There is no denying Floor and Marko was a match made in heaven. During this era the music and vocals were equally powerful.

I am ever so glad, that you're here with us. This is the 'Nightwish rabbit hole'. Enjoy your journey! You are amongst friends.❤

The golden age of Nightwish when Floor and Marko were singing together. They were perfect together.

My absolute favorite thing about this recording is watching Tuomas. I get so happy watching him thrash his hair around during this song!!! His energy is 🔥🔥🔥

The first time I heard this, I had to look up the work necrocracy, to make sure I knew what it meant. This is a band that doesn't dumb down its music for their fans, maybe because they know they don't have to. I agree with you Wolff, this is one of my top favorites, also. Sometimes, I have to remember to breathe when I'm listening to it.

If this is in your top 3, you're doing it right! This song, and especially this performance, slaps so much! Easily one of my all time favorite Nightwish performances.

One of my favourites! What they are actually saying is RELIGION IS A WEAK FANTASY. This song is against organized religions based on tribal religious texts, especially The Bible, it's not against personal faith in some Deity. However, one should realize that all those religious texts are & have been interpreted and used to justify unimaginable cruelties, persecution, discrimination etc., the worst being the idea that man is separate from nature & by some divine right above all other lifeforms, which explains the current almost catastrophic state of our planet.

This is one of my favorite NW songs. The performance of every member of the band is amazing! BTW. Kai Hahto has said that he improvises the opening drum part every time. So it's a little different at every concert! The concert in Tampere was special. In a way, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary in advance (actually, it wouldn't have been until the following year). But the concert performed at home in front of 25,000 fans, including Floor's parents! The end of the concert is epic. The last song is "The Greatest Show On Earth" and if you decide to make it a reaction video, choose this Tampere 2015. And if you watch the video with subtitles, you will get an idea of how the entire history of the universe / earth is told in 20 minutes. It's a great show outdoors with all the effects they use (lights, pyro, led screen).

I find it always fun to see Marko leisurely walk back from the other side of the stage to his microphone only a couple of seconds before he needs to sing again. It just oozes confidence and professionalism.

Every child deserves a better story. And damn it's such a kickass song... FROOOOOM WOOOOOOORDS.......🎶 Into war of the worlds 🎶 NIGHTWISH 🖤🤘🖤 Have a nice weekend ❤

Congratulations! You have entered the realm of the album Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The music / lyrics that connects us the most as human beings existing as a species in the universe. Together with Human Nature the latest magnus opus of Tuomas Holopainen / Nightwish. Please enjoy exploring these two albums.

You should really watch "The Reunion" (with subtitles) where a Dutch television team visits this Tampere show. Her parents are there and when interviewed, it could be a scene with a shy school girl and her parents just before the school musical. But when she enters the stage: a beast! That is one of the many fascinating faces of Floor😔 BTW this song is also based on the work of Richard Dawkins.

Hi, if you want to do a full concert again I suggest this one from Tampere. And you will automatically have the Greatest Show On Earth as the last song there 👍

Its so unfortunate that outside of the Nightwish/Wintersun communities that Kai is not more well known as he's an absolute Terminator with the heart of a metronome on drums.

Its a banger of a track and performance. A fave for sure.

Nightwish will never fail to amaze you, even when you know a song it will still remind you this is one of the best bands producing some of the best music ever, big love

"Oh my" indeed... every Nightwish creation and performance contains the trademark Nightwish transitions, multi layering and lyrical poetry. Phenomenal song, phenomenal band. Thank you for another stellar reaction. 🙏😊👍❤️

This aong has one of my favorite Nightwish openings!

Yes man, this is metal of the finest. It hardly can get any better. Nice to see your facial expressions not only in this one, but in all your reactions. Nice!

