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Welcome to the wonderful world of symphonic metal and Nightwish. This is one of the most epic live performances ever. Glad you liked and greetings from Finland! ⛄👍

For some of us, listening to NW for the first time was a life changing experience. Not just another band. Forget genres and sticking labels. They encapsulate everything I ever wanted from music..and currently boast the best vocalist on the planet. Floor is a generational talent. I rarely listen to anything else. I searched for beauty and found my shore* (NW lyric). Hope you try a few more?

Very surprised to see you drift from history to Nightwish out of the blue :D but ma I grateful! You are correct on the themes. Nightwish is heavily into the human condition, abstract ideas, and I love the "condition of the genius/dreamer" in their older songs. Nightwish is as much a philosophical and life analysis as it is eargasmic music.

Keep in mind the she already been singing for 1 hour and 45 minutes when she sing this song . Floor Jansen it is the Best female singer on the Planet right now , she can do all the styles of singing in One song ! 🤘 ❤❤❤❤ 🤘

I admire you for taking on so many unknown things to react to. Also, you did Nightwish exactly as I would have suggested. 1. Saying what you know before and then just watch and take in. 2. Reflexions. 3. Some research. 4. Summery. 5. Asking the watchers to help. PERFECT !! Much Love 💙💛💙

finally , i have already mentioned randomly finding you while watching nightwish reactions, now we come full circle,

Thanks SoGal! I hope you'll do more Nightwish reactions from time to time. Great band with a lot of great songs. Worth to check it out.

What a great analysis of this epic Score. You hit several nails right on their heads, and I'm glad you enjoyed the performance. You will, no doubt be reacting to more Nightwish, so I can only say...welcome to the Nightwish Army!

she is married and has a child with the drummer in Sabaton and she was a roommate with the singer in Epica and she has performed with the band and I recommend you check out her channel also as she has done covers of a few songs last year when everything has been like it has been

Brief history of Nightwish: Formed in Finland around 1996 by classically trained keyboardist Tuomas, who wanted to form a folk/acoustic project. Guitarist Emppu and drummer Jukka signed on... 18-yr old opera singer Tarja Turunen became the singer. Her powerful operatic delivery inspired Tuomas to transform the Nightwish project into a metal band. First album 'Angels fall first' debuted in 1997 before the band ever played live... bassist Sami joined as Nightwish made their live debut that year w/ their brand of symphonic metal. 2nd album 'Oceanborn' in 1998 was followed by the 3rd album 'Wishmaster' in 2000 which became a massive hit in Europe and gained worldwide acclaim. 2001 saw Sami leave, Marco Hietala joined on bass and did male vocals w/ Tarja's vocals. 'Century child' in 2002 was a dark record reflecting Tuomas' mood of depression. 5th album 'Once' in 2004 was a global hit... Nightwish toured the US for the 1st time. Unfortunately, a growing rift between Tarja and Nightwish resulted in the singer being fired in 2005. Nightwish announced the addition of pop singer Anette Olzon from Sweden as the new singer in 2007... 6th album 'Dark passion play' maked a turn from the operatic vocals... the album became Nightwish's biggest seller. Unfortunately, more drama emerged after the 2011 release of the 7th album 'Imaginaerum' ... during the 2012 tour, tensions w/ Anette resulted in the singer being fired on the US tour... Dutch singer Floor Jansen was flown in to finish the tour into 2013... Floor and instrumentalist Troy Donockley were both added to Nightwish... drummer Jukka announced his exit. Kai Hahto joins on drums. Floor's first album w/ Nightwish 'Endless forms most beautiful' became a massive global hit in 2015...the tour selling out worldwide. Nightwish celebrated 2 decades of the band w/ a tour in 2018. In 2021, Nightwish released the double album 'Human II nature'... However, bassist/vocalist Marco Hietala announced his leaving the band... he was replaced on tour by (another) Jukka on bass for this upcoming tour...

I really liked your analysis at the end of the video. Hope you continue your Nightwish journey!

