After listening to this album multiple times, and viewing all reactions, I can say there is no band on earth that can compare to them....Nightwish is by far the best band I have ever heard in my life, I'm 77 years old....
So glad to see that you reacted to the fan video of the Nature part of the album. It's apparently been seen by Toumas and he liked it so much it's used at the Nightwish exhibition at their museum in Kitee, Finland. It's a shame it's not past 90k views, I think whoever edited those videos together with the music did an excellent work! In the video to Music, the instrument that is shown is one of the Lyres of Ur, the second oldest string instruments ever found (three lyres and one harp was discovered) in a cemetery in the ancient city of Ur (located in what is now Iraq) dated to around 2550-2450 BCE so roughly 4500 years old. Two can be seen restored in The British Museum in London and the biggest one in the Iraq museum in Baghdad. It's also such a cool concept to start the song with the sounds of the Universe turned into music and then transfer to nature sounds before the first human made sounds and the lyrics sung from the viewpoint of music itself. In the Anthropocene part of the Nature disc, Toumas has added a short part of the "Hurrian hymn to Nikkal" the oldest song ever discovered in the ancient city of Ugarite, located in Northern Syria. It was inscribed in Cuneiform on clay tablets and dates to around 1400 BCE. The entire piece can be heard on YT ua-cam.com/video/tAc2KDNHEw4/v-deo.html in case you're interested
Great job doing the new record like this. All at once. Many of the chorus' have all three singing together. Pan is definitely one of my favorites. This one about the human imagination and our need to create stories. The World Wildlife Fund named a nature reserve in Mexico after Nightwish. Floor and the boys will be visiting when they finally tour and play in Mexico. "Endlessness" basically touches upon how Tuomas and some of the members envision the spiritual side of life and how it ends or continues cyclically. "That silent unseen stream". Hopefully Marko will participate in the virtual shows in May. It would be a shame to not have a live performance from Marko on this song. So deep and unique.
Thank you for doing this. This album has grown on me in the past year and is now my favourite NW album. I really enjoyed listening to it together with everyone.
An amazing album and a great reaction. During the acoustic version of How's the Heart, Troy leans back when they are done with a "Omg her voice' look on his face. And Floor has never looked more magnificent than she did in this video.
It is so fullfilling: 132 minutes of sharing and leveling with your moderation, Jim, as well as with the chat participants. It's like inviting your best friends to share something that you know will impress each and everyone on equal basis. Hail to Tuomas Holopainen, Master of Music, Genius of Words, King of Emotions!
Hi Jim Games Live, great reaction. As always :) PAN! There are so many allusions to literature and movies etc. hidden in this song. Here's a list: 1. winds will be named is an allusion to Patrick Rothfuss' book The name of the wind. Which Toumas has read. The Kingslayer trilogy. 2. to fallen stars, to there and back might be a reference to J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. Bilbo writes a book with the title There and back again. 3. Tír na nÓg (Old Irish: Tír na n-Oc - tʲiːɾˠ n̪ˠə ˈn̪ˠoːɡˠ freely translated about Land of Eternal Youth) is one of the most famous mystical places of the afterlife in Irish-Celtic mythology. 4. A pale blue theatre stage: our earth. 5. Something wicked this way comes is a quote from the first scene of the fourth act of the drama "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare. 6. The title of the song itself: In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus. 7. Snow Glass Apples is a short story written by Neil Gaiman, a retelling of Snow White. 8. The Sea Lady is a story written by H.G. Wells. 9. Maybe the line an ape in awe before a door is an allusion to Arthur C. Clark's 2001 Space Odyssey when the Great Monolith appears But I am not sure about that. This song is pure genius...as always. 10. Keystone Earth is a reference to The Dark Tower series from Stephen King. It is quite possible that we do not have everything or that we are wrong in some points. Anyone who can contribute something is welcome to correct me :) Please keep up the good work. Greetings Michael.
Human.:!!: Nature. Is the best Album, i ever hear. I am 58y old, hear Genesis(the real), Yes, ELP, later Metallica, Soundgarden, and so many others. Then Nightwish. But this Album, is a conclusion, what, i ever hear..
