The Mastermind of Nightwish is the keyboardist Tuomas he is a genius 😂

Most Singers sing what they can, Floor Jansen sings what she wants.

Floor Jensen, First of her name, Queen of the Valkyries, Sovereign of mortals, Lady of Nightwish, Protector of the Metal Realm. May she reign in grace, clarity and power.

Her hand to the drummer at the end. Mad respect. Poor guy must be exhausted after this mad epic performance. Floor is amazing.

,,,and up goes the Nightwish bat signal. You've raised an Army.

Gratulations! You've successfully unlocked 20% of Floor's vocal capabilities ;)

Who is responsible for the orchestrations? Metal Mozart, thats who... Tuomas Holopainen, the greatest musical genius of our generation.

Tuomas: Floor what is your vocal range? Floor: YES!

The orchestra in the backing track is performed by the London Philharmonic. I believe Tuomas wrote it, but I can't confirm that.

Get ready for this video to blow up. The Nightwish Army is coming....

One of my joys in life is seeing expert singers and vocal coaches see Floor sing for the first time. I particularly love when they mention the belting early in the song, they have NO IDEA what is about to happen to them. And then they find out she is a vocal coach too.

:: eyebrows rise at Floor's opening notes :: another one falls!

I liked this reaction. He might not know it yet, but he definitely had a Floorgasm as he said the word 'belt' haha

Tuomas is our Metal Mozart 😍

One thing you have to consider aswell is that she preformed this one almost at the end of the concert, so she has already been singing for 1h before doing this one live!

You never forget your first Floorgasm. Listening to Floor Jensen is just pure bliss.

What you have to remember is that Floor had sung a dozen songs already in this concert, and still had the energy to belt that last phrase. Superhuman!

Tuomas the keyboardist writes 95% of their music and lyrics and that includes the orchestral backing track which is recorded in London with the Philharmonic Orchestra. The band use click tracks for timings. Floor is a vocal powerhouse and chameleon, she can change her technique mid word to suit the music, she's also got the charisma and stature to control the audience and front the band. The rest of the band are world class musicians and Nightwish is what happens when you have 6 people (the sixth member Troy isn't in this song) who obviously love what they do and love each other perform together with some of the cleverest and well written music in the genre. Their music ranges from Thrash/Death metal to Folk rock and even Jazz, you need a versatile singer and Floor is among the best. There are lots of metal singers that also sing classical style but Floor is one of the best.

btw, this was one of her first concerts with Nightwish and she KILLS IT

Tuomas is the brain behind 98% of all they do. As you explore more nightwish you will quickly learn to appreciate the genius of his composition and songwriting skills

Floor is called the Swiss Army Knife of singing for a reason. It seems there's nothing she can't do.