How is it even possible, that this piece of music and Floors voice can give me chills and even make me cry every time i listen to it. And even each time more than the previous times! ❤️

When this was recorded Floor had been the replacement singer of Nightwish för just about 10 months. She did her first show in Seattle Wa on Oct 1st 2012 after the band fired Anette, their second singer. This was recorded Aug.3rd 2013. This song wasn't on the set list for the tour originally since Anette didn't have the vocal ability to perform it. But Floor had heard the song when her first band After Forever" toured with Nightwish when Tarja, their first singer, was still in the band, and she loved it. So Floor asked Tuomas (the guy behind the keyboards) if they could make it a part of the set list. And they did, it was song number 13 of a 15 song set. There's som minor variations in the backing between Floors and Tarjas version, mainly that the choir have been reduced in volume. There's a video on youtube from, I think, Argentina, recorded Dec15th 2012. And there's one of Tarja doing it too. If you want to know more about how Floor got in to the band I can recommend a documentary, also here on KZfaq called "Please learn the setlist in 48 hours" Wacken is pronounced Vacken in English. In German a W = V and V = F. And I think Finland alone have more metalbands than the entire US. So yes, metal is a big thing over here. 😁 The pipes on Tuomas keyboard stand is a tribute to a Sibelius monument in Helsinki, Finland. (And it's good for storing a bottle of wine or two) 😉

Welcome to NW SoGal, you just met our 6ft Queen Floor Jansen (Dutch) 3rd and current frontwoman of the Finnish Symphonic Metalband NW. She is incredible. 10 Months earlier she came as a substitute for Anette Olzon, who became sick in the middle of a world tour and had to go to the hospital. NW called Floor and she said yes. She had to learn the setlist in 48 hours (there is a documentary about that) and did this on the flight from the Netherlands to Salt Lake City, where she joined the band on their way to Seattle for the next concert. GLS wasn't even on the list, but because she loved this song so much, NW put it on the list. The last part of the song the previous singer(s) didn't do, so she made it her own, with as result 10 months later at Wacken 2013 this MASTERPIECE. When she belt so high, you get shivers or goosebumps we call that a FLOORGSM. Congrats with your first one. If you want to react to more of them you can go with the links Gabriel Bardac gave you for a start. Greetings from the Netherlands South Division and enjoy the ride with us

Before even watching this video I am so happy that you have chosen to watch the best band around with the best vocalist anywhere. One up for the Nightwish army and Floor.

This is perhaps the best review ever. Thank you, for taking the time to listen to this amazing performance, instead of stopping every 30 seconds. Awesome review,

Floor has sung pure opera, musical theatre, pop, latin, everything. Watching her is classed as a Floorgasm. Watch her sing Phantom of the Opera with Henk Poort in Beste Zangers TV programme. The writer is the keyboard player Tuomas. They have played with the London Philharmonic Orchestra backing them.

As impressive as this is, it's only the tip of the iceberg that is Floor's vocal abilities. She has versatility and expressiveness that are off the end of the scale. One of those rare talents where the closer you look the more amazing they get.

Hi SoGal, listening to reactions on Nightwish, I came across your channel for the first time. I just loved your comments and discussion of the music. Will definitely explore some of your other videos. Ex South African in New Zealand.

Its bigger in EU for sure and Floor is married to the drummer in Sabaton (Hannes van dahl) =)

Since I found and subscribed to your channel due to your football videos seeing you reacting to Nightwish gives me great joy. I discovered them with their 4th album Century child which was released in 2002. They've been a favourite ever since. While I hope to see more Nightwish reactions from you I just hope you enjoy them enough (haven't watched it yet) to listen more to them. Even if it's done without sharing with us.

I certainly didn't expect this from this channel. I certainly don't disapprove.

