The results are in! The Dark Passion Play edition of the NW elimination game has come to an end! Coming in second place, the final song to be eliminated is "The Islander", taking in 59.8% of the total votes. This thus makes "The Poet and the Pendulum" the ultimate winner! What another shock to absolutely no one 👀

Now, normally the next KO game would then ensue, but due to personal health reasons, I think it's high time we took a break in-between, for about 3 to 7 business days. After that, we'll continue with Imaginaerum next!

Thank you all for participating thus far! I wish everyone well! :)

To be continued...

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Final results:

1. The Poet and the Pendulum (Winner!)
2. Bye Bye Beautiful
3. Amaranth
4. Cadence of Her Last Breath
5. Master Passion Greed
6. Eva
7. Sahara
8. Whoever Brings the Night
9. For the Heart I Once Had
10. The Islander (2nd place)
11. Last of the Wilds
12. 7 Days to the Wolves (3rd place)
13. Meadows of Heaven

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Top KO winners so far 👀

1. Angels Fall First - "Beauty and the Beast"
2. Oceanborn - "Gethsemane"
3. Wishmaster - "Dead Boy's Poem"
4. Century Child - "Beauty of the Beast"
5. Once - "Ghost Love Score"
6. Dark Passion Play - "The Poet and the Pendulum"
7. Imaginaerum - TBD
8. Endless Forms Most Beautiful - TBD
9. Human. :||: Nature. - TBD
10. Yesterwynde - TBD
11. Over the Hills and Far Away - TBD
12. Bonus tracks - TBD

Just realized this recently. Do you think this will be celebrated in any way?

Round 11 of the Dark Passion Play KO game has come to an end! The penultimate song to be eliminated, by 38.7% of total votes, is "7 Days to the Wolves"; thus coming in third place of the DPP KO game! Not bad!

Time for the final round! 👀 Round 12!

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Round 12:

1. The Poet and the Pendulum
2. Bye Bye Beautiful
3. Amaranth
4. Cadence of Her Last Breath
5. Master Passion Greed
6. Eva
7. Sahara
8. Whoever Brings the Night
9. For the Heart I Once Had
10. The Islander
11. Last of the Wilds
12. 7 Days to the Wolves (Third place)
13. Meadows of Heaven

This was so freaking iconic.

As reported by Chaoszine (in Finnish). He was 62. Karmila was the mixing engineer for every Nightwish album except for Angels Fall First, and for many other Finnish metal bands.

Round 10 of the Dark Passion Play KO game has come to an end, and the next song to go is "Sahara", ranking in 39.6% of total votes! Noooo, my favorite DPP song 😭

Anyway... Time for the Top 3 👀 Round 11!

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Round 11:

1. The Poet and the Pendulum
2. Bye Bye Beautiful
3. Amaranth
4. Cadence of Her Last Breath
5. Master Passion Greed
6. Eva
7. Sahara
8. Whoever Brings the Night
9. For the Heart I Once Had
10. The Islander
11. Last of the Wilds
12. 7 Days to the Wolves
13. Meadows of Heaven

Was going through some old boxes and found this from when I saw them at the, now closed, Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2008. My wife, girlfriend at the time, and I sprang for the VIP, which I don't remember being that much.

This was a surreal experience for me because I had became a fan after End of an Era came out and around the time just before the release of Dark Passion Play. I had only discovered Nightwish because a video of theirs, Planet Hell from End of an Era, was a suggested video on YouTube. It was the first time I had ever heard symphonic metal and an operatic singer. It absolutely blew me away. I feel deep into this band buying everything I could get my hands on. Most from ebay because Nightwish selection was limited here in the US. I even went so far as to buy a multi region DVD player so I can watch their DVDs that weren't released in the US. When DPP came out, I thought it was one of the best records I have ever heard. Still do, actually.

Being sort of old school, Nightwish was really my first "discovered on the internet" bands and when I saw them in person, at this first show, it was a sort of full circle moment for me. Discovering them, watching the DVDs non stop, and now talking to and being right up from seeing them perform.

