This, Finlands symphonic hardrockers Nighwish's 7th album was a great surprise to me. Always feeling that they had more to give and that is was a pity that they could not do more with many of their songs, here it finally is, a fantastic album full of good, interesting and powerful music! Two of the songs leave more to wish for but otherwise there is a LOT of over avearge good songs here. Listen and enjoy!

1)Taikatalvi (-) Very nice "childrens song"-intro.

2)Storytime (8,5) Good pompous hardrock with power and good melody.

3)Ghost river (6,5) Overpompous and messy with a big choir. Too much.

4)Slow love, slow (4,0) Very different jazzy slow song. Far away from rock music. I'm not ready for this yet...

5)I want my tears back (7,5)

6)Scaretale (9,0) Wonderful progressive song with a lot of "fooling around" crazy rhythms and superpowerful keyboards and choruses. Great!

7)Arabesque (-)

8)Turn loose the mermaids (9,0) Absolutely wonderful ballad in medieval style.

9)Rest calm (8,0)

10)The cow, the owl and the dove (8,0)

11)Last ride of the day (8,5)

12)Song of myself (8,5)

13)Imaginaerum (8,0)

Score: 7,77

Anette Olzon-vocals (b.1971)

Marco Hietala-vocals and bass (b.1966)

Emppu Vuorinen-guitars (b.1978)

Jukka Nevalainen-drums (b.1978)

Tuomas Holopainen-keyboards and piano (b.1976)

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