Seriously....great....album. Worth the wait. Though, I don't hear a major difference from Dark Passion Play, as this was supposed to be "written for Anette" where DPP was not. Also, I'm a huge fan of Marco's vocals, so: (uilleann pipes on a Finnish symphonic metal album - ay yi yi) [YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJRBl6DhOcE[/YT]
I've had it for about a month, and I've recently started to listen to a few of the tracks. I've really got into "Storytime", "Turn Loose The Mermaids" and "The Crow, The Owl And The Dove". Will try to listen to more soon.
He will, I'll make sure of that (I introduced it to him - cheekily taking credit here ). Love 'Turn Loose The Mermaids', I've been introducing it to friends who aren't big fans of Nightwish and they really like it, so job done for me. Shows a great emotional side to them. But Imaginaerum as a whole has a much more cinematic (obviously) feel than Once and Dark Passion Play and I really appreciate that. It's probably become my favourite of the three (them being the only three I have)
A lot of other bands are experimenting with something similar, like Within Temptations "Unforgiven", trying to have an overall cinematic/storyarc to the songs. Imaginaerium does it very well, but then I've always liked Anette, never got all the hate for her.
You should get End Of An Era. It presents some of the older songs in a more powerful way than they were done originally. I'm looking forward to the movie itself. Should be interesting.
I didn't lie. I just left out a few facts- namely, you. I will- I've also got "Once" and "Dark Passion Play", but I'm listening through "Imaginaerum" first. As it happens I know one of their older songs rather well- "The End Of All Hope". I didn't like that one much, so I ignored Nightwish from then on. Glad Eyes found the albums. At the moment... [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlOQPOR8z7g[/yt]