SoGal, I like very much your way to explore different things!!! Greetings from Finland! 🇫🇮

Yay! Nightwish reaction from SoGal! Didnt think that was gonna happen

I knew when I started to follow your reactions, that one day you end up to Nightwish - subscribed

Haha ... have been watching Nightwish reactions for ages now. Have been watching your videos for a while. Being from Leipzig, Germany I loved your Napoleon series. Never would have thought I'd get both in one! 😅 Oh and btw, the singer of Nightwish is married to the drummer of Sabaton. They have a daughter... 😅 Metal is one big happy family over here. 😁 As for female singers: well, there is no second Floor Jansen. She is considered to be an extremely versatile singer. But in general a female singer is almost the rule rather than the exception in symphonic metal. But also some other metal bands do have female lead singers and they are usually the ones I prefer. Call me prejudiced but I love female voices... 😅🤷‍♂️ My other favourite band next to Nightwish is made up of three sisters from Mexico. They play hard rock. So there are definitely women out there making this kind of music and I would say hard rock/metal and the people involved with it are usually quite open and inclusive. The symphonic parts are indeed pre-recorded and not played live on the keyboard. One keyboard can't replace a whole orchestra AND choir. So hope you liked it. Would love to see you return for more. Fair warning though: the Nightwish rabbit hole is a very deep one. 😊

Nightwish Army Texas reporting for duty. Expect more incoming. Welcome to the world of European symphonic metal. You should get extensive information from the general, Gabriel soon. Floor is amazing. Every tune from this show is fantastic. It is pronounced Yansen. Floor is married to the drummer of Sabaton. This is a great introduction to Floor and Nightwish, with multiple styles. Their songs can be very different. They will continue to surprise and never disappoint you. The song is about being haunted by a love lost and conflict of whether to rekindle, at least in my opinion. Tuomas’ lyrics are poetic and leave room for interpretation. Good reaction. Hope to see more Nightwish on the channel.

Actually, "Nightwish" is a quite unique metal band that basically started the symphonic metal genre 25 years ago :) "Nightwish" is very much about storytelling, both musically and by lyrics. Their compositions very often are build according to classical music rules, that's why you can hear so many tempo changes. The lyrics in their songs are more like modern poetry heavily packed with dozens of metaphors and references to the books, classic poetry, as well as beliefs and science :) And there is a one-man behind all of that - the keyboardist and the band founder Tuomas Holopainen. For instance, they have song telling about an evolution ("The Greatest Show on Earth") as well as the song that is a tribute to Eugene Merle Shoemaker, an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science and the only one man in a history whos ashes are buried on the Moon ("Shoemaker"). Fun fact: Floor (the vocalist) in personal life is married to the Sabaton's drummer ;)

welcome to the fantastic symphonic metal universe of Nightwish Band and Floor Jansen, queen of the stage and goddess of music, she can sing anything in any musical style she wants. this concert (wacken 2013) is incredibly epic and deserves to be watched and reacted entirely, song by song, in particular I suggest these three songs: "song of myself", "storytime" and "ever dream" this performance of "ghost love score" is one of the three best performances of the nightwish band, together with "the poet and the pendulum" from 2015 concert at the london wembley arena and "the greatest show on earth" from 2015 concert in tampere - finland (actually there is a fourth best performance: "dead boy's poem" from the 2018 concert in buenos aires).

Howdy SoGal! Nightwish Army Texas Division reporting in. Glad you enjoyed the music and subbed to enjoy hanging out with you on your journey discovering new music.

Metal often takes up the difficult and hard things in life. If no-one wants to talk about it? that's even better...then it *needs* to be said! All the truly great ones do this. Of course there will be party songs and all the rest of it, but I would say it's one of the cornerstones of metal...and all great songs.

gabriel will be along soon with a full essay, this is the first time i beat him to comment

Ah damn SoGal has lit the beacons of Nightwish. Everyone prepare the defences from their assault!

Great reaction video ! ... greets from the Netherlands !

