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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Nightwish is a Symphonic Power Metal band from Finland formed in 1996. It was formed by Tuomas Holopainen while he was sitting besides a campfire. They originally started as an acoustic-only band with keyboards, but noticed that vocalist Tarja Turunen's operatic voice was too powerful for an acoustic band, so Holopainen decided to add heavy metal elements such as electric guitars and drums. They soon released their debut album Angels Fall First, which had mixed reviews.While initially disappointed, they soon became noticed with their song Sacrament of Wilderness and achieved worldwide fame with their next two albums, Oceanborn and Wishmaster. After the success, they released the darker Century Child. After their fifth (and breakthrough) album Once, they held a live show called End of an Era. Shortly after the performance, vocalist Tarja Turunen was fired for allegedly viewing the band as a way to gain publicity and make money. They even expressed this opinion in an open letter on their web site, though this is only one side of the coin. They later hired vocalist Anette Olzon, which has caused a division in the fanbase. Their first album with Anette as the main vocalist, Dark Passion Play, was released in 2007.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The album Imaginaerum, formerly Imaginarium (they changed the name to avoid confusing it with various other things with that name,) is a concept album, paired with a full-length feature film based on the plotline, was released in November 2012 in Finland with a more widespread DVD release in 24 April 2013.On October 1, 2012, it was announced that Anette had left the group, with the reason given being that "it has become increasingly obvious that the direction and the needs of the band were in conflict, and this has led to a division from which we cannot recover." Floor Jansen (After Forever, ReVamp) took Anette's place in the Imaginaerum World Tour and, although the band claimed that the vocalist issue would be settled sometime in 2014, was announced as Olzon's permanent replacement on October 9th, 2013. At the same time, multi instrumentalist Troy Donockley, who had guested on previous albums, was also made a permanent member. The band later released a documentary with the Showtime, Storytime live album amusingly titled Please Learn the Setlist in 48 Hours, purportedly the amount of time Floor had to learn the tour list.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })On August 6, 2014, Jukka released a statement saying that he would be taking a leave of absence from Nightwish due to his struggles with insomnia. He revealed that Kai Hahto of Wintersun would be taking his place for the recording of their next album, 2015's Endless Forms Most Beautiful, and upcoming tour. This change became permanent in 2019 with Jukka confirming that he'd continue to assist behind the scenes. The band as a whole took 2017 off, then came back in 2018 with a Milestone Celebration compilation album, Decades, and a tour emphasizing songs from the earlier years. Also during the break, Floor Jansen recorded a long-delayed Hard Rock album, Northward, with Jørn Viggo Lofstad of Pagans Mind, while Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley, and Johanna Kurkela produced their own project, Auri.The successor to Endless Forms Most Beautiful, called Human. :II: Nature. (stylised as HVMAN. :||: NATVRE.) was released in April 2020. The album's musical and lyrical thematics deal with the birth of mankind and civilization.On January 12, 2021, Marko announced he would be leaving the band and public life, citing his struggles with chronic depression and his disillusionment with the music industry in general. He also wrote "Conspiracy is the word of the day. For the people who like them I need to say that my 55th birthday is now on 14th of Jan and I’ve certainly done my time for now. Blaming for instance Tuomas is an insult to both him and my free thinking. This is a very sad thing to all of us too. Have a care please. [...] I have some reinventing to do. I hope to tell you about it on [sic] 2022. It’s not a promise though."On May 28, Nightwish announced that Jukka Koskinen of Wintersun would be performing as a session bassist for the end of May streaming concerts and the upcoming world tour.Band Members:Current: Tuomas Holopainen - keyboards Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen - guitars Troy Donockley - pipes, flutes, whistles, male vocals Floor Jansen - lead vocals Kai Hahto - drums, percussion Jukka Koskinen - bassFormer: Sami Vänskä - bass Tarja Turunen - lead vocals (1997-2004) Anette Olzon - lead vocals (2007-2012) Jukka Nevalainen - drums (1997-2019) Marko Hietala - bass, male vocals, acoustic guitarnote from 2006-2021 (2001-2021)Discography: Angels Fall First (1997) Oceanborn (1998) Wishmaster (2000) Century Child (2002) Once (2004) Dark Passion Play (2007) Imaginaerum (2011) Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015) Decades (compilation album, 2018) Human. :II: Nature. (2020) | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: The Blasphemer (guest vocalist Ike Vil) from "The Kinslayer" and Eric (Marko) from their rendition of "The Phantom of the Opera." The Pharaoh from "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion" (though, he may not be depicted as "evil" per se in the song) and the demonic voice from "Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean" (both by guest vocalist Tapio Wilska). The narrator from "Planet Hell" splits into normal and low voices on the studio album. The low voice gets very, very low. | |
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Male Band, Female Singer | |
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Male Band, Female Singer: The band is a Trope Codifier for female-fronted operatic metal, starting with Tarja and continuing with Annette and Floor. Played with in the video for "Bye Bye Beautiful", which flips between portraying Nightwish and Nightwish-as-a-Girl Group (starting as the latter), with Annette the only member staying the same in both versions. | |
