MANA REACTS: Nightwish! - the greatest show on earth! 

Imagine writing a song about evolution. How we came to be here. Tuomas is a wonderful composer and lyric writer. He has been doing this for over 20 yrs. He has started a new album. He said it should be out in the spring of 2020. Then a world tour. That is a long time to wait. Thank you for sharing this.................. :-)

15:25-15:55 They go through a variety of musical styles(evolution of music in music about evolution) from Bach to industrial to Metallica to even a few beats of EDM(theres some other effects in there i can't quite place), without changing tempo, or most of the composition really. And that's why i fucking love this band.

This is NOT a song, it is a MASTERPIECE!

It is sooo easy to see that Floor is sooo happy fronting Nightwish. That smile alone could light he entire stadium.

When I first heard this song on the album, I thought it was fine, but it didn't stick out all that much to me. Now, though, it's one of my favorite pieces. I never fail to tear up at "We Were Here!"

This Band are the greatest on Earth. Nightwish Kiitooosss! Greetings from Germany 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Tuomas is one of the great ones. And when he has performers who can really bring his music to life, the goose bumps are unavoidable.

Creation , evolutiond and history of mankind in one song, amazing isn' it? Tuomas is a genius by having the idea to make this masterpiece possible.

Well done, You noticed the little homage to Metallica. A lot of RU-vidrs who watch this video don’t. The great thing is he didn’t just do that for this show. He did it on the album too. On an unrelated note your eyes are incredible, I can’t take my eyes off them.

I'm taking this journey for the first time too!

What I absolutely love about this performance is its perfect timing. It's final song on this concert. They started with sun up, performed with sun hiding and ended with "we were here" in darkness. Just like born, evolution and end of live.

So happy you caught enter sandman. XDD I'm always waiting to see if the peoples reacting catch it... 😉

"That came out of NOWHERE!" Well, Cambrian explosion is gonna Cambrian explode, right? :)

Floor is a bad@ss. The whole band is bad@ss. Glad you enjoyed it. I thought you would based on your reaction to The Poet and The Pendulum. Lots of twists and turns and surprises. Well, it is Nightwish after all. 😂 Have you checked out any others from their newest album yet? I bet you'd enjoy Shudder Before the Beautiful and Weak Fantasy from this same concert.

What a good reaction .Yes it's another masterpiece of Tuomas.I also get goose bumps every time I hear the song.You love Floors voice .You should try Epica Sancta Terra feat Floor live Retrospect .Recorded in Eindhoven.I think you will love it.

This is the final track on the album 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' the whole album is about the evolution of life on earth, it is a stunning album

Always love your Nightwish reactions, always good to see you doing your thing!! Keep up the great work!! Have you done Yours is a Empty hope yet?? Floor growls in the chorus while Marco sings the clean. It’s on a cruise ship, epic performance!!! If you have reacted to to it disregard!!! Lol :)

Woooo !! I didnt think anyone would do a reaction video to this one, as its so long but as you found out, its so worthwhile the listen. A total masterpiece There is a video on RU-vid of this song & someone has put film in of the evolution of the earth, to this song. Its well worth watching, as it explains so much of the song. The man talking though the song is evolutionist Richard Dawkins Richard was at Wembley with Nightwish & it was wonderful to see him :) The quiet piece at the beginning of the song was the universe in slumber & then comes the big bang :) The high vocals mid way, was the dinosaurs being wiped out. The Cretaceous extintion. The words near to the end of the song, was the extinction of us !! 'WE WERE HERE' !! And then life starts again, without HUMANS.

Nice reaction from you as always... again I will propose you to do their song Yours is an Empty Hope. I think it would fit your taste as Romanticide did. Greetings :)

I love this song 😍! A masterpiece !

Tuomas Masterpiece!...Marco & Floor in Duett...perfect harmony.....

I dig how Tuomas uses the fireworks to simulate the Big Bang. :)

"She's bad ass". Floor is the sweetest and most humble lady you can imagine. I've seen several interviews with her and she doesn't let full stadiums and sold-out world tours get to her head, she stays simple and humble. But once she gets on that stage, she transforms into that bad-ass Valkyrie. She's sooooo amazing!