Hell yes!!! I just mentioned this on the Slaying the Dreamer reaction!!! 😊 You should check out the cam footage of Kai. There's one for this performance. Recommend Tribal next 😃

This song is also my top 5 !!! What an ABSOLUTE BANGER, from Floor's first Nightwish album as an official member (Endless Forms Most Beautiful is the eighth studio album). This song is against organized religions based on tribal religious texts, especially The Bible, it's not against personal faith in some Deity. However, one should realize that all those religious texts are & have been interpreted and used to justify unimaginable cruelties, persecution, discrimination etc., the worst being the idea that man is separate from nature & by some divine right above all other lifeforms, which explains the current almost catastrophic state of our planet. lyrics are spot on - so many fractures in our world have a root in the fantasy that each of the religions/sects/whatever are THE ONE way. This song speaks, with anger, against the fact that we humans are destroying ourselves and this world based on a power structure that needs to be made obsolete - we ALL deserve better. I LOVE this Song . Especially Floor's Freddie Mercury pose at the end . Speaking of Freddie ,....Floor's first band After Forever did a Cover of Queen's song "Who Wants To Live Forever " : Who Wants To Live Forever kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7Z8p8qml9a0mZc.html NWSU/FloorFan 🤘😎🤘

My favorite Nightwish song closely followed bt Song of Myself. Gets my blood pumping. The lyrics are so relevant. Fear is a choice you embrace. Wicked!

I'm always so impressed that Tuomas can play the keys while he does the windmill!

The band is, simply put, a powerhouse. Every member is top tier in abilities, and when they are together.. magic happens. Catch ya in the next few ;)

Hi, here are jy usual comments on this one: Nightwish in fairly heavy mode but the point, as in most Nightwish songs, is the lyrics Nobody but Tuomas would come up with "male necrocracy" in the lyrics to a song But the whole thing is well-crafted musically as well as lyrically. Floor uses a multitude of voval effects in the same ohrases, Marco back to his roots on six-string, Troy showcasing bouzouki and Kaitsu demonstrating his absolute mastery. He has to be one of the very best drummers this century. Although anti organised religion, there is thought behind this composition. Here is what the band had to say: MARCO: What comes to the new lyrics, "Weak Fantasy" was the only one that actually hints at ancient tribal literature We obviously realized that religion is a touchy subject and that we'd have to ca- refully consider the tone of the lyrics. It's still funny that you can publicly criticize and mock art and politics as much as you want, as well as artists and politicians but when you stick your finger in the hornet's nest of religion.. uh-oh. TROY: We were working on "Weak Fantasy" for quite a while. Tuomas originally used more direct, aggressive metaphors, but in the end, we decided to opt for a more ambiguous tone. Some people might still find "Weak Fantasy" confrontational, but you can have different interpretations as well. The wisdom is in the eye of the beholder TUOMAS: We discussed this stuff with the band for hours on end, and everybody stood behind the lines in Weak Fantasy" for instance. In Nightwish, I have never felt the need to neither rebel nor preach, and that hasn't changed, but if the listener stops to consider different viewpoints because of our music, that's always great There's never enough open, intelligent, and unprejudiced discussion in the world. Manco- There's obviously nothing wrong with leaning a higher power per se. A belief in something supernatural can comfort you and help you get through the day. But its just horrible when people use ancient religions as an excuse for their own utterly condemnable acts or to instigate senseless indiscriminate hatred towards others. Blind fundamentalism seldom leads to anything good, whether you bow to Allah. Jahve, Jesus, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or something else. TROY: As the wisdom goes, if you could reason with a fundamentalist, there would be no fundamentalists. TUOMAS: It's only during the last years that l've started to question my own religious stance. Why have I been a Lutheran and believed in the kind of God Lutherans do? It's simply because I was born in Finland in the 1970's. In another culture, in another time, there would have been another god above others. In 10th cen- tury Denmark, I would have worshipped Odin and Thor. If I'd been born North Korean, I would've been forbidden to believe in any kind of Supreme Being In other words: what you believe in - or what you think you believe in - is based on pure coincidence. TROY: It's baffling, but some of my friends are actually afraid that I will be cast into the fiery pits of hell. I can only compare these dear friends of mine to chain smokers in this respect: they know it's unhealthy, but they still refuse to quit. I don't understand why people believe in something without any proof, yet laugh at other similar beliefs - I mean, if I were to claim that you can live to be 150 by eating just yoghurt, no- body would believe me. They would ask me for some kind of proof and research findings. Why can't they apply this logic universally? TUOMAS: To be precise, I consider my- self an agnostic atheist. I don't believe in God, so that makes me an atheist How do I know that God does not exist? I don't, but neither does anybody else. That's why I am also an agnostic. To confess that you do not know some- thing is actually an intelligent and constructive stance. It makes you humble, unlike a blind belief in something unproven MARCO: We had just returned from an 18-month hiatus, so everybody was itch- ing to make some noise again even to rehearse! It's always interesting to play new material, because new songs are not in muscle memory yet. I'm using a double-neck instrument for "Weak Fantasy" for example, and there's a moment when I have to leave the bass humming, turn on the guitar, and, on a certain eighth note quickly grab the other neck. You have to practise these things quite a bit to be able to play them with confidence.

