I just made this today, when I saw in youtube the video of Tarja dancing with the song Walking in the air.
Espero que vos guste
Para os españoles e sobre todo gallegos non fai falta moitas palabras, eu a verdad, non sei con cal mo pasei mellor mezclandoo XDD
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lunes, mayo 05, 2008
jueves, abril 24, 2008
Nightwish + Pain (Live in Porto 2008-04-18)
This time Porto was the city and Nightwish and Pain the ones. Looking at the price we could see the huge difference between the same concert in Spain and in Portugal! (Madrid 34 € // Porto 22€!!!).
Lots of people since 2 hours before the opening doors in the street, and we felt it would be a great and "sold out" concert.
Huge place! we don't have such places in Galicia!!!
So a little bit after 9 PM Pain started with those three beats announcing "Same old song".
And wow!!!!
Those beats made me shake and open my eyes as much as I could! What a f****g sound!!
The volume was really ok... intruments were perfectly mixed... sound was just perfect! I can say maybe the best sound in a concert I am glad to be present ever.
And here I must say I thought, what a s**t of sound technicians we have in Galicia!!... and small places!!
Maybe they are doing the best, maybe it's difficult to get a good sound, but people behind the machines could help something for avoiding the reduction in our hearing ability, and not finishing with a bothering whistle every one of the concerts we have in this zone.
Well so Pain started with Same old song, a good song and starting, with Peter Tägtgren in front of the band completely recovered.
Pain - Same Old Song
They seemed to be in some kind of rush, cause they didn't lose any time in words or stops, songs were one after one successively with no time for breathing.
Really experienced, Peter did a good job as frontman, and the band did a perfect show, which I enjoyed absolutely, being the big shots of the night Nailed to the Ground, where they changed a bit some part making it a bit extreme, (it rocked like hell), and Shut your mouth, one of their successful songs, really catchy.
I think public enjoyed quite a lot their show.
Pain - Shut Your Mouth
The bad thing of Pain was the really few time they were playing, just around 40 min. I think people there were enjoying a lot with their show and maybe 2 or 3 more songs would be perfect.
It was too fast, and I was with the feeling "already finished??? come on!!"
Setlist
Same Old Song
Eleanor Rigby
End Of The Line
Zombie Slam
Nailed to The Ground
Just Hate Me
On and On
Shut Your Mouth
Well, so the time for Nightwish came, it was quite exciting to see for first time the band that surprised me so many years ago with that Oceanborn, with or without Tarja Turunen (better with, but now it's pointless to think about it).
The opening was "Bye bye beautiful", (the "dedicated" song hehe) after a too long intro.
Anette is the center of attention, like I guess in all the tour Nightwish is doing, due to be the frontwoman and substitute of Tarja. She did a good job making songs from the new album "Dark Passion Play", like this first"Bye bye beautiful", they were very ok, helped by the amazing sound. And her way of moving, "dancing" and being over the scenary improved really a lot after seen her first shows, where she didn't know almost to shake and looked like an absolute beginner (though she was already singer for some time in that forgettable band Alyson Avenue, this makes me to think that band didn't make so many concerts...).
The setlists in those first shows after the release of Dark Passion Play didn't help either, playing half new and half old stuff which her voice cannot handle at all. The comparison between Tarja's voice and hers is just ridiculous. No point to discussion. So what she (the band) was doing lastly was to fit those old songs to her voice, making lower sometimes the tone Tarja sang, or changing the melody for not sounding bad without making the effort of emulating the high-tones of the previous singer.
Anyway, this try can fit sometimes, but others we could see a rather forced voice of Anette.
Just for a fast sight, here we can see her version of Dark Chest Of Wonders, after the song Bye Bye Beautiful, with lots of mistakes and seemed quite forced if we compare to Tarja:
Nightwish - Dark Chest Of Wonders
The setlist from those first times was quite different from these last ones
***Pre-Anette songs
Missed/changed in the last show
1. Bye Bye Beautiful
2. Cadence Of Her Last Breath
3. Dark Chest Of Wonders
***4. Ever Dream
***5. Come Cover Me
6. Amaranth
***7. Sacrament Of Wilderness
8. The Islander
9. The Poet And The Pendulum
***10. She Is My Sin
11. Sahara
***12. Sleeping Sun
***13. Slaying The Dreamer
***14. Nemo
------------------------------
15. Eva
***16. Wishmaster
***17. Wish I Had An Angel
Taken from the first show with Anette (Tallinn 26.09.2007)
So the conclusion is quite clear, they were changing mostly old songs like wishmaster, sleeping sun or sacrament of wilderness, which Anette had to force too much her voice, wasting them and making them sound really worst. They realized of that, and changed almost half songs of those first setlists for making a better show.
It has some good points like the show we saw in Porto was quite good, not too much sang out of tune those Tarja's period songs (cause they had chosen not very complicated songs for Anette's voice), but it has also a quite bad point, like we are losing the best Nightwish songs, those first ones (under my point of view).
The rest of the band were excellent, overall Marco Hietala, who wears presence, voice and attitude like no other bassist-singer. Everyone of the band has remarkable personality, the always-smiling and funny Emppu, the almost-spiritual Tuomas, and Jukka with his own and personal way of playing drums... but Marco is an institution. Just in one word: powerful.
