When I bought the Wacken Live CD and BluRay, I was quite confident as regards a studio album Floor. Unlike Annette Floor has a right to Nightwish voice and can keep up with the sound, which at Annette degenerated into a total disaster (especially among Tarja songs). Now I have heard the first single from the March 27, 2015 released album and my anticipation becomes cloudy something. I expected more of Nightwish, rather than this pop number. The instruments are more in the background, The Lowpipes and floor in the foreground. Whereby Floor vocally more has it, as this soft number. I miss her voice since the strength as in "Dark Chest Of Wonders, She's The Sin or Storytime". And so really in the ear does not want to remain the song. To Elan somehow can ever rate, I already had the song heard several times, as I listen to the first time only knew that it has nothing to do with symphonic metal and rather the somewhat harder rock is attributable to Rock Pop. Totally far from albums like Wishmaster. Sagan was then a little better, and because the strength was also something on the track. Compared to Elan but my first choice. Dark Passion Play was quite used to, but still acceptable. Imagenaeum also rather mediocre and far away from former Nightwish strength. Some songs were able to convince them of the albums, but compared to albums like Wishmaster no comparison. What was new yet at Once with the orchestra, was somehow more and more and no longer sounded like "something else". I do not hope that the new album again so is a total mishmash and the strength and the bombast, the Nightwish once constituted, fall by the wayside. With Floor Nightwish has made the right choice. Annette was back then rather the wrong choice, to say the least nice. I do not hope that Tuomas Holopainen does not use this opportunity and the goal misses. With vigor he has ever done, remains to be seen what he has so devised for the album. And Troy Donockley? He and his bagpipe would you now should not necessarily get in touch with the band. War Live now indeed something new, but in some cases also somewhat incongruous and annoying. When recording in the band songs like Elan mean, then times goodnight for Nightwish. Conclusion: Single one must now not necessarily buy, unless you want to advance or have murky his anticipation something an impression of the album. Elan is now quite nice, but the music Nightwish has a lot more on it, which made the old songs of Nightwish masterpieces. Remains to be seen whether Nightwish has exploited the vocal potential of Floor Jansen or the music has cut more for Troy Donockley cope.
