ENDLESS FORMS MOST BEAUTIFUL THE REVIEW!

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful

The Review!

By Darkzen

Greetings! my friends here is my review of a controversial álbum, well structured and full of history!

Álbum: Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Country: Finland

Band: Nightwish

Line up:

Floor Jansen - Lead vocal

Emppu Vuorinen - guitar

Marco Hietala - bass, male voice

Tuomas Holopainen - keyboard, piano

Troy Donockley - flutist and gaitista

Kai Hahto - Battery

Genre: Symphonic / Power Metal

Shudder Before The Beautiful

This is the classic entry in the band, a classical dynamics with remarkable power, style to which we are accustomed also begins with the voice of Richard Dawkins and then a powerful orchestral entrance, and forceful combining traditional style band with a scientific twist based on the mystery and majesty of the origin of life. One of the most interesting elements of the piece is the "rally" between the keyboard and guitar on his own, something like Melodic Death, The heaviness and power metal combined with orchestral arrangements and chorus give an exciting entrance, in regarding floor voice sounds great does not encounter the problem is not so strong, neither low nor slow, you agree to the beat of the song, the guitars are heavy and that pleases me!

Weak Fantasy

A fascinating entry! Atmospheric and metaphorical, guitars give super masterstroke, a song with the body, the pace is great and Floor voice soft and a bit aggressive but without losing energy, in chorus with the voice of great Marco! It is a very original song mystic suspense!

Elan

A very emblematic song which caused much controversy about the kind of style that would have the album, has a well structured folk, soft compas and relaxed pace, beautiful voice, soft Floor and white and clear frame of mind! One thing I must say is that it has outstanding orchestrations. However, you have a feeling that loads this piece, in which we can hear Troy doing its job in the flutes and bagpipes. The acoustic combo adds style to one end.

Yours Is An Empty Hope

Strong entry, with much power! The combination of voices like me, Floor and choirs, something that strikes me is that with a little note to rise Floor voice does not lose harmony and consistency, ¿did you notice that? In fact reminds us of the old Nightwish Planet Hell as a musical contrast between darkness and Tuomas piano are the features to highlight this one. It has a body very atmospheric song although the ending is very abrupt.

Our Decades In The Sun

Excellent very sublime entrance with a background sound very epic, Floor voice manifests hard and complete, but without losing the softness to the beat of the song, I would say a little ballad full of mystical and sublime folk, arrived at which it could be the most emotional piece. It is a tribute to the parents of six members, which was the most difficult to perform song, The conjunction between voice full of feelings Floor, choir and various items such as the harp, flutes and subtle arrangements violin make this a very emotional piece.

My Walden

Another song with an atmospheric entry, full of folk! Although the track is no longer slow voice in music, a very quiet song with acoustic sounds with a remarkable folk, Troy shines with his bagpipes, giving a Celtic touch and letting us hear your voice combined with Marco, the final did not convince a lot.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Interesting, mysterious entrance, again feel the power! This song is a continuation of the first two songs on the album, so I see on that characteristic speed and flashy style! A heavy and the beautiful voice of Floor track without losing energy keeping pace further by Richard Dawkins's book The Ancestor's Tale, where all species continue their way to the origin of life. This is perhaps one of the best crafted songs of the album.

Edema Ruh

A quiet entrance, reminds me of the old Nightwish, very slowly sound and engages in time to the voice Floor, although I notice that the voice excels not maintained in the range of musical note, we heard sounds of remarkable folk.

Alpenglow

An interesting song with a faster input, and fuller, voiced no problem we can hear how changes according to the speed and range of musical track and actually softer note, and one of the definitive songs band, notice the combined sounds, as it moves the track becomes a little slower.

Eyes Of Sharbat Gula

A mysterious and mystical entrance with an atmosphere of something dramatic piano and so on around the track, totally acoustic folk full of fantasy! And something very striking is inspired by the eyes of Afghan women on the cover of the June 1985 edition of National Geographic, the chorus of young voices give a touch of celestial motion contemplated the coming of a god!