Lots of sampling, necessary for their music, but it makes the show a bit artificial, not so fresh. But in the good side, I have to say that sampling sounded very ok mixed with the music in live. Anyway we cannot think that they would come with an orchestra of 50 people with them.
I recall it sounded strange when I was there, but the refrain of Ever Dream is sooo awfully sang when I watched the video we recorded!!
Just look it from 1:08 min. and going on...
Nightwish - Ever Dream
Nightwish - The Siren
About the show itself.. I was told they left the fireworks cause it was dangerous in a place like the Coliseu, but anyway they have a very nice light sight show, and I suppose it would be great to see those fires and so on.. but it was ok.
Another difference between Anette and Tarja (apart from voice) is that she shows much closer to public than the other "diva". Tarja seemed sometimes to be in other world, and the interaction seemed sometimes not very natural. Well, Anette talked with us and so on, I don't know, like some people said to me "it is for emphasize the difference between old one and new one", "she hasn't the same voice, but at least she can communicate and not changing clothes every few minutes and resting" (I guess, the reason in last shows with Tarja, Nightwish started to make cover songs where Marco was the only singer, like that Symphony of Destruction (Megadeth) or Wild Child (WASP)).
Anyway Marco is powerful :P
Well, right now, they don't do those cover songs, but Anette can also rest cause Nightwish are playing already 2 songs made by them like While Your Lips Are Still Red and The Islander, where she can rest.
By the way, though I like a lot that song, The Islander, it sounded quite empty in the concert. The lack of bagpipes and flute made it a bit tasteless.. even Anette, who was making some choir in the original left to the backstage :(
So here you have a prove of the interaction with people. But, I really expected something more, like Rob Halford used to do or .. I don't know... just saying when she ended, our face was like... "uh?? what? just that? pfff.. "
I think she could avoid making that short poor "demonstration of voice"...
Nightwish - Anette talking
Really lots of people in the concert, but I have to say that all around us were persons between 15 and 20 years old, maybe the public Nightwish was searching with that change of singer and change of bit more commercial style.
But anyway, public in Portugal is great! And it really made a better show, all were singing and jumping, the ambient was excellent, much better than what I used to see here in Galicia, where people are quite dull and seems almost boring in concerts... though afterwards "the show was great!!yeah!!" (...) and "everyone lives one concert on his own way" like someone replied me... well ok... so behaving like this, you will have lots of concerts near home, trust me ;)
Nightwish - Nemo
I think the most acclaimed songs for fans where the single Amaranth, Nemo, Wish I Had an Angel and the first one Bye bye Beautiful.
So summing up;
- A really worth concert, Anette fails with the old songs, which every concert are less and less (when they release a new album, I guess there will be just 3 or 4 of the Tarja's period), but she keeps very well singing the new ones. She also makes Nightwish closer to the fans, talking and so on. There is a good evolution after those first concerts.
- Marco is powerful hehe
- The sound of the place, amazing, one of the best I've ever seen, maybe the best. Finally I got to go to one concert with high volume and not having after that whistle in my ears for days..
Sound technicians in Galicia.. please leave your jobs.. my hearing ability would thank that ;)
- Public, amazing. Now I understand why there are so many concerts and festivals in Portugal.
- The setlist: bad. I'd like more old songs, and anyway, I didn't like the choosing of the new ones, those 2 ballads sang by Marco and some songs at half-tempo like Sahara or The Siren made the concert sometimes a bit slow (hopefully they forgot Eva).
- The concert of Pain and Nightwish was too short!! 40 min. for Pain (I enjoyed a lot their too short show) and 1:30 for Nightwish is not that much! and here I think Nightwish skipped playing some songs they were playing in Madrid and Barcelona, like Come Cover Me or The Last of the Wilds.
Setlist (not sure about the song order, but they are all)
Intro
Bye Bye Beautiful
Dark Chest Of Wonders
Whoever Brings The Night
Ever Dream
The Siren
While Your Lips Are Still Red
Amaranth
The Poet and The Pendulum
The Islander
Sahara
Nemo
-------
Dead To The World
Wish I Had An Angel
Lots of people since 2 hours before the opening doors in the street, and we felt it would be a great and "sold out" concert.
Huge place! we don't have such places in Galicia!!!
So a little bit after 9 PM Pain started with those three beats announcing "Same old song".
And wow!!!!
Those beats made me shake and open my eyes as much as I could! What a f****g sound!!
The volume was really ok... intruments were perfectly mixed... sound was just perfect! I can say maybe the best sound in a concert I am glad to be present ever.
And here I must say I thought, what a s**t of sound technicians we have in Galicia!!... and small places!!
Maybe they are doing the best, maybe it's difficult to get a good sound, but people behind the machines could help something for avoiding the reduction in our hearing ability, and not finishing with a bothering whistle every one of the concerts we have in this zone.
Well so Pain started with Same old song, a good song and starting, with Peter Tägtgren in front of the band completely recovered.
Pain - Same Old Song
They seemed to be in some kind of rush, cause they didn't lose any time in words or stops, songs were one after one successively with no time for breathing.
