Tuomas is one of the most talented songwriters in the metal genre if not music period

WOW. I'm blown away. Never listened to them before but after the last reaction you did and this one I feel I've been missing out. EPIC

Floor is a completely Educated musician. There are videos of her as a teenager singing Opera and Classical songs "a capella" and with chamber music.

Someone asked me who my celebrity crush was the other day. I answered "Floor Jansen" without a second thought.

Having said that, Marko, Tuomas, Emppu, and Jukka (or Kai- such cool names) makes me happy. ❤️ Floor will forever be my favorite lead singer. Viva, Nightwish! 🤘🏼

Ok Sori... you want to hear Marco... then you must check: Nightwish - While Your Lips Are Still Red

Floor is a vocal teacher! And she just had a baby girl. I want to see, what she becomes, with such a wonderful teacher and parents!

*Romanticide* (Next) *I Want My Tears Back* (Whenever) *Ghost River* (Whenever) Pleeease 🙄

If you want listen to Marco look Nightwish - The Islander or Nightwish While your lips are still red.

Nightwish romanticide!!!!!!!!! please

In the studio version there's like a 6 minute poem at the end of this song and it's super beautiful. You should visit it either on camera or on your own time but PLEASE listen to it.

Piano black is also an actual colour. A black that is shiny, deep and polished so it is almost like a mirror.

Nightwish - Phantom of the opera end of an era with Tarja and here you can hear more of Marco's vocals. Another with Floor to check out is Nightwish - Romanticide live at Wacken 2013.

Most of Nightwish albums are concept alums. Some songs he wrote as a kid. And you are wrong about nobody liking Annette. I really like that era it just ended so quick. Most of the songs Floor sings live with the band are songs that came up with the Annette era. You guys should check her out.

Tuomas writes amazing musical short stories and Floor is the best teller of his tales, the voice he was waiting for.

Nightwish - Romanticide live at Wacken 2013.

Nightwish!! Floor!! Please watch revamp or after forever

I love it how you guys break the lyrics down after every song and bring up your own personalities to it.

Dissection - The Somberlain (studio vers) Watain - Devil's Blood / Sworn to the Dark The Devil's Blood - She

On the underground stage. Nightwish have been huge in Europe for years. And in South America for almost as long.

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul/Blinded by Fear Bloodbath - Eaten/Soulcollector

Nightwish - " Romanticide " - Live at wembley 2015 .

MUCH LOVE FOR NIGHTWISH FROM CANADA!!

Iron Maiden Dance Of Death from En Vivo!

100% great song and review, nothing better than end the day with you guys 👌 Good night and... ...Hail to The Village!!

Check out Tarja's Phantom of the Opera at their End of an Era concert. That's probably the definitive Tarja song and performance.

You are asking if Floor could like that from she was a child. Nobody actually can do that. Floor are very very well trained and has been training and challenging her self for many years. She calls herself for a nerd - a voice nerd, that just keeps on expanding her limits. She has been professionally trained in a music conservatorium having learned all the different techniques, but she is also enventing new techniques herself. That is why she is outstanding - the voice of the century does not come easy

Please react "Romanticide" Nightwish.

Floor can hit all of Tarja's parts easily and with less loss of diction. She is also capable of growling, raspy rock chest vocals etc. In my opinion Floor has Tarja on all levels.

Marco has a great voice. He replaced the original bassist by the 3rd or 4th album and IMO was the most valuable addition to the band due to him being able to offer his voice alongside the female vocals. There are a ton of Nightwish songs that display his voice. If you really want to check out how well he can belt out check out "Phantom of the Opera", which is a cover of the title song of the musical of the same name. It is also a good song to see Tarja's heavily operatic vocals on their best display. Also a fun fact is that Marco is actually quite old and in his mid 50's. He started his career in the 80's in the Finnish heavy metal band Tarot with his brother.

Yours is an Empty Hope from the Nightwish cruise to hear Floor growling and gritty and gigantic on stage. You guys are really really good at this.