Nightwish is the prototypical symphonic metal band. Their original vocalist was Tarja Turunen - she's an operatic soprano and so their style developed to use Heavy Metal instrumentation to support her operatic singing style. Floor Jansen is also an amazing vocalist, though. Nightwish has a bunch of great songs. My favorites include "Nemo," "10th man down," and "End of all hope." I would recommend any of them, but particularly "Nemo." After Tarja left the group they recruited Annette Olzen as their vocalist for a while and the songs they made at that time are closer to a conventional rock sound. Floor Jansen allowed them to return more to their original operatic style.

Welcome into the wonderful world of storytelling by Nightwish. About the lyrics: they are all a different deeply (frequently emotional) story, often in the form of a poem. These are real flames. This burning bulls head is the official emblem of Wacken Open Air festival Germany. Although the band is Finnish their 3rd female vocalist isn’t, she is Dutch. And yes, she is frequently featured in Ayreon too. Floor Jansen (pronounce Yahn-Sen) was born on Februari 21st, 1981 in Goirle the Netherlands. At the age of 16 she started her career as (initially) just as background singer from the Dutch metal band ‘After Forever’ in 1997 but real soon she took over the lead until early 2009 and the band fell apart. Parallel she studied at the Dutch Rock Academy in Tilburg starting in 1999 where she graduated in 2003 and spent two years on classical training with the National Conservatory. She studied Musical Theatre and one year Opera. She plays guitar, piano and flute and has completed 12 years of music studies. She’s a Light Lyric Soprano and her vocalrange runs from E3 to D6. In addition to her activities at After Forever, she gave singing lessons. On May 5, 2010, she presented her new band ‘ReVamp’, which was disbanded in September 2016. In August 2010 Jansen was a guest in the TV program De tiende van Tijl. In that program she sang an aria by Puccini. From October 1, 2012 Jansen replaced Anette Olzon as the singer of Nightwish halfway their Imaginaerum World Tour. On October 9, 2013, it was announced that she was to become the group's regular new front singer. Is this real live? If you’ll have any doubts watch this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNd0pa6gv5yWp4U.html the evolution of Ghost Love Score. Nightwish, After Forever and ReVamp worked under the same Nuclear Blast record label. Who is Floor Jansen? #1 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fc1kbJyXlZaxoY0.html Who is Floor Jansen? #2 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZube9Zkx7XPfWg.html The Storytime of Floor Jansen (Biography) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbGAq9Z2t7bapXU.html

Great reaction! Welcome to the world of Symphonic Metal!

The burning bullhead is the symbol for the Wacken festival ( here 82000 visitors) as it is an agricultural region in Northern Germany, known for it’s beef production

They were performing this at Wacken Open Air, the biggest Metal festival in the world. Wacken is just 18km away from my hometown, so I used to be there every year, pre-covid. Oh the good old times. And yep, those are real flames :D

Wow you're reacting to Nightwish. I watch your videos on European football, World War II, UK Parliament, etc. Happen to be a huge Nightwish fan even though I'm in the US (hello from the state you left California 👋). Floor is my favorite female vocalist. She's definitely versatile and has a great range. Also, hope you look into Manchester United Football Club. They are one of the most popular football teams in the world. Huge rivalry with English Premier League sides Liverpool, Leeds United and their cross town rivals Manchester City. Regarding Nightwish, you can't go wrong following the list provided by Gabriel.

Iron Maiden is an iconic Britsh metal band you need to look into. They have been around since the late 1970s and have just released a new album. The song "The Trooper" (about a soldier during a battle during the Crimean War) would be a great starting point. Many of their songs are dealing with historical, political or mythological subject matter. Run to the Hills (Native Americans vs. Colonists), Alexander the Great (self explanatory), Aces High (Battle of Britain) etc.

so I had to smile for your reaction,because first you looked so sceptical and smiled at the end and you look so pretty when you smile....this song is very special for Nightwish but all the other songs of them are too. I hope you go on reacting to them....you will always find something special...thank you very much for your reaction...greetings from Germany

