Honestly, without any exaggeration, one of if not the best song I've heard in years. The lyrics are incredible, everyone gets their moment to shine but quite frankly Kai is phenomenal.
@@themetalmuse Please consider reacting to full album! Nightwish uploaded an official full album visualiser video, with timestamps for each song. It's absolutely worth it. Every song is just a blast.
You don't need to apologize for pausing. Re Floor's vocals, she did this six weeks after giving birth! You might be interested in this interview with Floor. th-cam.com/video/Nz21RfJ3ozs/w-d-xo.html Have a great time on your trip!
I agree ❤ And I have to add, use the angles and setup that is best for you. And I'm still waiting for you to react to Battle Beast. You know they were in Scotland few weeks ago, and there is full concert live video of it on their channel 😊
@@themetalmuse yeah, they were in Glasgow. And my daughter was there too, in Edinburgh...she went to watch that one cheating artist, who doesn't even care sing for her fans 🙄
In all the years I have listened and admired this band - how can they create what I consider the greatest song of all time. This is so majestic and expertly delivered by the musicians and Floor. Tears of joy and I listen to it many times every day in wonder. And Dominique I desperately want to hear it live also.
The entire album is fire, final track Lantern Light was written by Tuomas for his Father following his passing, and is possibly the most beautiful song I've ever heard - brings a tear to this old headbanger 's eye 🤘 Absolutely awesome reaction, you always feel music so profoundly it's great to see 🤘 P.S. have fun in Versailles!
Nightwish's best song to date, for me. Its just insane how good this song is... the way it weaves between almost thrash metal and beautiful parts, ending with troy on the uillean pipes. Great reaction :) Btw just wait until you do the Lanternlight reaction... to think one band on the same album can do two songs so amazing but in completely different ways is mind blowing. Trying to explain to someone that a band can do songs like Master Passion Greed and Meadows of Heaven on the same album is so difficult when they ask what Nightwish are. Its the same with this song and lanternlight. Enjoy Versailles!
The more I listen to this album, the better I like it. It is NOT old-fashioned symphonic metal, and it doesn't need to be. Nightwish is unique and I love what they do. I know you won't get this before Halloween, but you should listen to Epica's new release, The Ghost in Me (danse macabre). It was written for the opening of a new attraction at a Dutch theme park. It's a perfect song for the season.
Welcome back Dominique. For a song that really connects with your soul please listen to Lanternlight on this album. It is beautiful. What is so amazing is that Floor recorded this album at home only six weeks after Lucy was born in six days !!
Great reaction once again Dom🤘🤘 We all know Floor and NW always performing at the highest level never fail to blow us away. What I can’t fathom is how Tuomas’s mind works to imagine and put to music and production so many masterpieces he has provided us with. I just can’t get my head around it. Makes me crazy…but in a good way😂😂
When Troy comes in with his pipes i feel that the journey is finished and you have find your destiny. The Islands are your live with all ups and downs in my opnion🤯
Having been on a sailboat for weeks on end I can attest to the line about the madness. So many hours at ungodly times (16 on on, 8 off) and hot-bunking with my mates slowly comes into sleep deprivation. The already off humor in crew interaction went to off the deep end and we all loved it.
Good to see you back on the Nightwish trail! It would certainly be interesting to see this one live given how complicated the lyrics are, and also given that Floor has picked up a habit of forgetting the words/messing up the lyrics to her own songs on her solo concerts of late! 😆 I hope you have Lanternlight on your list. Without a doubt, my favourite song of 2024.
You can never have too many floorgasms ;) Best reaction of this song by far!!! Loved it and loved the different emotions you got throughout the song, which is exactly what I would have expected cause the song is such a wild ride and journey!
@@themetalmuse I gotta react to the band Beast in Black!! They are freaking amazing, you'll love their style and their lead singer is one of the very best vocalists out there, he is like the male version of Floor!!! Gotta listen to their first single to get things going called Blind and Frozen!
