In May 2007, Nightwish announced Anette Olzon as Turunen's replacement. That September, the band released their sixth album, Dark Passion Play, which has sold almost 2 million copies. The album's lead single, "Amaranth", became one of Nightwish's most successful in Europe. The supporting tour, one of the band's largest, started on October 6, 2007, and ended on September 19, 2009. The band released an EP/live album, Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places), in March 2009 as a CD/DVD, and their seventh studio album, Imaginaerum, was released globally on various days in late 2011/early 2012.
On October 1, 2012, Nightwish announced that they had parted ways with Olzon and would be finishing the tour with at that time ReVamp vocalist (ex-After Forever) Floor Jansen. In October 2013, Nightwish made Jansen and longtime session uilleann pipes player Troy Donockley permanent members of the band, and they were featured in the acclaimed album Endless Forms Most Beautiful, released on March 27, 2015. From 2014 to 2019, Nevalainen, while still a member of the band, was inactive due to severe insomnia issues; in July 2019, he announced that he would not be returning to the band, with Kai Hahto, who had acted as his replacement since 2014 (including by performing all drums on Endless Forms Most Beautiful), being promoted as the official drummer, and is featured as such at the ninth album, Human. :II: Nature., which was released internationally on April 10, 2020. After twenty years of performing with the band, it was announced that bassist Marko Hietala had parted ways with the band in January 2021. Jukka Koskinen was announced as Hietala's replacement to play bass during the tour. In August 2022, he was announced as a permanent member of the band.
Nightwish is the third-best-selling band and musical entity in Finland with certified sales of nearly 900,000 certified copies. The group is also the most successful Finnish band worldwide, selling more than 10 million records and receiving more than 60 gold and platinum awards, having released six Number 1 albums and thirteen Number 1 singles. On October 26, 2018, Nightwish was inducted into the Finnish Music Hall of Fame, becoming the honorary gallery's 11th member.
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Studio albums
Angels Fall First (1997)
Oceanborn (1998)
Wishmaster (2000)
Century Child (2002)
Once (2004)
Dark Passion Play (2007)
Imaginaerum (2011)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
Human. :II: Nature. (2020)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Nightwish Lyrics
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Come and meet the travelers who came to town
They have a tale from the past to tell
From the great dark between the stars
We are a special speck of dust
A fleeting moment on an ark
A celebration, a resthaven of life
Lay on a field of green with mother Eve
With Father Pine, reaching high
Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye
Unfolding rendezvous
Deep into the past
Follow the aeon path
Greet a blade of grass
Every endless form most beautiful
Alive, aware, in awe
Before the grandeur of it all
Our floating pale blue ark
Of endless forms most beautiful
Beyond aeons we take a ride
Welcoming the shrew that survived
To see the Tiktaalik
Take her first walk, witness the birth of flight
Deeper down in Panthalassa
A eukaryote finds her way
We return to the very first one
Greet the one we'll soon become
Lay on a field of green with mother Eve
With Father Pine, reaching high
Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye
Unfolding rendezvous
Deep into the past
The lonely eon path
Greet a blade of grass
Every endless form most beautiful
Alive, aware, in awe
Before the grandeur of it all
Our floating pale blue ark
Of endless forms most beautiful
Deep into the past
The lonely eon path
Greet a blade of grass
Every endless form most beautiful
Alive, aware, in awe
Before the grandeur of it all
Our floating pale blue ark
Of endless forms most beautiful
Nightwish's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" is a breathtaking celebration of life's wonder and infinite beauty. The lyrics invite listeners to join a journey through time, following the evolution of the universe and life on earth. Along the way, the travelers meet a diverse range of creatures from shrews to eukaryotes to the first humans. They marvel at the richness of life and our place in it, as one "special speck of dust" on an "ark" of living beings.