Hello @ Ken Lavigne ! Nightwish fans here, your reaction just appeared on our radar.. Welcome to the world of symphonic metal! And thank you for checking this legendary band, performing in 2013 at Wacken Open Air festival, in front of a 82k+ audience. About the instrumental and vocal added parts you noticed - it's good to know they recorded their orchestral and vocal back tracks with prestigious institutions as London Philharmonic Orchestra. London's The Metro Voices choir group and London's Young Musicians Children's Choir as their regular partners. And yes, there is a mastermind behind all this composition, as you suspected: Tuomas Holopainen, named by many "the modern metal Mozart" :) Since this is your first Nightwish reaction, it is my duty to give you the short history of the band concentrated by Ann Waychoff, one of the biggest Nightwish fan who has since passed away (and I am doing this in her memory): " Nightwish was started in 1996.They are considered a Symphonic Metal band, with a female main singer. They are from Finland. Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboard player, composes and writes the lyrics for 95% of their music. Marco Hietala is the Bassist and vocals .And there is the guitarist Emppu Vuorinen . Then there is Troy Donockley from UK who is a multi-instrulmentalist and vocals. Jukka Nevalainen is the drummer. In 2015 due to Jukka's health issues Kai Hahto became the drummer and as of now is a permanent addition. Nightwish has had three singers. 1st one was Tarja Turunen (Operatic vocals). She was with them until 2005. The 2nd one was Anette Olzon from Sweden (Poppy, strong vocals). She was with them until 2012.The 3rd and current singer is Floor Jansen, from Netherlands (power, operatic, soprano.....most versatile) - you just heard her. There are live concerts that you should use depending on what era. From Wishes to Eternity and End of an Era (Tarja), Montreux Festival live 2012 and Exit Festival (Anette), Live at Wacken 2013, Live at Wembley, Live at Tampere, Vehicle of Spirit, Decades live (Floor). I hope this helps. I want to welcome you to the Nightwish community. I hope you like them enough to continue the journey. Believe me Nightwish will surprise you with their songs. You will never know what to expect. They are unbelievable live. I want to warn you that Nightwish fans are hard core. So be prepared. lol " Hope you'll continue this journey with us, so I'll drop here a list of songs with the current lineup of the band you may like: "Romanticide" live at Wacken 2013 (metal) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sOCParJ0qLfQiKc.html "Ever Dream" live at Wacken 2013 (uplifting vocals) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z76ZZ9FpybDHdmw.html​ "Storytime" live at Wacken 2013 (uplifting vocals) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptybjNqAr8Czfok.html "Song Of Myself" live at Wacken 2013 (dark/metal) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orelaLSbzsqsh5s.html "Dead Boy's Poem" - live Buenos Aires 2018 (soulful ballad) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZ51Zq9ozM2wfYE.html​ "Ghost River" live at Wacken 2013 (metal) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZpuVnNeVkqulZn0.html "My Walden" live at Wembley 2015 (celtic / folk) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odShmKxplZ2-nI0.html​ "Sleeping Sun"live at Tampere 2015 (ballad) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNmfp8-r15_bfqs.html "Stargazer" live at Tampere 2015 (operatic vocals / metal) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hM51qKSBvtPDhZs.html​ "Slaying The Dreamer" live at Buenos Aires 2018 (metal) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/radkZ9ebxraZnmQ.html​ "I Want My Tears Back" live at Buenos Aires 2018 (celtic / folk vibe) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iqh_l8qpz8iUm4E.html "Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean" live In Buenos Aires 2018 (metal) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qphmpcKnpr-1YIU.html "Weak Fantasy" live at Tampere 2015 (dark metal) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7RiZpyBx9fGmqM.html​ "7 Days To The Wolves" live at Wembley 2015 (dark metal) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtyjmdpytci7iJc.html​ And if you want to hear Floor growling :) then try "Yours Is An Empty Hope" live at Wembley 2015 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rN98prhotpmXY58.html Last but not the least - they just released their 9th studio album on April 10th named "Human :||: Nature" - just take a peek to their official playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLihZ3gi5Yvzc0pfH2cbNKUUX8o3pb8eVg You can also react to Floor Jansen's performances in Beste Zangers 2019 (TV show from Netherlands), here is a playlist made by Floor herself (start listen it in reverse order..): kzfaq.info/sun/PL8iSYWeQhlimgUnWw1FDdiJN0msPzqpLo Thank you! Waiting for more Nightwish reactions. All the best from RO. Stay safe.

you can see almost the little hearts coming out of his eyes the moment she starts to sing :) And I mean really, holy crap she is good

FLOOR *slayed* this song. This was/is a legendary performance. Absolutely gorgeous. She showed she is a Queen of the highest order.

Kevin I recommend you react to Epica "Santa terra" ft Floor Jansen Live restrocpect show

Floor's vocal range is extreme. She can go from deep growling to opera style. There is nothing she cannot do, vocally.

Everything Floor does vocally, is 100% deliberate. She is vocal perfection.

Tuomas creates the lyrics, musical compositions, and orchestrations. He is a mastermind and still playing keyboards

The world of Nightwish is an never ending world of pure joy 😊🤟💕

It’s all Tuomas the guy that plays the keyboards, he writes 95 percent of their stuff. Thanks 😊 they might have an orchestral group do a lot of their back tracks.

Let's not forget Sharon den Adel. Who was not classically trained but has a very natural beautiful unique saprano voice. Lot's of love for Within Temptation.

78 minutes into a set she had 24 hours to learn and people have rated this in the top 10 live performances ever. Floor is truly one of a kind

You have no idea what you just did! You opened Nightwish-box, prepare for a flood of requests. And Nightwish is addictive, it never gets enough!

Nightwish is amazing, after many years I still have yet to hear a bad song from them.