Floor!!! Such a rare diamond

Nightwish - Romanticide - Live at Wacken 2013

Don't feel alone Vin. My wife hates Floor as well. She admits it's jealousy! 😁

You have to see the movie "Imaginaerum" that Nightwish made to complete this album in orde to understand the lyrics! Also check the studio verison out! It is going on for many minutes longer, containing poems read by the family and friends of the band.

My suggestion Nightwish - Phantom of the Opera (End of an era)

Please do Nightwish - Ever Dream live with Floor!

Floor V Tarja, my opinion is that Tarja has an ethereal, haunting quality that I have never heard another vocalist match. Tarja's natural voice is better than Floor's...BUT Floor is much better is so many other ways, and I prefer her! 1. Floor has powerful stage presence that I think few professionals equal. She enchants, instantly. 2. In technical precision. I feel like she has trained more than Tarja. She hits each pitch perfectly, unmatched breath control, impeccable timing, dynamics, focus, tone, EVERYTHING. Tarja would slide into a note by accident every once in a while, or lose breath where she shouldn't. She was 95%, Floor is 100%. 3. She is wildly versatile! She can do the classical, resonance 3 parts (operatic style,) then launch into a feral growl of a line. She gives the music a gut and a power, a fire that Tarja and Anete could never match. Heck, I don't think any other musician could. Pairing her with Tuomas' songs... Match made in heaven.

Awesome! Thanks!

KAMELOT - Elizabeth (I, II & III) live please. :D

Ive never been a "Opera metal" fan, but Nightwish is making me rethink that. I guess Ill need to go through there catalog.

Love your reaction. Floor is a powerhouse!!!

10:00 - answering the question from you two: this song was writen for Anette voice.

Great song pick, guys! This is in my top ten Nightwish songs.

Please do "The Islander" from Nightwish!

Floor has such a great range. Given she's a soprano she starts in a really low register, but can reach high operatic tones. She can perform Tarja and Anette songs equally well. I think she's able to portray more emotion in her voice than Tarja's purely operatic vocal.

Last Ride Of The Day !

Nightwish had 2 singers before Floor Jansen Tarja Turunen (1996-2005) Anette Olzon (2007-2012)

Marco and Floor both have very powerful voices, that compliment each other really well. Marco stays *real* busy outside of Nightwish...he's in 2 or 3 other projects when NW isn't touring. He's even in a Black Sabbath cover band that does covers in Finnish :). It's really too bad you just missed them. Even though you don't get to see their stadium show/big productions, they're still just awesome live.

I know someone who will be very happy with this!!

great breakdown...love it

In alot of ways I don't blame "Tarja" fans for being passionate about defending her. There was a time when I was among them. But then I had to realize that Tarja's time with NIGHTWISH was over. Both sides had moved on in their own way. Tarja and Floor have made their Peace and even performed together. Marco and Floor helped Tarja and a friend of hers put on a Christmas concert. Marco and Floor singing "Ava Maria" and standing next to Tarja for the final singalong. They have moved past the BS. It's time the fans do too.

Guys, this song was writen when Annete Olzon was on the band. Tarja never sang it cause she left the band on 2004.

Yes, Nightwish!

"The middle one that nobody liked" well I liked her (Anette) and Imaginaerum is my favourite Nightwish album (movie based on album is great too). Anette was really good and she did grat job, but if you compare her to Floor ofcourse Floor is better but it doesn't mean Anette is bad! She is just completely different, she sings different than floor and Tarja ang have completely different voice, it doesn't mean she can't sing.