The song is full of colorful imagery, like "laying on a field of green with mother Eve" and "greeting a blade of grass." This imagery invites listeners to imagine themselves as part of this cosmic journey, connecting them to the larger story of life. The lyrics also highlight the interconnectedness of all living things, from the smallest blade of grass to the whole biosphere. The song encourages us to appreciate the beauty and diversity of life and to recognize our role as stewards of the planet.
Line by Line Meaning
Come on, hop on, let's take a ride
Join me on a journey through time and space
Come and meet the travelers who came to town
Discover the tales of life that came before us
They have a tale from the past to tell
Listen to the stories of evolution and creation
From the great dark between the stars
From the depths of the universe, we explore
We are a special speck of dust
Human life is unique and precious
A fleeting moment on an ark
Our lives are brief, but we are a part of something greater
A celebration, a resthaven of life
Life is a joyous occasion, a relaxing place of existence
Lay on a field of green with mother Eve
Connect with nature, return to our roots
With Father Pine, reaching high
Stand with the grandeur of nature and its tallest trees
Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye
Observe yourself in a mirror, as you are a part of nature
Unfolding rendezvous
A meeting with our own past and future
Deep into the past
Travel back in history
Follow the aeon path
Trace the timeline of life and evolution
Greet a blade of grass
Appreciate the smallest, simplest life forms
Every endless form most beautiful
All forms of life are wonderful and worth celebrating
Alive, aware, in awe
Living beings are conscious and in wonder of the world around them
Before the grandeur of it all
In the face of the immense beauty of life on Earth and beyond
Our floating pale blue ark
Earth, our home and the only known planet that supports life
Of endless forms most beautiful
A celebration of the countless unique and diverse life forms on Earth
Beyond aeons we take a ride
Travel beyond the limits of time and space
Welcoming the shrew that survived
Celebrating the survival and diversity of life
To see the Tiktaalik
Witness the emergence of new life forms
Take her first walk, witness the birth of flight
Observe the evolution of life and its wonders
Deeper down in Panthalassa
Exploring the depths of the oceans and their secrets
A eukaryote finds her way
Discovering the evolution of single-celled life forms
We return to the very first one
Travel back to the earliest forms of life
Greet the one we'll soon become
Contemplate the future of life and its endless possibilities
The lonely eon path
The long journey of life, often in isolation
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Tuomas Holopainen
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@SoranMBane
As someone who's always had an interest in animals and biology, the science references in these lyrics are really cool. Let's see, we've got:
"Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye" - An aye-aye is a really weird, cool species of lemur that exists today. It's also a primate, which makes it one of our modern-day cousins.
"Welcoming the shrew that survived" - Likely a reference to the idea that primates may have evolved from a species of extinct, shrew-like mammal (which wasn't literally a shrew, of course, but it probably looked a lot like one).
"To see the tiktaalik take her first walk" - The tiktaalik was an extinct ancient fish with leg-like fins that would have allowed it to walk on land for short periods of time. Scientists believe it might represent the evolutionary transition between fish and amphibians.
"Deeper down in Panthalassa" - Panthalassa is the name given to the ancient super-ocean that surrounded Pangaea, until continental drift eventually created the continents and oceans we know today.
"A eukaryote finds her way" - A eukaryote is any organism with cells that have a nucleus contained inside a membrane; basically, the kind of cell most people would have learned about in high school biology. Almost all multicellular organisms are eukaryotes, so if eukaryote cells hadn't evolved, we wouldn't be here.
So in general, this is some pretty smart stuff. We don't see enough appreciation out there for the beauty of life in all its complexity. :)
@cimmerian5194
Lol, Darwinian evolution is not biology, it's religion. In fact, it's superstition because at least other religions contain psychological truths, where as Darwinian evolution is really based on faith alone. Anyone who knows anything about history and science knows that that this idiotic hypothesis (it's not a theory because in scientific discourse, theory is a term that requires some evidence to be called that) makes no sense and there is no proof for it. Darwin was a nutjob and this idea came from his grandfather, not him. And again, it's not science...it's a political ideology which presents nature only as a dominance hierarchy and a ruthless battle for survival and therefore in context of the time when those idiots lived gives them pseudoscientific justification to enslave the "lesser races", because white British men are the peak of evolution for them. What Darwin and his proponents forget to mention is that symbiosis is as much a part of nature as survival of the fittest is, and even human beings could not exist without our gut bacteria + nature itself is full of organisms that help each other to survive.