This was an amazing way to hear this whole album. I had not done it start to finish before so thank you. The more I have heard the songs the more I appreciate and love them. It is another masterpiece. The collaboration of all of them, and Tuomas' genius is awe inspiring. LoL your mic is very good picking up background in your house too. It was very relaxing in the instrumental part to hear someone else doing dishes as I sat lazy listening to wonderful music & watching stunning visuals lol.
her voice and his beautiful picking light as a feather vocal harmonizing such a powerful messages being conveyed lyrical genius such tight wall of sound and the seemless blending of finland heavy metal and the symphonic orchestral sounds that you would only find in a symphony such as the layers colors of layers and the awesome rhythm section
Even though I have heard this many times I still enjoyed the journey with you on UA-cam. No matter what Nightwish song is reacted to I have to view and I agree with one of your commentators said they are the best group ever and I am also 70 years old as well. ❤️🤘🇦🇺
Starting the live stream with Floor covering Oblivion is a sublime opening... to perhaps the seminal recording of our generation. Great start! It's hard to overrrate this album... Opening with Music to Noise to my favorite, Shoemaker... there's literally no weak link. Harvest, Pan, How's the Heart... Procession, the BANGER Tribal... Probably one of the best releases since 2112, Machine Head, Songs in the Key of Life, Boston's self titled, or genre bending Hybrid Theory.... Rare few efforts match the complete works of a single release.
Thanks for recording this since I wasn't able to join the stream! Awesome stuff, I knew you would love the album. It's nice that you did the other side too, most reactors only focus on the first side with the lyric videos. Cheers!
this double album from the symphonic metal band from Kitee Finland is another great example of these professional musicians that can take finland heavy metal and blend and weave so seamlessly the layers of colors and like for example the song yours is an empty hope and weak fantasy sahara and the fact that i have seen all their live performances top notch band and production
In interviews the band members stated that the music and vocals pushed them beyond the limits of what they thought they could achieve, in other words it showed them they hadn't reached their ful capability
Damn. I missed the live stream.😭 This really is a great album. I haven't picked a favourite yet, but Noise is right up top.😄 A nice weekend and Easter everyone.😊👍
i really enjoy this double album disc1 is human part and disc 2 is nature the music from this album should be blowing up a wall of sound of simply beautiful music compositions very seemless transitions between instruments light and folky and heavy quite nice welsh melodies
One correction here, Tuomas said that for the first disc, he decided to not use the full orchestra, but just the string section and the choirs instead, not that they did not use any instruments.
I literally don't know how Floor remembers/Will remember all these complex in lyrics written in her non mother language during live shows! She's amazing
When at some point in time, a higher force visits us and asks why we did so much crap as humans, at least we can play Human//://Nature and tell them: "We also did THAT."
My 3 favs are the bookends and Pan. Pan is one of the most creative songs about human creativity I have ever heard!! Endlessness is perfection and poignant if Marco does not return to us, and Music opens the whole thing perfectly, I smile every time it gets to the first chorus it is the joy of music captured. This album though doesn't have a bad song, but you know if a gun was held to my head they are the three I would go with...
Im soooo much in love with NW for sooo many years, my times reaching Tarja times when Marco joined, In my opinion Floor is now the ultimate singer for them, I admire her above all known imagination, and the Endless Forms album was absolutely FIRE !!! and I love every single song of it, BUT Human :||: Nature at the first listen was a hard thing to do. Only Noise and Tribal did the job for me, the rest I was like "meh" its somthing weird here.. But every relisten was a new discovering. Now I believe this album, the lyrics of EVERY SONG and the way Floor sings it is a f*cking masterpiece of Toumas creativity. This man is impossible, whole band with their talents.. I cannot imagine what we can get with another album.
