[Gortef]

Today (well ok on last night to be more precise) was the release of this new album.
It also came from the mail to me today. Listening it at this very moment I write this... and wow!

I think this pretty much sums up what I think about the album:



The samples truly were bloody nothing compared to the finished songs (quite obviously).
Even though I must admit that I did d/l the promo tracs that were lying on the net months ago, even they were nothing.

Well that's about the basic hype, it sounds great. Tuomas has used orchestras as much as he wanted I suppose and he really knows what he does. Emppu, Jukka and Marco (who even has his own "solo" song in there 'Master Passion Greed' ) do their job like they should so no complaints about that either.

But the main question that everyone has in their mind is propably "So... how does Anette sound like?".

She sounds great, period. One could say (in a cold way) that Tuomas lost an instrument and gained another a bit different one in exchange, and he knows how to use it.
No matter what some people say, it sounds like Nightwish, it feels like Nightwish, it is Nightwish.

[Prophet]

I'm not denying Annette isn't a good singer, but she doesn't sound like Tarja. And I liked how Tarja sang. I'm just so bitter to everyone about the whole thing.

What I'm saying is that Nightwish isn't "special" anymore, it's just another good heavy band. And that bums me out.

[Nuke]

nightwish sucks

[redsniper]

troo kvlt metal sucks.

[Wobble73]

Never heard of them! 

[Nuke]

troo kvlt metal sucks.

its supposed to suck

nightwish on the other hand just does it naturally.

[Dark_4ce]

first songs rocks. Gotta hear the rest though.

[S-99]

I don't buy cd's, so i downloaded it a month before release in america. It is awesome. Annette is really great. When tarja's gone, annette fills the roll perfectly. And of course comes the first track....so epic I thought ghost love score was going to be their longest song weighing in at 10mins, but the poet and the pendulum is a whopping almost 14minute song! And it was good

One thing i do have to say while it rocks out as some of the best powermetal ever. I was really happy to find this:

Buy a SIGNED copy of Dark Passion Play! On Tuesday, October 2nd, Nightwish will see the release of Dark Passion Play, their second album for Roadrunner Records. This album will be released in 2 configurations - the single-disc standard version and 2-CD Special Edition which will contain 1 bonus track on the 1st disc and a 2nd CD comprised of orchestral versions of every song on the album! Right now if you pre-order the record from Newbury Comics you will also receive a CD booklet autographed by the band!* Whichever version you choose, this new album, featuring all new vocalist Anette Olzon, is surely not to be missed!

THIS OFFER IS VALID FOR DOMESTIC (U.S.) ORDERS ONLY. Offer valid only with purchase of Dark Passion Play or Dark Passion Play: Collector's Edition.

Pre-ordered CDs shipping with promotional material are limited to
(5) per customer.

*Booklets will be available while supplies last, newburycomics.com will post information when autographed booklets are sold out.

http://www.newburycomics.com/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=103&upc=103-314882N

Now this would officially be the first cd for me to ever buy, and it would be what i call, finally worth it to buy a cd

[Unknown Target]

Hey Gortef!

I like the album, but I'm a little so so on osme parts. One thing I noticed straight off the bat was that Anette had a lot of male backup - more so than any NW album in recent memory - I guess they didn't want to risk alienating people by putting her in the solo spot that Tarja occupied. Now, this isn't a weak spot per se, it's just different than the old Nightwish - in fact, I started to have a bit of trouble differentiating them from Epica, one of my other favorite bands - a lot of this is because Tarja had a very deep voice, and this set her apart from most other goth/opera metal bands - now that Anette has the higher tone, it's harder to say "This is obviously Nightwish"...which brings me to my next point. There was an odd fusing of techno into some of the songs, and the orchestra wasn't as grand as it was in Once. Now, I like techno in metal, but it doesn't seem very NW at all to me, so, I don't know.  Speaking of metal, there were some songs that were heavier than most other Nightwish songs made recently, yet I also felt that there were too many ballads and slow songs on this track - and for the record, I hated Meadows of Heaven - it just got way funky and ended up sounding like one of those jazz evangelical songs.

So did I like this album at all? FECK YES! Even though I seemed to diss a lot of it, the album comes with several REALLY strong tracks - Bye Bye Beautiful and Saraha being my top favs. It's also quite a different direction for Nightwish to take, and while I miss Tarja, I do like how the rest of the band is being incorporated into the music, and some of the tracks are just very metal because of the male backup. The album is definitely worth a try for every Nightwish fan, or a fan of that sort of metal at all - it does take some getting used to, and it does have it's flaws, but it's still a strong showing for a singer that has some huge shoes to fill.

[Knight Templar]

I'm sorry, but it's all about Tarja.

<3 ghost love score.

[KappaWing]

Nightwish is coming to detroit in a month!!!! 

[Gortef]

Hey UT,

Yea Anette has quite a lot of backup on this album but as you said it's not a bad thing, it's just a bit more "instrumets"

Only thing that I could find truly different compared to other albums (aside the obvious fact that there is a new singer) is that in DPP many of the songs are really different from the others (as you said lot's of really hard ones but also lot's of ballads), but that doesn't bother me either it gives variety to the album. Ballads are ok I think, Nw is good in those.

I guess I'm tone death into any negative arguments considering DPP, it hit me like a one ton sledgehammer and I still haven't recovered from the smash.

Heh, oh yea. I also ordered the Amaranth DVD single and as a bonus features it has the Demo versions of Amaranth and Eva. Those are some hilarious pieces I can tell ya. You can recognize quite clearly the melody allready from both of them BUT they have Marco as a singer and he tries to sing a bit more "softly" as he usually does. It's gets quite fun, especially in Eva

[ToecrusherHammerjaw]

This just came out on iTunes today.  Been listening to Amaranth consistently, because it kicks ass!  Yes, like so many others, I miss Tarja too.  But what's done is done.  And Anette has quite a good voice, plus she's smoking hot. 

The old Nightwish is sadly dead.  But long live the new Nightwish!

[Admiral_Stones]

This just came out on iTunes today.  Been listening to Amaranth consistently, because it kicks ass!  Yes, like so many others, I miss Tarja too.  But what's done is done.  And Anette has quite a good voice, plus she's smoking hot. 

The old Nightwish is sadly dead.  But long live the new Nightwish!

lol, it's so necrothreadagged, it's ridiculous. But this post is in GenDisc anyway.

I found DPP pretty good. Not as good as CC or Once though.

On a side note: I found Tarja more smokinger than Anette.

[Nuke]

how many times do i have to say this:

nightwish sucks

[Hellstryker]

I'm sorry, but it's all about Tarja.

<3 ghost love score.

Bleh, it's true. 

[S-99]

I've been listening to ghost love score and dark chest of wonders a lot myself too.

[Ashrak]

well done you woke up a year old thread.

[Admiral_Stones]

But the thread ain't got locked yet

Well, currently listening Dark CoW too... I love it. Nemo is my favourite though.

[S-99]

uughg. Everyone likes nemo too much. At least get the orchestral version.