FIRST TIME HEARING | REACTION | NIGHTWISH: WEAK FANTASY

THOSE DRUMS! #nightwish #weakfantasy #reaction

[@SagaciousTwo]

I love how Floor's eyes roll on the line, "A starving crew with showoff toys".

[@wilcovanleest6944]

Yes Floor’s storytelling makes her performance even greater👍🏻

[@janitor6669]

The best Gene Simmons impression out there.

[@Carl30442]

Tuomas windmilling while playing lol.

[@crabuki1273]

I know, right? How does he do that in the middle of a show and still play his parts? You KNOW he's sweating like crazy, you'd think the keys would get slippery as all hell.

[@madeofwar8781]

You know speaking as a straight man, I find that hot, is that normal? My bromance for Tuomas is real.

[@shadows-sweet-embrace]

@@madeofwar8781 I ship it

[@shanecollins5601]

That's how drums are supposed to be played. Dammit.

[@user-mc9qo3fb5b]

🤘🤘🤘🤘👋👋👋 Great composion 👍👍👍..... Like.... Great reaction.... 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@PaulOutdoors]

No words can describe this. It's a transcendental experience listening to and watching Nightwish 😍

[@Matt-rn7ub]

Hey The Heavy. To know Nightwish, you should know their original singer Tarja Turunen. Floor is the third singer. So I recommend to listen to a song with Tarja, and one of my favourite song with her is Phantom of the Opera Live. A MUST for every Nightwish Fan. :D

[@imrevansanten504]

Kai, drums double kick...Marko in sync with Kai....Metal Mozart, Tuomas..in sync...Emmpu and Troy in sync...and than there is Floor...in sync with Marko...no words man...you gotta love this one..🤘😉

[@bocatampere]

Criminally underrated song 🔥🤘👊🏼💥🇫🇮

[@danbern6422]

Go back to Wacken 2013. Dark Chest of Wonders( show opener) and Ghost River really rock.

[@johto]

Love those drums on this mix! With a subwoofer reaching to around 16Hz, its almost as Kai is drumming live on my living room ! 🙉

[@KasperiVonSchrowe]

Good audio set brings the music into body. I know what you mean, though my set starts to pump up after 20Hz or so. I can see speakers living under that but no good power coming through.

[@casualcarolinafishing5835]

If you like what you're hearing, why wouldn't you go back and check out where they came from to get where they are now? Just makes sense to me. I'd start from the beginning. You'll get to see some of the songs you've already seen with Floor sung by the original singer the songs were written for then work your way to the new album that just dropped earlier this year.

[@Evalyn8888]

You should go through this experience from the beginning to see how Tuomas progress in his writing. Every singer gave Nightwish something special. Tarja's voice influenced opera/metal/rock direction and when I listened to it as a child, I instantly fell in love. I didn´t know much about English back then, but now, when I listen to old stuff live, I can´t stand her pronunciation. But she is a phenomenal singer and her solo career is exactly what she needed. Anette got backlash from fans and I totally understand, since she had such different voice/style. However, I still enjoyed their albums, because it was something new. Anette is a great singer, but she couldn´t compete with Tarja's super vocals. With Floor, they are their final badass form. They can do anything and it reflects in their happiness on stage. That is why everyone enjoys them live. The new album Human. :||: Nature. is a masterpiece and again it is something different. I can´t wait for their upcoming tour, where I can enjoy it live and as we know Nightwish, it will be even superior!

"10th man down" has the same vibe. You might love that too.

[@timgibbons4724]

Romanticide seems to be a mandatory Nightwish adventure. 😎😎😎

[@aeldin131]

lyrically this is one of my very favorite NW songs. Musically it’s pretty damn awesome as well.

[@Antonio-tn9cl]

From the same concert and from the same album of Weak fantasy, check out Shudder before the beatifull, great keys and guitars

[@misi24069]

The one from Wembley is also lit 🔥🔥

[@ruanprinsloo6215]

You are the archetypal reluctant Nightwish fan who can't help but be pulled into the rabbit hole. You sir, have my like and subscribe.

