Enter Life. Enter Luca. Enter Ionia. Enter Ratkind. Enter Sandman. Emppu finally had a line!

The title of the issue is taken from a 2009 book by evolutionary biologist and atheist writer Richard Dawkins, about the evidence for biological evolution. Dawkins also contributes to the album. Holopainen explained to HMV in March 2015: "I wrote him a letter a little over a year ago and explained what ideas we had for this album, mainly about evolution. Since one of the songs goes straight to one of his books, it felt like a perfect match to try and recite him on the album. A few weeks later, he sent me an email accepting the invitation." "Later in 2014, we recorded his parts at Hats Off Studios, Oxford. This is a huge honour for us, as Dawkins is one of our greatest heroes and his writings have been a huge inspiration for the album."

It's impossible to go back to "regular" bands after seeing this live

Most all of us know the song inside and out. We're here to see your reaction/analyses and pausing to do so is part of it. Great job🤘🤘🤘

Tuomas said that NW probably wouldn't have existed without Metallica, and that "One" is his all-time favorite metal song.

Tuomas said "This part needs a Theremin". Floor said "I am a Theremin!"

The Enter Sandman Riff ended a mini history of music in there. There are a few easter eggs in this song. If there was no Metallica, there would be no Nightwish. He was going into science until he attended a Metallica concert with a host family during a student exchange trip. 😊

Great reaction! I really appreciate your insights as a musician. Glad you caught the tribute to Metallica (so many reactors miss it and I don't understand how). That section was a small tribute to the evolution of music and features short excerpts from Dies Irae, Minuet in G major by Christian Petzold, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach and of course, Enter Sandman. Tuomas is a big fan of Metallica and it was him seeing a Metallica concert in the US as a teenager that first turned him on to metal music. He was doing a high school exchange program with a family in Michigan I believe and they took him to a Metallica concert and he was blown away by the music. We all owe a high debt to that family for introducing him to metal. I love that final orchestral section of the song. It feels like the soundtrack to a triumphant hero scene in a movie and I love how the bow in perfect time to the crescendo of the music. With the incredibly thoughtful words spoke by Mr. Richard Dawkins from his own writings on evolution which served as an inspiration, the whole song feels like a celebration of life. All life, not just human life. A gift we should cherish and not waste. When I saw them live in 2022 the end of the concert started with The Last Ride of the Day, Ghost Love Score, The Greatest Show on Earth, and the outro was the Ad Astra movement from All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World. That song is a 30 minute orchestral piece in 8 movements. The last movement features a spoken word section form Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot that is also quite thought provoking and ends with Floor singing a beautiful choral piece. I think you would quite enjoy all of All the Works of Nature and especially Ad Astra. I have never left a concert so inspired and motivated to go live my best life.

Finally This is what music should be. Music for the ears, eyes, soul and mind. We are the universe made manifest. Here to help figure itself out. From the galaxies to the solar systems. From the planets to all things on them. Hence the reason we must go to the stars. Before the eternal night of us all. For no other reason then to remind the universe. In one united voice. WE WERE HERE!!!!!!!!

This is the best version of this song, the Wembley one is good but this one is their home territory so it's special🇬🇧

Holy Shit .....Dude it's been a minute.....glad to see u back Don't worry about stopping bro . I agree about Floor & Marco , they sound like brother and sister .....I think this song is there best work together , both on top of there game

🤘🏽🔥🌶️ On Point Brother Great Reaction 👹💫🎉 From Italy 🇮🇹

Great reaction. 👍 "A single grain of sand" Enter sandman 😁

Great video, Nightwish Army checking in and subscribed! As a fellow musician I can honestly say, Tool & Nightwish are the only 2 bands that hold my attention anymore. Being ADHD I get so bored with "radio song" Can't wait for more reactions. Ps. I don't mind how many times you stop and talk 👍 you always rewind so we can fall back in the groove.

If you are into things like ancestors and our place here on earth, I highly recommend Nightwish's latest single "Perfume of the Timeless". It will give you more food for thought and it has an amazing video.

Welcome back, wonderful reaction as always....New Nightwish song and video, released in May, "Perfume of the Timeless"....About the evolution of Man

thanks great reaction...they have a new one out and its called Perfume of the timeless I think you will like that one too for it makes you think , have a nice day

Great great reaction, thank you. And you won't be disappointed in the new setup without Marco. Greetings from the Netherlands

People are amazed how well Marko ansd Floor sing together. They said the same about Marko and Tarja. Marko has sung with many bands in Europe as a featured guest and he won the Finnish Masked Singer competition.He always sounded great with whoever he was with. Marko is a genius with harmonies. He is the reason everyone sounds perfect with him. I believe he is a generational singer, and an argument could be made that he was Nightwish's best singer. Listen to "High Hopes" and "Phantom of the Opera" from the "End of an Era" concert in 2005. Listen to "The Islander" and then reflect on the range of things he can do.