Floor's dress contains the DNA double helix and the colours of the Finnish flag. ❤ Floor

This song easily and quickly made it to my top 10 Nightwish songs when it came out! It literally is one of the most perfect combinations of what makes Nightwish such a great band!

Another great reaction ... it's exactly how most of us react after discovering Nightwish. I've been onboard for awhile now. Got really sick of tired old same junk here in America. My Son introduced me to Euro-metal by taking me to a Sabaton concert ... it opened up an entire new world of music. The finale of this Tampere concert is 'The Greatest Show on Earth', one of the best compositions written, and why Tuomas is the 'Mozart' of Metal. But, please continue exploring more of the great music coming out of Europe ... music never played in the U.S.

When you watch Greatest show on earth, please watch the version from this concert in Tampere. It's the better version 🙂

I think you summed it up with your statement of “what the fuck!” The alternate title of this song should be “WTF!” I don think I’ve heard a mediocre song from them never mind a bad one. Love your videos!

This is a brilliant song super heavy, with all the group present this show at Tampere is all good, do the greatest show on earth from this show it's brilliant. Great reaction thank you😊🇬🇧

Dit band rocks! Among my favorite songs are 'Tribal' 'The Poem and the Pendulum' 'Dead Boys Poem' and 'Shoemaker'

Hello my friend this one it's on top 3 of my favorites, filled with owesome lirics ❤ hope you have a great day C U SOON CHEERS 🤘💀🇨🇷

This is my favorite Nightwish song.

Kai added 4-5 drums to his kit for the new songs on that tour...on. I'm a a drum nerd...highly.suggest Kai's drum cams, clinics and warm ups on YT! He switches lead hand from right to left and back just for fun...he's incredible to watch! Perfect posture, wrists and fingers flying...he's not overtly flashy, but what a Beast! Did anyone mention Floor was pregnant w her 1st child here?

Watching you react to this was such a delight. I love this song.

I really enjoyed your reaction. The first time I heard this song, I had to look up the meaning of necrocracy. I never thought I'd be learning words in my native English from Finnish people. If I am honest, it isn't the last time Nightwish has made me look things up. They don't just entertain, they educate too! Not sure if you've had requests for any of these bands: Eleine with Enemies, Ad Infinitum with Unstoppable, or The Dark Side Of The Moon with Jenny Of Oldstones. Stay safe 🤘 ✌️

This concert in Tampere Finland is just as epic as Wacken.

Definitely one of my favs as well. Your reaction was very much like mine when I first heard this gem.

One of my favorites. Especially this performance from Tampere. In fact, that whole show is spellbinding. Yes, you heard Floor and Marko singing in both unison and in various harmonies. Pure power x 2. It's no surprise to me that Tuomas was clever enough to compose so many opportunities for them to do so. The 'Endless Forms' album is loaded with them. Thanks!

Great reaction. One of my favorite NightWish songs together with “7 Days to the Wolfs”. This was a special show for Floor because her parents where watching live at the show. Went to 2 of their shows end last year. Had a ticket for one and two days later a ticket for “Whitin Temptation” with “Evanescence”. Was 200 km from my town and decided to get a ticket for the second show. Never regretted it. Two amazing shows. Thanks for this reaction.