React to Wintersun - sons of winter and stars (live@sonic pump studios) 😊

What a great reaction. That truly was the "Greatest Show On Earth". Thanks for sharing!

I would suggest Ever Dream and She is my Sin from Wacken and Stargazers End of an Era.

And that's how you end a gig:) Not just a song, but an experience.

You have to check out Yours Is An Empty Hope! Floor's vocals in that song ate badass!

Thanks for this! I've watched so many reaction videos of this song recently and yours was one of those I enjoyed the most! How did you like the lyrics? Isn't it an amazing topic for a song? Speaking of lyrics, the only thing I'm a bit disappointed of, is that you stopped the video before the actual end of the song. That's a little pet peeve of mine - like, I get someone who doesn't know the song won't expect anything else to happen at this point but there is another short spoken part shortly after you stopped. It says: "There is grandeur in this view of life With its several powers Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one And that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on According to the fixed law of gravity From so simple a beginning Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been And are being evolved" Which imo is just as beautiful as all the other spoken parts. (By the way, these are spoken by Richard Dawkins, a well-known evolutionary biologist and ethologist!) Glad you liked this one and can't wait for more Nightwish reactions!!!

If you haven't checked out anything by Amorphis you definitely should, for songs I would suggest "The Bee," "Daughter of Hate," or "Amongst Stars."

I dont know what everyone else thinks, but the recent live performances Troy has replaced his flutes with a haunting guitar, and it sound soooo much better. Worth a listen, just for that! It's the greatest song on earth, my tiny brain just cant comprehend being able to summon this song up from nothing. Tuomas is a genius.

You: "Her face is everything" So is yours when you first recognized the classic part and then were hit with the "Enter Sandman" clip. The evolution of music in a few seconds. :D

This beautiful song about evolution and Richard Dawkins may be banned by US Bible Zone and some hard core christians too...

The Greatest Band on Earth!!!......The Greatest Song on Earth!!!.......The Greatest Show on Earth!!!

Floors vocals are peerless but I love her inflections even more. She doesn't just sing the song, she performs the song

well done.. a masterpiece

What makes Nightwish so good is how everything is so tight with their music

Floor's entrance here gives me the same chills as the last few notes from Floor in Ghost Love Score. Did you catch the Metallica, from Emppu? Would love to hear a long drum solo from Kai.

We were Here! I'm happy to have my time in the sun with you all!

Marko is really on fire in this song, and Floor is amazing as always

Nightwish seems to be in a league of their own (in a very good way), along with those of us who are fans of their music. Every album they release is a breath of fresh air. For the past 20 years I've developed such a distaste for so much of the mainstream music scene. It's all overly repetitive, bland, and seems to use the same beats and chord progressions that my ears are just bored of it. Even as a metal band, Nightwish performs with so much class and professionalism it really makes me wonder why they don't get the recognition they deserve. I've listened to a lot of symphonic metal bands over the years, but Nightwish by far tops them all.

The final music to the end of the video is also part of the original song, it ends with beautiful whale singing. The song truly is a masterpiece and I liked your reaction very much. Take a listen to Creek Marys Blood with Tarja from End Of An Era.

Has skull as profile pic, wears black leather, loves Nightwish: 10/10 would have several intellectual conversations with(what? Where did you think I was going with this?)

This must be the new soundtrack of Avatar 2!!!!!!!

Nice reaction! I think you could have enjoyed it even more if you had researched a little about the meaning of the song. The Greatest Show on Earth is Life itself. By the way, I love that in the show, the first few times she sings "scions of the Devonian Sea", the background images are showing DNA strings.

The speech part is by Richard Dawkins, a british evolution biologist. Some of the religious fans got upset and even burnt their old Nightwish cd's once they figured out the whole album was about evolution.

UNITED!!!! Brilliant song, So sad this world is torn apart by a few small petty men

Every time, this song is the shortest 20 minutes I could ever spend.

Great reaction! Seeing the song live in December was quite the experience, especially the part where whole arena sing "we were here"

damn you are beautiful. :/

Tuomas MUST have a key on his keyboard that just says ‘BANG’

I love it when Floor, Marco and Troy sing together

Interesting... medieval Dies Irae, Bach fugue in d. Metallica...etc...borrowed. The greatest show on earth!!!