Bits of Floors own solo album and Northward style singing! Each song has a different feel, from cinematic drama, doom and gloom, heavy, then folky campfire, lullaby. They definitely do flow from song to song. [The Weave] Tuomas makes you look things up, the best way to learn. "Take-away value"! The Antikythera Mechanism... "The Butterfly Effect"? Tuomas déjà vu themes. Did you catch the shout-outs? [Yes!] Verse 1 “A Mariner under a sky Moonlit” [GLS?] “Crewless ship” [The Islander? “Shipless crew”, Yesterwynde] A "Siren"? “A few decades” [Endlessness?] “A one-man crew for a one-way trip” [The Islander?] “Every shore I land”, (A painter, on the shore). [Storytime, Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean?] “Steep cliffs” Where the cliff greets the sea... [Élan?] "Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by Stevie Smith. The Butterflies looking like a Galaxy, or 3D animation of cells. More Metal, old skool! Verse 2 The spelling to amuse the Americans, Cay, then Quay. “Jokers, jesters” [Raving harlequins, gigantic toys? Tricksters, magicians: Last Ride Of The Day?] “Goddesses, hominidae” Floor, humans. “Deep delicious blue beneath” [TPATP, H:||:N: The Blue] “Light a homefire for the sad man with a begging hand” [Song of Myself?] "Bring Me to Life"! [For the Reactors! Don't mention "Eva…”. Also Élan] “Dancing, in the daylight” [Dancing in the dark?] “Saaail and seeeek!” [Hide and seek] Calling you, calling me [sounds like Northward] To be a part of your story [Never Ending Story?] Those smiles and grins! Is it building? [Set the Dolphins Free!] Ominous horns Did you notice the sail lining up with the clouds, forming a Twister? Then it's repeated, in case you missed it! Verse 3 “Raining ash” [Pompeii?] "An island of past wrecks"; The Antikythera mechanism (the next track). “Endless sundown” [Sleeping Sun?] “Meadows” [Of Heaven?] “Mirrors, mirrors, everywhere” [Noise? The Black Mirror] "Mad despair!” [Scaretale!] You are not without a clue, just different, we appreciate that. "Friends, who were for a time Now grapes of sour wine” [Sour grapes is a phrase that means acting meanly after a disappointment. An idiom that means being angry or resentful because you have not achieved something you wanted.] “Lords of a single fly” [Lord of the Flies, William Golding, Children of 'Ata didn't regress, they were here] "Let it be"... [Nice reference to Abbey Road Studios] Film scores (Tuomas and Floor both like the music of Hans Zimmer). “Saaaaail and Seeeeek!” That did it for me too. "Sarah Connor moment". As John Wick once said: “Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back!" That was crunchy and chunky... "Phew" Is it over? "Titanic" vibes from Troy, letting his Uilleann pipes speak across the centuries. How does it have that effect on us? The calm after the storm. Italian sports car! Versaille background...
Nightwish sends you on a journey of life with its calm and chaos through the music. You stop along the way at the strange islands that represent the people and situations that are part of that life!🎸🤘
My favourite song from the album! It's so damn satisfying. I first listened to it during its premier on Nightwish's channel and i was just growling "phwoooaaar" all the way through it.
I was "slack-jawed" watching and hearing this. I often will just lift a screen-grab for my thumbnail (I ain't fancy) and when I tried for this video to lift one, every single shot I had a lovely double chin from gawping at the screen.
Hi Dom ! The entire album is Epic. Listening to the Album one tends to think : when will the movie, this score was written for, be released... a what the heck about the movie... the song is more than Epic enough !! I hope you've watched the Tea-time interview with Floor on The Charismatic Voice..
You know, we as Nightwish fans, always been talking about; "The Big Three", meaning: 'Ghost Love Score', 'The Poet And The Pendulum', and 'The Greatest Show On Earth'. It might be time for us to change this into: "The Big Four"! I'm not sure about the rest of you guys, but for me this epic piece rightfully belongs to that list aswel.
Great reaction! So glad to have you back. I always enjoy your insights and thoughts. I really like the new setup. Perfect framing of you and the video. Agree with others that Laternlight needs to be next. Such a beautiful and emotional song. I played it for my 23 year old daughter a couple of weeks ago and about half way through she hugged me and held me so tight for the rest of the song. Also concur on doing the new Epica song the Ghost in Me. Collaboration with the Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands for the opening of their new ride, Danse Macabre. It is replacing an old ride where Kate Bush recorded a video for Wuthering Heights back in the day. The song is inspired by the 1875 symphonic poem of the same name and incorporates melodies from it. Video is filmed in the new ride and Simone is deliciously ghoulish and seductive.
Good to see you back with Nightwish, Dom. All about the people you meet in your life, all living in their own little worlds, this is a great track from the album. Actually every time I listen to this album (some dozens now including all three versions) another song grabs my attention as a favourite. But then, I'm always waiting for Lanternlight at the end of the album, so I suppose that's my favourite in reality But every track is amazing. I love this album. 6 weeks, I think, after Floor gave birth she did the vocals for this album. They allowed 2 weeks: she completed them in 6 days Yes, she is a phenomenon. On another note, what is you current cat situation (I hope that's not an insensitive question)?
Lanternlight wrecked me. I cried. It's so beautiful. As to the cats, well, Bruno passed away in February. It was awful and he's left a huge hole in my soul. I have his two apprentices who are determined to pull down my curtains and they're just adorable. So it helps to have two little fur monsters/angels to keep me going.
Regarding the fact that Floor🌷 did all this album within only six days and only six weeks after giving birth to Lucy, I strongly believe that not even Tuomas can imagine or realise what she can do. And I guess we'll never know. I won't be surprised if someday we hear that she talks to wild animals in their "language", she's one in a billion, in any aspect.
Oh stuff got too much. I had an accident that I’m still getting physio for. I think it triggered some migraines so, yeah it’s been a while. But I’m feeling better now 😁
Great to see you back with Nightwish. The album's great. You really need to do the Lanternlight video. Hope the latest cats are doing well and providing joy.
