It’s Tuomas’ declaration of how he thought his story would end. The songwriter’s dead.” That’s how this multi-part epic begins. To think that Tuomas felt such pain that he equated it to this fate really gives insight into the extreme distress he was in. Such a fate is horrendous to comprehend, a true cruel torture of the mind and body. One of these is being strapped down to a frame and forced to watch a razor sharp bladed pendulum swing back and forth, slowly descending, eventually designed to kill the narrator. In that story, an unnamed narrator, captured and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, is subject to several mentally torturous scenarios before his eventual liberation. Tuomas frames his torment in the scaffolding of the famous Edgar Allen Poe story The Pit and the Pendulum. This dark epic has five movements: White Lands of Empathica, Home, The Pacific, Dark Passion Play, and Mother and Father.īefore we get into the movements, let’s talk about the giant allegory here. Listening to this song, you feel what he feels, emphasize, and come to understand him. A vivid portrait of a songwriter who can use music as a canvas of the body and soul.
#NIGHTWISH DARK PASSION PLAY RAR FULL#
This song is full of pain, emotion, release, and anger.
#NIGHTWISH DARK PASSION PLAY RAR SERIES#
I won’t recap the entire series of events, but the firing of Tarja and the inevitable backlash received from that led Mr. This song was birthed from Tuomas at his most tormented. The opening track from Dark Passion Play, and the first song in the Anette era of the band. The song that ended a (metaphorical) life while birthing one anew. I hope you enjoy reading this journey as much as I did writing it, and I welcome any discussion, thoughts, and feedback.Īnd now we’ve come to it, the song that I consider to be the most important song in the band’s entire career. I’ll also talk about specific things within the song that catch my ear and timestamps to follow along. Welcome everybody to this in-depth look at the NW catalog! Over the next hundred(ish) days I’ll be talking about one song each day and delving into its composition and songwriting and offering my thoughts as well as assigning it an arbitrary rating and noting any specific live performances of note.
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