Really experienced, Peter did a good job as frontman, and the band did a perfect show, which I enjoyed absolutely, being the big shots of the night Nailed to the Ground, where they changed a bit some part making it a bit extreme, (it rocked like hell), and Shut your mouth, one of their successful songs, really catchy.
I think public enjoyed quite a lot their show.
Pain - Shut Your Mouth
The bad thing of Pain was the really few time they were playing, just around 40 min. I think people there were enjoying a lot with their show and maybe 2 or 3 more songs would be perfect.
It was too fast, and I was with the feeling "already finished??? come on!!"
Setlist
Same Old Song
Eleanor Rigby
End Of The Line
Zombie Slam
Nailed to The Ground
Just Hate Me
On and On
Shut Your Mouth
Well, so the time for Nightwish came, it was quite exciting to see for first time the band that surprised me so many years ago with that Oceanborn, with or without Tarja Turunen (better with, but now it's pointless to think about it).
The opening was "Bye bye beautiful", (the "dedicated" song hehe) after a too long intro.
Anette is the center of attention, like I guess in all the tour Nightwish is doing, due to be the frontwoman and substitute of Tarja. She did a good job making songs from the new album "Dark Passion Play", like this first"Bye bye beautiful", they were very ok, helped by the amazing sound. And her way of moving, "dancing" and being over the scenary improved really a lot after seen her first shows, where she didn't know almost to shake and looked like an absolute beginner (though she was already singer for some time in that forgettable band Alyson Avenue, this makes me to think that band didn't make so many concerts...).
The setlists in those first shows after the release of Dark Passion Play didn't help either, playing half new and half old stuff which her voice cannot handle at all. The comparison between Tarja's voice and hers is just ridiculous. No point to discussion. So what she (the band) was doing lastly was to fit those old songs to her voice, making lower sometimes the tone Tarja sang, or changing the melody for not sounding bad without making the effort of emulating the high-tones of the previous singer.
Anyway, this try can fit sometimes, but others we could see a rather forced voice of Anette.
Just for a fast sight, here we can see her version of Dark Chest Of Wonders, after the song Bye Bye Beautiful, with lots of mistakes and seemed quite forced if we compare to Tarja:
Nightwish - Dark Chest Of Wonders
The setlist from those first times was quite different from these last ones
***Pre-Anette songs
Missed/changed in the last show
1. Bye Bye Beautiful
2. Cadence Of Her Last Breath
3. Dark Chest Of Wonders
***4. Ever Dream
***5. Come Cover Me
6. Amaranth
***7. Sacrament Of Wilderness
8. The Islander
9. The Poet And The Pendulum
***10. She Is My Sin
11. Sahara
***12. Sleeping Sun
***13. Slaying The Dreamer
***14. Nemo
------------------------------
15. Eva
***16. Wishmaster
***17. Wish I Had An Angel
Taken from the first show with Anette (Tallinn 26.09.2007)
So the conclusion is quite clear, they were changing mostly old songs like wishmaster, sleeping sun or sacrament of wilderness, which Anette had to force too much her voice, wasting them and making them sound really worst. They realized of that, and changed almost half songs of those first setlists for making a better show.
It has some good points like the show we saw in Porto was quite good, not too much sang out of tune those Tarja's period songs (cause they had chosen not very complicated songs for Anette's voice), but it has also a quite bad point, like we are losing the best Nightwish songs, those first ones (under my point of view).
The rest of the band were excellent, overall Marco Hietala, who wears presence, voice and attitude like no other bassist-singer. Everyone of the band has remarkable personality, the always-smiling and funny Emppu, the almost-spiritual Tuomas, and Jukka with his own and personal way of playing drums... but Marco is an institution. Just in one word: powerful.
Lots of sampling, necessary for their music, but it makes the show a bit artificial, not so fresh. But in the good side, I have to say that sampling sounded very ok mixed with the music in live. Anyway we cannot think that they would come with an orchestra of 50 people with them.
I recall it sounded strange when I was there, but the refrain of Ever Dream is sooo awfully sang when I watched the video we recorded!!
Just look it from 1:08 min. and going on...
Nightwish - Ever Dream
Nightwish - The Siren
About the show itself.. I was told they left the fireworks cause it was dangerous in a place like the Coliseu, but anyway they have a very nice light sight show, and I suppose it would be great to see those fires and so on.. but it was ok.
Another difference between Anette and Tarja (apart from voice) is that she shows much closer to public than the other "diva". Tarja seemed sometimes to be in other world, and the interaction seemed sometimes not very natural. Well, Anette talked with us and so on, I don't know, like some people said to me "it is for emphasize the difference between old one and new one", "she hasn't the same voice, but at least she can communicate and not changing clothes every few minutes and resting" (I guess, the reason in last shows with Tarja, Nightwish started to make cover songs where Marco was the only singer, like that Symphony of Destruction (Megadeth) or Wild Child (WASP)).
Anyway Marco is powerful :P
Well, right now, they don't do those cover songs, but Anette can also rest cause Nightwish are playing already 2 songs made by them like While Your Lips Are Still Red and The Islander, where she can rest.
By the way, though I like a lot that song, The Islander, it sounded quite empty in the concert. The lack of bagpipes and flute made it a bit tasteless.. even Anette, who was making some choir in the original left to the backstage :(
So here you have a prove of the interaction with people. But, I really expected something more, like Rob Halford used to do or .. I don't know... just saying when she ended, our face was like... "uh?? what? just that? pfff.. "
I think she could avoid making that short poor "demonstration of voice"...