@@themetalmuse I'm glad you're better! Please don't take my comment as a demand of any sort, no explanation is necessary. You should always do what you need to do to take care of yourself
The most fascinating thing is Floor recorded these vocals no more than 6 weeks after giving birth the Lucy. I am a guy so I have no idea what that is like but still. If and when you decide to react to Lantern Light, please bring seeeral boxes of Kleenex as well as a gallon of water and you will dehydrate. That song make a 53 year old man bawl.
Sorry, I'm late here! I love this song, and for my surprise, I got emotional watching you be emotional 😮 I love the whole album. It took couple of listenings from start to end to get it in my system but... Wow. And not to mention instrumental version of album. Great way to stress down.
It is really weird how a Nightwish song can randomly just give you that emotional moment. A few songs do this to me and typically it’s ones I least expect.
Loved the huge smile Dom! ☺☺ Looking forward to the next live show! Wow - Looking for multiple Floorgasms? Don't feel guilty. You deserve all the pleasure in the world. I'm addicted myself. 🤷🏻♂🤷🏻♂ Tuomas would rather be remembered as a poet.
Watch Nightwish at Hellfest 2022 there is no Marco and it is a Fantastic Concert. Yes, I miss Marco singing with Floor, but it is what it is, and Troy singing is absolutely great, especially on this new Album. Great Reaction Metal Muse 🥰Lanternlight Next Please
Hi Dom Dom, greetings from down south Lovely to see you back, we missed you 😊 *I HIGHLY RECOMMEND* that you watch the tea time interview that Elizabeth did with Floor on The Charasmatic Voice channel. She doesn't give spoilers but she explains that she recorded these vocals just six weeks after giving birth to Lucy, and at that time it was still painful for her to stand, let alone sing. But the voice was still there, so she did the damned thing! 😁🥰
I love this song - I wasn't sure after the first two tracks from the album, but this was the one that made me go, "Yep, they're back". This and Hiraeth are so far my favourites.
I have several favorites on this album and the only way they can make it better is indeed live. Story Time at Waken is still my all-time favorite song. Everything else they do moves up and down my favorites list.
4:52 "I know we won't get to see what that looks like live" Not quite right: Nightwish' drummer Kai Hahto will hold a solo tour next year where he will play, among other things, songs from their latest album "Yesterwynde". Considering that this song is one of the most fan-favorite, I'm sure he'll play it too. So you can attend one of the concerts (I wrote the dates below) or watch a video that I'm sure one of the fans will shoot and post. Of course, it's not the same as the Nightwish concert, he will play with their backing tracks, but you said yourself that you love drums, right? :) ALONE - AN EVENING WITH KAI HAHTO: 31.03.25 UK-London, Bush Hall 02.04.25 NL-Utrecht, Tivoli Cloud Nine 03.04.25 DE-Stuttgart, Im Wizemann 04.04.25 DE-Memmingen, Kaminwerk 06.04.25 AT-Vienna, Szene 07.04.25 DE-Regensburg, Eventhalle Airport 08.04.25 DE-Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle Club 10.04.25 DE-Cologne, Kulturkirche 11.04.25 DE-Bochum, Christuskirche 12.04.25 DE-Hamburg, Kent Club
While you say you won't be able to hear these drums live any time soon, you might actually be wrong: Kai is doing a solo tour (called Alone) next spring, I think it was London, then a bunch of places in Germany and Austria. I went to the test show last winter, and he said if he ends up doing a full tour after the new Nightwish album is released (which is what's happening), that there are definitely some tracks from it he wants to play live, so this might get played. NGL, it was a weird experience watching a man play the drums to a backing track, but it was certainly unique.
This Song Toumas can make extended more than 60 minutes , and yes Floor .....her voice after her laugh like greater witch then turn so soft like young teenager that's unbelievable !!! that's play lot in the recently memory in brain and it's wonderful !! l
Hey Dom. Fantastic reaction as usual. As others have said, don't worry about pausing. It is your reaction and if you feel the need to pause and express your feelings in the moment, please do. I would much rather you do that than forget to mention some of those feelings at the end. FYI, as for backing up a few seconds, the easiest way to do that is to press the left arrow key on your keyboard. It takes the video back 5 seconds. Press it multiple times to go back in multiples of 5 seconds. The right arrow works the same way, but forward. The J and L keys work the same way, but go in increments of 10 seconds.
Well ,it's just...................................Fantastic?,Wonderful?,epic? majestic?,Powerful?,maby it is just ...................NIGHTWISH!😆🤘 Greetings Dominique.😘
Tuomas dedicated some lines to Marko Hietala, who left the band as you know: "You who glow In deepest woe Let it be, retiree, the water's fine Sail carefree"
The ending when Troy comes in it just makes me cry and I don't really know why. It just feels like the journey is over and we don't know if we made it or not.....idk...
This is part of the album. The album is best listened to as a whole.... then you get the whole picture. But I appreciate you wanting to react to the videos before you listen to the whole album.... that's fine. You've always been a good reacter, I'm sure you won't change.
Man this is the best masterpiece with floor recording... For me nature was a weak album... Endless forms i love it. But these track make this cd a masterpiece.