Darwinian evolution is a pseudoscientific political and religious doctrine and scientists promoting this crap are what nothing more than moral prostitutes or people too afraid to speak out, because they know there is zero evidence for this in observable reality. Not only that, but for almost 200 years in which garbage hypothesis has been around, the Darwinians fail to present any real evidence and they are trying to portray anyone who disagrees as some wild-haired Bible thumping creationist. In other words, in lack of evidence they are using ad hominem attacks on people who for the most part are not religious loonies, but are biologists, microbiologists etc. and have equal or better scientific credentials as the Darwinians.
Evolution is a fact. Organisms evolve and adapt over periods of time and we can see this. The mechanics of evolution are for the most part still unclear and it's an ongoing process of determining how it happens. Darwinian evolution on the other hand is religion and nothing else, and on top of no real evidence for it, the best proof that it's garbage is that the most popular Darwinians need to sink so low to use ad hominem attacks on real scientists because they have real evidence of their own.
On top of all that, Darwinian evolution is a linguistic fraud as well. One of the mechanisms of this idiotic theory is the so-called natural selection.
Natural - of the natural world.
Selection - the action or fact of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best or most suitable.
So they are using a word which implies conscious choice to describe a theory that promotes "lucky coincidences". A very stupid pseudo philosopher named Daniel Dennett once said something like: "we know it's all a series of lucky conicidences". Well ok, if that's supposed to be science, then go predict something from a lucky coincidence or replicate something from it.
It's a good song, but Tuomas is once again trying to be cute and progressive while having absolutely no idea what he's talking about :D.
@Maysticha
Come on, hop on, let’s take a ride
Come and meet the travelers who came to town
They have a tale from the past to tell
From the great dark between the stars
We are a special speck of dust
A fleeting moment on an ark
A celebration, a resthaven
Of life
Lay on a field of green
With mother eve
With father pine reaching high
Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye
Unfolding rendezvous
Deep into the past
Follow the aeon path
Greet a blade of grass
Every endless form most beautiful
Alive, aware, in awe
Before the grandeur of it all
Our floating pale blue ark
Of endless forms most beautiful
Beyond aeons we take a ride
Welcoming the shrew that survived
To see the tiktaalik take her first walk
Witness the birth of flight
Deeper down in panthalassa
An eukaryote finds her way
We return to the very first one
Greet the one we’ll soon become
Lay on a field of green
With mother eve
With father pine reaching high
Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye
Unfolding rendezvous
Deep into the past
Follow the aeon path
Greet a blade of grass
Every endless form most beautiful
Alive, aware, in awe
Before the grandeur of it all
Our floating pale blue ark
Of endless forms most beautiful
Deep into the past
Follow the aeon path
Greet a blade of grass
Every endless form most beautiful
Alive, aware, in awe
Before the grandeur of it all
Our floating pale blue ark
Of endless forms most beautiful
@FloorJansenOfficial
Recording this video was an absolute blast!
@cruzanmongoose
You rock
@aldodimpudus
and i love your outfit for this video
@NeXoN412
4:15 Looks like you got an orgasm from Tuomas' piano party. lol
@NeXoN412
@Richard Frye lol
@kirkg9286
Love this song and well all Nightwish songs!
@edwardspencer-small7021
Never seen a metal band look so happy to be playing metal.
@maffy715
Watch Isaac from Epica play guitar
@szachmatol
It's not metal - it's a disco.
@agrazaj223
you are a disco , your mind is a disco you eyes is a disco you all disco stupid@@szachmatol