You now heard some of the skills our 1.83m Dutch Valkyrie Queen Floor Jansen has to offer as the third and present singer of Nightwish. Just wait when she gets in full Dutch Windmill mode with her hair. She added the ending herself and this song has become their anthem since. As I am a Flooraholic from Utrecht, The Netherlands, here is some background information on her. She joined the band 'After Forever' in 1997 at the age of 16. My favourite song is 'Energize Me'. They made a very beautiful music video out of that: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNCdZ6Wjs6fKZqc.html Floor attended the then new Rock Academy in 1999 and graduated in 2003. She also has some classical singing education. 'After Forever' disbanded in 2009 and Floor started her own band 'Revamp' from scratch. Here she experimented with different vocal styles within one song, such as from full operatic to serious growls in seconds. The song 'Disdain' is a good example: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qq-hrbOJ386ppas.html Besides managing a band on her own she also did a lot of vocal coaching and as she is a perfectionist, she wants to do everything at 100%+. Eventually she had to pay the price and got a burnout. S he had just recovered when end of september 2012 the call came from Nightwish to fill in for the remainder of the North American Tour at first as their second singer Annette got ill. Floor had just 48 hours to learn the whole setlist. There is a documentary made of this world tour: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rM51q86evLGxdYk.html The lyrics of the songs of Nightwish are very poetic and the music as a whole is very challenging, but Floor pulled it off and she stayed for the whole world tour, culminating is this iconic Wacken 2013 Open Air festival which set new standards in Open Air concerts. It was obvious that the match Nightwish and Floor was made in Walhalla, so she became a permanent member of the band as the relationship between Nightwish and Annette was strained even before she got ill. Floor continued to perform with 'Revamp'for a couple of years, but it became clear that she could not combine the two for much longer, so 'Revamp' disbanded in 2016. Floor did a side project called 'Northward' where she dived into the Hard Rock scene. The song 'While Love Died is a must see:: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mKeZg8iE2NeoXWg.html Her stunning performances on the Dutch TV show 'Beste Zangers 2019' gave her at last some more recognition in her home country where she was relatively unknown until then. There are numerous guest appearances with other bands to find on KZfaq. To see how to get a crowd of metalheads silenced and in awe watch her featuring with the band 'Epica' and the song 'Stabat Mater Dolorosa:, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9eUqamBp62yYJc.html and to see her in full opera mode, watch her rendition of 'O Mio Babbino Caro' from Puccini: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8uErKSL2byZp30.html As live concerts were cancelled and home isolation due to the Covid situation, Floor discovered KZfaq in the last year and a half and uploaded many interesting videos on her channel. Mindblowing covers, chats with her idols and other singers, vocal masterclasses, personal insights and so much more. She even made a video reacting to herself singing this at Wacken Lots of technical info and some memories of her starting with Nightwish:. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h72PZqlinZzDZYU.html Also her Fan Friday videos are hilarious. Just unpack some of the presents she left there. Floorgasm alert! Floor is a high sensitive person, so peace and quiet is as important for her. Living by the woods in Sweden with her husband Hannes Van Dahl (drummer of the band Sabaton), daughter Freja (turned 4 years last march), a horse and pony, a dog and a bunch of cats, she found this.

I love it😍🇫🇮, thank you!!

Nightwish Army, Pennsylvania division reporting in! Hope to see more Nightwish from you! Subbed!

Thanks for your great reaction 😄👍🤘🤘Nightwish rules!❤🤘 please investigate some more of their great music👍🤘

There are more and more Ladies singers in Metal, also full formed bands of Ladies. Full Metal ladies Lovebites from Japan. Ladies in metal (bands): Epica, Visions of Atlantis, leaves eyes, battle beast, Dalain, Xandria, ignea, Jinjer, audious, lovebites, nemophilia, sirenia, band maid, baby metal... and more

Hiya. Oh you've done it now. All the lengthy content you already react to and now Nightwish and Floor Jansen as well? The rest of your life isn't going to be long enough! Stay safe. All the best to you.

