I'm watching a French Canadian Franciscan monk metalhead who is reacting to the new Nightwish songs. And it's brilliant!

Greetings from Finland! I love your reactions and analysis of the lyrics. Many people listen these pieces just as songs, which is pity as Tuomas is very intelligent and his lyrics are masterpieces full of hidden meanings. I love how you dig into them to find the meaning. And not just the lyrics but also combination with the music and the whole production. My humble thank you for taking us with you to the journey on this new Nightwish album.

The compositions on this album are just astonishing, with this being yet another example. Tuomas stated several times that he knew he would be challenging the band with what he had put together, but that they all rose to the occasion and made things even better than he had envisioned. How amazing must it be for someone with the creative mind of Tuomas to have such incredible tools at his disposal to truly realize his vision. Just breathtaking! Floor has also done a lot of interviews about the album, and directly discusses how she was challenged. The most incredible thing about her is she can sing such an incredibly unique and crazy difficult melody, but make it sound not only natural/easy, but also convey the emotions of the story she is singing. She described the process as taking one month to figure out how to fit the words into the complex melody lines, another month to then practice simply delivering those lines from a technical perspective, then finally another month+ to add the emotions and truly “sing” the songs. Boggles the mind how not only talented, but dedicated she is. Tuomas and Floor = endless goosebumps and greatness

Nightwish does seem to have that ability to draw you in. Also I am so pleased to see a man of GOD give an unbiased critique of their music. Thank you and may GOD bless you through life.

It is like I'm watching, listening, enjoying Nightwish with a dear old friend here, I love it!

Listening to this song together, I could see your joy and surprise on your face. The arrangement makes me think of the elegance of classical symphonic music, but combined with the brilliance of metal gives me the feeling of a rally race with skids, on mountain serpentines .. :) I look forward to [Analysis] what will follow in the coming days!

You are by far my favorite reactor channel, I have been waiting for this to be broadcasted all day :-) Looking forward to the analysis tomorrow and then, the beautiful warm How's the heart :-)

Personally, I find that I need to listen new Nightwish songs through 3 (or so) times first, to get the "scheme of things" (melodies, song structures, lyrics/stories etc) into my head, before I can PROPERLY start listening & enjoying them.. This particular song I feel like is a celebration of human imagination in storytelling (literature, stage, screen...) I've really enjoyed your personal style in reacting to these songs. Monsieur Prince, you're a King among men. Merci!

I laughed when Kai kicked those drums into gear in the intro. Emppu calls this song "Pancake" as a descriptor for what it did to him when trying to play it. Before you do your second video, check into the reaction from Patrol Gaming, an Australian who really put his finger onto all of the popular literature and media references in this song. His is an excellent analysis from the popular media standpoint and would probably save you a few steps. For example, the "ape before a door" reference is from Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Within these different reaction videos, we have had discussion about these KZfaq covers and now NW made an album, which will be a difficult to do covers, those Floor´s parts are just so incredible. Whole album is is just like musical fireworks, 10 songs and all totally different, yet all are good. No weak songs at all. After you have listened whole album, then understand that "Music" is perfect song to open album and "Endlessness" is perfect to finish album. Starting and ending points. Thank you, once again it was nice to follow you!

19 hours to hear your lovely reaction. Au revoir, see you tomorrow and best wishes from the Netherlands

cant wait for you to do procession, your analysis will be spot on im sure

Great reaction! I have been with Nightwish from their second album. Their evolution has been great. It this is absolutey the best lineup. Cant imagine how it could be better. This album is more challencing than before, but a masterpiece. Keep up a good work. Your analyzing is interesting and enjoyable. Greetings from Finland. And thank you!

I really like your reactions. I just don't seem to have enough good things to say to you right now, so I'll just say muito obrigado! Warm greetings from Brazil.

Pan is as you mention a song hitting you at first listen, but its also a song that stays good to me, i did feel the same way about Music as you describe, it should grow some in me, to be good, but the song on the album i did have it hardest to consume is Procession, a song i now love, as it is very beautiful, but in start it needed a punch to me, and was to plain, , now i do epriciate how its done..!! I do like every song on the Album, and the thing i like most about the new album, is that its new Nightwish sound, without not being Nightwish, and that every song is diffrent.. I love this song Pan, celebrating the pale blue theatre stage (earth) and fantasy, all the posibilities the world can offer mankind.. its yours to write..

