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Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful [2 Disc - Special Edition] (2015)








Endless Forms Most Beautiful is the eighth album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish. It is due to be released on March 27, 2015 in the EU and Argentina, on March 30 in the UK and on March 31 in the USA. It is the band's first album with new singer Floor Jansen, as well as the first to feature Troy Donockley, who played uillean pipes and various other instruments on Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum, as a permanent member.


It is also their first album without drummer Jukka Nevalainen, who had to take a temporary break from the band due to suffering of strong insomnia, leading him to step away from both the album and its subsequent tour. All the drum parts on the album were consequently played by Kai Hahto from Wintersun and Swallow the Sun. Due to this, the album features only five Nightwish members, despite being their first album released with the band being a sextet.


The first single from the album, titled "Élan", was leaked on February 9, four days before its planned release date of February 13, 2015.


The album was primarily inspired by the work of naturalist Charles Darwin. According to Nightwish's main songwriter Tuomas Holopainen, the album found its main inspiration from a famous quote from Darwin's 1859 highly influential book On the Origin of Species. This quote included the words "endless forms most beautiful", used by Darwin to describe the evolution from one common ancestor to all living organisms, that were subsequently chosen as the title of the album.


There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.


Tuomas said he would like fans to listen to the album from beginning to the end, like they do when they watch a movie, instead of listening to songs on a random basis. He also said there is a "very loose" concept in the album: "It's all about beauty of life, the beauty of existence, nature, science". Comparing it with Imaginaerum, he said: "The previous album was a tribute to the power of imagination. Endless Forms Most Beautiful would be an equal tribute to science and the power of reason".










Band Members:
Floor Jansen - vocals
Tuomas Holopainen - keyboards
Marco Hietala - bass & vocals
Emppu Vuorinen - guitars
Jukka Nevalainen - drums
Troy Donockley - Pipes, flutes & whistles


Additional musicians
Kai Hahto - drums
Richard Dawkins - narration
Pip Williams - orchestral arrangements
James Shearman - Conductor
Metro Voices - choir




Playlist:
CD 1
01. Shudder Before The Beautiful
02. Weak Fantasy
03. Élan
04. Yours Is An Empty Hope
05. Our Decades In The Sun
06. My Walden
07. Endless Forms Most Beautiful
08. Edema Ruh
09. Alpenglow
10. The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula
11. The Greatest Show On Earth


CD2 - The Instrumentals
12. Shudder Before The Beautiful (Instrumental)
13. Weak Fantasy (Instrumental)
14. Élan (Instrumental)
15. Yours Is An Empty Hope (Instrumental)
16. Our Decades In The Sun (Instrumental)
17. My Walden (Instrumental)
18. Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Instrumental)
19. Edema Ruh (Instrumental)
20. Alpenglow (Instrumental)
21. The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula (Orchestral)
22. The Greatest Show On Earth (Instrumental)




Studio Discography:
Angels Fall First 1997
Oceanborn 1998
Wishmaster 2000
Century Child 2002
Once 2004
Dark Passion Play 2007
Imaginaerum 2011
Endless Forms Most Beautiful 2015



Info:
Artist: Nightwish
Album: Endless Forms Most Beautiful [2 Disc - Special Edition]
Genre: Power
SubGenre: Symphonic Metal
Country Of Origin: Finland
Release: 2015 - March 27th, EU and Argentina, March 30th, U.K and March 31st, USA
Audio codec: Mp3
Bitrate: 320kbps
Total playing time: 02:37:48
Size: 363.51 MB
Included - Front