[@ascensionenergetics85]

I love that you’re willing to take a deeper dive into NW! They’re not all gonna be this heavy but no less awesome! You still have epic tracks left too! There’s also overlap in songs sung by Floor and the previous singers. Maybe a couple 2 in 1 back to back? Greatest Show on Earth (Tampere) is definitely a must. You might want to listen to some Tarja songs from End of an Era before Poet & the Pendulum so you get a feel for what Tuomas went through when he fired Tarja. Very deep story in just that 1 song. I’ll be with ya! 🔥🤙

[@aeonspeace6995]

The topic of the lyric is very interesting, I assume Tribal is the continuation of this song 🤔 Next The kinslayer live in Buenos Aires Argentina 🤘

[@stamasd8500]

Yes, this is a recurring theme. Another song in a similar vein is 7 Days To The Wolves.

[@hannadegerlund3227]

Wintersun sons of winter and stars Live from Sonic pump studio Kai Hahto on the drums 😎👍

[@theheavy3468]

Yeah, I have seen it, it's great!

[@MV19]

good enough I hope they will be successful in the future.

[@joukokarjalainen8849]

Pure perfection. Whole stage looks imazing. This must have been expencive produktion. But it's only in Finland. We are Lucky to have this official video☺️. Thank you.

[@thechild4419]

If you check the Buenos AIres 2018 show, you can pass every album (except the last one), It's a beautiful journey through their discography. A part from that every album is great and has its own sound. Probably going from the last to the first is the best way imo and of course do the live concert! Poet and the pendulum next maybe?

[@mikecooper7965]

Live shows from NW a class above ANYTHING else, the only song i listen to thats not live is Shoemaker and I'm really needing a live version of that.

[@BMindless]

The grins just keeping getting bigger the deeper you get into your journey into Nightwish. So damn cool to see!

[@Dreamweaver1963]

Saddened by the loss of Neil, but Kai helps ease the spirit.

[@maggaw9869]

Tuomas,Floor, Marko,Kai,Troy, Emppu :) Tampere Finland.Kiitos.

[@mariaelenasanchezyanez690]

Marco Hietala the viking, amazing percusion

[@loriec6918]

Your face: smiles, eyes lit, happy as fck! My humble suggestion: continue with the band, with Floor, and add some earlier singers/songs/albums as delicious history/evolution spice to your discovery of NW.

[@lujalainen1]

thanx mister heavy for good choise to musci and reaction. i dont see this video before or i forget already. wow this song really rock and i like lyrics not same like every other song in the world. pure magic. thanx and great day there.

[@nightgoblin29]

Just watched your Epica song.. And now this? What a feast.. Thank you!!!!

[@oo.llpee.7457]

I'm an old fan, so I suggest that you dive into their early albums...but I know I'm in minority here. Their first album, "Angels Fall First", was never supposed to be actual album, only a demo, but it's not bad. There are some awkward things (like "Nymphomaniac Fantasia"), but overall it's a great demo. Then their second album, "Oceanborn" (which was the one that hooked me), they kind of stumbled with trial and error, yet it's amazing. I really really suggest you listen to that. Then of course later albums are incredible also, but I would start from Oceanborn.

[@Flickerboy]

Hahahahahaha so funny, you keep smiling the hooooleee song hahahah good sign. This song is on my top 3 nightwish songs Great reaction bro. Peace

[@Musicality-66]

Thanks for this great reaction. I love watching you react to Nightwish songs. You can’t stop smiling throughout the video 😀. Your question of how to proceed reacting to Nightwish and in what order, I think it’s really who you’re asking. I’m a Nightwish fan of the current setting they are in; from the Wacken concert 2013 until now. I would love for you to react to the song Kinslayer, they played at their concert in Buenos Aires in 2018. Tuomas wrote this song after the mass shooting at Columbine High School. Keep up the good work and stay healthy! 💕🤘 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2KmZ6KFrt6UkMk

[@ghostnf9650]

Excellent. Start with Wacken 2013, Tampere (this one); wembley 2016 and Buenos Aires 2018 ( the Decades tour is all revised old material). Then check out the Human:||:Nature album. Just my 2 cents

[@treintje1001]

Best way to start with the Nightwish discography is the Decades album. It’s a compilation album which covers 20 years of Nightwish history. It covers material from each and every album, except the most recent one that came out last month. Tuomas himself has compiled the list of songs for this record and his criterium was to make the perfect introduction to Nightwish for newbies. So I’d say that would be the ideal starting point.👍🤘🤘🤘

[@priscilla1986ify]

I liked seeing you smile during the video. Check out The Greatest Show on Earth/ Tampere 2015

[@tommyjohnson9175]

great song, great reaction...