I have to tell you sir that of all the hundreds of Nightwish reaction videos I have seen, you belong to miniscule group of people who are not only passionate about the instrumental arrangements but the lyrics as well. As we come from two very different walks of life, I find it really interesting to hear your thoughts on the lyrical aspect.

Nightwish army we have another victim, nice job all🤘 And u did a very nice job also Guylain Prince, keep them coming 👍👍

Had to be here in as real a time as possible. Totally looking forward to your analysis tomorrow. Thank you.

I really found a whole new appreciation for Kai after hearing the song named "Wintersun - Sons Of Winter And Stars (TIME I Live Rehearsals At Sonic Pump Studios) REMASTER". Left me completely amazed and surprised that his drums did not caught on fire from his drumming there.

So happy to see you again my special friend. Every time I hear one of Tuomas' piano intro's, I imagine opening a music box and an image dancing in my imagination like some beautiful ballerina. I totally agree with your comment about each song being unique in its own way. The only theme I hear running throughout this CD is the vocal melodies during the verses. Almost all of them have a very up and down quality to the melody construction. I think it is called "melismatic" which refers to a style of singing first started in 900 AD and culminating in the Boroque era in which a single syllable of text is sung carried through many notes. Is this not a style used in religious chanting? At 15:36 in your reaction video right after the final words of the last chorus "To Enter", did you notice the background behind the flying chess pieces? It was the image in stone of a ancient king or god holding some type of sceptre and sitting on a throne. Above this image is a stone carving that looks like a Greek god staring straight ahead. There also seemed to be a lot of dominoes showing either 7 or 5? I wonder if we should be watching these small details to gain insight into this song? I am sure you noticed the book flashing by with the title "Fairy Tales", and I see some playing cards with a Crow, an Owl, and I am searching for one with a Dove. Have you heard the song "The Crow, the Owl, and the Dove" by Nightwish on the "Imaginaerum" CD. It is beautiful. Back to this song, There are so many images and backgrounds to this video. Is there meaning to all of these or are they simply random? I really love this song and feel it is about mankind discovering imagination. Imagination can be a dark place for many people. It can add a very exciting and stimulating aspect to every day life. I can't wait to her your analysis my friend. Always a great pleasure to spend some quality time with you! Be well and I will see you for the analysis. I hope you get a large response to your invitation. Then, something wicked their way came Showed a way to the Great Escape Evoke the worlds, sparked the brain An ape in awe before a door - (The door to the human minds imagination?)

Great reactions and Analysing of the songs. And thank you for the English subtitles. Greetings from Austria.

I now declare you my favourite to watch Nightwish reactions! 💖

can`t wait to read about the lyrics...... I love the sound, the guitars, drums..... the tempo....... great song.

Super série de vidéos. Ca change vraiment des vidéos "reaction" qu'on voit partout sur KZfaq, c'est bien plus construit et approfondi. De plus j'adore votre façon d'être, et votre "personnage", qui intrigue forcément (de manière positive, j'entends). Je ne sais plus comment je suis tombé sur vos vidéos mais c'était un heureux hasard. Bonne continuation et j'attends les prochaines avec impatience :)

I can't wait to see these song played live! :-)

Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮 (Saku Koivu) 😉

Super avec les paroles. Merci guylain

Really interesting reaction video. I wish there were more this kind of content in the KZfaq. I hope to find your reaction and analysis of the new Nightwish album 'YESTERWYNDE', when it is released after a couple of months.

Hi Guylain, I stumbled upon your video's and i must say it is an absolute blessing watching them. Your understanding and explenation of the lyrics keeps me wanting more and more :) Subscribed to your channel within the first 3 minutes ! Greetings from the Netherlands

Nightwish Army is full of sweet people 👌🌹💋

As always a great reaction to and breakdown of the song,keep up the good work mon ami👍😊

Thank you for your reaction once more. I am learning positive words in French listening to you; spectacular, formidable, remarkable well now written in English. I also find this song less catchy than many of the others. But I still like it, it is heavy musical theatre at its best. Looking forward again to your review, greetings from Heavyland.

I'm really enjoying your videos. Thank you for sharing!

I'm one of your 5,000 subscribers. As my Mother-in-law would say: "Au niveau!" "Beautiful intro, light", then you jumped! "An incredible musical experience", you are going to love the other tracks too. The way Tuomas writes "weaves a multi-coloured thread" into a tapestry, each song a different route, which is challenging for Floor (she loves a challenge). "Phew!" Animated Chess Pawns, (homage to Pink Floyd, The Wall, animated marching hammers?) A pale blue theatre, (Carl Sagan, "Pale blue dot, that's us, Earth"). Night by a playwright? "Twelfth Night" Shakespeare? Is this a crossword puzzle from Tuomas?