This whole concert is epic!

That`s me headbanging every saturday night when I watch their concert`s. Very hard and the word`s are so true, Tuomas is the best songwriter out there, so much emotion in every song.

The riff is WOOOOWWWW love it 🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥💥💥

such a powerful tight rhythm section yeah

That last shot of Floor from behind arm raised smoke all around her, was basically Freddie Mercury

You should check Tarja era. Beauty of the beast is one of the most beautiful, sad, powerful songs fron nightwish.

You have.must hear and ...Buenos Aires live from Nightwish. Best live show that i ever seen. My band from finland.totaly killing it. Please do reaktion videos from that.

Nice to be able to relax and catch some fun reactions to some awesome music throughout the day. Thanks for taking the time to create and share these with us. I had to watch this twice. I love how heavy it gets and how perfectly the transitions flow. So good. Time to find a chiropractor.

IIRC this is off the 1st album where songs are written for both Floor and Kai's abilities in mind, LMK if that's wrong tho. That said, Kai is bringing the thunder, Empuu and Marko with a killer riff, Tuomas rocking OUT on keys, Troy filling those rare quiet spots with his Bouzouki.. Floor and Marko at max synergy. They all were 100% on point, this is in my top 10, if not 5 for sure. Killer react Cosmic! As a side, it blows my mind they can put so many different sides out in their songs. Compare this song to Dead Boys Poem, or Sleeping Sun.. or the likes of Last of the Wilds, Elvenjig/Elven Path, I want my tears back.. to songs like Yours is and Empty Hope, to the new album with its songs.. you get my drift. So much variety and talent.

Oh yes! This is my favourite up there with the Song of Myself❤

When some streamers, the somewhat metal 'elite' ones, ask for a heavier song, this one does go under the radar even for the nightwish army when doing suggestions. In any case this is an amazing song.

i have been hearing and listening to their brand of symphonic metal brought to you by Nightwish second to none with these professional musicians been listening since 2000 so these guys can make something so heavy that you would think doesn't work not according to this creativity here with this band and how they weave beautifully together the symphonics of a living symphony at yeah it might bloww you away with the transitions they can seemlessly make between sounds top 5 i dig it they are probably in the top 10 in their own country imagine what will happen when they can tour here in the states they are going to sell out stadiums and arenas everywhere

The most beautiful crackdown on organized religion, tears in my eyes, every time.

You got a Floorgasm right away I did to when I first watched this song

According to Spotify, I listened to this song more than 320 times in 2021 and it was the song I listened to the most that year. I do remember listening to it on repeat 5 or 6 times in a row. It's that awesome!!! I love the drive you feel with Kai working those kick drums. It's a good running song. I still use it to work out and I have a feeling Êlan is going to be riding next to this one this year. What a contrast! lol A DJ by the name of Eric Clark, who does reactions here, did a reaction to this and said "It makes me feel like going out and taking somebody's stuff!" 😂😂 Absolutely one of my top 5 along with 7 Days To The Wolves and Romanticide. Thank you for the video, reaction and comments. Stay safe and stay blessed. 😊❤️🤘🤘

They are just fantastic Mr Wolf! Never been to one of their concerts, something missing in my life.

Nightwish bring me too much time the quote "ok, that's my new favourite song!" 😄🤟

This is one of many perfect songs done by nightwish. The amount of talent in this one band is unbelievable.

I really wait for tour reaction for The greatest show on earth,its masterpiece and every version is great,i prefer Wembley from music side but Tempere is great also,i saw Nightwish live in Athens 7/6/23,Floor was still headbanging being 7month pregnant,she was great,and see them all live was for me a dream come true

Perhaps my favorite song 🎵

Definitely one of my favorites

The only band I need

Definitely a top 5 NW song!!! 🔥🔥🔥

You should check out "The Greatest Show on Earth" from same concert This is one of the best

My favorite.

