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)
Scaretale
Nightwish Lyrics
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Dying to meet you, litlle child, enter enter this sideshow
Time for bed, the cradle still rocks
Thirteen chimes on a dead man's clock
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock
The bride will lure you, cook you, eat you
Burning farms and squealing pigs
A pool of snakes to swim with, oh sweet poison
Bite me, bite me
Ladies and gentlemen
Be heartlessly welcome
To Cirque De Morgue
And what a show we have for you tonight
Restless souls will put on their dancing shoes
Mindless ghouls with lots of limbs to lose
Illusionists, contortionist,
Tightrope walkers tightening the noose
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
Horde of spiders, closet tentacles
Laughing harpies with their tallons ripping, sher-chrisss, per-vizz
The pendulum still sways for you
Such are the darks here to show you, child in a corner
Fallen mirrors, all kingdom in cinders
The lyrics in Nightwish's song "Scaretale" tell the story of a dark circus sideshow that lures in innocent children and traps them in a nightmare. The opening lines "Once upon a time in a daymare / Dying to meet you, little child, enter enter this sideshow" set the tone for a twisted adventure. The next verse talks about the ticking of a clock, adding to the ominous feeling of the circus. The bride of the sideshow is described as a monster who lures in children, cooks and eats them, and feeds on the fear of the innocent.
The lyrics continue with descriptions of burning farms, pools of snakes, and other horrific scenes. The chorus introduces the characters of the circus, including restless souls, mindless ghouls, illusionists, contortionists, and tightrope walkers. All of them seem to be waiting for their next victim to arrive. The song ends with the image of a child in a corner, surrounded by fallen mirrors and a kingdom in ruins.
Overall, "Scaretale" is a creepy and unsettling song filled with vividly detailed images of terror.
Line by Line Meaning
Once upon a time in a daymare
In a nightmare-like setting, a story is about to unfold.
Dying to meet you, little child, enter enter this sideshow
The sinister characters of the show are eagerly awaiting the arrival of an unsuspecting child.
Time for bed, the cradle still rocks
The child is being put to bed, but the unsettling atmosphere persists.
Thirteen chimes on a dead man's clock
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock
The sound of an ominous clock ticking adds to the unease.
The bride will lure you, cook you, eat you
Your dear innocence boiled to feed the evil in need of fear
The bride is a villain who plans to harm the child and use their fear to satisfy evil desires.
Burning farms and squealing pigs
A pool of snakes to swim with, oh sweet poison
Bite me, bite me
The dangers that await the child are vividly described through images of chaos and venomous creatures.
Ladies and gentlemen
Be heartlessly welcome
To Cirque De Morgue
And what a show we have for you tonight
The twisted circus welcomes its audience with a callous greeting and promises them a terrifying performance.
Restless souls will put on their dancing shoes
Mindless ghouls with lots of limbs to lose
Illusionists, contortionist,
Tightrope walkers tightening the noose
The circus is filled with undead performers who are ready to entertain at the cost of their own limbs and lives.
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
The eerie refrain adds to the unsettling atmosphere of the song.
Horde of spiders, closet tentacles
Laughing harpies with their tallons ripping, sher-chrisss, per-vizz
The creatures that inhabit the circus are grotesque and nightmarish.
The pendulum still sways for you
Such are the darks here to show you, child in a corner
Fallen mirrors, all kingdom in cinders
The pendulum represents the inevitable harm that will come to the child, who is now trapped and surrounded by destruction.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: ERNO VUORINEN, JUKKA NEVALAINEN, MARKO HIETALA, TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN
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Pedro Martins
Ring-a-ring-a-roses
A pocket full of posies
Atishoo, atishoo
We all fall down
Once upon a time in a daymare
Dying to meet you, little child, enter enter this sideshow
Time for bed the cradle still rocks
13 chimes on a dead man's clock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock
The bride will lure you, cook you, eat you
Your dear innocence boiled to feed the evil in need of fear
Burning farms and squealing pigs
A pool of snakes to swim with, oh sweet poison bite me bite me
“Ladies and gentlemen
Be heartlessly welcome!
To Cirque De Morgue
And what a show we have for you tonight!”
Restless souls will put on their dancing shoes
Mindless ghouls with lot of limbs to lose
Illusionists, contortionist,
Tightrope-walkers tightening the noose
Horde of spiders, closet tentacles
Laughing harpies with their talons ripping, sher-chrisss, per-vizzz
The pendulum still sways for you
Such are the darks here to show you, child in a corner, fallen mirrors, all
kingdom in cinder
kgtmustang
Dont want to be a spoiler but Jukkas not coming back & the insomnia story is a cover. I know quite a bit about this band and have had much personal involvement with them. The bottom line is this: Floor Jansen is a wiccan. In 2009 she contacted the freakin illuminati and attempted to be their representative in fem metal.
So she went through this ritual and demons went into her and made her insane, so she spent almost 2 full years in an institution.
Why do I tell this? 1) its so people will know the dangers of playing with wirchcraft and demons, 2) its so people will realize that this person you see IS NOT the real Floor Jansen from after forever, and 3) its so people might actually understand the tragedy that is today this band.
Jukka sees demons and refuses to sleep when hes anywhere near them so he couldnt take that anymore and left.
Empuu also has alot of troubling dreams and is MEDICATED + seeing a therapist. Marko has taken to heavy drinking. I warned all of them. Tuomas who is apparantly under some form of other wordly influence cant even be around his mother who taught him & Tarja piano & keyboard from their early childhood. Tarja & Anette are terrified of Jansen as she threatens them to send demons to them.
I know its alot to swallow and personally it kills me because I loved this band and these people. Marco was "my evil twin" aka basically a brother/friend for Gods sake.
So there it is and know you know. I get alot of crap for revealing this stuff, but what idiots really think the illuminati/witchcraft that runs this world didnt want to get its hands into symphonic metal? Just ask Mark jansen about it, or Timo Kotepelto, or Jorn Lande, or Tom Englund.
Whitney Feroce
Her voice is so perfect for this song it's crazy.
Fran Rodríguez
Anette was part of one of the best Nightwish albums.
Ezio Auditore
Two
PaganArwen
Once and Imaginaerum were their two best albums. With only 2 of the original members of the band left it's not the same anymore. Century Child/ Once put them on the map internationally in 2002/2004, and Imaginaerum saved Annette from an album that was not written for her voice type/range. (Dark Passion Play)
Ivan Lizama
@PaganArwen 3:14 the wife of thoumas
Ivan Lizama
3:14 the wife of thoumas 😘
escapist from hell
I agree
Seamus Moley
I have so much love for Tarja and Floor but Anette really knocked it out it out of the park on Scaretale. It was such a good song for her voice and she really brought the theatricality to this recording. Imaginarum in general was bloody amazing, it's sad that her relationship with Nightwish ended the way it did
Andrevus Whitetail
I absolutely love Floor, but not even she can match that one, single instance of raw evil witch vibe Anette had with the line "Squeeeaaaling PIGS!"
valhalex86
Yeah, Annette was such an actress. Her live performances of imaginaerum were absolutely great