Je trouve ces vidéos vraiment intéressantes, entre l'analyse du texte et les mélodies c'est vraiment très complet ! 👏 J'adorerais voir l'analyse/réaction des 2 derniers albums solos de Tarja Turunen la chanteuse originelle de Nightwish "The Shadow Self" et "In The Raw" Continuez comme ça 👍

Merci beaucoup pour tes réactions de Human Nature, un vrai plaisir de t'écouter en ses temps de pendemie. J'avais acheté des billets pour les voir en Finlande, Pologne, pays bas et Angleterre, probablement tous reporté alors merci encore pour tes analyses.

I can't believe it took me so long... 12 minutes into the reaction, and it just hit me. This song may just be about worldbuilding and imagination in general. We create all these fictional worlds, and little by little we try to make them real. We are inspired by our own creations and driven to surpass them.

Je suis étudiant du français et vous m'aidez à étudier avec un de mes groupes préférés. Un merci du Brésil.

Bonjour, je me permets de vous dire que j'apprécie beaucoup vos commentaires et explications de texte si pertinents. Moi j'ai découvert ce groupe il y a seulement deux semaines et j'en suis heureux.Un petit bonjour d'Alsace.

I don't understand much French, and I got 'Franciscan' and 'Nightwish Army', and little else, but I Iistened anyway because some things transcend language. Great reactions! I hope he opens the box labeled Epica, too. 😯

I will just say that this is probably my favorite of the new songs I've heard yet ("Endlessness" is the one I haven't, and will probably refrain from it until my copy of the album arrives, finally - to have that crowning impression for last). Yes, the instrumental track here is so powerful I want to jump with every beat - I admit that would require some really fast movement on my part! :D The rhythm to which those chess kings smash the pawns is downright ominous, but catchy as sin! While the vocals are so tricky (misleading?) it is endearing. One is apt to listen on repeat only to make sure what they are hearing is real. I guess you may be on point about mischievous Pan playing his little games with human imagination - yours and ours. :)))

Se c'è una cosa che ho sempre amato nella mia vita è stata quella di condividere l'arte con le persone pronte a ricevere quel tipo di esperienza... Devo dire che mi piace davvero tanto condividere con te la scoperta del nuovo album dei Nightwish che è senza alcun dubbio pura Arte. Condividere è bellissimo. E come sempre la tua reazione è fantastica.

Don't worry, after a few listens you'll love this song as much as the rest of the album.

As a former drummer (I have done my homework) you noticed Kai's drumming there. Mr Kai Hahto is a very experienced drummer and drumming teacher, but his appearance is totally different than Jukka Nevalainen's. Jukka was very showy , but Kai is like a robot. Both are good and very professional. This track has many refers to the literature, movies etc, that you maybe don't find them all ( as I didn't either but Patrol Gaming found so many). Some of them are almost cliches. The song itself is almost Emppu's show. He said at the countdown video, that this is so hard an old man to play live that it will end a PANcake. I doubt that. Looking forward to your analysis.

"beautiful intro, light" made me laugh - wait a second and the beat drops!

Bravo encore pour ta vidéo !! Tu as tout à fait raison, chaque chanson de l'album a sa propre personnalité, il n'y en a pas deux qui se ressemblent... Et en effet, certaines demandent plusieurs écoutent pour être parfaitement "assimilées", elles sont souvent beaucoup moins catchy que des "Storytime" ou "Last ride of the day" par exemple. Beaucoup plus complexes que la majorité de celles des précédents albums. Et comme tu as pu le lire précédemment, Emppu redoute cette chanson qu'il appelle "Chanson de torture pour un vieil homme", et il craint qu'elle ne se transforme en Pancake sur scène :-D J'adore également ton visage à l'écoute des passages vocaux qui t'ont tellement pris par surprise, excellent !! A bientôt avec le reste de la Nightwish Army par un moyen ou un autre !

I am very interested in your analyze of the words. So anxious waiting. Thank you Guylain.

Dear Guylain, you are the best, txs! Nightwish is the best in the World😉 I can not write english , sorry, your commentaar are 👌.

I do love your reaction video to the song Pan,i am from Greece and i know very well greek mythology about Pan or panas in greek. I wait with endless agony to listen the next analyze video of Pan as well. Be safe 🙏 and healthy. Greetings to Canada.