Nightwish - Anette talking
Really lots of people in the concert, but I have to say that all around us were persons between 15 and 20 years old, maybe the public Nightwish was searching with that change of singer and change of bit more commercial style.
But anyway, public in Portugal is great! And it really made a better show, all were singing and jumping, the ambient was excellent, much better than what I used to see here in Galicia, where people are quite dull and seems almost boring in concerts... though afterwards "the show was great!!yeah!!" (...) and "everyone lives one concert on his own way" like someone replied me... well ok... so behaving like this, you will have lots of concerts near home, trust me ;)
Nightwish - Nemo
I think the most acclaimed songs for fans where the single Amaranth, Nemo, Wish I Had an Angel and the first one Bye bye Beautiful.
So summing up;
- A really worth concert, Anette fails with the old songs, which every concert are less and less (when they release a new album, I guess there will be just 3 or 4 of the Tarja's period), but she keeps very well singing the new ones. She also makes Nightwish closer to the fans, talking and so on. There is a good evolution after those first concerts.
- Marco is powerful hehe
- The sound of the place, amazing, one of the best I've ever seen, maybe the best. Finally I got to go to one concert with high volume and not having after that whistle in my ears for days..
Sound technicians in Galicia.. please leave your jobs.. my hearing ability would thank that ;)
- Public, amazing. Now I understand why there are so many concerts and festivals in Portugal.
- The setlist: bad. I'd like more old songs, and anyway, I didn't like the choosing of the new ones, those 2 ballads sang by Marco and some songs at half-tempo like Sahara or The Siren made the concert sometimes a bit slow (hopefully they forgot Eva).
- The concert of Pain and Nightwish was too short!! 40 min. for Pain (I enjoyed a lot their too short show) and 1:30 for Nightwish is not that much! and here I think Nightwish skipped playing some songs they were playing in Madrid and Barcelona, like Come Cover Me or The Last of the Wilds.
Setlist (not sure about the song order, but they are all)
Intro
Bye Bye Beautiful
Dark Chest Of Wonders
Whoever Brings The Night
Ever Dream
The Siren
While Your Lips Are Still Red
Amaranth
The Poet and The Pendulum
The Islander
Sahara
Nemo
-------
Dead To The World
Wish I Had An Angel
jueves, abril 17, 2008
Coming nextly.. Nightwish & Pain :P
Tomorrow is the day!
Nightwish + Pain in Porto
Let's see how Anette is doing :P
Pain - Zombie Slam (2007)
There's something coming crawling
'Round the corner of your mind
Oh... your funeral has just begun
Buried alive, it will be over in no time
The date is set for tonight
VIP at the dead man's ball
Come and die with the zombies in the moonlight
They become alive when you die, you cannot fool them
You got to slam with the dead and let it go now
See a thousand hallowed eyes stare into the night
The sun goes down and the dead head minds,
They start to resurrect
Under the velvet sky and thirsty for your flesh
Steals your soul and you will lose control
And turns your tears into dust
You're fool that will never learn
Play with fire and you will get your fingers burned
Come and die with the zombies in the moonlight
They become alive when you die, you cannot fool them
You got to slam with the dead and let it go now
See a thousand hallowed eyes stare into the night
It's getting dark so prepare to die
They're coming after you
It's getting dark and you can't get away
They're coming after you
Come and die with the zombies in the moonlight
They become alive when you die, you cannot fool them
You got to slam with the dead and let it go now
See a thousand hallowed eyes stare into the night
Nightwish - The Islander (2007)
An old man by a seashore
At the end of day
Gazes the horizon
With seawinds in his face
Tempest-tossed island
Seasons all the same
Anchorage unpainted
And a ship without a name
Sea without a shore for the banished one unheard
He lightens the beacon, light at the end of world
Showing the way lighting hope in their hearts
The ones on their travels homeward from afar
This is for long-forgotten
Light at the end of the world
Horizon crying
The tears he left behind long ago
The albatross is flying
Making him daydream
The time before he became
One of the world's unseen
Princess in the tower
Children in the fields
Life gave him it all:
An island of the universe
Now his love's a memory
A ghost in the og
He sets the sails one last time
Saying farewell to the world
Anchor to the water
Seabed far below
Grass still in his feet
Snd a smile beneath his brow
This is for long-forgotten
Light at the end of the world
Horizon crying
The tears he left behind so long ago
domingo, febrero 24, 2008
Amazing: Peter Tägtgren and band beaten up!
Pain (Gothic Industrial Metal) touring guitarist Marcus Jidell (Royal Hunt, House Of Shakira) has issued the following update on his official MySpace:
"We had to cancel the gig tonight in Leipzig while some crazy assholes kicked Peter (Tägtgren), Johan (Husgafvel) and David (Wallin) down when they where on their way home from a local bar yesterday. They just came from behind so there was nothing they could do. I was in the bus watching a movie so I am totally ok, besides the fact that we had to cancel. I feel really shitty to cancel but there was no way we could play today [23 Febr.]. I hope we will be able to be on stage tomorrow [24 Febr.] but I am not sure. But the guys are in a good mood and are working on recovering. Today we will sleep in a hotel and I'll try to make our heroes feel a little bit better."