Talking about the top bands in symphonic metal you can approach it by having a look at the great Dutch female symphonic metal singers: You do know Floor Jansen from Nightwish and you experienced Nightwish already. But you just got a first tiny hint of her range and capabilities, incl. deep growling (Yours an empty Hope from Wembley). Then there is Simone Simmons from Epica. You have to experience „Sancta Terra“ from Epica feat. Floor Jansen. Another song to listen to is „Consign to Oblivion“. A unique singer of her own is Sharon den Adel from „Within Temptation“. They are incredible as well. First songs to listen to might be „And we run feat. Xzibit“ (symphonic metal meets rap), „Angels“ and „Paradise feat. Tarja“ (the first singer of Nightwish). Charlotte Wessels from „Delain“ is the next to explore: „Masters of Destiny“ is a must. Delain did a couple of songs with Marco from Nightwish like „Sing to me fest. Marco Hietala“ Anneke van Giersbergen (former from The Gathering) did a great duet with Sharon den Adel: Within Temptation „Somewhere“ Another symphonic metal band to mention is Xandria from Germany. They had for some time another awesome Dutch singer: Dianne van Giersbergen. Try „Nightfall“. Greetz from a German-Dutch concert photographer

1:17 "Whoever mixed this is a genius, that sounds amazing!" Yeah, so amazing that no band before or since (including this same band) has been able to come up with a symphonic metal song quite as good as this.

Hey, if you want to hear Floor growling, you should definitely check out nightwish wembley 2015 shudder before the beautiful and yours is an empty hope, thanks 😊 she was also in other bands before she joined nightwish, After forever, northward, and Revamp, more growling styles.

Floor Jansen - 6"1 of pure magic

Its all ochestrated by "The Mozart of Metal" Tuomas Holopainen. He will go down in history as one of our times greatest musical minds... if he dosent, the world should just burn to the ground

I will never ever get tired of the first hearing Floor reactions faces. The suprise, the aww, that unbelievable look - and falling instantly in love.

Her range is amazing.... can even do death growls

That's cute! He has no idea what else she's capable of. 🤘😁

1:20 «Whoever made this is a genius, this sounds amazing!» Tuomas: «This isn't even my *Endless Form Most Beautiful* »

It is always a joy to see the look on people's faces when they hear Floor for the first time, especially at this song. 😄👍👍 Welcome to the club.😁

If I remember correctly there were 82 or 83 thousand people in the crowd for this concert. As far as the compositions go, Tuomas (the keyboardist) does most of the compositions with Pip Williams, and then the orchestral backing tracks are recorded by the London Philharmonic

You haven't seen it all! She's such a versatile singer. The most versatile in the industrie. From small to large. from head voice to chest voice, and in the mix. From sweet and small to growling. She sings what the music needs. Tuomas is the brilliant composer off it all. He is the keybord player. All musicians are verry talented. If you want a different kind off Nightwish try, Yours is a empty hope or Romanticide.

The Floorgasm is real. every. time. When she hits that note, she reaches into my soul and grasps it. I am shook.

She has such a presence.. Bewitching the whole crowd!

Now you open the Pandora's box! Hail from Brazil!

Another one, as soon as she opens her mouth. Love it. He...is....gone. Welcome to the rabbit hole 🐇 🤘

imagine being there close to the stage, it must feel like seeing a godess singing right in front of you. she has a good voice, she's a good singer, and she looks great on stage too. I mean her outfit, how she's standing, her hair, even the movement when she approached the microphone was great. I don't know how to explain it but she has something special.

The writer is mostly Toumas Halopenian the keyboard player and the track playing is the London Symphony. Floor Jansen has been a vocal coach herself. You have the greatest smile and you are very expressive, two wonderful assets when doing reaction videos. Enjoyed this very much, thank you

There is plenty of really good Nightwish performances with Floor to look at but for a vocal coach and his students maybe the best place to go is to watch Floor’s performances on the Dutch tv show Beste Zangers. This is not a competition or reality show but a show in which professional singers from various genres (pop, rock, musical theatre, classical etc.) come together. Each episode one of them is the guest of honour and the others sings either one of his / her songs or a song that has special significance for that person. This means that most of them have at some point step outside of their comfort zone and do a song in a style that is far removed to what they are used to do. Floor killed every performance she did starting of with a killer version of the operetta song Vilja Lied (guest of honour was classical tenor Henk Poort, who also was the original Dutch Phantom Of The Opera) and culminated 7 weeks later in a stunning version of Phantom Of The Opera in a duet with Henk Poort (in which they combine the original song with the Nightwish arrangement of it). Up to this tv show except for those in the metal scene nobody knew her and the fact she is the lead singer in one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. That tv show pretty much changed all of that which meant she actually started doing a series of solo shows here in NL plus Nightwish was also selling way more tickets. Alas, corona struck although her solo shows were almost all before the outbreak, the Nightwish shows have been postponed for now.

