The live show in the front of 85 000 screaming metalheads was directed by Ville Lipiäinen, filmed with seventeen cameras and has a total duration of 85 minutes. »Showtime, Storytime« contains the entire NIGHTWISH headliner show, played at this years’ legendary Wacken Open Air – the world’s biggest heavy metal festival.
For others, well worth your time you will not be disappointed.Finnish Symphonic Metal legends NIGHTWISH have revealed the cover artwork and more details of their upcoming new live DVD.
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The matt-black inner sleeves add a certain feeling of elegance to the overall experience, and there’s even a free poster thrown in for good measure (even if it is only of the aforementioned unremarkable artwork).Īn exceptional live album, an important milestone in the Nightwish saga, and a lovely piece of vinyl. The inside of the double gatefold sleeve features a double-spread collage of tour photos from both on and off stage which reflect the album’s general atmosphere of fun and optimism and which would be all-but indiscernible if shrunk down to accommodate the cd sleeve-notes format. The epic atmosphere spills over onto Side D with a shortened but no less intense ‘Song of Myself’ before the triumphant ‘Last Ride of the Day’ brings the set to its exultant conclusion.ĭespite the album artwork being fairly unremarkable (a depressingly common trait amongst live albums), this is still a lovely piece to own on vinyl. Side C pulls the tone towards the darker and more melancholy side of things, culminating in the towering ‘Ghost Love Score’. The latest full-time member to join the band, uillean pipes player Troy Donockley (also a founder member of Adrian Edmonson’s band, The Bad Shepherds, for anyone who likes those sort of factoids) deftly adds a wonderfully folky edge to tracks like ‘Last of the Wilds’ and ‘I Want My Tears Back’ which we can only hope will become more prominent on future albums. It also sees the contributions of another Nightwish newbie shining through, albeit one slightly further from the spotlight. Side B sees Floor lend a new fullness to the vocals on lavish ‘Imaginaerum’ numbers like ‘Storytime’ as well as delivering a rendition of ‘Nemo’ that rivals the original. The strength and versatility of her voice allows her to do equal justice to both Tarja and Anette’s material, bridging the rift that has dominated Nightwish’s back-catalogue for so long. Her performance is simply stunning exquisite in its precision, power and emotion. The band are as tight as you could ask, but the first song has barely begun before it becomes abundantly clear that Ms Jansen is the star of this show. The energy is palpable as fan favourites like ‘Wish I Had an Angel’ and ‘She is my Sin’ are unleashed, as well as bouncy new hit ‘Ghost River’. Opening with the explosive ‘Dark Chest of Wonders’, Side A sees the band blast through the classics with gusto. Recorded on August the 3 rd 2013 before an adoring horde at Wacken Open Air, ‘Showtime, Storytime’ provides not only a superb sampling of the band’s magnificent back-catalogue, but also a historic snapshot of a band at one of the most important turning points of their career, brimming over with well-deserved confidence and the sheer joy of the performance an ideal album to savour through the vinyl medium. Anyone still looking for an explanation for this unsettling lack of controversy need look no further than this album. When you consider just how divisive the issue of Nightwish’s lead singer has proved since Tarja Turunen’s dramatic and abysmally-handled departure back in 2005, it feels somewhat bizarre that fans and critics alike, almost without exception, have welcomed Floor with open arms. Instead, they chose to release this live showcasing of their new line-up before Floor had even been publicly confirmed as anything more than just a stand-in. It speaks volumes about the impact that Floor Jansen had during the first 8 months of her tenure as Nightwish’s latest front-woman, that the band decided not to wait for their next studio album to let Floor make her debut in the discography. Side D – Song of Myself, Last Ride of the Day, Outro: Imaginaerum Side C – Bless the Child, Romanticide, Amaranth, Ghost Love Score Side B – Storytime, I Want My Tears Back, Nemo, Last of the Wilds Side A – Dark Chest of Wonders, Wish I Had an Angel, She is my Sin, Ghost River, Ever Dream