Love this group

Hooray! I've been waiting for this since you first reacted to Sabaton. Very soon now Gabriel will appear and give you the standard info dump. Followed very shortly by the rest of the Nightwish Army. I'll just say that the Nightwish set at Wacken 2013 is considered one of the best live performances - of any band- of all time. Also be aware that their hallmark is variety - no two songs sound the same and they have been around for 25 years, so there are a LOT of songs. I hope you will begin to dive into this rabbit hole, it has many connections and side tunnels. It's SO worth it!

Next NW: “Storytime” !

Great Reaction. Welcome in the World of Symphonic Metal. I mean other comments tell you more about Floor and Nightwish. Another amazing European female Singer are Simone Simmons, Sharon den Adel, Tarja Turunen, and many more. 🤘greetings from northern Germany 👍

Finish band with a dutch singer, a classic.

Enjoyed this reaction. New subscriber☺️

OMG I love Nightwish, somewhere I never thought you'd go.

Hi there! I think your analysis of the lyrics was on point, Tuomas the keyboard man, is a genius composer but a genius poem too. Your comments on the music was pertinent, as well as on the lyrics, as I said. As a new sub I hope you´ll react more on to Nightwish, but of course it´s your choice. Any way thank you for reacting Nightwish. Stay safe.

It's Floor Jensen (Yan sen) she is the wife of Sabbaton drummer.

Should you wish to hear even more about Floor then you'll have an interest in her performances on the Dutch TV show (2019) Beste' Zangers where the emphasis is more on her vocals than on the band (though the house band they use is OUTstanding). Suggestions are her solo on Shallow, duet on Phantom of the Opera, her operatic offering of Vilja lied (sung in German) and watch/listen as she brings her peers to tears on "I Don't Know A Thing About Love". Regards,

found you surfin the web. welcome to the most epic family on metal earth..The Nightwish Army arrived and will follow and guide you through a beautiful rabbithole filled with awesomeness, and most of all JOY.. greets from the netherlands.

YES! Nightwish...! Thanks for this! More please. I'm sure you are getting loads of suggestions now from the Nightwish Army, so just follow us to the rabbit hole. 🤩

If you like the Irish sort of thing try "I want my tears back" live in Buenos Aires and "Elven Jig and Elven Path" both from Nightwish of course.

You also need to note that the majority of the fans had never heard Floor sing this as she joined the band in the US during their world tour.

Metal is as widespread in Europe as it is in the USA, but much more stronger in Central and Northern Europe. In Finland, metal is part of pop culture. Search for "Metal Bands per capita map". The main difference is the better infrastructure. For example the two "Metal Major labels" Naplam Records (Austria) and Nuclear Blasst (Germany) come from there.

"It is very symphonic" Nightwish is indeed Symphonic Metal. They got quite a few awesome pieces

Gabriel will be by shortly. With a short history and list with links. The thing with Nightwish song is different from each other. You should check out a few other songs before coming to a final conclusion. Thanks for watching.

82,000 at Waken 2013. Floor is Dutch (and part Elf, part norse God), the band is Finnish.

To answer your questions regarding the bullhead, as you rightly identified it, those are actual flames and sometimes the bullheaded even spits flames where the spectators can legitimately feel the heat of the pyrotechnics! The bullhead in general is the logo of the Wacken festival. The devil’s horns or the horns of a bull as a hand gesture have been around forever in the metal scene and the festival takes place in a farming village in Germany, so the bullhead is quite fitting.

Floor is married to the drummer from Sabaton.

The head is real flames.

Great post-listening commentary! When you do a Nightwish song, search for live performance with lyrics-most of the video's have a lyric version available.