My only gripe with this album is the guitar is too quiet compared to all the different layers, especially the bass. Maybe this will get fixed when they'll play the songs live but other than that I love how unique this album is. I love how every single nightwish album stands on its own. But give my man Emppu a few guitar solos ples :(
I joined the twitch feed half way through, but haven't signed up there. I caught up with the first half here. I think this album is less visceral and more cerebral. I suppose it's a maturing composer moving on. I like the album, but it's a totally different experience to what's gone before.
For me this album is a masterpiece, also the Nature part. Yes, it's different, but somehow wasn't that every Nightwish album? The nice thing about Nightwish is that you never know what to expect. Maybe you're not really fascinated by every song, but there's never a really bad one .....
Just a little stone into Nightwish yard: So, for cd2 Afan was able to create this amazing video roll. But Nightwish didn't? It just a bit sad that the Fan or whoever did it can only receive thankful compliment/comments and no material for time spent....
Hi Jim! Great reaction! To answer your question during some of the clips going with the second part of the album; just about every time you said: this is beautiful where is it!? You should have recognized it since you did a video on it, most of it was Iceland! So amazing. Also the Icelandic Stonehenge was seen, I believe you also asked about that. Greetings from the Netherlands from a NW and Iceland fan 🤗
I liked the album but it's not the best. I needed more "metal" lol. A great reaction would be to their wishmaster album. Absolutely master piece of power metal.
@@ralfmeyer9086 well, they lost their old essence in my opinion. I would say tuomas is using nightwish's name to follow his ambitions. Anyway, it's lovely to listen but it's not the metal band it used to be.
@@matiasbelmonte4576 Really, thats your Opinion..You mean Floor, follow him blind? The new NW, so much more, than the old. And Tuomas, hear his Project Auri.
@@matiasbelmonte4576 omg got Wishmaster is so history. Then you told Pink Floyd fans, They better with Syd Barret, as with Roger Waters. Nightwish is in 2021, not in 2003
Este ha sido el peor disco de nightwish, se que todas las bandas evolucionan, pero definitivamente ya no se reconoce. 🥺🥺🥺 aunque soy fan de nightwish reconozco que ya no es la banda imponente que solía ser.
I really like this album, don't get me wrong, but when it's all over it leaves me feeling kinda empty or depressed. I find the album a little dark for me. EFMB makes me feel better after it's over. It's a lighter sounding album. Procession is sad and makes humans sound like shit. Some of us are. And endlessness just makes me depressed about death. I don't listen to the album very often. So because of this, I can't love it. Even the music videos and album artwork are dark. I'm pretty sensitive to imagery and it can have a major effect on how I perceive something.
I believe its best to experince an album as a whole as the artist intended.
After listening to this album multiple times, and viewing all reactions, I can say there is no band on earth that can compare to them....Nightwish is by far the best band I have ever heard in my life, I'm 77 years old....
Agreed!
I agree, but I am only 72.....
@@oniccolls I am the young guy at 71!!!
This is a masterpiece of an album. Every time you listen to it you discover new things. Just a work of art.
One thing that is not discussed too much: all the singing harmonies are arranged by Marko.
They are absolutely beautiful and haunting at the same time.
This entire album is an incredible undertaking. Absolutely breathtaking. So glad you decided to do the whole thing.
The skeleton dance needs to happen as a kind of a flash mob thing during a Nightwish concert.
So glad to see that you reacted to the fan video of the Nature part of the album. It's apparently been seen by Toumas and he liked it so much it's used at the Nightwish exhibition at their museum in Kitee, Finland. It's a shame it's not past 90k views, I think whoever edited those videos together with the music did an excellent work!
In the video to Music, the instrument that is shown is one of the Lyres of Ur, the second oldest string instruments ever found (three lyres and one harp was discovered) in a cemetery in the ancient city of Ur (located in what is now Iraq) dated to around 2550-2450 BCE so roughly 4500 years old. Two can be seen restored in The British Museum in London and the biggest one in the Iraq museum in Baghdad. It's also such a cool concept to start the song with the sounds of the Universe turned into music and then transfer to nature sounds before the first human made sounds and the lyrics sung from the viewpoint of music itself.