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Title Drop | |
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"Earämaan Viimeinen"/"Last of the Wilds" has a cheerful melody, with verses describing nature, and a refrain that goes, in Finnish: "the grave of my cradle, the place of my grave, is in the last of the wilds". | |
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Scare Chord | |
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Scare Chord: "Scaretale", fittingly enough, opens with one, followed by (as mentioned above) Creepy Children Singing. | |
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The Chick | |
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The Chick: Floor | |
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Self-Parody | |
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Self-Parody: The lingerie model in the "Noise" video is a professional model on Instagram playing a parody of herself. | |
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Alice Allusion | |
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Alice Allusion: "I Want My Tears Back" mentions Alice and Mad March Hare. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: "Ghost Love Score" has the word "fall" sung on a falling note. | |
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Ancient Egypt | |
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Ancient Egypt: "Tutankhamen," "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion," "Sahara," and "Arabesque." | |
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"Planet Hell": | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: "Forever Yours" "Planet Hell" is full of these. | |
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TheUnReveal | |
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The Un-Reveal: In one of the promotional videos for Human. :II: Nature, Troy claims that the song "Harvest" contains the secret to the whole album and is about to explain what it is... when somebody offscreen tells him to put a mask on because of the COVID-19 pandemic. After that, you can't understand a thing he says for the rest of the video. Well played, Troy... | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: In "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion:" (Yes, that Pharaoh.) | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: On Endless Forms Most Beautiful, who should read all the spoken poetry but Richard Dawkins? | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: The Central Theme of Endless Forms Most Beautiful is that the natural world is wonderfully beautiful and humanity is wonderful, too (if sometimes misguided). It's a very upbeat album. "Shudder Before the Beautiful" is specifically about the world as seen through the perspective of science and evolution. The titular song of the album sums the whole feeling of this trope up in the chorus: The dark and polemical "Weak Fantasy" inverts this in describing religious fundamentalism's view of the world as stuffy, poisonous, limited and a poor story; "Yours Is an Empty Hope" does something similar, though its target is more ambiguous. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one." "Lappi (Lapland)," "Etiäinen," "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan," "Erämaan Viimeinen" (the vocal version of "Last of the Wilds,") and "Taikatalvi" are sung in Finnish, as well as "Erämaajärvi". The first verse of "My Walden" is sung entirely in Welsh. The second verse is the same, but in English. Considering that the band is Finnish and has an international fanbase, their English songs can be considered to be a Bilingual Bonus for many fans. | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: Wishmaster closes with "FantasMic" (8:18). Century Child closes with "Beauty of the Beast" (10:22). "Song of Myself" (13:37) precedes the closer outro, "Imaginaerum", on Imaginaerum. Endless Forms Most Beautiful closes with "The Greatest Show on Earth" (24:00). Human Nature plays with this. Its last song is "All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World". The song has a total length of 30:56, but it's broken up into eight different tracks. | |
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Gender Bender | |
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Gender Bender: The video for "Bye Bye Beautiful" flips almost at random between portraying Nightwish and Nightwish-as-a-Girl Group (starting as the latter), with Annette the only member staying the same in both versions. | |
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Statuesque Stunner | |
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Statuesque Stunner: Floor Jansen, who stand 6'0 1/2" (1.84 m.) | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language: The intro and outro of "Creek Mary's Blood" on Once are spoken Lakota. | |
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Author Catchphrase | |
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Author Catchphrase: Since "Creek Mary's Blood", the phrase "We were here", along with other variations on the theme of being "here", have shown up frequently. The phrase itself shows up in "Alpenglow" and "The Greatest Show on Earth". The idea of "dreaming" something into existence shows up once in a while. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: Longing for a lost paradise is more of an ongoing theme with the band and appears on all their albums. Several songs on Dark Passion Play feature lyrics expressing a longing for a lost paradise, culminating in the '80s style Power Ballad "Meadows of Heaven." Probably the album that is most concept oriented is Century Child, though what exactly this concept is is difficult to determine. A lot of songs either contain a few key phrases or refer to other songs on the album, ("One more night to live," "Dead to the world" or alternately, "Dead to the world; alive for the journey") the Child, Ocean Souls, or roses. These references appear in the Wishmaster song "Dead Boy's Poem," and the character of the Dead Boy shows up at the end of Century Child. Imaginaerum is a concept album project involving a movie. Endless Forms Most Beautiful was inspired by the writings of Charles Darwin and contains mainly songs about evolution and the beauty and wonder of the natural world. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Started close to the idealistic end. First hints of cynicism appear on Wishmaster, but the first major shift towards cynicism happened on Century Child. Dark Passion Play shifted even further towards the cynical end (Tuomas remarked he was suffering from acute depression at the time and says the album saved his life). Imaginaerum seems to be returning to idealism, as much as a concept album about a dying old man can do so. Endless Forms Most Beautiful returns fully to idealism, with the overall sentiment of the album being "the world is freaking beautiful"; Human. :II: Nature is also mostly idealistic, dealing with the good in humanity and the beauty of nature and art, with a trace of cynicism in "Noise" which takes a massive dump on social media addiction. | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The Smart Guy: Emppu | |
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The End of the Beginning | |
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The End of the Beginning: At the end of "The Poet and the Pendulum," a boy's voice is heard saying "the beginning" – probably a reference to the new "beginning" with Annette. (Also a rather literal example of this trope, since it's at the end of the first song on the album.) Of course, that same song also begins with the words "The end." | |
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Attractive Bent-Gender | |
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Attractive Bent-Gender: The female versions of the male band members in the "Bye Bye Beautiful" video. | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
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Incredibly Long Note: Floor will often use these in live performances. Fans call them 'Floorgasms'. The term also applies to fans emotional reactions to those incredible notes, and there is now a whole cottage industry of reaction videos where someone who has never heard her before is played Ghost Love Score, just to watch people gawp, cry, and occasionally melt into a puddle when the final note hits. This culminated in Floor making her own reaction video, though it's more commentary than reaction. | |
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Progressive Metal | |
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Progressive Metal: They edge close to this genre at times, especially in their lengthy songs with multiple distinct movements. | |
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Escapism | |
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Escapism: "Escapist." | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The bridge of "Edema Ruh" ends with this: | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: Imaginaerum switches rather carelessly between Symphonic Power Metal, Jazz/Lounge, Folk, carnival music and full-out orchestral medleys. | |
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The Big Guy | |
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The Big Guy: Kai | |
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BSoD Song | |
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BSoD Song: Among them, "The Poet and the Pendulum" and "Ghost Love Score." | |
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Loving a Shadow | |
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Loving a Shadow: "Slow, Love, Slow" has these lines: | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: "Harvest" is sung primarily by Troy Donockley, with Floor and Marko demoted to backing vocals. At one time in 2000, Holopainen had to sing the male vocal part of "Beauty of the Beast" live in front of 20,000 people. | |
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Great White Hunter | |
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Great White Hunter: Mentioned by name in "10th Man Down:" "I alone, the great white hunter, I'll march till the dawn brings me rest." | |
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Snow Means Death | |
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Snow Means Death: "End of All Hope" has this line: | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: "Creek Mary's Blood" on Once is about the Trail of Tears, but the segments in Native American language are performed by John Two-Hawks in Lakota. His tribe was about 700 miles north and halfway across the continent from the tribes affected by the Trail of Tears. According to the band, he was the only Native American artist they could find at the time. Worse, in 2013 a Shoshone member of the official Nightwish forum accused Two-Hawks of being a fraud, saying that a Lakota friend had said the lyrics were gibberish. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: Romanticizing darkness (particularly the depiction of night-time as fantastically romantic) is a running theme, seen even in the band's very name. | |
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Growing Up Sucks | |
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Growing Up Sucks: Ever since the Century Child album, lost innocence has been a major theme. "Meadows of Heaven." "I Want My Tears Back" mourns the childlike sense of wonder the narrator has lost growing up. | |
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Self-Demonstrating Article | |
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Self-Demonstrating Article: "Music" is essentially this in song form. | |
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Metal Scream | |