Hi! Welcome in the world of symphonic metal, in the world of Nightwish! In the world of goosebumps, strong emotions and tears, in a good way! This was a nice reaction, i like it! Floor Jansen, the singer of Nightwish, and the drummer of Sabaton Hannes Van Dahl, because you say you know Sabaton, are in a relationship and they become a girl 4 years ago named Freja! If you like this song and if you would see another beautiful song you could do "Nemo" or "Ever dream", or more harder metal style songs than "Song of myself", "Romanticide" or "Last ride of the day", all from the same conzert in Wacken '13. They played in front of 83.000 people and at this conzert they presented their new singer Floor Jansen for the first time an big european publikum and the fans fell in love with her, me too!. Bye!

I just love the Song and especially her voice, probably the best female singing voice ever :)

2:55 Yep. Not surprising though when listening to Symphonic Metal ;-) Fun fact: The drummer of Sabaton is actually Floor's husband. It's not that rare to have female vocalists in Metal, at least not in modern days and in Symphonic Metal (most symphonic Metal bands have a female vocalist) - it was a bit different back in the seventies and eighties though. And there's also women doing harsh vocals as well, not only clean singing. Speaking of the professional level of female vocalists in Metal - they're ususally performing at a very high level, with many of them having classical training. The symphonic orchestra you hear in this song is the London philharmonic orchestra by the way.

Having been a while in the US in TN (Fayetteville) I can say that, yes, metal is "slightly" more popular in Europe just as country is "slightly" more popular in the US. ;) Nice to see you branching from history and sports onto music. While you're at it, give Epica and "Consign to Oblivion" in Paris a try. Symphonic metal as well but with a different twist.

Great reaction Greetings from 🇳🇱 🤘

Well you have Metal in the US too, but we got much more of it here in Europe, and only a fraction of European music cross the Atlantic and goes to the US. Have heard some people saying that the US is the North Korea of music, and I think that's about right. Cheers / B.

From my experiences of going to that festival 3 times (I live in England so it wasn't hard to get to) that certainly is a flaming bulls head, and when it really gets fired up (pun intended) you can feel the heat of it. And yes it does have Celtic sounding I'd say. Now you've taken the red pill you need to see how far down the rabbit hole of Nightwish goes. You may find yourself wanting more and more as you listen to them. Plus, read Gabriel's comment, it has all the necessary links and songs to react to. Happy to see another fan!

The pipes on the keyboard is not functioning musically but not just mere decorations as the pipes also shoot flames, parts of their full-scale on stage pyrotechnics effects set.

The lyrics ARE deep and meaningful. Every single note, phrase and section of this music is purposeful, there is nothing that is "filler" in their compositions. The band plays to orchestral backing tracks written by the keyboard player and performed by the London Philharmonic Ochestra. And yes the keyboard pipes are stage props. You may have missed the point that this is a LIVE recording and it sounds this good. No auto tune, no punch in, no gimmicks. This is raw talent to sound this good live. (Of course stellar mix down of the live sound to DVD). And then there's Floor...... you have only scratched the surface of this soprano goddess's abilities and vocal styling. I hope go down her rabbit hole. She is in my humble opinion the most talented female vocalist and performer on the planet. She can command armies...... check out every song from this concert (2013 Wacken) and all of her solo covers and Beste Zangers (Dutch TV show).

The burning bull head is the official symbol of Wacken, it's olympic fire. It's located between the two main stages "Faster" and Harder". And Sabaton is the only band who's played both stages simultaneously.

When the orchestral interlude started they disappeared because they had nothing to do. I have seen this multiple times with different bands. I think this also the reason why the guitarist "stalks" the other members in the beginning. He had no guitar part so he went to attaboy the other band members. He has multiple other funnier ways of communicating that the music does not require him at that moment. The interlude is also a nice opportunity for the guitarist (Emppu) to have a little smoke break, but I think back then Marco and Tuomas were still smoking too. There is a lot of female fronted metal. Epica, Within Temptation, Arch Enemy with both singers, Jinjer (Pisces will blow your mind), Infected Rain and many others.

I always get more of an "unrequited love" feeling from this song and lyrics, more than of a lost love.

