Amorphis - The Four Wise Ones

Monday, time to see what's got played during normal categories during the "Hardrock Evening" that when off at the Twelfth Night, 5th of January.

The Bonus tune we played yesterday, to they we dust of the first one.

1. A Band That Should Have Been Bigger:
2. Highfaluting
3. Best Right Now:
4. Twin Guitars:
5. Best Textstrophe:
6. It Swings:
7. After Party:
8. Bonus

This was pretty hard one to set, what preferences should I choose. Well my first idea was to pick something fresh, a newcomer that have everything in the way to become that rising star that everyone dreams off. But during the time i changed my mind and went through the record collection to see what I could find. Quite immediately I found the Canadian thrash metal band ANNIHILATOR, they were founded in 1984, has released sixteen studio albums and not been given the attention and respect as they should have been. An excellent chose for category 1. "A Band That Should Have Been Bigger". I choosed "Alison Hell" taken from the debut album "Alice in Hell", released April 17, 1989.

VLTIMAS "Praevalidus" - Chief Rebel (Never heard this one before, cool)
TESTAMENT "Jun-Jun" - Holm (Hard and heavy, they should be bigger)
NEVERMORE "This Godless Endeavor" - P.Öbrink (Hell yeah)
AMORPHIS "Winters Sleep" - Hellan (Great choice, they should be bigger)
CARACH ANGREN "When Crows Tick On Windows" - M. Öbrink (Cool band with great Videos)
TRIVIUM "The Wretchedness Inside" - Eriksdotter ((Hell yeah)
AMORPHIS "The Four Wise Ones" - Sandström (Great choice, they should be bigger)
HATEWORK "In The Hands Of Deamons" - Jens (Great choice, support your locals)
ANNIHILATOR "Alison Hell" - Stones

So over this week I'll present all the categories in the order of recording, Today = "Bands That Should Have Been Bigger", Tuesday = "Highfaluting", did one extra for yesterday as the "Bonus" tune, that got added. The rest of this week I will mix mine with the other participant's choices, so here we go.

Today we pick the pretty obvious band on the category 1. "A Band That Should Have Been Bigger", 2 votes on the Finnish heavy metal band AMORPHIS, so true, they really deserve it.

Today's tune "The Four Wise Ones" is taken from the twelfth studio album "Under the Red Cloud", released worldwide on 4 September 2015 through Nuclear Blast. The album was produced by Jens Bogren, who was described as "just the right person" by keyboardist Santeri Kallio. This would be the band's last album with longtime bassist Niklas Etelävuori who left in 2017.

The band is starting their tour with Swedish SOILWORK on the January 11th and on January 15th they play here in Stockholm at Fryshuset, see all the dates below.

Upcoming tourdates:

Fri, JAN 11 Turbinenhalle 2 Oberhausen, Germany
Sat, JAN 12 Doornroosje Nijmegen, Netherlands
Sun, JAN 13 Markthalle Hamburg, Germany
Mon, JAN 14 Amager Bio Copenhagen, Denmark
Tue, JAN 15 Fryshuset Stockholm, Sweden
Wed, JAN 16 Rockefeller Oslo, Norway
Fri, JAN 18 Capitol Hanover, Germany
Sat, JAN 19 Hellraiser Leipzig, Germany
Sun, JAN 20 Kwadrat Krakowiany, Poland
Tue, JAN 22 Arenele Romane Bucharest, Romania
Wed, JAN 23 Universiada Hall Sofia, Bulgaria
Fri, JAN 25 Barba Negra Budapest, Hungary
Sat, JAN 26 Ottakringer Brauerei Vienna, Austria
Sun, JAN 27 Masters Of Rock Cafe Zlin, Czech Republic
Mon, JAN 28 Majestic Music Club Bratislava, Slovakia
Tue, JAN 29 Kesselhaus Berlin, Germany
Wed, JAN 30 Backstage Werk Munich, Germany
Fri, FEB 01 Music Hall Geiselwind, Germany
Sat, FEB 02 Essigfabrik Cologne, Germany
Sun, FEB 03 Trix Antwerp, Belgium
Mon, FEB 04 Electric Ballroom London, United Kingdom
Wed, FEB 06 Cabaret Sauvage Paris, France
Thu, FEB 07 Bikini Toulouse, France
Fri, FEB 08 Mon Madrid, Spain
Sat, FEB 09 Salamandra Barcelona, Spain
Sun, FEB 10 Transbordeur Lyon, France
Tue, FEB 12 Live Club Milan, Italy
Wed, FEB 13 Schlachthof Wiesbaden, Germany
Thu, FEB 14 Garage Saarbrücken, Germany
Fri, FEB 15 LKA Longhorn Stuttgart, Germany
Sat, FEB 16 Z7 Pratteln, Switzerland
Tue, MAR 05 Bingo Kyiv, Ukraine
Wed, MAR 06 RE:PUBLIC Minsk, Belarus
Fri, MAR 08 Luna Khabarovsk, Russia
Sat, MAR 09 Sanremo Vladivostok, Russia
Mon, MAR 11 Podzemka Novosibirsk, Russia
Wed, MAR 13 Tele-Club Yekaterinburg, Russia
Thu, MAR 14 Zvezda Samara, Russia
Fri, MAR 15 GLAVCLUB GREEN CONCERT Moskva, Russia
Sat, MAR 16 Club Zal St Petersburg, Russia
Fri, APR 12 Abril Pro Rock Recife, Brazil
Sun, APR 14 Espaço 555 São Paulo, Brazil
Tue, APR 16 Estudio Mirage Limeira, Brazil
Thu, APR 18 Club Blondie Santiago, Chile
Fri, APR 19 Inti Palace II La Paz, Bolivia
Sat, APR 20 Ex-carnivale Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tue, APR 23 Ace Of Spades Club Bogotá, Colombia
Wed, APR 24 Centro Internacional de Ferias y Convenciones San Salvador, El Salvador
Fri, APR 26 Escena Academy Monterrey, Mexico
Sat, APR 27 C3 Stage Guadalajara, Mexico
Sun, APR 28 Auditorio BlackBerry México D.f., Mexico
Sat, JUN 01 Fortarock Nijmegen, Netherlands
Thu, JUN 27 Provinssi Seinäjoki, Finland
Fri, JUN 28 Tuska Festival Helsinki, Finland
Sat, JUN 29 Full Force Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Thu, JUL 18 John Smith Rock Festival Laukaa, Finland
Fri, JUL 19 Rock am Stück Fritzlar, Germany
Fri, AUG 02 Porispere Pori, Finland
Fri, AUG 23 NOAF (Neuborn Open Air Festival) Wörrstadt, Germany
Thu, SEP 19 Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
Fri, SEP 20 Irving Plaza New York, NY
Sat, SEP 21 Palladium Worcester, MA
Sun, SEP 22 Upstate Concert Hall Saratoga County, NY
Mon, SEP 23 Club Soda Montreal, Canada
Tue, SEP 24 Mavericks Ottawa, Canada
Wed, SEP 25 Salle Multi Québec, Canada
Thu, SEP 26 The Opera House Toronto, Canada
Fri, SEP 27 Agora Theater & Ballroom Cleveland, OH
Sat, SEP 28 The Forge Joliet, IL
Sun, SEP 29 Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
Mon, SEP 30 The Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
Wed, OCT 02 Dickens Calgary, Canada
Thu, OCT 03 Starlite Room Edmonton, Canada
Sat, OCT 05 Venue Nightclub Vancouver, Canada
Sun, OCT 06 El Corazon Seattle, WA
Tue, OCT 08 Ace Of Spades Sacramento, CA
Wed, OCT 09 Slim's San Francisco, CA
Thu, OCT 10 The Roxy Theatre Los Angeles, CA
Fri, OCT 11 City National Grove Of Anaheim Anaheim, CA
Sat, OCT 12 Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ
Mon, OCT 14 Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
Tue, OCT 15 The Truman Kansas City, MO
Wed, OCT 16 Trees - DIN Productions Dallas, TX
Thu, OCT 17 Scout Bar Houston, TX
Sat, OCT 19 The Orpheum Tampa, FL
Sun, OCT 20 The Masquerade Atlanta, GA
Mon, OCT 21 Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD

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Nightwish - Élan

Since the band’s inception in 1996, NIGHTWISH have released eight full length releases, sold millions of records world-wide, and become one of the most popular female-fronted, symphonic metal bands of all time. In 2015 NIGHTWISH plan on carrying this successful formula forward and release their ninth full length album, “Endless Forms Most Beautiful”. “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”- Charles Darwin from On the Origin of the Species

Produced by Tero “TeeCee” Kinnumen, “Endless Forms Most Beautiful“ features album artwork by Finnish artist Toxic Angel and includes adult & childrens choirs, collaborative work with esteemed orchestral arranger Pip Williams, session drum work by Kai Hahto of WINTERSUN (who is sitting in for the ailing NIGHTWISH drummer Jukka Nevalainen), and a guest appearance by evolutionary biologist, writer, and atheist Richard Dawkins.