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Nice resaction👍 And what did you say, "no interruptions today" Ha ha! It couldn't be otherwise, this song is too good for words🤘

Pause as much as you want sir,, we all saw beautiful masterpiece thousands of times. Love how they used the fireworks to give that Big Bang feel. The very beginning of the endlessness. This album is based on the book of dr. Dawkins (the narrator's voice) Yeah enter sandman, but guys at 29:00 it's???? BACH (evolution in music, Easter eggs hidden in the song) There is one more sir😉

This got me thinking of a quote from the movie Crocodile Dundee that has stuck with me for a long time. “See those rocks? Been standing there for 600 million years. Still be there when you and I are gone. So arguing over who owns them is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog they live on.”

Hello Wade, it's been a minute, tell your bride I said hi!!, and I hope your mom is well. It was good to see you again!!!!!

In a nutshell, we are the next dinosaurs. Give it time, we’ll be gone.

🤘❤️‍🔥🤘Well done! Sounds like you should do the new single Perfume of the timeless.

A tip from northern Germany. The Group Heilung. It is a Norwegian, Danish and German peoples combination. They celebrate rituals. Awesome. At Red rocks with native American (or better first nation). Or the new Masterpiece Perfume of the timeless from Nightwish.

i hope humanity gets it soon, so that the "we were here" can be sung a lot of generations on

This song is larger than life. Great reaction! I like your way of thinking. 🔥🤘

Great reaction to the music .the meaning of the song

Thank you for your reaction and welllcome back. I love this song. Greetings from nwAse Sweden

Great reaction! I appreciate your profound knowing about us humans and your ability to view things at grandeur scale.

Welcome to nightwish... You must see next romanticide, storytime, ever dream.. After this, your are prepare to great show on earth and poet and the pendulum... EPIC 😉

🤗🍒🤘🏻 Great Job Swole and welcome to the Nightwish Family, Just a little less stops!?

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Great reaction and I loved your comments ! Thank you 🤘🤘

Fenomenal reaction... 🖤 You are a great human... Great song, no doubt... 😉

Greetings from Finland 🤘

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Enter Luca (not LUCA 😉). This was a very good analysis of this "song". Thank you! The song matches very well my own opinions too.

Amazing reaction❤

Maybe you should watch some of Crewish. The Nightwish crew did some songs during the Pandemic and they got all of the proceeds from that themselves.

Swole we Seeing Eye to Eye my friend.🤘

This version is perfectly fine. I like Wembley better due to the mixing. But both are ecually good in my opinion. Nice to see you again by the way

Very beautiful, thank you

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❤😊Well spoken brother! You picked the right video. My home town Tampere😅. I remember this like yesterday. Although I usually do not remember what happened yesterday😅. Music has such a power and meaning when you have real artists instead of these mass produced short skirt "baby sheit metal" and what not. I think we have one of the worst periods globally which is very sad. Bands with real history, talent and substance are quite rear. Tuomas does not write songs he is a composer creating beautiful stories and taking us on a journey everytime. Best Regards from Finland❤😊😅

A FEW REMARKLE WORDS IN THE SONG. But first FLOOR'S DRESS: The double helix of the human DNA ***** THE TAPESTRY OF CHEMISTRY: The periodic table of the chemical elements. GAEA: As originally conceived the 'Gaia' concept envisages the Earth as a super-organism that operates to regulate its own environment, principally temperature, to keep it habitable for the biosphere OPUS PERFECTUM the perfect work, the perfect creation AEON: Used in reference to a period of a thousand million years (especially in geology, cosmology and astronomy), its more common usage is for any long, indefinite period THE GARDEN: The earth. THE GOLDILOCKS ZONES: refers to the habitable zone around a star. It's the zone that has just the right temperatures for ( intelligent) life to develop. LUCA: It's the acronym for the Last Universal Common Ancestor, a key concept in the study of early evolution and life's origin that has been tracked by scientists for years. ENTER SANDMAN: Song of the group Metallica LUCY OF THE AFAR Collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus AFARENSIS In Ethiopia, Why was Lucy so important? In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools were made or brains got bigger, and subsequent fossil finds of much earlier bipedal hominids have confirmed that conclusion. Bipedalism, it seems, was the first step towards becoming human. DEVONION SEA: The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60.3 million years ..., called after the place Devon in the UK where rockes of that period were first studied. ENTER RATKIND Popular hypothesis that states that in the case of human extition, rats will be the best suited to take over and evolve into an inteligant species ********

Bingo! 🙂

New here. Think I better stay put. Thanks for music and thinking!

