Nightwish's Reviews

Over The Hills And Far Away

Don't pay 32 bucks for it, but find it and buy it!

Anyway, if you can find this CD for less than $31.49 that CDNOW wants you to pay for it, then by all means get it. No CD is worth more than $15 in my opinion. But this is worth having. The first four tracks are great; Tarja is using the pitch she used in Century Child, so it's not operatic the whole time. I'm in the minority; I prefer 'clean' (hehe) female singing to the opera pitch. Anyway, the remake of "Astral Romance" isn't any better than the first, aside from the fact that they now had a bass guitar. Two of the live tracks feature Sonata Arctica's Tony Kakko as a guest vocalist; they should ask him to step in more often, because they've never had any luck with male vocalists and Kakko can actually sing. The live tracks are decent, but not wonderful. They're cool just to hear what Nightwish sounds like live without having to buy an entire live CD and risk it sounding pathetic like the In Flames Tokyo Showdown album, but I'm glad they put the live tracks onto the end of the EP because the studio songs are really good. The live tracks and the fact that there are only three new songs (well, if you consider that the title track is a Gary Moore cover, it's only two new songs) are the reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars. Good luck finding a copy at a more reasonable price!

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