Nightwish reshapes itself

For several days now Nightwish's to hear great awaited 8th studio album. However, the first single "Elan" let some are skeptical, myself included. How do I even stand by Nightwish and the symphonic metal I have already written down in the review of "Elan", just as much, both has a great significance for me.

Except for Nightwish's first album of all "Angels Fall First" with me are all the other on the shelf. In my view, "Wishmaster" and "Century Child" represent the tip of NW's work. "Once" is just a little. After Tarja's departure, however, changed not only the voice of northwest, experimented, brought new influences in "Dark Passion Play" and especially "Imaginaerum", which in their own way are still worth listening to. However, the power, the charisma that had in common the previous albums, was missing.

So it is now with "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", it is worth listening to, it has new pages but it's smooth, polished offending to nowhere. He lacks the epic force. It is now probably at a point where the old fan's will turn slowly. It's not just that there are hardly any cracking Riff's (the guitar on the whole album could be very similar to forward to the predecessors experience) or hard vocals (Floor acts really something laced), even for first-class melodies and chorus's has Holopainen already proved a better hands. The collection of flute man Donockley also makes it not better.

Some of the better songs is undoubtedly Shudder Before The Beautiful, but this also very familiar sounds. Alpenglow Personally I like quite well. Elan and Our Decades in the Sun are in my view a total failure, the remaining lines up more or less in between a.

The grand finale "The Greatest Show on Earth", a track of 24! Minutes, lets incredible bombast expected and needs to be heard more than 2 times before knowing what one has to do it. It begins with a calm piano, briefly hear something like comets or meteorites sounds. Next accompanied by the piano can be heard, I do not know if it's Floor a wonderful voice. Questions arise drums in the background. That, and that is this epic power that I've been looking into this album. A Cut announces itself, I hear a guitar and expecting a hammer of chorus, chorus, something ... Floor's distorted voice tears me from the epic to expectations and I listen to the chorus of disappointed Floor and Marco. The Tiergegrunze which, although the subject fits this song, but it sounds crazy incomprehensible, makes it worse. The rest ripples only to himself.

I do not know what a band would be northwest now, symphonic metal, it is no longer. Whoever disagrees, an ear may like to raise the competition from Holland, "Epica" or the men of "Kamelot". You will not be disappointed.