Commented NIGHTWISH mastermind/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen: "The long-awaited NIGHTWISH music video 'Élan' is finally here. Inspired by the untold stories of abandoned places around Finland, the video was nearly a year in the making and features some of the most loved Finnish actors and actresses. And also the legendary NIGHTWISH symbol, a snowy owl (Bubo Scandiaca in Latin) called 'Urho' ('Braveheart')."

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species.
According to Holopainen, the starting point for writing the song "Élan" was a quote by Walt Whitman (who he referred to as "my hero Uncle Walt"): "Oh, while I live to be the ruler of life, Not a slave, To meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me." Holopainen stated, "The underlying theme of the song is nothing less than the meaning of life, which can be something different for all of us. It´s important to surrender yourself to the occasional 'free fall' and not to fear the path less travelled by."

NIGHTWISH's new full-length album, "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", will be made available on March 27 in Europe and March 31 in the U.S. via Nuclear Blast.

The cover artwork for "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" was created by the band's longtime collaborator Toxic Angel. Famed evolutionary biologist and atheist writer/leader Richard Dawkins appears as a guest on the effort.

Longtime NIGHTWISH drummer Jukka Nevalainen sat out the recording sessions for "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" due to health issues; Kai Hahto (WINTERSUN, SWALLOW THE SUN, TREES OF ETERNITY) replaced him.

The "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" title came from Charles Darwin's "The Origin Of Species" book, where he wrote: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

Singer Floor Jansen, who officially joined the band in 2013, made her live debut as the frontwoman of NIGHTWISH on October 1, 2012 at Showbox Sodo in Seattle, Washington.

Upon release across various online stores (Nuclear Blast, Mad Supply, EMP, Napalm etc), Endless Forms Most Beautiful came in multiple editions, ready for pre-orders. Note that some of these editions are exclusive to certain websites.

Regular Edition A CD containing the 11 tracks on the album.
2 CD Audiobook Edition The regular album and a bonus CD featuring instrumentals of all the songs, packaged in an audiobook/digipak.
 2 CD Necklace Edition The Audiobook Edition with a bonus limited edition necklace.
2 LP Clear Vinyl Edition The regular album on 2 clear vinyl records.
2 LP Black Vinyl Edition The regular album on 2 black vinyl records.
2 LP Splatter Vinyl Edition The regular album on 2 "splatter" vinyl records. It is limited to 500 copies worldwide.
2 LP Blue Vinyl Edition The regular album on 2 blue vinyl records. It is limited to 500 copies worldwide.
2 LP Gold Vinyl Edition The regular album on 2 gold vinyl records. It is limited to 300 copies worldwide.
2 LP Silver Vinyl Edition The regular album on 2 silver vinyl records. It is limited to 100 copies worldwide.
3 CD Earbook Edition The regular album, the bonus instrumental CD and another bonus CD featuring orchestral versions of all the songs. It is packaged in a lush, 28 x 28 cm earbook.
Deluxe 3 CD Earbook Silver Edition The Earbook Edition as well as a 10" Mini-LP silver vinyl.
Deluxe 3 CD Earbook Gold Edition The Earbook Edition as well as a 10" Mini-LP gold vinyl.

As of the 16th of January, the Earbook Edition and 2 LP Silver Vinyl Edition is exclusive to the Nuclear Blast web store, while all of the other editions can be found on both the Nuclear Blast and MadSupply Nightwish stores. The MadSupply Nightwish Store is also accepting pre-orders of the album in a bundle, also containing a T-shirt. 

Todays tune "Élan" is the first single from the upcoming album " Endless Forms Most Beautiful".



Making of "Endless Forms Most Beautiful"



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