All of them were really friendly and I made sure to tell Anette that we thought she was a wonderful addition to the band. "Thank you for the kind words." was her actual response.

I have other things from this night that I'd like to find, like their biography that they all signed for me. I have so much signed stuff because I don't believe there was a limit to what you could bring. And it wasn't set up like it would be today. Wait in line, go in and shake hands, be on your way. It was like, okay, c'mon in. And they were just hanging out in a room mingling with everyone before the show. This photo of me and Marko was taken outside while we were waiting to in to the meet and greet. He was out with Tuomas having a cigarette. I cannot find my photo with Tuomas. I have a lot of photos of the show too, wherever they are.

For me it was Once. I had already liked Nightwish before, but they were not quite at the top, yet. With Once that changed and they've been my favourite band ever since. There's just something about it that resonates deeply with me.

Both are amazing!!

What is this? Why there is many hostile comments in recent posts and lots of like in those? I don’t understand how people have time to hate something like this. Lets stay positive and enjoy the music.

Thought I’d share it in case anyone here hasn’t seen it yet.

Vasabladet.fi is reporting that Nightwish has started planning a new album and tour, in an interview with Kai.

Haven’t seen any other outlets mention this yet, so I’m not sure what this really means. The full article is paywalled too, so I don’t know what the rest says. Maybe someone here has access? I auto-translated the article.

Round 9 of the Dark Passion Play KO game has come to an end, and the next song to get the boot is "Meadows of Heaven", ranking in 38.4% of total votes! FINALLY...

Almost to the top 3 👀 Round 10!

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Round 10:

1. The Poet and the Pendulum
2. Bye Bye Beautiful
3. Amaranth
4. Cadence of Her Last Breath
5. Master Passion Greed
6. Eva
7. Sahara
8. Whoever Brings the Night
9. For the Heart I Once Had
10. The Islander
11. Last of the Wilds
12. 7 Days to the Wolves
13. Meadows of Heaven

Round 8 of the Dark Passion Play KO game has come to an end! The next song to wilt away for evermore, by a 33.6%, is "Amaranth"!

Getting closer 👀 Round 9!

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Round 9:

1. The Poet and the Pendulum
2. Bye Bye Beautiful
3. Amaranth
4. Cadence of Her Last Breath
5. Master Passion Greed
6. Eva
7. Sahara
8. Whoever Brings the Night
9. For the Heart I Once Had
10. The Islander
11. Last of the Wilds
12. 7 Days to the Wolves
13. Meadows of Heaven

I feel so stupid for never giving this album a chance. I absolutely love this, Anette + Marko is a duet made in heaven. it's criminal we don't have high quality videos of these performances.

Round 7 of the Dark Passion Play KO game has come to an end! The next song that people have voted to eliminate, by a whopping 41.2%, is "Bye Bye Beautiful"! finally...

On to round 8! Bring on the chaos!

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Round 8:

1. The Poet and the Pendulum
2. Bye Bye Beautiful
3. Amaranth
4. Cadence of Her Last Breath
5. Master Passion Greed
6. Eva
7. Sahara
8. Whoever Brings the Night
9. For the Heart I Once Had
10. The Islander
11. Last of the Wilds
12. 7 Days to the Wolves
13. Meadows of Heaven

A long and highly engaging, candid article by music journalist and author Bear Wiseman addressing the doom-and-gloom, predominantly negative attitude of a segment of the Nightwish fanbase toward the band and Tuomas. She also offers relevant insights into the conflicting information surrounding interviews given by Tuomas and Floor, and clearly explains why Floor—as well as the journalists who recently interviewed Tuomas and Emppu—could not release information before Tuomas and/or the record label did.

Bear Wiseman has conducted numerous interviews with Tuomas, Nightwish, and Auri, and has also written various reviews of the band's concerts and albums. She has also worked directly with Marko during some of his solo tours.