[@deanabennett8461]

I love this song! Listen to it every day

[@sheilacorbin521]

Great reactions always smiling! Its infectious .. Very knowledgeable . 🤘🤘

[@NeeceLoneWolf]

There's a video on Facebook if you can find it of Tarja recording Tony Kakko singing in the shower during the Christmas tour Tarja, Floor, Marko and many others do every year in Europe. It's hilarious because Tarja can't stop giggling. I like all 3 singers of Nightwish but Floor is the most versatile of them. Anette is getting thousands of views on KZbin with The Dark Element. They're all great.

[@slash-1971]

This is in my top 10 of Nightwish songs for sure. It's heavy and the lyrics are awesome, if only the new album had more of this! 🤘

[@kresimirkovac6910]

It does. The song is called Tribal. 😊 But i am very happy with the rest of the album. While Tribal makes me headbang and i turn the volume up while i play it in the car, the other songs actualy hit me harder. They have depth, complexity, and great meaning behind them. They just hit me deep.

[@stups9975]

To get into Nightwish albums it’s probably best to start with the newest and go back to the older. The lineup the band has currently is just amazing and it’s probably best to hear their current stuff first. The band evolved a lot from their early albums so many people think is easier to go from newest to old.

[@brianz600]

Not sure if anyone said this yet or not, but this song was the opener for the Endless Forms shows (I am pretty sure, it might have been Shutter Before the Beautiful, but I think it was this one)....imagine kicking off a show with that drum work.....crowd is whipped into an instant frenzy.

[@ferretmom66]

The opener was Shudder Before the Beautiful

[@ninau.]

There are some Kai Hahto drum cam videos out there, if you want to see him play. He sure is great 🤘

[@AlvenmodFoto]

Bad ass song, bad ass reaction, keep it up!

[@ShearWater509]

Nightwish Army! Assemble! #AllHailTheQueen #NightwishArmy

[@artohumppi1855]

Can you do stargazers from the same concert? (Tampere 2015) One of the oldest NW songs

[@mommyca2299]

Love watching u fall down the rabbit hole. Lol! Start at the beginning, it’s a journey. Their albums r more on the artistic side, they r so much better live.

[@hennasalokangas]

still waiting for the master passion greed!:D

[@eveningglow2608]

You look happy watching this video😄

[@kezca]

Ty loved it too keep em coming

[@neonknight1198]

Great reaction to a brilliant song

[@duncanwyer2460]

You need to watch his drum cam videos for some of these songs

[@Barkhuizen1975]

I am not sure you will enjoy their whole back catalogue to be honest. Great reactions and enjoy your honesty. Subbed to see where you go next.

[@janitor6669]

Did you know that Kai keeps the 1st and last patterns always the same, the rest he improvises. That's talent.

[@theheavy3468]

Thanks for dropping some knowledge on me. Keep it Heavy!

[@seanstevenson9891]

ARMY TRAINING....SIR!!

[@donaldcampbell9483]

Check out Shudder before the beautiful drum cam.

[@basicguy5785]

I think it would be a good idea to sample a few songs with the first singer (Tarja) before to make your decision on how to proceed. If you don't like her style at all, it simplifies things a bit. Good Tarja songs could be "The siren", "Nemo", "Planet hell" and "The phantom of the Opera".

[@marwa2902]

Ember falls : We are become fire

[@yetimantdf8555]

Brother...I can't remenber ...did you do Greatest Show on Earth yet. It's at the end of this show by the way and it is what is says....the Greatest Show on Earth.

[@theheavy3468]

No sir. Building up to it 😉

[@Rafael-qi9bt]

Please, react to "underneath", the studio version, one of the most beautiful balads I've ever heard. It's a music from Tarja Turunen's solo carrer. Thank you very much!

[@NeeceLoneWolf]

Yes. Personally I think you will like Once. Tarja is a force of nature lol.