I would love a Virtual Cafe visit with you and our Nightwish friends. I have so much joy and fun with our group watches via Discord site! So glad you found us. We are here for you. Community is priceless in these times.

thank you!

Dear Sir enjoyed your reaction 👍 This song...Floor got me from the beginning focused on the lyrics. And I am wondering how she will do this live Then I heard Emppu jamming away, soon followed Kai.. Kai for me he is finally loose on this album, so to say. There are some drum cam videos on YT from him, if you are interested... Nightdreamers, awesome! The idea lovely, but it all depends on what time! But maybe I see you there sometime... Thnx for this, till the next ...Have fun 🖐

Kai is a technical beast on drums.double bass is awesome.

thank you for your super reactions, i learn soo much from you freddy maon - nightwish army- belgium

Had a little gigle when you got the jumpscare after fist intro 😄 Dont worry, I had it too when first time listening the cd and I was just drinking my tee, almost spilled it on the table. This song connected with me at once, it was the most Nightwishy to me, familiar and warm like a hug of a friend. I love Tuomas’ melody paths and Floor does a really good job with tricky staccato notes and tonque twisters 😄 I sure hope Emppu wont let this be pancake live. And Kai, I have a soft spot for his drumming, I’ve watched every drummcam of him that I have found from yt. This is my top3 from this album, it just makes me feel at Home, you know 😉🤘🏼🤘🏼

Hello Guylain. Hope you are well and keeping yourself safe. This song took me a couple of listens before it hooked me. There are a couple of melodies in it that do eventually stick in your head. Liked the surprise you got from the transition from the light piano intro into the heavy guitar riff. There are a few such surprises in this album. Will await your lyric analysis tomorrow with eager anticipation. Take care and I'll watch you tomorrow. Bonjour Guylain. J'espère que vous allez bien et que vous vous protégez. Cette chanson m'a pris quelques écouteurs avant de m'accrocher. Il y a quelques mélodies qui finissent par rester dans votre tête. J'ai aimé la surprise que vous avez eue de la transition de l'intro légère du piano au riff de guitare lourd. Il y a quelques surprises de ce genre dans cet album. Attendra demain votre analyse lyrique avec impatience. Fais attention et je te regarde demain.

Hi Guylain, I don't know if I'm the only one, but: somehow, the part 'beautiful tragedy, wonderful fantasy' reminded me of 'the sound of music'. I'd have to listen to that musical if I could find a similar piece.

While i do love all the songs of the new album i have to say Pan is my favorite. Such a good melody! Nice to hear you are a hockeyfan aswell alltough Canadiens is not my favorite team. French is such a beautiful language, good to have the subtitles tho as i dont understand a word of French. Great reaction, please take care and stay safe.

thank you for the shout out .... to the nightwish army and me a humble dutch cheesehead, we will discuss your invitation and come back to it.... thx for the reaction and cu tomorrow, fun fact .... a few yrs. ago in my active time as a musician we made a song called The Land Of Pan, its an instrumental and you can watch the vid. at our reacticide in the musicians corner, there is a lot more vids. of my active time as a musician, wich came to a halt as arthrites got too worse to play a stringed instrument anymore.... stay safe and grts. from the dutch cheesehead, living in germany, member of the nightwish army, orange legion

I was waiting for you to jump at the start lol

I'll scream when it's time for tribal xD

Dear Guylain, I advise you to listen to the reaction of "Patrol Gaming" for this song as it could be a very nice starting point for your investigations ...... you Canadian Sherlock ;-) You might agree with his findings or not, but on both occasions it helps with finding your personal thoughts. Enjoy!

Hi Guylain! I am curious - at the end of the video you noted that there are works here that you are not familiar with and you need to search for information about them. Does a part of you relish this? I love going "down the rabbit hole" and digging up more and more information on a topic...Just wondering :) All in all another great video! See you in the analysis!!

Maybe you already know but Floor and Marko have done Ave Maria in duet form for at least two Finnish metal christmas specials.

Pan as as an aspect and representation of human life is so misunderstood 👀😎🎶

The part of the intro just before Floor starts singing really, really reminds me of the style of Sabaton. In fact, some parts of the song are very much Sabaton style.

Лайк! 👍

At approx. 11:56 and 15:39 in your video, a sentence ends with 'to enter' and then pause. More or less the same happens in Music at the 3:48 mark. I do no think that is a coincidence. I do not know enough about music to decide if there is also a musical correspondence there, but the first time it happened in this song I supplied the 'Music' text myself even when Floor did not sing it.