Pain are currently on the road in Europe supporting Nightwish.
Pain - Shut Your Mouth (2002)
The only thing I ever wanted, the only thing I ever needed
is my own way - I gotta have it all
I don't want your opinion, I don't need your ideas
stay the fuck out of my face, stay away from me
I am my god - I do as I please
just wipe your own ass and - shut your mouth
I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around
my mind is playing tricks on me
I am not as stable as I used to be
pushed and shoved, you know you're going too far
I will not break my back for you no more, I am gonna go my
way
I am gonna take control
time to wake up and dig myself out of this hell
just wipe your own ass and - shut your mouth
I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around - shut your mouth
you're getting what your ego deserves - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around
shut your mouth
I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around
shut your mouth
shut your mouth
shut your mouth
"We had to cancel the gig tonight in Leipzig while some crazy assholes kicked Peter (Tägtgren), Johan (Husgafvel) and David (Wallin) down when they where on their way home from a local bar yesterday. They just came from behind so there was nothing they could do. I was in the bus watching a movie so I am totally ok, besides the fact that we had to cancel. I feel really shitty to cancel but there was no way we could play today [23 Febr.]. I hope we will be able to be on stage tomorrow [24 Febr.] but I am not sure. But the guys are in a good mood and are working on recovering. Today we will sleep in a hotel and I'll try to make our heroes feel a little bit better."
Pain - Shut Your Mouth (2002)
The only thing I ever wanted, the only thing I ever needed
is my own way - I gotta have it all
I don't want your opinion, I don't need your ideas
stay the fuck out of my face, stay away from me
I am my god - I do as I please
just wipe your own ass and - shut your mouth
I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around
my mind is playing tricks on me
I am not as stable as I used to be
pushed and shoved, you know you're going too far
I will not break my back for you no more, I am gonna go my
way
I am gonna take control
time to wake up and dig myself out of this hell
just wipe your own ass and - shut your mouth
I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around - shut your mouth
you're getting what your ego deserves - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around
shut your mouth
I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around
shut your mouth
shut your mouth
shut your mouth
viernes, octubre 19, 2007
Tarja vs Anette
The new singer of nightwish... bad? good? different? hmm hard to say... My personal oppinion is that she is really good, and her voice suits with the new songs quite well, but she is not Tarja... and I like more the old songs with Tarja, as I already said.
I will put one game for comparing... this is the same song "She is my sin". I took 2 videos of each one of the singers, different concerts, and i tried to choose one concert of Nightwish that i think it's not post-arranged sound.
Let's compare :)
Oh, also people who doesn't like this music can say something, what is better for you? Try to not to tell me in the messenger, so putting something in the comments (just down of the post). Hmm i think spanish people won't say anything because of the english.. but ok...
With Tarja
And one more with really bad sound as the ones of Anette
With Anette
Anyway, both are better than Floor Jansen (After Forever), I think.
I just found one example that verifies my thinking about the old songs when Anette is singing... Wishmaster ... really bad sang by her.
And this is the version of Tarja, I could choose one better quality video, but I don't want people say this is better quality than other.. or re-arranged sound... So both in equality of conditions. Another thing.. the movements of Tarja.. she improved a bit this in the last years when the band started to be really successful, but they are quite ... how to say?... hmm a bit "fake", but I don't like at all the movements of Anette... she seems a popstar.. :
I will put one game for comparing... this is the same song "She is my sin". I took 2 videos of each one of the singers, different concerts, and i tried to choose one concert of Nightwish that i think it's not post-arranged sound.
Let's compare :)
Oh, also people who doesn't like this music can say something, what is better for you? Try to not to tell me in the messenger, so putting something in the comments (just down of the post). Hmm i think spanish people won't say anything because of the english.. but ok...
With Tarja
And one more with really bad sound as the ones of Anette
With Anette
Anyway, both are better than Floor Jansen (After Forever), I think.
I just found one example that verifies my thinking about the old songs when Anette is singing... Wishmaster ... really bad sang by her.
And this is the version of Tarja, I could choose one better quality video, but I don't want people say this is better quality than other.. or re-arranged sound... So both in equality of conditions. Another thing.. the movements of Tarja.. she improved a bit this in the last years when the band started to be really successful, but they are quite ... how to say?... hmm a bit "fake", but I don't like at all the movements of Anette... she seems a popstar.. :
miércoles, septiembre 05, 2007
Back to reality
Well, Summer is ending, it has passed quite fast for me. Thanks mainly to my friends, I had a great time in my hometown and not too much time to think about homesick of Tallinn or other things. I guess coming back to the university will be a bit harder, but that's what has to be.
Well, first of all, I would like to remember and encourage 2 of my friends, one from Vigo another from Tallinn, that one of their parents became quite ill in these days, Kätrin and Miguel.
Second, about my post of suming up of 10 months in Estonia, I would like to say that i had some mistakes: first sorry for my english, then, the riots in Tallinn were at the end of April, not March (thanks Viggo), and sorry Karin cause I put your name was Kätrin (ouch). Of course I knew your name, but I made that post too quickly for the long it was...
I will prepare 2 long new posts more in few time, but not so long as the one of 10 months of erasmus, so be patient :) I will upload things nextly.