I can feel the army coming.. Get on the NightWish train!

There is so much more Nightwish to experience! She's like the Swiss army knife of singing!

Wishing the Viking Queen a speedy recovery ... this performance is by far one of the top live performances ever ... the band was out of this world, and she delivered powerfully and gorgeously with a voice that can take troops to battle like a General!

You know what you expected? It's not that. The next song. You know what to expect now? Nope not that. After ten songs you will get a small idea. After twenty you will start to have an inkling. After forty you will be getting there. And then you will look at the new album and then, it's back to the beginning

Hey, nice video, you should definitely check out Floor Jansen on a Dutch reality show beste zangers, it shows all the different styles and languages she can do, at least 5 or 6 languages, Dutch, German, English, Finnish, and Spanish, thanks 😊 the show she was on was in 2019.

Achievement unlocked: Professional Floorgasm! (100% of vocal coaches have this achievement)

This never gets old: Juuka laying down the groove on his TAMA double base set, Emmpu holding the rhythm on his signature ESP, Marco giving us those insane base lines on his Warrwick Bazzard, Tuomas sharing his genius with the world on his KORGs and (of course) Floor leading the charge like a modern-day Valkyrie and seducing like a siren. Perfection! This is the top of the talent tree and the pinnacle of mastery. Any one of them alone would have been enough to lead any band into stardom let alone all five.

Yet another does not return from the Sirens call.

And then there is Marco...

When I heard the song for the first time, it totally blew me away! I was emotionally overwhelmed. But I don't know, maybe 'overwhelmed' isn't the right word... 🤔 The combination of this epic song together with this powerful lyrics and especially her voice... Omg! In the end a few tears ran down my face. The interplay of this perfect music and this perfect singing touched me so emotionally that I couldn't believe it. She absolutely nailed it, every note... You have to process something so perfect emotionally first. She sang as if there's no tomorrow, she gave this song so much of her feelings... I could feel every word🎶🥺 I heard this music not only with my ears but also with my heart. Love it!

Everything just fits so perfectly together in this song

Roy Khan, formerly of the band Kamelot and now again of the band Conception, is a trained opera singer from Norway. You'll find this type of metal more in Europe. Heavy classical orchestration alongside metal themes (not so different in reality). Back when I was singing classical music, I got heavy into it.mainku for these reasons. There's some great vocalists. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNl9i9upqbOqiY0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/acuUftKWl5eUl2g.html

Hope to see you do much more of Nightwish and of Ms Floor Jansen!

When floor opens that sweet mouth and her angelic voice enters his ears.... Instant floorgasam

i love seeing the joy in your eyes. watching you is inspiring and made me appreciate music a lot more in general. thank you.

nobody as good as floor... but there is a lot of talented vocalists in heavy metal, both male and female.

Yes!!! I’m so glad you did this one

So glad to see another voice coach watch Floor & the wonderful work of Nightwish. Toumas the keyboardist is fondly known as the Metal Mozart. He Works with the London Philharmonic & London Metro Choir / LM Children’s choir for backing tracks. Every song is different and a treat with these guys. Welcome down the rabbit hole. Let the Nightwish Army guide your journey! Also check out Floor on the Dutch TV show Beste Zangers from 2019 for more of her versatility singing several styles of music. Show is a group of popular singers from different genres each singing the featured ones own music,or songs special for them. Floor is outstanding.

Actually, Floor can also do complete death growl vocals, too. Similar to the singer of Jinjer. There's footage of her other/old band where she's doing that a lot.

Welcome to Nightwish :) This was but a tiny sampling of what Floor, and the band can do. I hope you'll continue reacting to them. The bass player, Marko, is an amazing singer in his own right. Romanticide, or Ghost River would be good ones to hear both of them together.

If you continue reacting to nightwish, with floor, you're gonna get everything she's capable off, and Marko as well. Their harmonies together are amazing.

Thank you for your analysis of this incredible performance by Flor Jansen and Nightwish. I appreciate your musical and vocal knowledge and willingness to embrace and critique different musical styles.

