Which means: The disk is new, but new as in that pretty word "innovation" is not found here, unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately. Where is here the "hardness", which is called as "amazing" and "daring", there was "Oceanborn" but a lot more aggressive and especially better - though growls, but then also right! Just because Marco bawls rather lean into the microphone, and thereby undermines Tarja's voice more than once to this new union of the band called "harder" ??? Because the two sing together, does not mean that but for a long time that the voices fit together (and they really do not), and as a contrast the whole then acts rather endeavor. And Marco, which is anyway a chapter in itself, because I can not listen to a song to me, in which he is in the foreground, for example. "Dead to the World" (Sinergy can sometimes quite cheeky salute friendly!), "Feel For You" and the unspeakably bad "Phantom of the Opera", which is already so bad that it looks funny again. Mir is a mystery that Tarja such within their musical career - yes - faux pas makes. Heaven, heaven! Yes, the melodies are very nice and pretty to listen, and "Beauty of the Beast" is neatly arranged, but I do not expect an album that follows such masterpieces as "Wishmaster" and "Oceanborn". Missing modulations, it is hopped from one key to the next (the Tuomas had been better on it!), No attempt to work with rhythms like in "Fantasmic" (in my humble opinion, the coronation of Nightwish), Tarja auszureizen singing as with "Dead Boy's Poem" or times Emppu tidy GO UP the fretboard and let down sweep as in "Stargazers". And Tarja's voice ... Hach, sigh, if I could at least say, her singing was once again wonderful to hear, but not even that. Who did she say please her to gasp when breathing like a frog in the microwave? Where is a proper voice leading (How the hell can a verse like "What more do I have to say" breathe after the pronoun "I"?!? The one learns not at the Conservatory, at most in the sanatorium!)? Newcomers can "Century Child" still quite like it, but when you have once heard what Nightwish front so it had, you will surely devote more the old albums. To sum remains: 10 songs, of which 3 may safely disappear in nowhere (and are), 1 very good song (even the music composed by Marco part), 2 good and harmonious songs, and then bobs so therefore the midfield. On "Oceanborn" looked the distribution overlooked, and that was a good thing! If Nightwish want to disperse, they should do that after Wishmaster because "Century Child" sets them only a questionable monument and is as superfluous as a new boy / Girlgroup-, soul, folk music, or techno music, in other words: mainstream commodity! Very bad enough potential the band!
