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Nightwish Streaming New Track "Shudder Before The Beautiful"

posted Mar 13, 2015 at 1:39 PM by xFiruath.  (3 Comments)

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In anticipation of forthcoming studio album "Endless Forms Most Beautiful," due out on March 27th (EU), 30th (UK) and 31st (US), Finland-based symphonic metal band Nightwish now reveals the album opener "Shudder Before The Beautiful."

"Shudder Before The Beautiful" is premiered today via Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat - listen in at this location. Tuomas Holopainen comments:

"We wanted to present our upcoming album's opening track 'Shudder Before The Beautiful' for everyone to listen to before the album's release in cooperation with the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. Bringing together the most trustworthy Finnish media with a song about universal awe was a match made in heaven in its uniqueness.

"The core of 'Shudder Before The Beautiful' lies in moments such as gazing at The Milky Way on a cold winter's night, seeing a photo of our Planet Earth, 'a pale blue dot' taken by Voyager 1 as a tiny oasis in the unfathomable vastness of space, or when listening to music which momentarily takes away all woe and time.

"And sharing those moments with people you love.”

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3 Comments on "Nightwish Shudders Before The Beautiful"

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1. Raoul writes:

I wasn't excepting exceptionally good - but I was wrong. I'm so glad I was wrong...

# Mar 13, 2015 @ 1:45 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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2. CorpusUpir writes:

K the music is right on and awesome but the vocals are f***in weak where is the power come on this is not pop LAME!!!

# Mar 18, 2015 @ 6:11 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. Drum_Junkie writes:

I have to agree with CorpusUpir. It really seems like Floor is holding back on this song. I hope she really belts it out live. When she sings "We're the voyagers" at the 5 minute mark (right before the band kicks back in), it really came off as timid to me. She also seems buried during the outro section. The guitars are good and crunchy which I feel would have lent itself better to more powerful vocals.

All that said, this is the opening track and I haven't heard the album as a whole, so there may be a deliberate pacing of the flow of the album that would make this restrained opener feel more appropriate. At least I hope so.

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