Marco gets overlooked to much. His range and talent are amazing as well.

Hi Kevin, you have to react to Beste Zangers 2019, Floor Jansen singing Vilja Lied .. and all the others of her on that show ;) further I would suppose to react to Sancta Terra, Dutch band Epica with Simone Simmons featuring Floor Jansen.

Invasion has started.... Nightwish Army arrived. You'll be watched 🤘🏻😜

Oh how I envy the journey you’re about to begin! Floor is amazing, but one of my favorite parts of the journey, is learning that everyone in the band is a master at what they do. I only found out about them ~2 years ago, and I have not been disappointed.

London symphonic orchestra played tracks for them. Floor Jansen (Dutch) is a fully trained classical/opera and rock singer. She finished music university and rock academy Holland. She transfers from head to chest in seconds on and off.

OMG!!!!! 🤗🤗

Hey there you have also have to listen to the song Ever Dream from the same show Wacken live 2013 then you also can hear her vocals and the voice of Marco the bassguitar player. Her name is Floor Jansen and she's Dutch and Thoamas the keyboard guy is The mastermind behind the most Nightwish songs. You have to listen to the whole concert of Wacken 2013 because it's awesome 🤘🤘

The audience reaction to her near the end is awesome. They know where the good stuff is!

The power to this song is not just the vocals and her technique, but the actual lyrics(chorus ..."you were the one to cut me, so I will bleed forever) with her crushing those last notes "My fall, will be....for you. Tuomas writes most of the songs and lyrics, but her addition is that end part that the previous two singers never performed.

"Within Temptation" has an excellent self-trained operatic singer - Sharon. "Evanescence" and "Beast in Black" and "Amaranthe" and "Battle Beast"

Welcome to the wonderful world of symhonic metal and Nightwish. This show is the most epic one. Floor Jansen is the most technical female rock singer out there. She can do almost everything and she can use her instrument the way that she is able to perform hours without damaging her voice. Greetings from Finland!

Her predecessor in the band, Tarja (who has now gone solo) was mostly operatic technique the whole way. Floor is fascinating how she switches up her technique to serve the lyrics/emotion.

Keep in mind that the part that starts at 5:48 is happening at Wacken. A metal festival. They have a whole bunch of metalheads captivated and rocking slowly from side to side to a symphonic orchestra piece.

Now that you have experienced Floor as lead singer you need to have a watch/listen to The Islander Live at Tampere, where Marco, the bassist, gets his moment to shine in the lead vocalist role.

Yes, there are other classically trained singers in metal like, off the top of my head, Tarja Turunen, original singer of Nightwish, Simone Simons from Epica or Roy Kahn, former vocalist of Kamelot.

So much beauty is this song, it's mesmerising.

Fully composed and orchestrated by Tuomas, the keyboard player. A complete master!

This video is about to become your most viewed, likely. Nightwish reactions get a ton of views, for some reason. Floor is incredible

Another great metal singer is Simone Simmons from Epica.

I am *loving* the awe and fascination in your eyes 💕

I have watched this and other performances of this song a multitude of times, and every time that crescendo towards the end makes me catch my breath. Also, in all the reaction videos I've seen you're the first person to comment on the mixing, points for that. Most of the band's live recordings sound amazingly good and I think it gets overlooked as an element of why they're so captivating. I'm not some sort of audiophile, but with big dramatic music like this, it's very important that the sound has weight, but without drowning anything out.

Now you are officially a reactor. ;) You probably cannot go wrong with Nightwish. But I would suggest Romanticide next. Do not do Poet and the Pendulum yet. It is the magnum opus. Do several others first. If you want to go outside Nightwish, try Epica - Sancta Terra, or Awakening by Unleash the Archers.

Well, now that you’ve had your first exposure to the greatest rock vocalist of this generation (she and Freddy Mercury can battle it out in Valhalla for the all time nod), there’s nothing left for you to do, but... more. Get on the Nightwish train, my dude. The army is coming for you...

I love the acknowledgement of the orchestration and composition before the vocals even begin it is the thing that really puts Nightwish over the top for me as a group. I am a sucker for the great vocals as a singer myself but what they produce musically from all the instruments and vocals is what keeps surprising me with every new listen.

Thankyou for this reaction it was great hope you will do more nightwish soon, they have a very varied catalogue of songs and sounds.