Other link for the new Nightwish album, I realized the others are not working anymore:
Nightwish in depositfiles
or
Nightwish part1
Nightwish part2
Password: www.mediaportal.ru
Between, 1000 visits in 3 months!!
Thanks to all!
One great band: Mercenary
My World Is Ending
Take all that I believe in
Give it a simple name
Reveal all my secrets
And drown me in the shame
I will redefine
The questions of the night
And I will purify
Forgiveness and the light
It's falling into place
In clear perspective
My deepest tragedy
The world is ending
So now you speak to me in perfect silence
Don't take my soul away
My world is ending
Don't ever speak to me
To find your salvation
I know it's hard to be
And exist in culmination
I'll take your soul away
Destroy it and molest you
And I will set you free
Don't give your heart to me
It's falling into place
In clear perspective
My deepest tragedy
The world is ending
So now you speak to me in perfect silence
Don't take my soul away
My world is ending
The world is ending
My world descending
Well, first of all, I would like to remember and encourage 2 of my friends, one from Vigo another from Tallinn, that one of their parents became quite ill in these days, Kätrin and Miguel.
Second, about my post of suming up of 10 months in Estonia, I would like to say that i had some mistakes: first sorry for my english, then, the riots in Tallinn were at the end of April, not March (thanks Viggo), and sorry Karin cause I put your name was Kätrin (ouch). Of course I knew your name, but I made that post too quickly for the long it was...
I will prepare 2 long new posts more in few time, but not so long as the one of 10 months of erasmus, so be patient :) I will upload things nextly.
Other link for the new Nightwish album, I realized the others are not working anymore:
Nightwish in depositfiles
or
Nightwish part1
Nightwish part2
Password: www.mediaportal.ru
Between, 1000 visits in 3 months!!
Thanks to all!
One great band: Mercenary
My World Is Ending
Take all that I believe in
Give it a simple name
Reveal all my secrets
And drown me in the shame
I will redefine
The questions of the night
And I will purify
Forgiveness and the light
It's falling into place
In clear perspective
My deepest tragedy
The world is ending
So now you speak to me in perfect silence
Don't take my soul away
My world is ending
Don't ever speak to me
To find your salvation
I know it's hard to be
And exist in culmination
I'll take your soul away
Destroy it and molest you
And I will set you free
Don't give your heart to me
It's falling into place
In clear perspective
My deepest tragedy
The world is ending
So now you speak to me in perfect silence
Don't take my soul away
My world is ending
The world is ending
My world descending
martes, agosto 14, 2007
Some summer parties / Review of Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Birthday party for Marcos and Yoni
Churrascadaaa!!
Yeh, one of the things I missed in Estonia :P
This is the pub of one friend, he opened it only for us.
Nice under(?)wear
I like the way of looking of Marcos' girlfriend just behind me meanwhile he is dancing some humppaaaa!
Don't you know what is humppa?Check it!
Dark reflection
Queimada de Cervo'07
I think I haven't introduced my skirt partners, from left to right: Marcos, Simon, me
Another party of "queimada" (more or less translated like "burnt", strong hmm liquor that has to be burnt first before drinking because it's so strong.. ). You buy the cup (3 or 4 €, it depends on the party) and you have unlimited cups of this liquor until it ends.
We have a lot of this parties in different places around where I live. Again with those gothic-trollish skirts :D, and some poses hehe
Revoltallo'07
Bands: Agonica, Kathaarsys, Suidakra, Hecate Enthroned
We came to this extreme metal music festival.. again with skirts.. and I started to be used to go with them hahah
People were looking at our looking and they were surprised and laughing when we were making all those poses, nonsenses and crazy things. Like this pic, look at the people behind! XDDD
Oh! Marcos has fallen in battle!!!
But always with the beer up! XDD
Really dark and pagan pic!
Carrying the stone of sacrifices
Another take of our battlecharge
True posers
In the concert of Suidakra, the main band we wanted to see, the singer (and guitarist) came to to public hehe
Hecate Enthroned, a lot of noise! Bad sound and I didnt like too much the last stuff from them, I prefer when they played that melodic black similar to old Cradle (though couldnt stand too much that voice :S)
In the backstage with Suidakra
Funny anecdote: meanwhile Suidakra were launching some plectrums to us, Marcos got one of those sticked to his shoulder and he didn't realize until we told him "hey! you have some bug near your head!"
Gallaecian Metal Fest
One of the best spanish bands: Fallen Sentinel, as the heads one day of this 2-days festival
Medieval party in my hometown
Queimada popular da Maruxaina
I like those white sockers, don't you? XDD
Who said with underwear it's more comfortable???
Review of Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Here we have the new Nightwish album. There was such a high expectation about the new singer, about some changes in the sound with the leaving of Tarja…
And here you will read my impressions about it.
First I have to say that I am a devoted Nightwish fan since 1998 when they launched that amazing Oceanborn, so innovative and fresh as no one till that. The previous one, “Angels fall first” was quite boring and the less important and even bad in the Nightwish discography. The big step was with Oceanborn, and until now they were growing and growing as band and improving the quality of sound and keeping a good compositive level. Also the number of fans was growing a lot with the pass of the years. The incorporation of Marco Hietala was a good hit. His voice is powerful and connected with the Nightwish sound and Tarja perfectly.
