”Of course it's gonna be a huge task for the singer — she will always be compared to Tarja but I'm pretty confident that she'll do well“Nightwish第二任主唱Anette Olzon
“After the split with Tarja, we started writing without a singer, and it was quite a liberating feeling. We knew the right girl was out there somewhere, so we could just concentrate on the music. It took 10 months in the studio to make, but the atmosphere was so good and liberating there was a lot of bittersweet relief in the air. It was an extremely inspirational time”
“When I think back to it, it was such a crucial point to so many people, we didn't even realise back then but it showed uswhat we would be doing for the next year of our lives. We were never nervous about Anette, or the album being good, but we just couldn't tell how people would take it. Would they like Anette? Would they like the music? That was in the back of our minds all the time. And there was such a huge amount of money involved, over 800.000 euros, that we needed to sell at least a few albums to get going,”專輯單曲《Amaranth》
——在2008年Tuomas在接受採訪時回憶道
音樂特點
在這張專輯發行之前，樂隊的靈魂人物Thomas Holopainen在接受採訪時表示這張專輯與之前的專輯《Once》有很多的共同之處。例如這張專輯中有一些較重的歌曲，比如《Bye bye beautiful》、《7 Days to the wolves》、《Whoever brings the night》和《Master Passion Greed》；另外在專輯中也有柔軟的歌謠，比如《Eva》、《The Islander》和《Meadows of Heaven》，同時這張專輯包含了許多管弦樂和客座音樂家們的演奏。專輯單曲《Erämaan viimeinen》
和樂隊上一張專輯《Once》一樣，樂隊在這份專輯裡作了許多新的嘗試。在專輯《Once》中，許多靈感來自美洲本土音樂，例如《Creek Mary‘s Blood》。而在這張專輯中，很多靈感來自芬蘭和愛爾蘭的文化和音樂，這些可以在專輯中的《Last of the wilds》清晰地體現到。歌曲如《Master Passion Greed》和《Cadence Of Her Last Breath》可以體現激流金屬和另類金屬的元素，展現更新的、更現代的樂隊的聲音。
Nightwish
Nightwish第二任主唱Anette Olzon
專輯單曲《Amaranth》
專輯單曲《Erämaan viimeinen》
專輯單曲《Eva》
專輯單曲《Bye Bye Beautiful》
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