Because Jesus is fucking metal.
"My fall will be for you,
My love will be in you,
You were the one to cut me,
so now I bleed forever."
~Nightwish,
'Ghost Love Score'
So someone finally woke up and gave the new Nightwish album a proper domestic release. God bless. Anyone who's even remotely a fan of hard rock/metal/completely-overblown nonsense is bound to love Once. It's heavy. Very heavy -- more so than anything they've ever written before, I think. But they use a live orchestra on about half of the songs, making for some of the most ridiculously bombastic Nightwish to date. Some of it falls flat -- their generic metal tracks are perhaps a tad too generic, and the guitar solos generally need a lot more fleshing out. There's nothing kooky-fun like Wishmaster either, unfortunatly. But really, it has one single song that completely trumps all other things, and it alone makes the purchase a worthwhile one. I'll give in to delicious irony, and post it. ^_^
Behold..
Nightwish's Ghost Love Score
This is truly where Nightwish shines, I think, when they do shit like this. If they would only write more material like this, and less of the generic metal, I'd be all over them like.. something. I'd love to see how they pull this off in concert though -- if they rebook their Toronto show, I'm going.
Now go buy the cd.