Go back to Floor in After Forever or see Floor and her Sister Irene in Ayreon

Honestly, this is the one night wish song I like studio over live. The live version cuts out a good 6 minutes of beautiful instrumentation and a soliloquy that makes me cry every time I hear it. Definitely a highlight of Imagenaurum for me. You HAVE to listen to the studio version, but the rest of the songs lyrics are as follows: I see a slow, simple youngster by a busy street, with a begging bowl in his shaking hand. Trying to smile but hurting infinitely. Nobody notices. I do, but walk by. An old man gets naked and kisses a model-doll in his attic. It’s half-light and he’s in tears. When he finally comes his eyes are cascading. I see a beaten dog in a pungent alley. He tries to bite me. All pride has left his wild drooling eyes. I wish I had my leg to spare. A mother visits her son, smiles to him through the bars. She’s never loved him more. An obese girl enters an elevator with me. All dressed up fancy, a green butterfly on her neck. Terribly sweet perfume deafens me. She’s going to dinner alone. That makes her even more beautiful. I see a model’s face on a brick wall. A statue of porcelain perfection beside a violent city kill. A city that worships flesh. The 1st thing I ever heard was a wandering man telling his story It was you, the grass under my bare feet The campfire in the dead of the night The heavenly black of sky and sea It was us Roaming the rainy roads, combing the gilded beaches Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn Bathing in places no-one’s seen before Shipwrecked on some matt-painted island Clad in nothing but the surf - beauty’s finest robe Beyond all mortality we are, swinging in the breath of nature In early air of the dawn of life A sight to silence the heavens I want to travel where life travels, following its permanent lead Where the air tastes like snow music Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden I would pass no man, no stranger, no tragedy or rapture I would bathe in a world of sensation Love, Goodness, and Simplicity ( While violated and imprisoned by technology ) The thought of my family’s graves was the only moment I used to experience true love That love remains infinite, as I’ll never be the man my father is How can you “just be yourself” when you don’t know who you are? Stop saying “I know how you feel” How could anyone know how another feels? Who am I to judge a priest, beggar, whore, politician, wrongdoer? I am, you are, all of them already Dear child, stop working, go play Forget every rule There’s no fear in a dream “Is there a village inside this snowflake?” A child asked me “What’s the color of our lullaby?” I’ve never been so close to truth as then I touched its silver lining Death is the winner in any war Nothing noble in dying for your religion For your country For ideology, for faith For another man, yes Paper is dead without words Ink idle without a poem All the world dead without stories Without love and disarming beauty Careless realism costs souls Ever seen the Lord smile? All the care for the world made Beautiful a sad man? Why do we still carry a device of torture around our necks? Oh, how rotten your pre-apocalypse is All you bible-black fools living over nightmare ground I see all those empty cradles and wonder If man will ever change I, too, wish to be a decent manboy but all I am Is smoke and mirrors Still given everything, may I be deserving And there forever remains that change from G to E minor.

Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us

Arch Enemy - We Will Rise + Fields of Desolation (LIVE Tyrants of the Rising Sun)

At last, you are one of the few reactors who actually listen to the song and dont interrupt all the time. I'm now subscribed to your channel!

Skid Row - Quicksand Jesus

2 new 2018 Wacken videos were released today with Nightwish playing 3 songs in the first one. Flora's looking/soundng hottre than ever.

Yes, Floor is the absolute bomb...on all levels.

Try Phantom of the opera (End of an era). It has the first vocalist Tarja and the man you commented about (Marco) singing in it.

GOOSEBUMPS!!!

Guys if you like female vocalists i suggest you try a band called THE GATHERING from Holland. I know, few people knows about this band even though they exist the last 30 years( making 11 studio albums). HUGE underrated band with a hardcore fanbase from South America and some European countries.(if you like band like Pink Floyd , Massive Attack ,Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins you will LOVE IT). Try the song '' Travel '' .

Hope all goes well with the pregnancy, my birthday is may 7th. Awesome video as always. Takk Skal vin and sori.

Nightwish - The poet and the pendulum live at Wembley 2016

21:46 Vin and Sori, speaking of Nightingales...you guys need to react to something off the Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale album (doom metal). The singer, Aleah Stanbridge, was dying of cancer while making the album, which makes hearing the songs all that more poignant. Trees Of Eternity - Broken Mirror

Magnificent song selection. It is a very elegant song with a profound message. Keep the good work. PS: After Tarja left NW, a female singer called Anette Olzon replaced her. She (Anette) is the singer that originally recorded Imagenaerum, the album that contains "Song of myself". If you want to know about the three singers styles, there are a couple of videos where vocal coaches analyze them.