Astonishing song! It made me order the earbook straight away, where I'd been holding back with the earlier singles. Kai is on fire here. And the album as a whole is better than the sum of its singles. The gorgeous _Lanternlight_ next, then the album. And I hope the migraines clear up for good long while (fellow ND (but not ADHD) individual here, so I know the comorbidities don't just go away for good).
If you are doing the videos first, than Lanternlight is next? Looking forward to you reacting to that one, Floorgasms galore. View is fine, I like the perspective and the dynamic of people passing y every now and then. Hope you enjoyed Versailles with AOOSI on repeat.
Honestly, without any exaggeration, one of if not the best song I've heard in years. The lyrics are incredible, everyone gets their moment to shine but quite frankly Kai is phenomenal.
Nice wink to Marko, the water's fine, retiree...
100% I am on the same strange island with you on that POV. I am so addicted to this song. I must listen to it at least 6 times a day.
@@themetalmuse I think we all do that. It's been blasting in my car every day when I leave home. 😂
Can't wait until you'll hear Lanternlight.....such a great, slow song. Welcome back. Btw this frame or perspective is great :D
Ohhh you’re guessing the next video!
@@themetalmuse my song of the year 2024! Go for it!!!
@@themetalmuse You are going to love Lanternlight. Definitely do the music video.
@@themetalmuse Lanternlight makes this world a better place.....you betta hurry up😍
This whole album is just best in years.
I can’t wait!!
@@themetalmuse Please consider reacting to full album! Nightwish uploaded an official full album visualiser video, with timestamps for each song. It's absolutely worth it. Every song is just a blast.
Agree
You don't need to apologize for pausing. Re Floor's vocals, she did this six weeks after giving birth! You might be interested in this interview with Floor. th-cam.com/video/Nz21RfJ3ozs/w-d-xo.html Have a great time on your trip!
Wow a whole new level of respect for her!
You are great as you are ... change nothing ... stay the genuine YOU!
That's what makes your channel so appealing 😍
Thank you so much 😀
I agree ❤ And I have to add, use the angles and setup that is best for you.
And I'm still waiting for you to react to Battle Beast. You know they were in Scotland few weeks ago, and there is full concert live video of it on their channel 😊
😵😵😵😵
@@themetalmuse yeah, they were in Glasgow. And my daughter was there too, in Edinburgh...she went to watch that one cheating artist, who doesn't even care sing for her fans 🙄
In all the years I have listened and admired this band - how can they create what I consider the greatest song of all time. This is so majestic and expertly delivered by the musicians and Floor. Tears of joy and I listen to it many times every day in wonder. And Dominique I desperately want to hear it live also.
Live would be mind blowing 🤯
The entire album is fire, final track Lantern Light was written by Tuomas for his Father following his passing, and is possibly the most beautiful song I've ever heard - brings a tear to this old headbanger 's eye 🤘
Absolutely awesome reaction, you always feel music so profoundly it's great to see 🤘
P.S. have fun in Versailles!
Nightwish's best song to date, for me. Its just insane how good this song is... the way it weaves between almost thrash metal and beautiful parts, ending with troy on the uillean pipes. Great reaction :) Btw just wait until you do the Lanternlight reaction... to think one band on the same album can do two songs so amazing but in completely different ways is mind blowing. Trying to explain to someone that a band can do songs like Master Passion Greed and Meadows of Heaven on the same album is so difficult when they ask what Nightwish are. Its the same with this song and lanternlight. Enjoy Versailles!
😁😁😁 honestly I must now listen to this song 10 times a day no exaggeration!
The more I listen to this album, the better I like it. It is NOT old-fashioned symphonic metal, and it doesn't need to be. Nightwish is unique and I love what they do.
I know you won't get this before Halloween, but you should listen to Epica's new release, The Ghost in Me (danse macabre). It was written for the opening of a new attraction at a Dutch theme park. It's a perfect song for the season.
I love the songs I've heard so far. I reacted to Epica's song on halloween. If you wanna see me in a bad snowwhite wig.......
@@themetalmuse Yes. I saw it... so much fun!! Be sure to check out more of them.
For me this is a symphonic prog metal Masterpiece! 😎🤘
This song is an audible tsunami of emotion and enjoyment throughout
100%
Wonderful reaction ❤ Yesterwynde is a Masterpiece of music.i mean, it is Nightwish on fire. All Band Members go all in. And Floor is FLOOR 🤘🤘
I just can't with this album, it's too perfect so far.
Welcome back Dominique. For a song that really connects with your soul please listen to Lanternlight on this album. It is beautiful. What is so amazing is that Floor recorded this album at home only six weeks after Lucy was born in six days !!
This song is insanely good. We NEED to see this live.
💯 agree
Love your reaction 🥰
Thank you!! 😁❤️❤️❤️
The first time I heard Lanternlight, I could barely speak afterwards. Nightwish just keep on getting better. Enjoy your trip, it sounds fascinating.
Same bro, same, I just reacted to it and literally this is one of those Nightwish songs I can't listen to in public.