I always interpreted the first lines of the song to be about the introduction of written language and the growth of literacy. "Then, something wicked their way came, showed the way to the great escape" seems to be saying that the human imagination, aided by the powerful muse that is the written word, can offer an escape from the troubles of daily life. I'm am unsure of why exactly this is called "wicked". Clearly it is a reference to the line in Macbeth; we have seen already one Shakespeare reference in this album at the end of Shoemaker (though that can also be thought of as a reference to Eugene Shoemaker's epitaph); it is not strange to see another. But why wicked? I can only guess that Tuomas means the escapism offered by the human imagination in the form of books or games is wicked in that by distracting is from our daily troubles it can also distract us from more important global issues, and allow us to go through our lives without addressing things that need to be addressed. "Evoke the worlds, sparked the brain. An ape in awe before a door" clearly, in my mind, refers again to books. The first line, "evoke the worlds" is about the ability of storytelling to take you away, mentally, to other worlds--worlds that exist only within the stories. "Sparked the brain" is pretty simple; good storytelling is intellectually stimulating. It sparks in us a desire for more, to find out what other worlds might exist in other stories, worlds which we have never even imagined ourselves. "An ape in awe before a door" is likewise simple; the ape is us, is humans, before we are introduced to the infinite possibilities of written and spoken language, and the door is the first page of a book, or the first line of a story spoken aloud, that first bit of a new fantastical story that leads us on its journey, that door into the new world which awaits us between the pages of that book, or in the words of that tale. Passing through that door we cease to be mere apes, and we begin to be Human. Written language, and sophisticated spoken language are, after all, much of what differentiates humanity from nature's other creations.

Hi, Thank You for another great Reaction 🙂. I dont see it same way that he (Juha Eltonen) did. This is about fantasy worlds, escapist, games, fantasy books, movies, fairy tales, imagination of humans, there is Disney, Tolkien, Brother Grimm, Hamlet.. Etc check out my last video (Procession) just first 5mins, there is a one reactor who just watched Pan and talked about it 😉

le batteur Kai à jouer dans wintersun un travail superbe qui plus est

Hello Guylain Prince OFM Where do I start...I have seen all your Nightwish reactions. Great every time. I was looking forward to your reaction to PAN in the hope that you might discover some of the allusions to film and literature. There are sooo many of them in this song. I'm sure you've discovered some of them. As I wrote in another reaction video, I want to unravel the whole thing a bit. 1. winds will be named is an allusion to Patrick Rothfuss' book The name of the wind. Which Toumas has read. The Kingslayer trilogy. 2. to fallen stars, to there and back might be a reference to J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. Bilbo writes a book with the title There and back again. 3. Tír na nÓg (Old Irish: Tír na n-Oc - tʲiːɾˠ n̪ˠə ˈn̪ˠoːɡˠ freely translated about Land of Eternal Youth) is one of the most famous mystical places of the afterlife in Irish-Celtic mythology. 4. A pale blue theatre stage: our earth. 5. Something wicked this way comes is a quote from the first scene of the fourth act of the drama "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare. 6. The title of the song itself: In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus. 7. Snow Glass Apples is a short story written by Neil Gaiman, a retelling of Snow White. 8. The Sea Lady is a story written by H.G. Wells. 9. Maybe the line an ape in awe before a door is an allusion to Arthur C. Clark's 2001 Space Odyssey when the Great Monolith appears But I am not sure about that. This song is pure genius...as always. 10. Keystone Earth is a reference to The Dark Tower series from Stephen King. Thanks to all who helped to unravel the whole thing.

Floor here in this song reminds me of an Epica song onley floor is faster, Is Rap Metal a term ?

If you want to listen and see Kai Hahto in action before Nightwish, you really should react to his former band's, Wintersun's, perhaps the most famous song Sons of Winter and Stars. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/art9qq-pq7Svg2Q.html

Floor ist eine Göttin was den Gesang angeht !

Nice reaction. Ya, difficult song to sing. Many shifts of keys and tones. And little repetition in the lyrics. Nightwish are modern bards. Telling stories on music. I stronly believe that this album would not have worked with Tarja, even though she has a great voice too (she sang a beautiful, and my favorite, german version of Ave Maria).

I'll spare my thoughts about this song until your analysis, not to spoil anything for you.

Si vous avez aimé les percussions de Kai, vous allez trouver Tribal très intéressant.