Much respect!

your reactions are the most honest ! love to be your age and enjoy music like you do !!

SUperb reaction!

i like your videos allot !!! i wished you did some more live versions of epica, either way, really nice and love you show the lyrics ! and i wonder why you use french so much your english is superb ! makes it more easy to enjoy for us that are not as good in french !

2 years since the human equation...

Mark is right!!!!

fratello, mi hai fatto commuovere !

NW is art

Merci du fond du coeur Guylain pour cette explication. Je n'avais pas compris toute la portée de cette chanson. Je pensais qu'il s'agissait d'une petite fille qui serait suicidée à cause d'un harcèlement. Mais grâce à vous j'ai pu y reconnaître la cruauté et la violence que j'ai vécue dans mon enfance et mon adolescence. L'isolement ressenti et subi, la honte, les idées noires, la dépression. J'ai pu y reconnaître le mal qui est emporté avec soi même quand on a réussi à s'échapper de cet environnement. La distance physique ne termine pas l'emprise psychologique. Merci encore pour votre éclairage. J'ai été émue aux larmes.

Hello Guylain! I hope you're doing well! I've been following your channel for a years now, and I really enjoy your reaction videos and lyric analyses. I wanted to ask if you've noticed that Nightwish has released a new single from their upcoming album called "Perfume of the Timeless." It would be fantastic if you could make a reaction video and a lyric analysis video for this song. I believe your insights and analyses would be very interesting and appreciated by many viewers, myself included. Blessings! Here's a link to the video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pa5zlL2eruDWYKM.html

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.

The altar and the pendulum are meant to be taken a bit more literally; they're a reference to Poet and the Pendulum about the Inquisition

Thanks a lot for this time travel back in history I was 8 at the time the black album relaeses. The interrest for metal comes to me 7 years later. Im still a huge fan of rock, hard rock and been a metalhead since then.

Thanks for this original reaction.

no its not its about her wanting to kill herself before the sun goes

Cóme back new músic from the warning

58:23 Could you perhaps explain why you are making fun of the artist here? I don't think that's very nice. Without a good explanation for laughing at this passage, I can't do anything with it at all. I grew up Christian and my parents taught me that there is no one truth and that I must respect every person and their beliefs. Making fun of a different view of life is also the problem with being convinced in your own faith. Too often I have met people who would put me on the right path. Their path. I repeat: their path. No one knows what we are doing here on this planet, and certainly not why. That is why faith is called faith. Nothing more and nothing less. And when I see that even in the promised land the most horrible sides of humanity come to the surface, then it is not strange at all to look at religion with a pedantic finger. I don't blame religion, but the people who profess it and think they have a basis in that religion to justify all that suffering. Religion is weak there. A weak fantasy, with very serious consequences. Furthermore, this album is the first in what will be a trilogy. And Human Nature is part 2. Part 3 will come later this year, and we may see things that have already been touched on in the previous two. I wrote this in a tongue you will understand. I hope 😉 Peace!

je pense que la visibilité de ce texte est plus sur la sensibilité que sur le genre ,merci a toi pour l explicité merci pour ta sincérités

Great analysis of the lyrics, structure of the song and also the meaning of the song👍

As a fellow Finn, atheist and of similar age to Tuomas *and* having grown up in a small conservative town I'm going to shed some light to the atmosphere we grew in. Finland has a state religion. For quite some time it was illegal to not be part of any religion. When I was kid it was legal not to be religious, and you could even not attend classes teaching Christianity in school, but the system and community made it very sure they'd make your life shitty if you did it. I personally waited until I had escaped to a big city before I dared to leave the church. I remember when my little brother, who's the same age than Tuomas, was thirteen. He was playing in a football team and one of their teammates died, which was quite heavy stuff for groups of thirteen year olds. In the funeral the whole team was present and the priest, years later found guilty for beating his wife for decades, preached how playing football is a sin and the players would go to hell. I can assure you stuff like this did leave some deep held grudges against the most vocal Christians. It's not always fair to those who actually follow teachings of the Christ with good heart, but it is human to have to somehow process this unfairness out of your system.

I like this musically, especially live, because of the tribal elements, the drums and the exotic string instruments. It's indeed not melodically very complicated; it's intricate on percussions, like a nod to Sepultura. And especially on the live version the *tone* of Marko's and Floor's voices are glorious. Juicy. It's then a matter of taste if these elements are enough to carry the weight for you. But I'm a simple metalhead, I like straightforward songs, too.

The bible-black fools. I know Tuomas is an atheist, and so am I, but I see this at least as much as a commentary against certain narrow-minded Christianity that centers around Old Testament and judgment and gloom as anti-religious. Critique of people like American evangelicals in the Mid-West. Bear with me, I'll try to explain myself. First, let's take this story: --- 'When the Rabbi was asked "Why did God create atheists?"... "God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all - the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his actions are based on his sense of morality. Look at the kindness he bestows on others simply because he feels it to be right. When someone reaches out to you for help. You should never say "I'll pray that God will help you." Instead, for that moment, you should become an atheist - imagine there is no God who could help, and say "I will help you"."' --- And I believe this aligns very much with teachings of Jesus. Despite being atheist, I am relatively well versed in core teachings of the Christ. And when you look at what *he* tells you to do to get to heaven, these are the main two parts: Matthew 25:41-45 41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ 44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ Matthew 19:23-24 23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Then there's a part about believing in God to get to Heaven, but I'm not going to focus on that one here because I'm more interested about how people *conduct* themselves. -- So how I see this is that Tuomas is frustrated about people using God to justify being harsh and judgemental to others, and focusing on the hate and bitterness. Like you said, forgetting the love. And this idea of "the only noble thing to die for is another person" is something I see in the actual teaching of Jesus being very much present. So as an atheist, I have very little conflict with Christians who actually follow the main theme of the teachings of the person they named themselves after. The problem are the people who remember to call out his name, but not his ideals. And I believe this is the core of what Tuomas, too, is communicating in this song.