YEEY! The Muse and the Nightwish! Perfect start of a Wednesday evening. Thank you!
Amazing song again. See you soon again
Very soon!
@themetalmuse ❤️
This song goes directly to my favorite ones list! Amazes me everytime I hear it 😄
Same!!!!
Great reaction once again Dom🤘🤘
We all know Floor and NW always performing at the highest level never fail to blow us away.
What I can’t fathom is how Tuomas’s mind works to imagine and put to music and production so many masterpieces he has provided us with. I just can’t get my head around it. Makes me crazy…but in a good way😂😂
He’s a genius
I think you are everyone of us, we need this live 😁💯🔥
The entire album is epic brilliance.
I believe it!
Beautiful reaction!!! An Ocean Of Strange Islands is up there with the very best of Nightwish, so epic!!! What a journey :D
I am addicted to this song!
" SAIL AND SEEK "
One of the best songs by Nightwish
I'll check it out.
When Troy comes in with his pipes i feel that the journey is finished and you have find your destiny. The Islands are your live with all ups and downs in my opnion🤯
100% I share your sentiment.
Having been on a sailboat for weeks on end I can attest to the line about the madness. So many hours at ungodly times (16 on on, 8 off) and hot-bunking with my mates slowly comes into sleep deprivation. The already off humor in crew interaction went to off the deep end and we all loved it.
Good to see you back on the Nightwish trail! It would certainly be interesting to see this one live given how complicated the lyrics are, and also given that Floor has picked up a habit of forgetting the words/messing up the lyrics to her own songs on her solo concerts of late! 😆
I hope you have Lanternlight on your list. Without a doubt, my favourite song of 2024.
Great suggestion!
You can never have too many floorgasms ;) Best reaction of this song by far!!! Loved it and loved the different emotions you got throughout the song, which is exactly what I would have expected cause the song is such a wild ride and journey!
It's a really wild ride. Thank you for the lovely feedback.
@@themetalmuse I gotta react to the band Beast in Black!! They are freaking amazing, you'll love their style and their lead singer is one of the very best vocalists out there, he is like the male version of Floor!!! Gotta listen to their first single to get things going called Blind and Frozen!
Above Floor.....it's the SUN
She is back!! Nice to se you again Scotland. Nice to hear Nightwish also. Great reaction. Thank you!❤Have a nice trip to france!!
🥰🥰🥰🥰
What's even more impressive about Floors vocals here, is that she recorded the vocals for this album 6 weeks post-partum.
Awesome Floor, awesome NightWish!
Double the awesome 🙌
Bits of Floors own solo album and Northward style singing!
Each song has a different feel, from cinematic drama, doom and gloom, heavy, then folky campfire, lullaby.
They definitely do flow from song to song. [The Weave]
Tuomas makes you look things up, the best way to learn.
"Take-away value"!
The Antikythera Mechanism...
"The Butterfly Effect"?
Tuomas déjà vu themes.
Did you catch the shout-outs? [Yes!]
Verse 1
“A Mariner under a sky Moonlit” [GLS?]
“Crewless ship” [The Islander? “Shipless crew”, Yesterwynde]
A "Siren"?
“A few decades” [Endlessness?]
“A one-man crew for a one-way trip” [The Islander?]
“Every shore I land”, (A painter, on the shore). [Storytime, Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean?]
“Steep cliffs” Where the cliff greets the sea... [Élan?]
"Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by Stevie Smith. The Butterflies looking like a Galaxy, or 3D animation of cells.
More Metal, old skool!
Verse 2
The spelling to amuse the Americans, Cay, then Quay.
“Jokers, jesters” [Raving harlequins, gigantic toys? Tricksters, magicians: Last Ride Of The Day?]
“Goddesses, hominidae” Floor, humans.
“Deep delicious blue beneath” [TPATP, H:||:N: The Blue]
“Light a homefire for the sad man with a begging hand” [Song of Myself?]
"Bring Me to Life"! [For the Reactors! Don't mention "Eva…”. Also Élan]
“Dancing, in the daylight” [Dancing in the dark?]
“Saaail and seeeek!” [Hide and seek]
Calling you, calling me [sounds like Northward]
To be a part of your story [Never Ending Story?]
Those smiles and grins!
Is it building?
[Set the Dolphins Free!]
Ominous horns
Did you notice the sail lining up with the clouds, forming a Twister?
Then it's repeated, in case you missed it!
Verse 3
“Raining ash” [Pompeii?]
"An island of past wrecks"; The Antikythera mechanism (the next track).
“Endless sundown” [Sleeping Sun?]
“Meadows” [Of Heaven?]
“Mirrors, mirrors, everywhere” [Noise? The Black Mirror]
"Mad despair!” [Scaretale!]
You are not without a clue, just different, we appreciate that.
"Friends, who were for a time
Now grapes of sour wine” [Sour grapes is a phrase that means acting meanly after a disappointment.
An idiom that means being angry or resentful because you have not achieved something you wanted.]
“Lords of a single fly” [Lord of the Flies, William Golding, Children of 'Ata didn't regress, they were here]
"Let it be"... [Nice reference to Abbey Road Studios]
Film scores (Tuomas and Floor both like the music of Hans Zimmer).