So after such a great success in the last years (even in Spain people now can say: “I like “Heavy Metal”: Iron Maiden, Metallica, AC/DC, Marilyn Manson, Korn and Nightwish” (though all them are so different and from different styles than “heavy metal”…). That’s a big success, believe me”). We all wanted anxiously to listen the new album this time with Tarja out of the band, and the new voice of Anette.
First of all, the new voice of Anette is great, but (there is always one but) she is not Tarja. The voice of Tarja became part of the “Nightwish sound”. Her voice was too linked. From the beginning Tuomas wanted to say that he wasn’t searching one second Tarja. That is good and bad at the same time. Anette sings really good and it mixes with the sound of the album quite well, but meanwhile I was listening to it, I was thinking that this is not the Nightwish of always. This is more … (sorry for telling that, but it came somehow to my mind) commercial oriented…
In another global vision of the album we see the really long duration of this; more than 75 min. is quite a lot under my point of view. Moreover I noticed some more things:
Where are the solos of Emppu? I could find very few in the whole album, and not so long…
Where is the double pedal of Jukka? He seems to play half speed of he was doing until now in most of the songs, always with mid-tempo.
Anyway this album maybe has the best orchestral arrangements in the whole history of Nightwish. They know how to do it and to mix it with the electric guitars and the sound of Metal (not like Metallica). They are simply amazing. The choirs and orchestra sound absolutly pompous, boombastic and enormous. Moreover there are a lot of little orchestral details in the background almost in every song that make everytime you are listening some songs to enjoy them again. People who like pop music I guess they cannot find it enjoyable, but for a lot of “Metal people” this is something really valious.
This is already the fourth time I listen to this album, I didn’t want to comment with only one or two times and I will write my thoughts meanwhile I will listen again to “Dark passion play”. So here I go song by song:
01 – The poet and the pendulum
More than 13 minutes for the first song, and what a song!!
Orchestral arrangements are amazing, very “soundtrack” influenced, and variety in the whole song is the predominance. Great beginning but after that we begin to noticed the, each time more and more “Suomi Metal” sound in things like after a great and pompous 2 first minutes,we find the same that bands like Him, Rasmus, and other finnish and now even more international rock-metal “commercials” are doing often: they stop suddenly all, and the voice is starting with only bass and drums. This method of starting is not bad itself, but I am starting to get tired and guess and predict how the song will go on. I prefer to be surprised and this is happening after, and it’s what remained in my head after listening the whole song: amazing changes in the middle and end of the song that made me enjoy it once and again. Without doubts this song is one of the best things of the cd. This kind of songs are the ones that when you finish to listen them, you are thinking… “yeh! This is music!”
02 – Bye bye beautiful
Good beginning, but again the same “suomi-style” when the singer is starting after some good guitars and electronic keyboards: voice, bass and drums. The style is predicting the rest of the album. More or less catchy (some would say commercial) chorus and refrain and not so much melody in guitars as they did in previous albums. This is something that I missed, the guitars of Emmpu are too low, and with not so much melody. He seems that he wasn’t using higher notes than from the 3rd fret of the guitar to higher notes.
03 – Amaranth
The second single!
Well, maybe the fans of bands like Evanescence and overall Within Temptation and this kind of “electric guitars Pop” would enjoy this song more than the others who are listening the whole career of Nightwish. They were coming to this kind of songs like that “tecno-power-metal” song called “I wish I had and angel”. I have to say that after 2 or 3 times listening this song I had the chorus easily in my mind, but I guess, like all that Pop-metal, this will remain few time more and then it will be tiring to listen and easily forgotten. Again… “melody in guitars?” .
04 – Cadence of her last breath
The beginning of the electric guitars sound more like Korn than the Nightwish we are used to… This is not good… Again the suomi-style of voice-bass-drums, and again some catchy vocal melody and few more. I’m starting to think that Tuomas should give more freedom to Emmpu. But at least this song has one “little” guitar solo!
05 – Master Passion Greed
Again, cha-chan-cha-chan-cha-chan in the guitars. No high notes at all. This is already done in the last album “Once” but not so a lot as in this, and I remembered here songs like “Stargazers”, “Sacrament of wilderness”, “Wishmaster” (Hamster! A dentist! Hard Porn! Steven Seagull!), “Kinslayer” and so on so on… when the guitars did more than mutes and even they had melodies and riffs. At least we noticed that Jukka has double pedal and he still can move his hands fast. Anyway this song is getting better when we are listening more and more and even Emppu is doing one riff like those we liked in the central part of the song! Great Marco.
06 – Eva
The first and disappointing first single of the “Anette era”.
I think I told already my impressions about this song before. Boring, too pop-slow, I have listened better ballads to Within Temptation (and this is not a flatter to Within!), if I have to choose. But not as I have listened to one friend, this song even Tarja cannot save it from the feeble-minded and tasteless.
07 – Sahara
Mid-tempo and good song. The part in the middle of the song with that arabic ambient in the orchestration is quite good as the ending. It won’t remain as one of the classics of Nightwish, but it’s one of the best songs of Dark Passion Play.