[@jandebrabander6304]

Just here for the Floor live performances, formers singers don’t do it for me...live or album, probably because Floor was the first for me so hard to ‘unhear’ that...I can imagine the nostalgic value for old fans...but to me looks like a bad cover of Floor

[@rianvandenhoof4124]

same for me, I knew them but didn`t appreciate the music as much then as I do now...... Floor had her breakthru in the Netherlands and although I knew Nightwish a bit, that really help me become a huge fan....... gr from the Netherlands.

[@minnmarr]

You should definitely listen to Slaying the Dreamer named song. That is HEAVY! There is live version with Floor,don't remember where but you can find it easily. The song is originally sung by Tarja, the original singer. The song is about the people and record companies who didn't think that Nightwish would ever sell any music etc..boy where they wrong 😂. The song is really heavy and "angry". Other heavy songs that I highly recommend to listen to are planet hell and dead to the world. Don't know if there are live versions of them 🤔 also recommend Master Passion Creed.. It's a song dedicated to Tarja's husband who was their manager and he really tried to get more money for Tarja. And literally tried to fuck with the band. Bye bye beautiful named song is dedicated to Tarja after she left the band.. Well was kicked from the band... It's also heavyish i think 😂

[@theheavy3468]

Hey! I have a video up of Slaying The Dreamer, check it! 🤘

[@minnmarr]

@@theheavy3468 The Heavy Yes you do! And I even looked it already 😂 I have watched so many people recently reacting to Nightwish that I forgot that you already listened to that one. Means I have to look it again. But the other songs I highly recommend 😂👍🏻

[@TheStefan6969]

🤘🤘❤🤘🤘😁 I think you'd dig Song of Myself from Wacken Open Air 2013 official live.

[@theheavy3468]

Been done my friend 🤘

[@TheStefan6969]

@@theheavy3468 Ah, so it has. Hmmmmm..... Yours is an Empty Hope??? Live at Wembley??

[@theheavy3468]

@@TheStefan6969 haha that too has been done. That is one of my favorites so far.

[@TheStefan6969]

@@theheavy3468 Ha!!!! Same!!! Have you done Tribal off of the Human :||: Nature album??? The new one??

[@theheavy3468]

@@TheStefan6969 Sure did. 😉🤘

[@dac2007]

Amazing drums indeed haha About your question, the first album is probably skippable since it was almost like a demo, they were still looking for their sound so even though there are some good songs, probably the best from that album is done better live afterwards in concerts. Elvenpath is the highlight IMO and it was done live with Floor in Buenos Aires. Oceanborn is their 2nd album (1998), it was also the first album i listened from them, it's pretty cool, more Power Metal oriented, with Tarja's classical singing, it was a novelty at that time. You have heard Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean live with Floor from this album. I'd say it would be a good place to start for you, maybe selecting the best songs from it. Check out Stargazers, Gethsemane and Sacrament of Wilderness either album version or live. Wishmaster comes next, introducing some more symphonic elements and a couple of greatest hits. So my reccomendation would be to start in chronologic order selecting the best (or heaviest :D) from each album. At some point you will have to do Ghost Love Score which is their most iconic and epic song, even though it's not particularly heavy, i think you will enjoy it as the piece of art it is.

[@demise0]

Tuomas has said that he thought of 'Angels Fall First' (first album) as an actual demo. He was less than enthused at the label's decision to release it as an album. It's clearly much less polished than the rest of their albums. So while it's an official album in their discography, my head canon says it's a demo, and that Oceanborne is their first real album.

[@user-jy1bc3gw2q]

Haha I feel like he should work his way back to Ghost Love Score like he is, although Floor pretty much has her hooks in him already. 😄 He's already got an ear for this shit now.