In the Anthropocene part of the Nature disc, Toumas has added a short part of the "Hurrian hymn to Nikkal" the oldest song ever discovered in the ancient city of Ugarite, located in Northern Syria. It was inscribed in Cuneiform on clay tablets and dates to around 1400 BCE. The entire piece can be heard on YT ua-cam.com/video/tAc2KDNHEw4/v-deo.html in case you're interested
After seeing these visuals, I'll never listen to this half of the album the same again. Lovely, Lovely, Lovely !
Great job doing the new record like this. All at once. Many of the chorus' have all three singing together. Pan is definitely one of my favorites. This one about the human imagination and our need to create stories. The World Wildlife Fund named a nature reserve in Mexico after Nightwish. Floor and the boys will be visiting when they finally tour and play in Mexico. "Endlessness" basically touches upon how Tuomas and some of the members envision the spiritual side of life and how it ends or continues cyclically. "That silent unseen stream". Hopefully Marko will participate in the virtual shows in May. It would be a shame to not have a live performance from Marko on this song. So deep and unique.
Thank you for doing this. This album has grown on me in the past year and is now my favourite NW album. I really enjoyed listening to it together with everyone.
An amazing album and a great reaction. During the acoustic version of How's the Heart, Troy leans back when they are done with a "Omg her voice' look on his face. And Floor has never looked more magnificent than she did in this video.
This album really helped me through 2020, it came out at exactly the right time.
Thanks for this! Love this album and it’s getting better with every listening.
It is so fullfilling: 132 minutes of sharing and leveling with your moderation, Jim, as well as with the chat participants. It's like inviting your best friends to share something that you know will impress each and everyone on equal basis. Hail to Tuomas Holopainen, Master of Music, Genius of Words, King of Emotions!
Great reaction! Missed the thing on twitch but watched the vod last night. I bet Tuomas could make great music for some big Hollywood productions.
Tuomas would probably create the best movie sound track of all time.
Virtual concert, can't wait....
Hi Jim Games Live, great reaction. As always :)
PAN! There are so many allusions to literature and movies etc. hidden in this song. Here's a list:
1. winds will be named is an allusion to Patrick Rothfuss' book The name of the wind. Which Toumas has read. The Kingslayer trilogy.
2. to fallen stars, to there and back might be a reference to J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. Bilbo writes a book with the title There and back again.
3. Tír na nÓg (Old Irish: Tír na n-Oc - tʲiːɾˠ n̪ˠə ˈn̪ˠoːɡˠ freely translated about Land of Eternal Youth) is one of the most famous mystical places of the afterlife in Irish-Celtic mythology.
4. A pale blue theatre stage: our earth.
5. Something wicked this way comes is a quote from the first scene of the fourth act of the drama "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.
6. The title of the song itself: In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus.
7. Snow Glass Apples is a short story written by Neil Gaiman, a retelling of Snow White.
8. The Sea Lady is a story written by H.G. Wells.
9. Maybe the line an ape in awe before a door is an allusion to Arthur C. Clark's 2001 Space Odyssey when the Great Monolith appears But I am not sure about that.
This song is pure genius...as always.
10. Keystone Earth is a reference to The Dark Tower series from Stephen King.
It is quite possible that we do not have everything or that we are wrong in some points. Anyone who can contribute something is welcome to correct me :)
Please keep up the good work. Greetings Michael.
Just watched this start to finish, what a commitment for you, I thoroughly enjoyed it all, 👏👏👏
Can't wait to see what Nightwish has in store for us next.
Really enjoyed your reaction to this album. One of the best I have ever seen, Learned some stuff along the way. Thanks!
Human.:!!: Nature. Is the best Album, i ever hear. I am 58y old, hear Genesis(the real), Yes, ELP, later Metallica, Soundgarden, and so many others. Then Nightwish. But this Album, is a conclusion, what, i ever hear..
This was an amazing way to hear this whole album. I had not done it start to finish before so thank you.
The more I have heard the songs the more I appreciate and love them.
