http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2007/10/05/a-band-is-more-than-a-frontman/ Armin Ronacher thinking Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:48:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2007/10/05/a-band-is-more-than-a-frontman/#comment-640 Armin Ronacher Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:23:07 +0000 http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2007/10/05/a-band-is-more-than-a-frontman/#comment-640 Let's see how their next album will sound like. (And their live performances). But I expected much less when I heard that they kicked Tarja. :-) Let’s see how their next album will sound like. (And their live performances). But I expected much less when I heard that they kicked Tarja. :-)

]]> http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2007/10/05/a-band-is-more-than-a-frontman/#comment-608 dejot Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:19:28 +0000 http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2007/10/05/a-band-is-more-than-a-frontman/#comment-608 thats right, tarja never wrothe the music, but the music wasnt ever special. the voice was. and anette olzon, sry, sounds a lot like sharon van den adel, which makes nightwish just another metal band with female singer out there. and there are a lot. some better, some worse. the new album isnt that much different from the old ones (except the voice, o' course). lot of power chords, orchestra, keyboard and, ye, a few very nice melodies, but fortunately slighty overproduced like the last one. its music w/o a soul, just random, exchangeable, bit better than average music. they are talented musicians, especially Holopainen and Hietala, who is in fact a good singer too, and could do a lot better in my opinion. my few euros :) thats right, tarja never wrothe the music, but the music wasnt ever special. the voice was. and anette olzon, sry, sounds a lot like sharon van den adel, which makes nightwish just another metal band with female singer out there. and there are a lot. some better, some worse.
the new album isnt that much different from the old ones (except the voice, o’ course). lot of power chords, orchestra, keyboard and, ye, a few very nice melodies, but fortunately slighty overproduced like the last one. its music w/o a soul, just random, exchangeable, bit better than average music.
they are talented musicians, especially Holopainen and Hietala, who is in fact a good singer too, and could do a lot better in my opinion. my few euros :)

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