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Metal Scream: Usually belted out by Marko, most notably in "Master Passion Greed." Both Marko and Floor do an epic one together on the live version of "Romanticide" from Showtime, Storytime. | |
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Fallen Angel | |
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Fallen Angel: The music video of "Amaranth". | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: In live performances Floor encourages the audience to sing along to parts of several songs, including the word “Come” in the chorus of “Élan”, the repeats of “We were here” in “The Greatest Show on Earth”, and the entire chorus of “Amaranth”. | |
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The Lancer | |
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The Lancer: Troy | |
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The Leader | |
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The Leader: Tuomas | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: Tuomas Holopainen really loves Disney works. "FantasMic" is pretty much an eight-and-a-half minute nerdgasm over the Disney Animated Canon. This line, for example, translates into "Donald Duck is my favorite character:" "Scrooge was coolest in his prospector days:" "The Little Mermaid (1989) and Beauty and the Beast mirror each other:" | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: Various hints from Wishmaster on indicate the recurring "Dead Boy" and "Century Child" are this for Tuomas. Made explicit in "The Poet and the Pendulum," which uses his name during a monologue about the subject of the song. "Amaranth" is about someone whose name means "the doubting one", that is, "Tuomas". | |
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Lead Bassist | |
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Lead Bassist: Marko sang duets with the female vocalist a couple times an album and even fronted the odd song. He was also known for often playing a double-necked guitar-bass and switching between bass and rhythm guitar. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Tuomas: "Baptized with a perfect name: 'the doubting one' by heart; alone without himself" | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: "The Poet and the Pendulum" is quite literally a case of Tuomas writing out his own suicide in fiction to keep himself from doing it for real. "Cadence of Her Last Breath" is less blatant, but makes it clear that the subject isn't exactly willing to remain alive with the refrain: Alone and longing for/The cadence of her last breath. The Islander is about a sea captain choosing to end his life after he feels like he's got nothing left to live for. He ties himself to an anchor and throws it overboard, sinking into the sea. The titular character in The Carpenter. The Tenth Man Down is a soldier who can't deal with fighting in a war anymore. | |
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The Immodest Orgasm | |
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The demo version is way less subtle about it, including a section where Tarja sighs and pants before breaking into giggles, and she proceeds to do more of the same through the last chorus, right before she sighs at the end of the song. | |
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Singer Namedrop | |
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Singer Name Drop: "Astral Romance": "Slaying the Dreamer" has one as well. "Sleeping Sun" has a more subtle one. "Dead Boy's Poem" | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: At least once on each album: Angels Fall First: "Lappi (Lapland)" Oceanborn: "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion" Wishmaster: "FantasMic" Century Child: "Beauty of the Beast" Once: "Creek Mary's Blood" and "Ghost Love Score" Dark Passion Play: "The Poet and the Pendulum," "7 Days to the Wolves," and "Meadows of Heaven" Imaginaerum was supposed to end with a 20-minute song that was ultimately divided. The "epic" "Song of Myself" was actually unusual by lasting 13 minutes for which half of it is a poem. Both "Scaretale" and "Rest Calm" are more 'rocker,' with around 7 minutes each. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: "The Greatest Show on Earth" tops all their previous epics at 24 minutes long. Human Nature plays with this. Its last song is "All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World". The song has a total length of just under 31 minutes, but it's broken up into eight different tracks, none of which are longer than five minutes. | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience: "The Islander" on Dark Passion Play is an acoustic folk song/sea shanty in an otherwise power metal album. After two songs of trademark power metal, Imaginaerum throws in the lounge club-inspired track "Slow, Love, Slow." Yes, that's right, a lounge track on a Nightwish album. The album abruptly returns to power metal afterwards. | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: "Noise", the first single from Human. :||: Nature, is a fairly scathing critique of social media and cell phone addiction (which admittedly seems to have come off harsher than intended). | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: The character(s) in "Tenth Man Down." | |
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Dead Artists Are Better | |
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Dead Artists Are Better: The title of the song "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" translates to "Death Makes an Artist." "The Poet and the Pendulum" is essentially a story about Tuomas after he's died. Apparently killing yourself in a song is very therapeutic: | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "Elvenpath," "Escapist," and "Dark Chest of Wonders." | |
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Pun | |