“Saaaaail and Seeeeek!” That did it for me too. "Sarah Connor moment".
As John Wick once said: “Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back!"
That was crunchy and chunky... "Phew"
Is it over?
"Titanic" vibes from Troy, letting his Uilleann pipes speak across the centuries.
How does it have that effect on us?
The calm after the storm.
Italian sports car!
Versaille background...
Nightwish sends you on a journey of life with its calm and chaos through the music. You stop along the way at the strange islands that represent the people and situations that are part of that life!🎸🤘
This song just really resonates with me right now.
My favourite song from the album! It's so damn satisfying. I first listened to it during its premier on Nightwish's channel and i was just growling "phwoooaaar" all the way through it.
I was "slack-jawed" watching and hearing this. I often will just lift a screen-grab for my thumbnail (I ain't fancy) and when I tried for this video to lift one, every single shot I had a lovely double chin from gawping at the screen.
@themetalmuse must say I never noticed any double chins 😂
Hi Dom ! The entire album is Epic. Listening to the Album one tends to think : when will the movie, this score was written for, be released... a what the heck about the movie... the song is more than Epic enough !!
I hope you've watched the Tea-time interview with Floor on The Charismatic Voice..
You know, we as Nightwish fans, always been talking about; "The Big Three", meaning: 'Ghost Love Score', 'The Poet And The Pendulum', and 'The Greatest Show On Earth'. It might be time for us to change this into: "The Big Four"! I'm not sure about the rest of you guys, but for me this epic piece rightfully belongs to that list aswel.
Hell yeah!
Sure thing!🎉
The entire album is great, react to them all .
Hell yeah!
Great reaction! So glad to have you back. I always enjoy your insights and thoughts. I really like the new setup. Perfect framing of you and the video. Agree with others that Laternlight needs to be next. Such a beautiful and emotional song. I played it for my 23 year old daughter a couple of weeks ago and about half way through she hugged me and held me so tight for the rest of the song. Also concur on doing the new Epica song the Ghost in Me. Collaboration with the Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands for the opening of their new ride, Danse Macabre. It is replacing an old ride where Kate Bush recorded a video for Wuthering Heights back in the day. The song is inspired by the 1875 symphonic poem of the same name and incorporates melodies from it. Video is filmed in the new ride and Simone is deliciously ghoulish and seductive.
I have reacted to both of those, they're up on my channel now. Spoiler, I also cried at Lanternlight.
Good to see you back with Nightwish, Dom.
All about the people you meet in your life, all living in their own little worlds, this is a great track from the album.
Actually every time I listen to this album (some dozens now including all three versions) another song grabs my attention as a favourite. But then, I'm always waiting for Lanternlight at the end of the album, so I suppose that's my favourite in reality
But every track is amazing. I love this album.
6 weeks, I think, after Floor gave birth she did the vocals for this album. They allowed 2 weeks: she completed them in 6 days
Yes, she is a phenomenon.
On another note, what is you current cat situation (I hope that's not an insensitive question)?
Lanternlight wrecked me. I cried. It's so beautiful. As to the cats, well, Bruno passed away in February. It was awful and he's left a huge hole in my soul. I have his two apprentices who are determined to pull down my curtains and they're just adorable. So it helps to have two little fur monsters/angels to keep me going.
@themetalmuse I remember Bruno passing,wasn't sure if you still had the kits.
Tuomas is the best translator of human feelings into music
That’s it exactly!
I think that now Tuomas has got a grasp of what the limits are of the band, and has pushed the envelope! The whole album is magical!
Exactly my thoughts! I feel like he writes the impossible and then everyone pulls it off.
Regarding the fact that Floor🌷 did all this album within only six days and only six weeks after giving birth to Lucy, I strongly believe that not even Tuomas can imagine or realise what she can do. And I guess we'll never know. I won't be surprised if someday we hear that she talks to wild animals in their "language", she's one in a billion, in any aspect.
One in 8.2 Billion...
@okiejohn3925 exactly!
Perfect assessment!
You are one of my favorite reactors. Your beauty and honesty keep me looking forward to your new videos
Wow, thank you ☺️ 😁😁😁
The breath taking Beauty of Scotland is back and with a banger reaction - thank you!
Staaaaappppp you make me blush!
🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 Great Job Muse and what an long time ago but welcome back
Oh stuff got too much. I had an accident that I’m still getting physio for. I think it triggered some migraines so, yeah it’s been a while. But I’m feeling better now 😁
Great to see you back with Nightwish. The album's great. You really need to do the Lanternlight video. Hope the latest cats are doing well and providing joy.
❤ love your brilliant reaction Lady ❤.. .and finaly ... no matter what others vibrate ....STAY ..The YOU... You ARE .. we All Love authenticity ❤
Thank you 🙏
Yea, you're back!!!