Greetings and Love from Germany again 💚. Its been a while, but as i saw you did a reaction to Nightwish's TGSOE, i new its gonna be a special treat, and a emotional one. Kinda sad your beautyful swole-mate wasn't on your side. Of course personal life comes first..good for her to know when its time for a rest. Hope everything else is fine for you. I've told ya that i'm a dry alcoholic since 2010 and less than a year ago i was complainig bout smoking weed here in Germany is illegal. I guess you've heard it maybe allready, that since 1.April this year, it's LEGAL. Germany has really change the law. An adult is allowed to have 50 gram of MJ. And per household its allowed to home grow 3 plants of Ganja. My very first try of home growing is still in process. Harvest is bout in 5-6 weeks. Sorry, i drifted away a bit. And hey, its kinda strange, but you are indeed the only one that can stop the video that much without pissing me off, serious. I hardly can't stand reacters that pause to often, just to throw in some sugar coating and unnessesary sentences. Listening to you is so positive different and intressting comparing to others. Human Mankind is going down, every day a bit faster. Soon we're history, like the dinosours. They had their chance, but nature thought, nope, you've doomed to extinction. Mankind destroys the World we're living in instead of preserve it. We are superfluous and useless here. And some will be happy bout our demise, like the animals, the forrests, the rivers and oceans. We exterminate ourselfs, but we cannot destroy our mother earth. We damage her badly but she still has millions of years to go, and she will recover very quickly from us(who regress to Neandertaler, to cavemen's). She don't give a shit for us. So, that's all Folks Have a peaceful sunday, buddy and please, greetings to Jocelyn...stay safe

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you'll appreciate the direction of their last two albums... check out their (brand new) music vid, no Marco, but it's very thought provoking and just up your alley I reckon... We do miss Marco and will most likely keep missing him...

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😄😙, THANK YOU. 😑 In the year 95 [...] if man is still Alive [...]* ? But, yes, WE WERE HERE!!! Greetings from Germany, PARKINSON'S sucks but EMPPU RULES!!! 😎😆🤘 alex *Zager and Evans; "In the Year 25, 25" ( i know that i don't have to explain it to you 😶) Natural Pantheism lets you feel and know, that you are not the Crown of Creation, but a Part of the Tree.

Tampere 2015: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJmpjKxju73Ic2Q.html 1. Shudder Before the Beautiful, 2. Yours Is an Empty Hope, 3. Amaranth, 4. She is My Sin, 5. Dark Chest of Wonders, 6. My Walden 7. The Islander, 8.Élan, 9. Weak Fantasy, 10. Storytime, 11. Endless Forms Most Beatuful, 12. Alpenglow, 13. Stargazers 14. Sleeping sun, 15. Ghost Love Score, 16. The Greatest Show on Earth

Yes, Tuomas' nod to the evolution of music. From Bach to Metallica. Don't sweat the yt ad. They do it on all the longer Nightwish songs. We all miss Marko. However, Nightwish goes forward and are still excellent. Especially live. Check out this double shot to get a little taste of the new bassist. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fpiZqqynzseyYps.html - 🎼 NIGHTWISH 🎶 Masters Of Rock 2022 🎶 Noise & Tribal 🔥 REMASTERED 2.0 🔥

Emppu's Metallica riff is more than just a shout out to the band, it's Tuomas' creativity in full effect. You actually touched on the lyric before and after the riff - Man, he took his time in the sun. Had a dream to understand a single grain of sand. Or, in other words........Enter Sandman.

Evolution...not creation...just saying

it´s called "reaction video", not "watching video" ... so stop as much, talk as much as you want or need to, and keep on doing your stuff ! and stop apologizing for pausing ;)

100 years or more from now, people will play or record this song as we now play Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and others........also, Troy adds a 3rd voice to the harmonies.......you should go ahead and read Dr Richard Dawkins book, "The Greatest Show on Earth", whose works have been an inspiration to Tuomas; in fact, he is the "narrator", if you will, during the early part, and post performance spoken pieces.....