The Greatest Show on Earth

It is the longest end I have heard, has a sublime input pianos and cellos background that gives a somewhat mysterious prelude, thunder and nature in action are nice symphonic strings, which subsequently hard twist of strength and musical algidity with loud voices, the voice of Floor is very versatile! one is right and fitting tribute to life and its evolution on our planet, a subject that is this complex piece Inspired by the book by Richard Dawkins, divided into five movements, can listen to the middle of the song the union of voices which are coupled very well one of the movements at the end with the emergence of the voice of the same Dawknis.

Also ends with narrative and beautiful sounds of marine nature too well start

Here the Lyric

After a billions years

The show is still here

Not a single one of your fathers died young

The handy travelers

Out of africa

Little lucy of the afar

Gave birth to fantasy

To idolatry

To self-destructive weaponry

Enter the god of gaps

Deep within the past

Atavistic dread of the hunted

Enter Ionia, the craddle of thought

The architecture of undestanding

The human lust to feel so exceptional

To rule the earth

Hunger for shiny rocks

For giant mushroom clouds

The will to do just as you'd be done by

Enter history, the grand finale

Enter Ratkind

[Chorus B:]

Man, he took his time in the sun

Had a dream to understand

A single grain of sand

He gave birth to poetry

But one day'll cease to be

Greet the last light of the library

[Chorus B x2]

We were here!

We were here!

We were here!

We were here!

The Understanding

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones

Most people are never going to die because they are

never going to be born

The potential people who could have been here in my place

but who will in fact never see the light of day out number

the sand grains of Arabia

Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets

than Keats, scientists greater than Newton

We know this because the set of possible people

allowed by our Dna so massively exceeds the set of

actual people

In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I

in our ordinariness, that are here

We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against

all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to

that prior state from which the vast majority

have never stirred?

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several

powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms

or into one

And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according

to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful

have been, and are being, evolved"

My Recommendation;

Musical Creativity and Technic

It's an album, new and different from other previous albums of the band, if a very different change to what had become accustomed Nightwish, which leaves a little sample in this album with some songs which is the style you note classic band, musical structure there is not enough technical problem and production with symphonic, orchestral strings and choirs made good times and pauses between voice and perfect sound.

Instrumental and Orchestral versions are another very traditional point in the extended version of the album, we see how the songs are coupled from a Classic view and many fans will love.

Endless Most Beautiful Form is the eighth album and the first album of the band with Floor Jansen and drummer Kai Hahto (Wintersun and Swallow the Sun) which is also to say.

The album was primarily inspired by the work of naturalist Charles Darwin. The composer of Nightwish, Tuomas Holopainen, the album found its main inspiration from a famous quote from a 1859 book entitled On the Origin of Species. This quote includes the quote ("endless beautiful forms") used to describe the evolution from a common ancestor of all living organisms, it seems very good at this point the idea about a book that caused controversy and even today day is questioned.

Definitely not a bad album, if not different and more complex with a unique style and a more solid base, fantastic stories, musical quality, epic arrangements, emotional moments and feelings demonstrated also not imitate or follow the same formula as Tarja or Anette, this is a new group, with all the elements that has developed today.

The Good

It has a large production and musical technique which may themselves be hard to beat.

The Bad

The voice of the great Floor shows the great vocal technique she have, but if there is a small but not exploited as we have heard in the past and is valid given the theme of this album focused, another curious point, the how it is structured album reminds me of other super albums a year ago, and nearby is the Epica The Quantum Enigma and Xandria Sacrificium, so elaborate that this musically and orchestrations, plus the instrumental versions, ¿Why what wrong? Not bad, but see the number of views that genre and I think this is an explanation.

Cover Art:

Excellent, well prepared and focused the theme of the álbum.

Vocal: Floor Jansen

Voice type Soprano Lirico

The vocal range of Floor Jansen corresponds to a lyric soprano, His singing covers a style that goes from pop, rock, blues, bel canto, throaty, Classic, In the second album ReVamp all guttural, except theme Misery's No Crime, were made by Jansen own, excellent skills in voice! We can always remember in After Forever and the song '' Mea Culpa '' as an example, from the serious and clear, through a tender voice, to his operatic limits in this álbum.

Score:

9.5 / 10

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