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Pun: 'Annette Hell.' Élan: There is an expression, "dancing with élan", which means something like "to dance with abandon". The lyrics make a play on that, "travel with great élan (dance a gig at the funeral)". And let's not put it past Tuomas to be including the Finnish word "elän", "I live", in his wordplay. Done in Nightquest, where the line is "The dreams remain they only brake", instead of "break" which is what people are used to dreams doing. (But then they don't remain.) | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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"End of All Hope" is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Power Metal | |
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Power Metal to some extent on the earlier albums, most noticeable in Wishmaster. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: On the evolution-themed album Endless Forms Most Beautiful, there is one on behalf on mankind, if not all biological life: | |
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"Blind Idiot" Translation: The Lakota parts of "Creek Mary's Blood". Besides the fact the Lakota weren't affected by the Trail of Tears (they lived in the central and northern Plains, rather than the central Appalachians), Lakota-speaking fans noticed that while all the words are right, they're arranged in English grammar. (Implying Google Translate was involved.) The poem at the end was written by Tuomas but translated by John Two-Hawks, a man from Texas who has been accused of falsely claiming Native American ancestry. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: The third part of "The Greatest Show On Earth" is about humanity and ends with the lyrics "we were here" followed by the sound of explosions, implying that humanity destroyed itself with nuclear weapons. | |
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The Modest Orgasm | |
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"Bare Grace Misery": "Cinnamon bed / For your unashamed appetite." Apart from the lyrics, it goes instrumental at 1:30 which builds to a crescendo and ends at 2:39 with a sigh from Tarja that brings to mind another sort of crescendo... | |
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Five-Man Band | |
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Five-Man Band: The Leader: Tuomas The Lancer: Troy The Smart Guy: Emppu The Big Guy: Kai The Chick: Floor Sixth Ranger: Jukka | |
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Justified Trope | |
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The video for "While Your Lips Are Still Red" had clips from a Finnish romantic comedy Lieksa! The latter is justified in that "While Your Lips Are Still Red" was written for that film. It's technically not a Nightwish song, being credited only to Tuomas and Marko (Jukka does play drums on the track.) However, it does appear as the B-side to "Amaranth," and Nightwish sometimes uses it in concert as a "give Anette a break" song. | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: Originally to show off Tarja's vocal range on songs like "Nemo," "Come Cover Me," and "Sleeping Sun". Also used in several of Anette's songs, such as "For the Heart I Once Had." Interestingly zigzagged in "She is My Sin" — after the intro, the song drops a minor third for most of the song, only to be raised again for the final verse. Discussed in the final line of "Song of Myself": Floor gets these to, most notably in "Music". | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Monster Clown: The video for "Storytime." | |
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Greatest Hits Album | |
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Greatest Hits Album: Highest Hopes: The Best of Nightwish. | |
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Lighthouse Point | |
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Lighthouse Point: "The Islander." A retired ship captain spends his twilight years caring for a lighthouse before ultimately tying himself to an anchor and tossing it into the sea. | |
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Social Media Is Bad | |
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Social Media Is Bad: "Noise" centers around this topic. The song's lyrics are about how social media poisons a person's mind, and the accompanying music video shows scores of people sitting in silence, staring down only at their smartphones. | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune: "Dead Boy's Poem." Scaretale. Begins with and the song itself is fairly reminiscent of one. | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: Really, this is an omnipresent trope, one would be hard-pressed to find a single song of theirs that isn't guilty of this at one point due to English not being the band's first language. The two most obvious examples are "igNORance" (Angels Fall First and The Riddler) and "enVY" (She is My Sin and The Crow, the Owl and the Dove). Although it's a one-syllable word, Anette makes "live" sound like "leave" on "Cadence of Her Last Breath". | |
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Word Salad Title | |
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Word Salad Title: Usually combined with Rule of Three, as is the case with "Master Passion Greed," "Deep Silent Complete," and "Ghost Love Score." (That, by the way, is a selection of three songs from three albums that each have three words.) | |
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The Chanteuse | |
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The Chanteuse: The video for "Élan" depicts Floor singing while wearing a long dress in a working-class tavern. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: From "Slaying the Dreamer:" From "Planet Hell:" In the Cover of The Phantom of the Opera: From Yours Is an Empty Hope: | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: Our vampires are suicidal in "Slaying the Dreamer": | |
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Award-Bait Song | |