Sorry I’ve been struggling with work, travel and migraines 🥲🥲
@@themetalmuse I'm glad you're better! Please don't take my comment as a demand of any sort, no explanation is necessary. You should always do what you need to do to take care of yourself
Can't wait your next reaction, loved this! I'm, pretty sure they are going to perform this live in future, they did shoemaker already....
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The most fascinating thing is Floor recorded these vocals no more than 6 weeks after giving birth the Lucy. I am a guy so I have no idea what that is like but still. If and when you decide to react to Lantern Light, please bring seeeral boxes of Kleenex as well as a gallon of water and you will dehydrate. That song make a 53 year old man bawl.
OK so I just reacted to that and no joke I didn't have any tissues and yes I ugly cried.
Sorry, I'm late here!
I love this song, and for my surprise, I got emotional watching you be emotional 😮
I love the whole album. It took couple of listenings from start to end to get it in my system but... Wow.
And not to mention instrumental version of album. Great way to stress down.
It is really weird how a Nightwish song can randomly just give you that emotional moment. A few songs do this to me and typically it’s ones I least expect.
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... And this track in live?... Another piece of cake for them, 'ssumin' 🙊
Very good reaction. This is an awesome song. 🤘
Thank you! I felt like a rambling incoherent mess. But I don't think I am the only one Nightwish reduces to wordless.
What a song🤩. And the end whit troys pipes🥰. Thank you🤘🤩
It's just so haunting and like a natural perfect completion for this song.
Hi Do👋👋 lovely reaction again! 😘
Loved the huge smile Dom! ☺☺ Looking forward to the next live show! Wow - Looking for multiple Floorgasms? Don't feel guilty. You deserve all the pleasure in the world. I'm addicted myself. 🤷🏻♂🤷🏻♂
Tuomas would rather be remembered as a poet.
No doubt he will be!
embrace!! love your primal reaction! shine!
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MUCH MORE
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Great command Againe 🤟🤟🤟
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Masterpiece. Nice reaction
Loved experiencing your Floorgasms with you. Great reaction, Dom.
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More to come!
Watch Nightwish at Hellfest 2022 there is no Marco and it is a Fantastic Concert. Yes, I miss Marco singing with Floor, but it is what it is, and Troy singing is absolutely great, especially on this new Album. Great Reaction Metal Muse 🥰Lanternlight Next Please
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This album , goldmedal !!! ❤ Greetings from nwAse Sweden
Greetings from Scotland. And 100% pure gold!
@@themetalmuse YES ! 🙂
Hi Dom Dom, greetings from down south
Lovely to see you back, we missed you 😊
*I HIGHLY RECOMMEND* that you watch the tea time interview that Elizabeth did with Floor on The Charasmatic Voice channel. She doesn't give spoilers but she explains that she recorded these vocals just six weeks after giving birth to Lucy, and at that time it was still painful for her to stand, let alone sing. But the voice was still there, so she did the damned thing! 😁🥰
Oh wow. I will for sure.
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I love this song - I wasn't sure after the first two tracks from the album, but this was the one that made me go, "Yep, they're back". This and Hiraeth are so far my favourites.
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I Floove in love 💕
I have several favorites on this album and the only way they can make it better is indeed live. Story Time at Waken is still my all-time favorite song. Everything else they do moves up and down my favorites list.
If you could see my Spotify top songs of all time...........Storytime at Wacken 2013 is the actual most listened to song for me.
There's a couple of videos of Floor singing O Mio Bambino. I like the video of her singing with her 2nsd band Revamp at a concert
4:52 "I know we won't get to see what that looks like live"
Not quite right: Nightwish' drummer Kai Hahto will hold a solo tour next year where he will play, among other things, songs from their latest album "Yesterwynde". Considering that this song is one of the most fan-favorite, I'm sure he'll play it too. So you can attend one of the concerts (I wrote the dates below) or watch a video that I'm sure one of the fans will shoot and post. Of course, it's not the same as the Nightwish concert, he will play with their backing tracks, but you said yourself that you love drums, right? :)
ALONE - AN EVENING WITH KAI HAHTO:
31.03.25 UK-London, Bush Hall
02.04.25 NL-Utrecht, Tivoli Cloud Nine
03.04.25 DE-Stuttgart, Im Wizemann
04.04.25 DE-Memmingen, Kaminwerk
06.04.25 AT-Vienna, Szene
07.04.25 DE-Regensburg, Eventhalle Airport
08.04.25 DE-Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle Club
10.04.25 DE-Cologne, Kulturkirche
11.04.25 DE-Bochum, Christuskirche
12.04.25 DE-Hamburg, Kent Club
Oh dude I didn't know he was going on tour. I will defo get myself a ticket. I have secured my ticket to see Floor next year.
While you say you won't be able to hear these drums live any time soon, you might actually be wrong: Kai is doing a solo tour (called Alone) next spring, I think it was London, then a bunch of places in Germany and Austria.
I went to the test show last winter, and he said if he ends up doing a full tour after the new Nightwish album is released (which is what's happening), that there are definitely some tracks from it he wants to play live, so this might get played.
NGL, it was a weird experience watching a man play the drums to a backing track, but it was certainly unique.