[@brunovicente4324]

Gtrea reaction man!!!! i will leave here my suggestion. NW are better seen live, so how about checking their live dvd s first! they launched 5: From Wishes to Eternity, End of Innocence (includes a documentary about the band), End of an Era (last one featuring Taja as lead singer), Showtime, Storytime (the show of Wacken 13, Anette time music but sang by Floor), Vehicle of Spirit (Tampere and Wembley arene from here you took this video) and the Decades Tour live in Buenos Aires (in here are some of the old songs performed by Floor), and then you go straight to the new album. The live shows have the best songs with the best performances and you cant grasp almost all of NW history. Peace

[@michaelbelshaysr4525]

Try from the beginning make sure to react to instrumental versions where possible as well as no one reacts to them. That would make you different than the rest of the reactors out there

[@helgehansen363]

The best songs to do for me is certainly the live performances with Floor and album versions of those they havnt done live yet. Then going for the earlier singers mainly for the songs Floor havnt done a version of or for whatever songs your curios about how earlier singers did. Also their former singers wasnt as exceptional live as Floor is and the 2nd singer was a cringe live so better go studio versions for reacting to her.

[@ttirinen]

Mä aina mietin että miten helvetissä Tuomas soittaa kun niskat on nyrjähtämässä😝♥️☝🏼 (From finish to english: I'm always wondering how the hell is Tuomas playing while his neck is braking🥴🤔😝♥️)

[@dariauniverse9166]

Have you listened Noice after first hearing? And If you have have your opinions changed? If not are you going to give another changed?

[@theheavy3468]

Yes. It's still my least favorite NW song. I can explain in more detail in the next NW video.

[@alanfoster6589]

How many metal bands can get away with a guy playing the bouzouki?

[@cdvjesus8298]

It's hard to give a direct answer to your question. It boils down to the question "what do you want to get out of this journey" especialy considering your comments after "Noise". If you want to get to know the band better and experiencing their musical evolution, by all start at the beginning and go forward chronologicaly, maybe even try to compare live and studio versions of the same song with the singer. If you want to hear music that might be "your cup of tea" i'd suggest ask for heaviest songs of the tarja or anette era and with these until you fell like "yeah, well it could be a little harder I don't really like it" and be honest about it so you get the right suggestions going forward. As a first test i'd recomend "Stargazer" live in Tampere 2015 link provided by Gabriel Bardac in the comments to "Noise" ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJmopnSGjtKSi8k ). If you like it start with Tarja if not maybe many of NW songs are just not for you. I hate to be this direct because i'd love to see you react to more Nightwish but what's the point if don't enjoy it?

[@theheavy3468]

I'm good with direct😉. If I wasn't enjoying/loving NW at this point, I wouldn't be doing the video's. Nor would I dive into their discography. 🤣 . I can promise you I do not play pretend or give fake reactions. Noise was simply my first listen to a new band/genre and I would still say it was not a great introduction to the band. KEEP IT HEAVY 🤘

[@572Btriode]

Good stuff, perhaps you might have dug into the lyrics a bit more, in all the stuff Tuomas composes, his lyrics are meaningful and food for thought. The opening part from Prof Dawkins needs a bit of research too.

[@theheavy3468]

I will absolutely keep that in mind. Thanks for being active on the channel. KEEP IT HEAVY!

[@572Btriode]

@@theheavy3468 OK, thanks for that, maybe this 2m 41s from Tuomas and Troy might help. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHvYiH-hidynfNU It's worth watching.

[@Thorgrim247]

This is a heavy one. Hopefully you did not take offence to these lyrics. Tuomas obviously has a few criticisms of organized religion and their attempt to control. The way you said "Nooo" at the end of the song sounded like you wanted it to go on a bit longer? If you want to see what Kai is capable of, check out his former band Wintersun. They really give him a workout.

[@black4pienus]

Best description of religious people through time:'Lust for fantasy.' They don't need proof, cause they got faith. To an atheist like me, that sounds like: I wish that what I believe is is true and don't you dare try to pull me out of my fantasy.

[@dejan375]

Just skip the first album, The angles fall first. It's not that great. But their second album however is a masterpiece. So i suggest you start with Oceanborn album. Also please react to Nightwish Whoever brings the night-kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5uWgJ6ods-NgdU It's with their second singer, but it's one of my favorites. The guitar player wrote music with this song, so expect some really nasty guitar work.

[@Lee-70ish]

Nightwish not a band for the religious. I love em, athiest power rocks

[@eam2564]

I suggest you skip their first album Angels Fall First because it's too amateur to start with you can get back to it after you check all their post albums, You should start by Oceanborn 1998 their second album and one of their best, but if you start by Endless Forms Most Beautiful its OK aswell all Nightwish are masterpieces. Keep Rocking 🤘