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Award-Bait Song: "Sleeping Sun". Sparkle synth? Check. Romantic lyrics? Check. Big finish, complete with Truck Driver's Gear Change? Check. Yep, it qualifies. A straighter example of this trope would be "While Your Lips Are Still Red", a slow, acoustic, romantic song that was featured in the Finnish film Lieksa! | |
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Panspermia | |
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Panspermia: "The Greatest Show on Earth" implies that this is how life came to Earth. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: Half of the band's present lineup started out as sessional members who were then hired permanently. | |
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Mascot | |
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Mascot: A white owl appears fairly often in their album artwork. | |
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Creepy Children Singing | |
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Creepy Children Singing: "Scaretale" opens with this, and the children are singing an eerie rendition of "Ring Around the Rosie." "Ghost River" also does this. Halfway through the song, it has children singing the chorus: "We will go down we will drown, drown, deeper down. The river wild will be our last ride." "Rest Calm," yet another song about death, also has children singing the chorus. | |
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Distinct Double Album | |
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Distinct Double Album: Human. :II: Nature. The first disc is a standard Nightwish Symphonic Metal album. Disc two is a Classical Music suite with some spoken word parts titled All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "Bye Bye Beautiful" and "The Poet and the Pendulum". | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Tuomas wrote "Slaying the Dreamer" from Century Child as a sort of retaliation to critics. Lyrics such as "Dumb kid, living a dream / Romantic only on paper" stand out. "Bye Bye Beautiful," from Dark Passion Play, is directed at Tarja after she was kicked out of the band. "Master Passion Greed," from the same album, is aimed at her husband, Marcelo Cabuli. Tarja shot back with a song of her own, "Enough", that basically calls Tuomas a prima donna. | |
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Wanderlust Song | |
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Wanderlust Song: Well... "Wanderlust." Also "Nightquest," "Elvenpath," and "Away" (a less idealistic version.) | |
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Emotionless Girl | |
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The narrator of "Ocean Soul" is a lonely, detached Broken Bird. She is obsessed with beauty and the sea, hears angels whispering and dresses in white. | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Gothic Metal to some extent ever since Century Child. | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics: Tarja's in particular, since she sings in operatic style with a heavy Finnish accent: One of the best examples of this is probably "Nightquest." "Wishmaster," is probably one of the most memetic misheard songs out there. Besides the usual problems with understanding Tarja, a lot of the words are made-up terms: the song was inspired by the Dragonlance D&D setting. In your creation, Heaven did decree/That in your en suite, death should dwell (actually in your arms, sweet death should dwell) Basically, the faster the beat, the less intelligible it was. The fastest part of Fantasmic mostly sounds like incoherent screaming even if you know what the lyrics are. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Tuomas drops a few in "End of Innocence." Some of the other get closer to Cluster F-Bomb. However, the songs themselves are devoid of profanity. (Except "Master Passion Greed," which drops the F-bomb precisely once.) | |
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Last Note Nightmare | |
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Last Note Nightmare: The last minute or so of "Dead Gardens" qualifies. A while after the last chorus, Harsh Vocals are suddenly heard and Jukka starts spamming the crash cymbals more and more as the song comes to a close. The drumming seems to either follow its own rhythm or be played as randomly as possible, and at the end, the noise suddenly cuts off altogether without warning. Two seconds later, "Romanticide" begins. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The video for "Bye Bye Beautiful." | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The band's vocalists: natural brunette Tarja, naturally blonde Anette, and auburn Floor. They all dyed their hair black at least once while with the band. | |
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Video Full of Film Clips | |
| Nightwish (Music) / int_bfc4b943 | comment |
Video Full of Film Clips: The video for "Wish I Had an Angel" uses footage from Alone in the Dark (2005). Justified, as it's part of said film's soundtrack. The music video was also directed by Uwe Boll, himself. The video for "End of All Hope" had clips from a Finnish horror fantasy film Kohtalon Kirja. The video for "While Your Lips Are Still Red" had clips from a Finnish romantic comedy Lieksa! The latter is justified in that "While Your Lips Are Still Red" was written for that film. It's technically not a Nightwish song, being credited only to Tuomas and Marko (Jukka does play drums on the track.) However, it does appear as the B-side to "Amaranth," and Nightwish sometimes uses it in concert as a "give Anette a break" song. "Storytime" is sort of a "Making Of" of the film Imaginaerum, featuring several behind-the-scene footage. | |
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The '80s | |
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Several songs on Dark Passion Play feature lyrics expressing a longing for a lost paradise, culminating in the '80s style Power Ballad "Meadows of Heaven." | |
