![]() ![]() Apart from the minor rearrangements songs like “ Elvenpath” and “ Amaranth” got, re-recorded spoken and orchestral parts from the first two, lower budget albums help bring ass-kickers like “Gethsemane” (the song that made me a Nightwish fan in the first place) into the modern day, and are graciously more audible than they were at the Dallas stop of the tour. Digging out cuts both deep and old alone wouldn’t suffice, though. Not only were they performing at American venues worthy of their stage shows, they’d decided to dust off many forgotten classics that Stateside audiences had never heard performed live. That’s exactly why their “Decades” tour in the Spring of 2018 made me salivate. Sadly, I never got to see them while original singer Tarja Turunen was still fronting them, and as much as I liked Anette Olzon and love Floor Jansen, their decision to focus their set-lists on more recent output has left me feeling a little cold every time I’ve seen them, despite their excellence on stage. I’ve owned my first-run vinyl LPs of “Oceanborn” and “ Angels Fall First” for over twenty years, was a first-day buyer for the next several Nightwish releases, and was both weirded out and excited when American rock radio picked up “ Nemo” back in 2004. Not to boast, but I hopped on the Nightwish train pretty early on. ![]()
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