welcome to symphonic metal brought to you by Finland's own Nightwish

Ooooh yes! Tampere! This concert is ' PHENOMENAL! Take care Cosmic! 🤗

Nightwish is truly the best in performances! You said "its like discovering music for the first time" and holy shit i could not of described it any better! And now here we are chasing that dragon, chasing that high yet its as good if not better the 10000000th time as it is the first hit lol and just a fun fact if you didnt know, floor jansen is married to the drummer of sabaton! The sheer talent coming out of the nordic countries is truly staggering! Sometimes i hate saying this because i dont want to belittle the music we grew up with but we are in the golden age of music and performance

This is really one of my favorites favorite songs,another is Pan and Tribial from the last album aHuman Nature

Gee whiz, this one's a real banger! Love the little twist on Floor's line: "wake up child, I have a story to tell".

The best version of this fantastic powerfull song !! But what really makes this video unique is Keyboard cam when Tuomas just brutally headbangs !! THIS IS AWESOME ! I never get tired of this video

Probably my top 3 from the band as well. The energy, the message. When I need a kick in the pants this is my song.

I love your journey. Check out Stargazers by Nightwish. Concert Tampere 2015. You will be really surprised!

I was at this show, and I've watched the live bluray at least 20 times. It never gets old.

This concert was bad ass ! I also love the interpretation of Stargazers from Floor, it’s an older song but just felt great with her .

Yep in my top three 🤘 love the expression in Floor’s eyes on “Starving Crew with showoff toys” 👀 I do this when listening with in ears (bit embarrassing on the bus though 🤣🤣) Loving your journey 💪

for sure, you will love "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" from this concert

Hey there! I've seen you have reacted to several Nightwish videos, but I think you still have (IMO) the crown jewel left: Ever Dream. You won't be dissapointed.

Oh yes, one of my all time favorites! 🤘 This song, the energy, Floor like a dark queen, Kais drumming, Tuomas headbangbattle, Troys beautiful mandoline, Marcos fantastic voice and Empuus smirk like ever...love it. When Floor starts with "wake up child...." uhhh goosebumps ❤

Love your reaction Tommy, It's one of my favourite Nightwish songs as well :)

My favorite ❤

I just love how true and honest your reaction is😍 and how you get hyped up😁

You being a night owl, I’m shocked you haven’t reacted to Shoemaker or Endlessness, both from the most recent Nightwish album Human :||: Nature. Can’t wait to watch when you get there!

they bring you every step of the way but all their songs are like that for me giving finnish heavy metal with the sounds and colors of the symphony

You know…. Feel free to like watch each NW twice in one video if you need too. I’ll watch and I guarantee people will too bc the second time is just as good lol

Every Nightwish story has a message or story, some deeper than others. This is a strong one. BTW Cosmic: your mouth was open all the time 😵

Thank you for reacting to my favorite NW-song! :)

This is one of the best reaction videos I've ever seen. I felt it, too!

That's kill me man. So oooooooooo powerful. Thank you dude.

If you liked Weak fantasy you are going to love Shudder before the beutiful!

Weak fantasy, more like total control. This band is made to perform, there's no just going thru the motions here, it's full steam ahead with a big smile on your face. Marko must have been in a very deep, dark place to want to give all of this up?

Primo reaction! Your face was the best 😯, then you stopped the video and just sputtered 😂 I love this song - always makes me feel like I can lift heavy objects and toss them across the room.

This is one of the songs that is improved massively for me by the live performance. Amazingly, it's probably my least liked on their _Endless_ _Forms_ _Most_ _Beautiful_ album! That's my favourite album of all time from any band, so I'm not saying the studio take is bad (it is still solid), but I just adore this version. It's one of the songs Tuomas co-wrote with Marko, which I think gives it a slightly different edge.

I love everything about this! Brilliant opening.

Loved your enthousiastic reaction, I love the song too.

Hey Tuomas, lets hear your thoughts on religion. Weak Fantasy was his answer.

You can hear that Tuomas wrote this for Floor's voice which sounds so great with Marko's awesome voice. Yeah, it's a banger :) But there are more to come Cosmic :D

You have to hear, "Master, Passion, Greed" if you want the heaviest of Nightwish. Your channel is great.

You had me at "WHAT THE F*CK"😂🤘