...great reaction..
I like you guys ! )
As English learner i like your discusion about English )
Phamtom of the opera's venue was Hartwall arena, Helsinki Finland
Another thing you guys have missed so far (I believe) is the "trilogy" by Falling in Reverse: Loosing My MInd, Loosing My Life, Drugs
Great reaction..amazing song...FLOOR THE.BEST SINGER OF THE.PLANET🤘🔥
Guys here is a little funfact to floor when she comes to nightwish this was litteraly few weeks bevor wacken and the band says to her that she has to learn the whole set list by heart in only 72 hours
The good way to pronunce it is "Vacken" like a "V" instead of the "W" ;-)
Yes the trouble pronouncing Waken is English speakers trouble with German.
Closest sound I have ever heard like that slide at the end: Racing engine winding up to redline.
And the A is as in father, or sha-la-la-lah. Like in almost all the languages besides English :)
where did you get that idea from? i havent heared any german say that. Its always been a W
@@themplar because I went there, and that's how it's pronunced in this place.
@@themplar Pronounced, not written. The German V is pronounced as F. I'm sure some German kids make mistakes between them.
Checkout Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata ( 3rd Movement ) Tina S Cover
, At the time of recording Tina S was 17yrs old, 6 mins and not a note played wrong, with a rye smile at the end to say i just nailed that,, a great shread version that must have taken hours to practice
Honestly the whole concert in Wacken 2013 is great. Floor is almost flawless, and the mixing is amazing. Even if you don't want to react to all of it I would suggest watching it all eventually. My personal favorites are "Song of Myself" and "Ghost River".
You summoned the nightwish army again....
Great reaction guys!🤘🤘 I know get a lot of requests, but i highly recommend Sabaton with 82nd all the way and then Amaranthe's cover of the same song! Freaking epic!
The best Emppu (guitar) hydration episode just might be the one in the official live video for Wish I Had an Angel, the original Tarja version. Pretty sure you'll get a kick out of it, with a matching "chug, chug, chug..." colloquialism ))). Oh yeah, the song rocks too, one of their bigger hits....
"...English and bad English" -Corbin Dallas (played by Bruce Willis) in the Fifth Element.
MOAR Nightwish!
That's why they call it Power Metal!
6:14 That is how a hurricane starts \m/ 🖤❤️
8:49 is the funniest thing in this video.
Emppu walking behind Floor and you see how insanely tall she is, granted she has heals but still, he looks like a friggin hobbit 🤣
And this is why he was like "hey guys I know I am late but let me kill this solo" in Ghost Love Score.
Wintersun - Sons Of Winter And Stars (TIME I Live Rehearsals At Sonic Pump Studios) REMASTER
Yes please!