I read "Still given everything, may I be deserving" as a way of saying "I did my best and while it might have not been as much as you or I hoped it would be, I hope I still deserve some credit or peace". Ie. he hopes that despite being an imperfect and incompete human, he would still be considered worthy. Deserving.. maybe love? Acceptance? Remorse?

The anger in Marko's voice in the Dark Passion Play. He *was* there, he saw the dysfunction of the band with Tarja and he saw Tuomas ripped apart for doing what he thought necessary to do to keep the ship afloat. The rawness and anger in his voice spits out his anger about how his friend was treated.

Are you alright @GuylainPrinceOFM? We miss you and hope you are well. Take care! Peace!

Watching this I realized I might have been overthinking the first line. It can just mean Tuomas was "treating" his depression with alcohol. We do know, as a proper goth, red wine is his alcoholic drink if choice and he even has a holder for wine bottle in the stand for his keyboards. So it might not be a metaphor, but literal wine.

Back in the day Tuomas commented that this song explains how he'd like to be remembered when he dies. "Remember not the hand that wrote it, remember only the verse". I'm also going to argue he's since reached that "immortality" he saw as a chance back then - he will certainly be remembered for his art for years to come by plenty of people. The songs importance for Tuomas is also apparent in Emppu's guitar solo here - he looked very somber, which is so unlike his normal presence. He looked like he was playing this in Tuomas' funeral.

The live version with Tarja is indeed *old*! This is before Marko joined the band and before Tuomas had a mustache. They all look so very young!

Hi Guylain! Miss hearing your thoughts and analyses, but no pressure to return unless you're feeling like it. Hope all is very well for you! :)

Hi Guylain, thank you for taking the time to these wonderful analysis. It really opens my eyes and makes me think alot more to what I have been listening to. During this analysis you mentioned about side 2 of Human 11 Nature, the instrumental. I had never listened to it before. I was totally in awe of the the fan video and the musical genius of Thomas and as you had indicated the work is a masterpiece. If you have time I woul appreciate if you could do an analysis. Thank you again my friend

Excellent analysis of a superb song. Though it seems to me you might improve some areas by recalling the title Revenant, in Spanish meaning "the one returned" (presumeably from the dead?). Is she trying to reconstruct her memory of a dead lover?

The Warning has fandom among the clergy. They are truly blessed.

This song written by Neil the drummer has meaning to all the band members Geddys the Bass player his parents survived the Holocaust, Alex the guitar player parents were from Yugoslavia and had hardships , Neil lost a daughter to a car crash and his wife to cancer shortly after

Loved your reaction and analysis of the song. From a fellow reactor and 🇨🇦

Megusto mucho como te expresastes felicidades buena Reaccion

Bonjour ,j ai une préférence pour cette chapour Tarja ,mais j adore aussi Floor ;il y a une version de Tais Michelin ,et de Natalia Tzarikova ,tu les a écouter ?

Heel goed. Tres bon.

My Queen doing one of her casual mass healing sessions...

The song was originally ’Generation Z’ but Pau didn’t like it. Too on the nose as it were. (& didn’t go with the single word song title theme of the album)

My Queen summoned me here!

The Warning The Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice to hear your deep analysis ....yes Tuomas and Tarja had a special connection and that also make NW possible plus oriented the whole path forward. Also therefore it was so painful what happened in 2005 and to get out of that. I just wonder the lyrics too...how deep lines there when the writer is hardly 20 years young. For me Oceanborn is still the Album ... not only because I found NW after the release of it. That album defined the genre globally.

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Great analysis, and I can summarize in three words: "Floor is everything"

You look like the antagonist in the video lol

Some of the singing parts in Trauma are just incredible. Probably best singing in prog/metal history

Revisiting your reaction after three years. Still enjoying very much your enthusiasm and wonder. 🙏🍀

The Quantum Enigma is, to me, Epica’s best album by a distance, it is awesome from start to finish. So many stunning songs on one album.

A warm welcome to you my Canadian Friend! You will probably be surprised to see that I have decided to write to you under this video after such a long time since its publication. But the reason is simple - I simply miss meeting you! I admit - my activity in comments on your channel has significantly decreased on your recent videos. But it's not because I've lost interest - my online activity has significantly decreased due to lack of time - I've always been a busy person and over the past two years this condition has only increased. That's why I understand your absence perfectly - the Internet, youtube is just an addition, a pleasure, it is not the meaning or purpose in life. There are more important things, but - well - I miss the evenings spent listening to music with you.... Recently I had a few free evenings and you know what? I started watching your old videos, the beginnings of the channel, when you speak in French and I can only understand you through translation. I remember those videos, I remember the pleasure of watching them, I remember the melody of your French language.... Cool memories - so.... I hope you will return to recording and if I have to wait a little - well - I look forward to it! Greetings to you from Poland very warmly - see you! (I hope!)

4:29 I would say that there has been an evolution in our views, both for the band and us fans. In the early 2000s, when The Phantom Agony was released, atheism was hot, and the album was mostly about rejecting dogma, but there has been a shift over time. Like so many before us, we are coming to embrace the eternal wisdom.