It is another masterpiece. The collaboration of all of them, and Tuomas' genius is awe inspiring.
LoL your mic is very good picking up background in your house too.
It was very relaxing in the instrumental part to hear someone else doing dishes as I sat lazy listening to wonderful music & watching stunning visuals lol.
In an interview for Helsingin Sanomat Tuomas said that HN is second album in a trilogy, EFMB being the first part.
her voice and his beautiful picking light as a feather vocal harmonizing such a powerful messages being conveyed lyrical genius such tight wall of sound and the seemless blending of finland heavy metal and the symphonic orchestral sounds that you would only find in a symphony such as the layers colors of layers and the awesome rhythm section
Even though I have heard this many times I still enjoyed the journey with you on UA-cam. No matter what Nightwish song is reacted to I have to view and I agree with one of your commentators said they are the best group ever and I am also 70 years old as well. ❤️🤘🇦🇺
Starting the live stream with Floor covering Oblivion is a sublime opening... to perhaps the seminal recording of our generation.
Great start!
It's hard to overrrate this album...
Opening with Music to Noise to my favorite,
Shoemaker... there's literally no weak link.
Harvest, Pan, How's the Heart... Procession, the BANGER Tribal...
Probably one of the best releases since 2112, Machine Head, Songs in the Key of Life, Boston's self titled, or genre bending Hybrid Theory....
Rare few efforts match the complete works of a single release.
Thanks for recording this since I wasn't able to join the stream! Awesome stuff, I knew you would love the album. It's nice that you did the other side too, most reactors only focus on the first side with the lyric videos. Cheers!
Thanks for this. The whole album is a masterpiece.
Did you notice the few notes in Quiet as the snow sound just like Downton Abbey -theme?
Really loved this long reaction! Thanks!
this double album from the symphonic metal band from Kitee Finland is another great example of these professional musicians that can take finland heavy metal and blend and weave so seamlessly the layers of colors and like for example the song yours is an empty hope and weak fantasy sahara and the fact that i have seen all their live performances top notch band and production
This album is up there with Imaginaerum for my favorite albums by Nightwish. Yes, I made it to the end. :)
In interviews the band members stated that the music and vocals pushed them beyond the limits of what they thought they could achieve, in other words it showed them they hadn't reached their ful capability
Damn. I missed the live stream.😭
This really is a great album. I haven't picked a favourite yet, but Noise is right up top.😄
A nice weekend and Easter everyone.😊👍
Thankyou loved it.
i really enjoy this double album disc1 is human part and disc 2 is nature the music from this album should be blowing up a wall of sound of simply beautiful music compositions very seemless transitions between instruments light and folky and heavy quite nice welsh melodies
One correction here, Tuomas said that for the first disc, he decided to not use the full orchestra, but just the string section and the choirs instead, not that they did not use any instruments.
That was mind-blowing
Made it to the end..of course! 🤘 Luv the album
I literally don't know how Floor remembers/Will remember all these complex in lyrics written in her non mother language during live shows! She's amazing
When at some point in time, a higher force visits us and asks why we did so much crap as humans, at least we can play Human//://Nature and tell them: "We also did THAT."
My 3 favs are the bookends and Pan. Pan is one of the most creative songs about human creativity I have ever heard!! Endlessness is perfection and poignant if Marco does not return to us, and Music opens the whole thing perfectly, I smile every time it gets to the first chorus it is the joy of music captured. This album though doesn't have a bad song, but you know if a gun was held to my head they are the three I would go with...
"Endlessness" 😍
Im soooo much in love with NW for sooo many years, my times reaching Tarja times when Marco joined, In my opinion Floor is now the ultimate singer for them, I admire her above all known imagination, and the Endless Forms album was absolutely FIRE !!! and I love every single song of it, BUT Human :||: Nature at the first listen was a hard thing to do. Only Noise and Tribal did the job for me, the rest I was like "meh" its somthing weird here.. But every relisten was a new discovering. Now I believe this album, the lyrics of EVERY SONG and the way Floor sings it is a f*cking masterpiece of Toumas creativity. This man is impossible, whole band with their talents.. I cannot imagine what we can get with another album.
