Of course, that real, long-term Nightwish fans to turn away from the Metal-bearing thereof, I can completely understand. Because with metal, even in a broad sense, at least this single has to do nothing at all. No supporting guitar riff, no driving power drums, no aggression (which has indeed been heard more than on the debut in homeopathic doses in Nightwish), in general, the guitars are widely produced in the background. Instead, there is a super catchy Poprocksong which sounds quite extreme to the mid eighties, to be more precise, the time when artists like Chris De Burgh, Runrig or Mike Oldfield discs like "The Getaway", "The Cutter and the Clan", " Crises "and" Discovery "published. Because I to this Mucke has always been a. And b. Nowadays no one fabricates such Mucke, meet Tuomas and Co with me of course fully the nerve. Mainly because the melody is still urtypisch Nightwish and the stylistic swing comes across second to none. On the contrary, instead of the pop elements on recent albums already contained somehow to squeeze in a metal corset (one wants to support the scene not scare), you give the song what he needs, and that's a spite all bombast airy, transparent production, a cool tune, plenty of space for the great Troy Donockley (playing also with UK anarcho-comedian Adrian Edmondson in the fantastic Bad Shepherds) and Floor Jansen naturally quite simply the best singer that ever Nightwish was on the mic.
Now of course remains to be seen how the album will sound like, I hope that Tuomas and Co still have more courage to experiment and surprise and take the rest of the songs like the bull's eye. I would at least not have thought that may be interested in Nightwish me after 15 years again ...
Despite enthusiasm but there's only four stars because for seven to eight euros should be entitled to expect more than only three versions of the title track plus a "real" B-side tracks. But this is just the usual Nuclear Blast-nonsense ...