You have amazing chemistry going on. Wonderful couple you are would Yoda say. 😁 Wonderfull reaction!

Nightwish did phantom of the opera live back when Tarja was still lead and that show is amazing so give that a listen and compare the two after

At the time when this music was written Tuomas was already in a relationship with his current wife and had been for years. The whole relationship drama is stuff that was mainly coming from Tarja's husband who always did seem quite jealous of her. This song is from the album 'Imaginaerum' which was made into a movie. Originally the idea was to make music videos for all the songs so the story for this record was always there. This song in particular is inspired by a poem by Walt Whitman called 'Song of myself'. :)

Great song the voices are amazing.

Song Of Myself is 1890ish Walt Whitman poem.

Please do EPICA “Design your universe” or “Kingdom of Heaven” 🙏🏻🙏🏻

This song is about Walt Whitman's Poem - Song of myself. To me, that means someone with a "great heart" is hurt emotional, but doesn't say anything ("silent suffering") and fakes a smile until it's over, and then just pours everything out without anyone knowing ("sung in silence") Also, Piano black=Beautiful Emptiness. Pianos generally represent beauty and black generally represents emptiness, so, beautiful emptiness.

Love nightwish. Saw them last april and it was so amazing.

Tuomas rights the lyrics and 99% the songs... This song is based on the poem Song of Myself by Walt Whitman. It's basically Tuomas' version of it - the song is about himself. I think you guys should react to The Islander by them. It's sung by Marco alone (well, almost). It's a very folksy song, very different side of the band and also amazing.

Awww, don't listen to the naysayers. You guys are fun to listen to. You're a great couple with such a cute interaction. Keep up the good work!

Sori's Face has the expression of a kid at Chrismas. Great Video

The valkyrie godess in leathers !

Ever Dream from Wacken 2013 Live. You’ll get the full range of Floor and Marco. Really anything from their Wacken 2103 show is epic beyond epic.

You are a lucky woman to have such a rocking man. Time for some ethereal head banging. Bless the child, same concert.

The nightingale reference is (imo) from S. Topelius, old Finnish poet whose lyrics are in an old Finnish Christmas song called Sylvia's carol and it's one of the most beloved Christmas songs in Finland. In that poem Topelius writes about how nightingale is trapped in a cage. It's about being blinded, longing for home, Finland's independence and a lot of symbolism probably only a Finnish person would truly understand.

Épica - kingdon of heaven (oficial live )

Anette has a great voice too, she just didn't have that opera-style range. Go listen to Swallow The Sun - Cathedral Walls, where Anette Olzon did guest vocals on. Most people, on first listen, think that it is Liv Kristine (ex-Theatre Of Tragedy, ex- Leave's Eyes) singing, but it's Anette.

Can't wait next Nightwish reaction! Your face expressions were the best during the song! Hope to see next The poet and the pendelum, live at wembley. Very sad song. And I think Sori would have amazing stage presence, even with Floor ;)...

Marco (The bassist) is amazing as both a bassist and very underrated as a vocalist. And both he and Floor harmonize together beautifully.

love ur reactions :D...vin looks a little bit like ice cube :D

Tuomas writes everything!

Watch Nightwish End of an Era it was Tarja's last filmed live concert. Personally I prefer Floor over Tarja now. Floor I believe is versatile as a singer, where Tarja I think is a one trick pony with the full opera singing.

Hope you two are equally wowed by Oceans of Slumber when you get around to them!

WOW !!!!!! ......just ...WOW !!!!!!!!!

This might be your best reaction yet... Floor has that effect on people 😉

Nightwish just nominated Music hall of fame in Finland \m/

yeah the guy with beard marco hietala can sing he is seasoned singer from the 80´s

way late finding this video but wanted to say this song was from Imaginarium when Anette Olzon was the singer.

1:52 *Vin:* "I really like Floor." *Sori:* "I'm sure you do." *Vin:* (grins) =D

Great reaction, love the effort you put into these. - you guys should do Novembers Doom - The Harlot's Lie next