Уфф...Спасибо!
i wouldn't doubt if this sparks some other scientific theme and who knows sounds like some organization like world trust
My only gripe with this album is the guitar is too quiet compared to all the different layers, especially the bass. Maybe this will get fixed when they'll play the songs live but other than that I love how unique this album is. I love how every single nightwish album stands on its own. But give my man Emppu a few guitar solos ples :(
We're gonna miss Marko.
I joined the twitch feed half way through, but haven't signed up there. I caught up with the first half here. I think this album is less visceral and more cerebral. I suppose it's a maturing composer moving on. I like the album, but it's a totally different experience to what's gone before.
For me this album is a masterpiece, also the Nature part. Yes, it's different, but somehow wasn't that every Nightwish album? The nice thing about Nightwish is that you never know what to expect. Maybe you're not really fascinated by every song, but there's never a really bad one .....
I have CDs still. lol
I can't believe that Marko leaves the band. 💔🥺😭
Why does it say charlie calotta at the bottom left? Random but just curious
he was the most recent subscriber.
@@JimGames oh ok cool, I recognized his name because he has a channel too
Please react to spanish singer Mónica Naranjo Europa live OT is amazing incredible performent
Ill check her out.
Floor sounds so much better live than in the studio
Just a little stone into Nightwish yard: So, for cd2 Afan was able to create this amazing video roll. But Nightwish didn't? It just a bit sad that the Fan or whoever did it can only receive thankful compliment/comments and no material for time spent....
I don't know why but when I hear this cello I think Yo Yo Ma.....or is it just me?
Hi Jim! Great reaction! To answer your question during some of the clips going with the second part of the album; just about every time you said: this is beautiful where is it!? You should have recognized it since you did a video on it, most of it was Iceland! So amazing. Also the Icelandic Stonehenge was seen, I believe you also asked about that. Greetings from the Netherlands from a NW and Iceland fan 🤗
Thank you! I had a feeling that what I was seeing.Thank you for letting me know!
Apparently, the key to having your ashes shot into space, is being called Gene.
I liked the album but it's not the best. I needed more "metal" lol. A great reaction would be to their wishmaster album. Absolutely master piece of power metal.
Sorry, Nightwish do Nightwish things. 🤗 Nightwish is more then Metal. My opinion
@@ralfmeyer9086 well, they lost their old essence in my opinion. I would say tuomas is using nightwish's name to follow his ambitions. Anyway, it's lovely to listen but it's not the metal band it used to be.
@@matiasbelmonte4576 Really, thats your Opinion..You mean Floor, follow him blind? The new NW, so much more, than the old. And Tuomas, hear his Project Auri.
@@ralfmeyer9086 lol. You can't say it sound better now than before. Compare wishmaster with this album. Which one gets you sleepy? Lol
@@matiasbelmonte4576 omg got Wishmaster is so history. Then you told Pink Floyd fans, They better with Syd Barret, as with Roger Waters. Nightwish is in 2021, not in 2003
Este ha sido el peor disco de nightwish, se que todas las bandas evolucionan, pero definitivamente ya no se reconoce. 🥺🥺🥺 aunque soy fan de nightwish reconozco que ya no es la banda imponente que solía ser.
decepcionante album.. sonido demasiado generico y repetitivo nada se compara a Imaginaerum para mi el mejor
a mi me gusta mucho
I really like this album, don't get me wrong, but when it's all over it leaves me feeling kinda empty or depressed. I find the album a little dark for me. EFMB makes me feel better after it's over. It's a lighter sounding album.
Procession is sad and makes humans sound like shit. Some of us are. And endlessness just makes me depressed about death. I don't listen to the album very often. So because of this, I can't love it. Even the music videos and album artwork are dark. I'm pretty sensitive to imagery and it can have a major effect on how I perceive something.
Weakest Nightwish album by far
I don't think so
Nah man, ur weak!
Thank god you are in a minory who thinking that.