Today is my birthday, as you all know. Exciting isn't it?
Anyhoo, we'll just go to my Top 5 Picks for the month - and all of them are based on my favorite all-time band: Nightwish.
5. Angels Fall First
From their debut album released 20 years ago, this is their title track for such a wonderful album. When I heard this album for the first time, I had already gone through the others and had to listen to this one and Century Child next. This one was very much like an acoustic ballad, and it made me imagine that I was in a wintery forest for this song. Whenever I think of Nightwish, I picture mostly the season of winter no matter where I am.
4. Seven Days to the Wolves
One of my favorites when others ask me of what songs I enjoy out of the Anette era of Nightwish. I actually have used this song as inspiration for a fanfiction that I am currently working on, and a lot of stuff from Dark Passion Play has helped me in writing it.
3. Elan
Before the release of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, their first single off of the album called "Elan" was leaked. I managed to hear the leak itself, but it was mostly for the radio edit. I did pre-order it in advance, and was eager to listen to it that February morning - days before Valentines Day. I was not disappointed, and it led me to pre-ordering the album off of iTunes.
2. Romanticide
I finally got to hear this song being played for the first time last year in London, Ontario for their 2016 show. (The day I got to meet them.) I recalled that it was an average song for me, but now it's a favorite on epic proportions. I always imagine the main character of my fanfiction being captured by the Queen of the Changelings when I hear this song. Floor did a fantastic job with this live, and I hope to hear it again someday.
1. Amaranth
This is the first song that I had ever heard from Nightwish and introduced me to the band in the first place. On my first listen, I thought this was a bit of an Evanescence sounding tune, but eventually having remembered this song when I found out they and Kamelot were coming to Toronto and proceeded to place this and Storytime on repeat for the next few days. Literally was stuck in my head until I finally saw them.
Honorable 5 Mentions:
Lordi - Nailed by the Hammer of Frankenstein
Ghost - Square Hammer
Xandria - Sisters of the Light
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Epica - Mother of Light
Anyhoo, we'll just go to my Top 5 Picks for the month - and all of them are based on my favorite all-time band: Nightwish.
5. Angels Fall First
From their debut album released 20 years ago, this is their title track for such a wonderful album. When I heard this album for the first time, I had already gone through the others and had to listen to this one and Century Child next. This one was very much like an acoustic ballad, and it made me imagine that I was in a wintery forest for this song. Whenever I think of Nightwish, I picture mostly the season of winter no matter where I am.
4. Seven Days to the Wolves
One of my favorites when others ask me of what songs I enjoy out of the Anette era of Nightwish. I actually have used this song as inspiration for a fanfiction that I am currently working on, and a lot of stuff from Dark Passion Play has helped me in writing it.
3. Elan
Before the release of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, their first single off of the album called "Elan" was leaked. I managed to hear the leak itself, but it was mostly for the radio edit. I did pre-order it in advance, and was eager to listen to it that February morning - days before Valentines Day. I was not disappointed, and it led me to pre-ordering the album off of iTunes.
2. Romanticide
I finally got to hear this song being played for the first time last year in London, Ontario for their 2016 show. (The day I got to meet them.) I recalled that it was an average song for me, but now it's a favorite on epic proportions. I always imagine the main character of my fanfiction being captured by the Queen of the Changelings when I hear this song. Floor did a fantastic job with this live, and I hope to hear it again someday.
1. Amaranth
This is the first song that I had ever heard from Nightwish and introduced me to the band in the first place. On my first listen, I thought this was a bit of an Evanescence sounding tune, but eventually having remembered this song when I found out they and Kamelot were coming to Toronto and proceeded to place this and Storytime on repeat for the next few days. Literally was stuck in my head until I finally saw them.
Honorable 5 Mentions:
Lordi - Nailed by the Hammer of Frankenstein
Ghost - Square Hammer
Xandria - Sisters of the Light
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Epica - Mother of Light
That's all for now! Next coming up after Fan Expo is: Deep Purple w/ Alice Cooper & Edgar Winter and Epica w/ Lacuna Coil, Insomnium & Elantris. Scorpions w/ Megadeth should follow later this September.
\m/ Brayden \m/
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