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Ethereal White Dress | |
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Ethereal White Dress: Tarja in the Sleeping Sun video is depicted as an angel walking through a battlefield of dead soldiers leading the fallen to eternal life while soldiers from various eras (portrayed by the other band members) follow her. The narrator of "Ocean Soul" is a lonely, detached Broken Bird. She is obsessed with beauty and the sea, hears angels whispering and dresses in white. | |
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Rule 63 | |
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Rule 63: The video for "Bye Bye Beautiful" flips almost at random between portraying Nightwish and Nightwish-as-a-Girl Group (starting as the latter), with Annette the only member staying the same in both versions. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The video for "Storytime" shows Annette dressed as a gothic Snow White and Tuomas as The Phantom of the Opera. The video for "Amaranth" is one big reference to The Wounded Angel, one of the most famous paintings within Finland. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: "Élan" has the line, "Write a lyric to the song only you can understand." | |
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Death of a Thousand Cuts | |
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Death of a Thousand Cuts: Mentioned directly in "Ghost River", though it's not easy to make out. | |
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Genre Mashup | |
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Genre Mashup: A classically trained vocalist in a metal band with a full symphony orchestra. They're one of the most prominent examples of Symphonic Metal, all of which falls into this category. Imaginaerum album as a whole is this in spades, combined with Genre Roulette. | |
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Pendulum of Death | |
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Pendulum of Death: Referenced in "The Poet and the Pendulum": | |
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Not Christian Rock | |
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Not Christian Rock: "The Carpenter" from Angels Fall First and "Gethsemane" and "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion" (see As the Good Book Says... above for the latter) from Oceanborn. | |
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Earth Song | |
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Earth Song: "Procession" is written from the perspective of the animal kingdom talking to humanity in both fear and kinship. The lyric video lists off a number of endangered species during the bridge of the song. | |
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Steampunk | |
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Steampunk: The airships in the video for "The Islander." | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: "Symphony of Destruction" (sung by Marko.) "High Hopes" (sung by Marko.) "Over the Hills and Far Away." "The Phantom of the Opera." Ankie Bagger's "Where Were You Last Night." "Walking in the Air." There are some bootlegs around the net with other Cover Versions such as "Crazy Train." When Marko joined, he brought Tarot's tendency to do covers with him. They are usually played as intermissions to give Anette (formerly Tarja) a chance to rest. "Heart Asks Pleasure First" from the movie The Piano. In an interesting anecdote, they recorded the cover while working on Dark Passion Play, but the original composer Michael Nyman didn't approve the version at first. They finally gained the permission almost five years later, and it was released as a B-side to a single "The Crow, the Owl and the Dove." "While Your Lips Are Still Red" is a bit of a weird example. Tuomas and Marko wrote the song as part of the soundtrack for the Finnish film Lieksa!, and Tuomas doesn't consider it an official Nightwish song. However, it's been performed by the full band on the EP Made in Hong Kong (And Various Other Places) and in a number of live performances, including the Vehicle of Spirit live album. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: The narrator of "Bare Grace Misery". | |
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Heartbeat Soundtrack | |
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Heartbeat Soundtrack: A heartbeat can be heard just before the ten minute mark of "The Poet and the Pendulum," which slowly fades out to signal that the titular poet has been killed by the pendulum. A heartbeat opens "How's The Heart?" | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Not within the music itself, but memetically. The Epic Rocking song "Ghost Love Score" is the basis of an entire wave of videos combining it with decidedly non-epic things. | |
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Title-Only Chorus | |
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Title-Only Chorus: "Master Passion Greed" and "Meadows of Heaven." | |
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Symphonic Metal | |
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Symphonic Metal: One of the Trope Codifiers. Power Metal to some extent on the earlier albums, most noticeable in Wishmaster. Gothic Metal to some extent ever since Century Child. | |
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Progressive Instrumentation | |
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Progressive Instrumentation: "Meadows of Heaven", starts with just a single instrument and a voice, and builds up into a grand finale with the whole orchestra and choir and band. | |
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Sixth Ranger | |