Oh dude I love drummers (the art I mean) I would go see this. I have tickets to see Floor live, I am so damn excited.
This Song Toumas can make extended more than 60 minutes , and yes Floor .....her voice after her laugh like greater witch then turn so soft like young teenager that's unbelievable !!! that's play lot in the recently memory in brain and it's wonderful !! l
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No coments!! 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Reaction! ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
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Hey Dom. Fantastic reaction as usual. As others have said, don't worry about pausing. It is your reaction and if you feel the need to pause and express your feelings in the moment, please do. I would much rather you do that than forget to mention some of those feelings at the end.
FYI, as for backing up a few seconds, the easiest way to do that is to press the left arrow key on your keyboard. It takes the video back 5 seconds. Press it multiple times to go back in multiples of 5 seconds. The right arrow works the same way, but forward. The J and L keys work the same way, but go in increments of 10 seconds.
Ah ok I am gonna test run that. With my tech savvy skills I'd hit the button and the whole thing would shutdown.
I have heard that Floor's vocals, in this song, are very difficult, but she masters it.
And with what seems like natural ease!
Masterpiece💜 greets .NL
This song will play in my head but there is no way I could ever begin to sing along to it.
Oh yeah I can’t even lipsync to it lol
@@themetalmuse Yeah, come to think of it neither can I.
Well ,it's just...................................Fantastic?,Wonderful?,epic? majestic?,Powerful?,maby it is just ...................NIGHTWISH!😆🤘 Greetings Dominique.😘
😂😂😂 off to get myself a thesaurus
FYI THE RETIREE WAS MARKO. Floor was recording the songs at six weeks after ahe had Lucy.
Hello from Finland 🥰
Hi from Scotland
Tuomas dedicated some lines to Marko Hietala, who left the band as you know:
"You who glow
In deepest woe
Let it be, retiree, the water's fine
Sail carefree"
I didn’t know that, that’s lovely!!
its about time 😀
Seeing this song live might be a long time. Nightwish said they were not touring in support of this album.
Painfully aware of this......I am seeing Floor live next year though on her solo tour.
The ending when Troy comes in it just makes me cry and I don't really know why. It just feels like the journey is over and we don't know if we made it or not.....idk...
This! 100%
I like the way the lyrics are rolling around, like in a slot machine, like you need to take chances in life.
100% love that expression!
A nice sensitive reaction you give, it is also one of the best and heaviest songs on this album, fortunately there are still a few gems. Thank you😘
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Excited to discover more!
I think Tuomas just THINKS he knows what Floor can do, so he tries to exceed that, only to find he has failed again...😁
Hahahaa I think so too
Two weeks were planned for the recordings. After 6 days they finished recording the vocals. They recorded in Floor & Hannes' home studio
@@Haldau I can see Tuomas, afterward, thinking...."Damn, back to the drawing board! I thought I got her this time!"
Hey its my favourite Scottish reactor. I really like to see tihis bumbling idiot more. ( your own words) Awesome reaction as always.
Indeed my own words lol and I seem to reaffirm the validity of them with each new video lol.
Tuomas talking about how awesome Floor was recording the vocals for the album: th-cam.com/users/shorts0r85kkO-tak
Thank you!
This is part of the album. The album is best listened to as a whole.... then you get the whole picture. But I appreciate you wanting to react to the videos before you listen to the whole album.... that's fine. You've always been a good reacter, I'm sure you won't change.
Thank you 🙏
I can see the similarities of uplifting chorus to Storytime - this is my favourite from the new album
Floorgasms are real! The word should be in the dictionary too! 😎🤘🏼🤘🏼
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Man this is the best masterpiece with floor recording... For me nature was a weak album... Endless forms i love it. But these track make this cd a masterpiece.
True!
🤘🤘🤘No teaser on the making of. You can watch it easily.
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Astonishing song! It made me order the earbook straight away, where I'd been holding back with the earlier singles. Kai is on fire here. And the album as a whole is better than the sum of its singles. The gorgeous _Lanternlight_ next, then the album. And I hope the migraines clear up for good long while (fellow ND (but not ADHD) individual here, so I know the comorbidities don't just go away for good).
Head is still "tingly" but I am doing what I can to try and minimise them. I envision Kai's sticks literally spontaneously combusting on this song.
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Hey Italy!!!!
u need watch The Shoemaker!! is beautyfull
Oh I may have a surprise for you! Turn on notifications 📣
If you think its impossible,call Floor❤
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@@themetalmusei am also very curious😅how it is going to be live
If you are doing the videos first, than Lanternlight is next? Looking forward to you reacting to that one, Floorgasms galore. View is fine, I like the perspective and the dynamic of people passing y every now and then. Hope you enjoyed Versailles with AOOSI on repeat.
It was amazing 🤩
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Floor is a linguistic contortionist
Perfect description
@ during Lanternlight your facial expressions were intriguing when Floor suddenly changed up or down and redefined the term angelic.
Man I need you to wordsmith for me.
@ it wouldn’t be difficult for Floor to sing those words after Shoemaker and Ocean of strange islands