Re: Metal Music Thread.
Nightwish is my all-time favourite band. Been a fan since 2003. Their latest album is easily among their best work and Floor provides the best vocals the band has had since Wishmaster.
Here's an audience recording of them performing Stargazers on their current tour:
[video=youtube;jODBOrG041U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jODBOrG041U[/video]
Tarja's vocals were amazing on their early albums, not so much on Century Child or Once. Anette did a good job with her studio recordings, but her live singing left a lot to be desired.
Floor can do classical vocals, traditional heavy metal singing, soft ballad vocals and growl! And she always nails it live. The band couldn't have found a more versatile and talented singer who could sing their entire catalogue and do it justice. She also outshines Tarja in songs like Romanticide and arguably also Ghost Love Score. And she's also an actual metalhead, as opposed to the previous two vocalists who were never really into metal but learned to appreciate it by being in Nightwish.
And the lyrics on the new album... oh the lyrics!!! So good! The best Tuomas has ever written by far. So much poetry!
Here's a shortened version of the 24 minute track on the new album, with the long instrumental intro and the long ambient outro edited out.
[video=youtube;4-seb9dYskI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-seb9dYskI[/video]
Also, nice to see Epica getting some love too! Their latest album is also really good! Symphonic metal is life.