Been reminded of this band and this awesome record recently, and had to share my favorite song from them ever, a ten-minute epic.
From Finaland, this symphonic power metal group released this album in 2004, during my formative teenage years, so it’s been imprinted of this smooth brain of mine lmao.
I feel like this could be the soundtrack to a fantasy film or some such, with the epic drama and bombastic parts during the climax.
How the others fired Tarja had tarnished the band for me, so I lost interest in their albums after that. But every now and again the YouTube algorithm sends a live video of Floor singing the old stuff my way, and she is great. Just listen to her live version of ghost love score and you will understand 😉
They don’t call them “Floorgasms” for nothing.
They kind of fell off my radar for a bit (real life etc) right around Century Child, so I missed both rounds of singer drama. But I am with you 100%. Disgraceful. It was a lot to take in when I picked up the band again. But the upshot to missing it in real time is seeing how things improved. Bye Bye Beautiful and Master Passion Greed are permanently retired. Tuomas stopped writing borderline creeper unrequited love songs and has leaned more into a naturalist/humanist approach. They seem to treat Floor well. I can only hope the maturation on display has been internalized.
But then Marko up and quit, so… who knows. (._.)