08 – Whoever brings the night
Not bad song looking the average of the album. Low guitar riffs, good and epic orchestrations that are getting better at the mid-end of the song, and catchy refrain, as the main music of this cd but in this point of the album I have the feeling that no one less the first song would be remembered as one of the great Nightwish songs.
09 – For the heart I once had
Listening only the first second of this song I had the temptation of skip inmediately to the next one. But this is Nightwish and I have to give the chance to them. It’s a pity, but they didn’t get that first feeling out of my mind. This is a bad song, too bad, and now that I am listening to it I’m wishing to pass to the next. One of the worst songs I have ever listen of Nightwish united with those ballads with Tarja singing in finnish like that boring “Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan”.
10 – The islander
One of the big success of this album with the next and the first song. Folk (Irish influenced) song and I recalled one band that I use to like a lot like Wolfstone. A good and enjoyable time for breathing after those low riffed epic-orchestral-pop-metal songs in the half of the cd. Who is singing this song? His voice is not Marco’s, I’m almost sure.
11 – Last of the wilds
It could be the continuation of the previous song. The folk is in the air, and it fits with perfection with the electric guitars doing of these 2 songs the best part of the whole album for me. I really enjoyed this instrumental song with folk elements, recalling me a elaborated folkish metal song as they did long time ago with that song “moondance” of the Oceanborn album or “Lappi” in the first one. But this is even better, longer, catchy, with variety, solo!! (not very long…). I don’t want to be heavy with the solos, in fact I don’t like bands that put guitar solos in every song, only “because it is needed to have a solo just before the final chorus”. But I really liked always the solos of Nightwish, Emppu is a great guitarist and I have the sensation that he is underestimated and almost not used in this album. He could do better things than what I am listening for sure. He did it before, why not now?
12 – 7 days of the wolves
This would be a good song for ending the cd. Again the cha-chan-cha-chan cha cha chan of the guitars at the beginning, and I ended a bit tired of that. Nice (and too short) violin part in the middle of the song and good change of rhythm. Boombastic and great epic ending. Another solo of guitar! And I counted that maybe if I put all the solos of the 75 minutes of the album together maybe I can get 2 minutes. People who doesn’t like metal can notice that I talk about a lot about this, but I think this is a little sign of “commerciality”. Electric guitar solos are not anymore commercial, and young fans of bands like the mentioned Evanescence and Within Temptation prefer catchy moments than virtuosism. I am not meaning that Nightwish are becoming as those bands, this band has still a lot of more inspiration, originality and better compositions than those, but they went with this album and this new voice to try to conquer new kind of fans and to be more widely known between the fans of that tendence of new-gothic-pop-metal, as other bands like Sirenia, Epica, or even After Forever (but the new album is great!) are doing in the last years. This is not itself bad, but that’s coming bad when the compositions are becoming poorer and poorer. One of the best examples is Sirenia, with such a lot good first material and one last album so awful and intrascendent.
13 – Meadows of heaven
As I said in the previous song, that would be a good ending for the album, cause this song made me something that I didn’t like at all. It made me a bad impression of the album everytime when I finish to listen it. Too slow and boring, like Eva, but longer, and everytime I am listening it I wish to finish it when I arrive to the 3rd of 4th minute of the long long 7 minutes of the song. The only good thing I can say about it is the folk touch of the use of flute and bagpipe, but not enough to say that I liked the song.
It could be much better if they finished it with “7 days to the wolves”, definitely. And I really hate the way they ended this album. The last part of “meadows of heaven” with those screams of black-voice like a song of an american black pop-star girl “uuuuuhhh yeeeeeh come on come on ooooouuuooouuhhhyeeeehh aaaaaaaaaaaauuujaaajajaaaaa” doesn’t fit at all.
Result: irregular album, too long, it could be much better without some songs like this last, “Meadows of heaven”, the boring “Eva” or the worst song of the album “For the heart I once had”(I guess the worst song I have ever listened to Nightwish). Too low guitar riffs and very few melody in this instrument. To have a powerful guitar doesn’t mean to be “more powerful Metal” for me. The main melodies are guided by the voice and orchestral arrangements, that are absolutly great, very “soundtrack” influenced as the male-female group chorus and also I liked the treatment of the voice of Anette when they double it.
I can’t say that this is a bad album, but as fan of Nightwish I expected more (maybe I am asking too much and I am too critic, but I argumented my reasons to think as I think).
My final grade for it is:
6/10
This year there are better albums to listen than this, like Therion with their amazing mix of styles, Arch Enemy or Dark Tranquillity in Melodic Death Metal, Nocturnal Rites in Power Metal, Susperia in Thrash Metal, Samael in Industrial Metal, Nile or Behemoth in Death Metal, Lake of Tears in Psychodelic Rock, Gotthard in Hard Rock, Dalriada in Folk Metal, Soulgrind or After Forever in Gothic Metal, Paradise Lost in Doom-Dark-Rock, Amorphis in that called “Suomi Metal”, Rotting Christ in Black Metal or Turisas or Ensiferum in Viking Metal (pity of the last album of Finntroll, I expected much more).
Thanks for reading, what about your impressions?
PS: spanish people don't be lazy only because it's english!!
Write something as before! :D
Amaranth video:
http://rs166.rapidshare.com/files/48352975/n-a-07.rar
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