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Sixth Ranger: Jukka | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: Angels Fall First: Oceanborn: Wishmaster: Century Child: Once: Not only the first word of the first track ("Dark Chest Of Wonders") but a total of 18 times in the lyrics, including twice in Finnish (in "Kuolema Tekee Taitelijan"). Dark Passion Play: Imaginaerum: An unusual variation in the case of the song "Storytime" in that the album's name was changed during development from "Imaginarium" to "Imaginaerum," but this song still uses "Imaginarium" in the lyrics. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Instead of the usual metal combination of dark lyrics and dark music, it often combines dark lyrics with upbeat music. "Earämaan Viimeinen"/"Last of the Wilds" has a cheerful melody, with verses describing nature, and a refrain that goes, in Finnish: "the grave of my cradle, the place of my grave, is in the last of the wilds". "End of All Hope" is rather energetic for a song about crossing the Despair Event Horizon. "Gethsemane" has an upbeat melody for a song about the last days of Jesus Christ. "Planet Hell" doesn't sound like it's about a living hell, especially when Annette sings it, or when Tarja spontaneously adds it to her set. "Escapist" sounds happy for it's being about wanting to hide from reality. "How's the Heart" is awfully cheery during the line: "How's the one drowning in the mire?" "I Want My Tears Back" is peppy and upbeat and about lost youth. "Bye Bye Beautiful" is about being devastated about the loss of a friendship. The melody sounds thrilled about the same. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: Some of their songs are of subtly naughty variety (many songs on Wishmaster) while some are more obvious. "Nymphomaniac Fantasia" is an obvious example. Granted, on End of Innocence Tuomas is asked what he was thinking while writing "Nymphomaniac," and he admits somewhat ashamedly that he stands behind all his songs except that one. "Passion and the Opera": "She Is My Sin." "Wish I Had an Angel" : The demo version is way less subtle about it, including a section where Tarja sighs and pants before breaking into giggles, and she proceeds to do more of the same through the last chorus, right before she sighs at the end of the song. "Bare Grace Misery": "Cinnamon bed / For your unashamed appetite." Apart from the lyrics, it goes instrumental at 1:30 which builds to a crescendo and ends at 2:39 with a sigh from Tarja that brings to mind another sort of crescendo... "Feel For You". Very explicit. "Whoever Brings the Night" from the Anette Olzon-sung Dark Passion Play. "Slow, Love, Slow" is this for Imaginaerum. It falls more into the 'subtle' category, but if the lyrics aren't enough, the seedy lounge club feel to the music pushes it well over the edge. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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"End of All Hope" is rather energetic for a song about crossing the Despair Event Horizon. | |
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AbsoluteCleavage | |
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Absolute Cleavage: One of Floor's stage costumes for the Human. :II: Nature period incorporates a Little Black Dress with a neckline that dips below her sternum. The cups are kept from a Wardrobe Malfunction with a pair of horizontal copper-colored straps across the bust. | |
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Individuality Is Illegal | |
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Individuality Is Illegal: Hinted at in the video for "Noise", where one person (played by Emppu) out of a crowd mindlessly looking down into their smartphones is beaten up by his peers because his screen lights up red. | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: "Ghost Love Score": | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: "Tenth Man Down". Sung from the perspective of a Shell-Shocked Veteran crushed by having had to kill 9 other people to survive. It's strongly implied that he is the tenth man to die...by his own hand. | |
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Soprano and Gravel | |
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Soprano and Gravel: Most of the time, where there is a duet with Tarja/Anette and Marko, this is what happens, except in "The Islander". Before Marko joined the band for Century Child, different guest vocalists were used instead (see Evil Sounds Deep above for a few). Sometimes inverted with Floor, who can growl as well as sing soprano: the chorus of "Yours Is an Empty Hope" has Floor growling and Marko supplying clean vocals! | |
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Hidden Track | |
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Hidden Track: Subverted on the album version of "Endless Forms Most Beatiful", where after several minutes of silence, Richard Dawkins exclaims: | |
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Heavy Mithril | |
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Heavy Mithril: Many songs on the first three albums are this, but they became rare after Wishmaster. | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: The hope in "Astral Romance". | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification: "Music" is told from the perspective of music. From the sound of it, she appreciates the connection she shares with humans. | |
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Love Makes You Evil | |
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Love Makes You Evil: "10th Man Down" begins with the line: Today I killed, he was just a boy, and the verse ends with the line: | |
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Yarling | |
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Yarling: When Marko sings, sometimes he comes close to this, and he finally devolves into full-blown yarl in "Master Passion Greed." | |
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Death Seeker | |
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In your creation, Heaven did decree/That in your en suite, death should dwell (actually in your arms, sweet death should dwell) | |
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