When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Tuomas Holopainen and co will appear at Donington on Sunday, June 12, as main stage sub-headliners to event closers Iron Maiden.
Organisers Live Nation say: Symphonic metal doesnt get better than Nightwish, who will unleash their operatic duets and shredding guitars on the final day. A total of nine acts have been confirmed so far, under Maidens fellow headliners Black Sabbath and Rammstein. Nightwish are currently touring Europe in support of eighth album Endless Forms Most Beautiful, with shows confirmed next year in Australia, Asia, North America and Russia. Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors. You can unsubscribe at any time and well never share your details without your permission. ![]() However, their new release Human II: Nature deserves close listening. The symphonic metal band have made a massive contribution to Finland s global metal image and their unmistakable style continues to evolve in exciting directions on this, their ninth studio album. Nightwish have always had the ability to capture the imagination with the kind of sound that evokes fairy-tale landscapes, painting vivid pictures of the beautiful geography in northern Europe. With this album explicitly exploring humanitys complex relationship with nature, however, Nightwish are confidently playing to their strengths. Human II: Nature does not seem to be obviously concerned with knocking out the hits but instead focuses more on longer compositions. And yet, tracks like Music and Shoemaker, and the folk-inspired Harvest and Hows the Heart, contain the kind of riffs, melodies, and rhythms listeners will struggle to get out of their heads. Vocalist Floor Jansen (ex-After Forever) is, after all, a true master of all those singing styles that we have come to expect in symphonic metal. ![]() ![]() Pip Williams, the bands orchestral arranger, has done a fantastic job on the connected last seven tracks, exploring All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World. Here, instrumentals dominate and the vocals are only a subtle contribution, sometimes through narration: an approach which Nightwish have tried out before, but never taken this far. In short, Human II: Nature is a blast, especially for those sonic perfectionists who enjoy the musical hinterlands where rock meets classical and sometimes even folk music.
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