Eloquently worded 👌 ✨ cheers from Australia 🇭🇲

Welcome to Nightwish, thanks from Colombia

This is one of the very symphonic performances of this group. You may have noticed that the vocalist is fairly versatile. They make good use of it and their "style" goes from pretty heavy ....to epic rock opera story of the entire history of man. There is something out there that will speak to you.

NW Army, Central Florida Battalion reporting. Nice reaction, welcome aboard!

I discovered Floor via Ayreon and the song Day Eleven: Love. It was actually her sister Irene who caught my ear in the choruses for her passion. All of my searches kept going to her sister Floor...

Nightwish Shadow Unit from Estonia reporting in ! Valkyrie Goddess spotted ! Gabriel Bardac entered ! Floor her name is derived from the Roman Goddess of Spring, Flora. Floor Jansen is called the Valkyrie Goddess of Metal and Empathy. Floor Jansen is a soprano, with a range of more than 4 octaves (Eb2 to F6) She can sing from classical to belting and raspy vocals like screaming and death growls. And she's also a voice coach and teacher to boot. Floor Jansen was the singer of the Dutch metal band After Forever from 1997 to early 2009. From 1999 she studied at the Rockacademie in Tilburg with classmates Jacqueline Govaert and Danny Vera, where she graduated in 2003. In addition to her activities at After Forever, she gave singing lessons. She plays guitar, piano and flute. On May 5, 2010, she presented her new band ReVamp, which was disbanded in September 2016. From 1 October 2012 Jansen replaced Anette Olzon as singer of Nightwish during the Imaginaerum World Tour. On October 9, 2013, it was announced that she would be the group's regular new front singer. In 2015, Nightwish released the album Endless Forms Most Beautiful with Jansen as lead singer. Nightwish's second studio album with Jansen as front singer, Human. :II: Nature., was released in April 2020. This was recorded at the 2013 Wacken ( pronounced Vahken) Open Air festival in Germany in front of an audience of 82,000 people. The fiery bull head is the symbol of the festival. We hope, that there is more coming. 🤘😎🤘.

Seen them twice, and again next year. One of best bands in the world 😀

I initially came to you because of Alexander, but here you are reacting to my goddess queen, Floor. I love it!

We don't care much about the words, we care about the emotions the Valkyrie Goddess of Metal and Empathy and her Brothers bring forth to the lives of the people. Hail Nightwish 😇😈😇😈😇😈

They do have backing tracks that are full orchestra. Tuomas Holopainen is on the keyboards, also the writer of most of Nightwish's songs, also plays quite a lot of the 'filler' parts. I have a hard time sometimes picking out what he is playing vs what is coming from the backing tracks. I think they would bring a full orchestra on tour with them if it was possible. However with their typical tour length and number of shows it would be a nightmare to bring any more people with them and cost way too much to be worth the effort. If you haven't seen Gabriel's post, check it out. It's a condensed history of the band and a few of the tracks (with links) you should check out from this band. As for front women for metal bands. There are a lot of amazing and very talented women out there. Floor is one of the best, and most versatile, in my opinion.

Nw Army is here! Follow you since you were learning about futbol.. Glad you like it!

Metal festivals are the much more European thing, as there are quite a few. Metal itself is increasingly global, tons of sub-genres with varying regional popularity. It's quite alive and well stateside - there are many exciting new bands and the established ones are still chugging along.

Glad that you reacted to Nightwish. They are for sure one of the better bands you can react to. You should check out some of the older songs with Tarja Turunen as singer. She has an incredible voice and their songs rock awesome too. At least in my opinion. I would like to know what you´re thinking of some of those.

There is a good tradition of hard-rock and metal female singers in bands like Girlschool, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Warlock, Within Temptation, Epica, Vuur, Halestorm and Tarja (ex-Nightwish).

They play with a backing tape for the orchestral sounds ( and choir vocals)

Hello SoGal and Roger. Not quite like the old music night videos, but the little dog here liked it.

Is not rare thing we have alot here females vocalists and female bands aswell,btw nice reaction 👌👌😊😊