Thank you for your reaction and Nightwish for the beautiful song. Floor, I love you.

This was actually the first show that Floor's parents came to see. so when you see her scouting the audience its her trying to see where her mom and dad is.

I think you'll like Ayreon - The Day That the World Breaks Down.

Yii-haa! I was the one thousanth up thumb! I love the phase where Marco joins the singing. This is another amazing composition, Tuomas is a freaking wizard!

Dank je wel from Finland

Muy buena tu reacción, me gustaría que reacciones a INDIO SOLARI JI JI JI de Argentina ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tVvTDVswTxQ.html Gracias

Tuomas said in an interview that this song is his magnum opus. Indeed it is a masterpiece, the lyrics telling the story of human evolution on Earth inspired by Richard Dawkins' books. In one radio interview, Troy Donockley(the band's British multi-instrumentalist) told the story of how they got Prof. Dawkins' participation in TGSOE.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8svl7UGYVRc.html He tells it at 10 min12sec of the interview, quite interesting.

The goosebumps you got is called a FLOORGASAM!!!!

Good Sunday to you Mana glad you like the video for Nightwish - the greatest show on earth .

So I come here to see a another reaction video from Nightwish and another 100% Floorgasm.Greetings from a land which have the greatest amount of Heavy Metal bands in the World including Nightwish!

Come from Finland, NightWitch is the bester.. And Floor Janssens is verry verry nice voice

Can we appreciate how damn good she looks I mean oh my god ._____.

Tuomas holopainen is the Wolfgang Amadeüs Mozart of this era in time. 🎶 About the Metallica rif : NIGHTWISH's Tuomas holopainen: 'I Don't Think I Would Be Here Without METALLICA' Whole artikel: www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwishs-tuomas-holopainen-i-dont-think-i-would-be-here-without-metallica/

Awesome reaction. You may want to check out Song of myself live at Wacken 2013.

The great saluting the great with "Enter Sandman" - as you said!!! I hope the non-terrestrials realize WE WERE HERE!!!!

Her mortal name is Floor Jansen. Her ethereal name is Freyja Godess of the Valkyrie. And she has come for your soul for the Nightwish Army. Then we have Bragi the god of poetry (mortal name Tuomas), Týr the God of war (mortal name Marco), Heimdallur the guardian of Ásgarð (mortal name Kai) (drums protect the band) Njörður -the God of sea, wind. (mortal name Troy Beware of Loki (mortal name is Emmpu)

Please react to other songs from this concert live from Tempere.

At the beginning with the smoke surrounding him, Tuomas looks like a God in the process of conjuring the Universe in being! Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day’ll cease to be Greet the last light of the library We were here! Great Reaction!

Cold coffee, happens to me all the time because i'm distracted so easily XD. Thank god the Senseo is warm really fast haha. This song is an absolutele masterpiece! At first i was like oh man i cant really get into it untill i started really listening and i was like oh.....oooohhhhh........WOW!

Can you do Yours is an Empty Hope live from the Nightwish Cruise?

This is not really a song, it is a masterpiece. Tuomas (keys) is the best composer of this era, people call him Metal Mozart. Honestly, these big pieces, like poet and the pendulum need some preparation...because the lyrics are extremely deep and about stuff they dealed with in life (suicidal thoughts/depression Tuomas) This is about the birth of the universe...the fireworks during the piano are presenting the BIG BANG, the easter eggs , you couaght two very well (Bach and Metallica) are the evolution of music. Tuomas is a finnish guy, who wanted to become a biologist. He has a house in the Finnish woods at a beautiful lake and is very inspired by dr. Dawkins (who you heard speaking during the song, you skipped the end, there was a beautiful message from dawkins). In Wembly Dawkins is present himself. Also Tuomas writes most music for the band (the basics) Marko also wrote some great songs and as a band they polish it to what they want it to be. Tuomas works together with the London Symphonic Orchestra and wrote music for the whole orchestra and the choir. You can hear that in many songs. He is a musical genius. They make classical music, folk, folkmetal, symphonic metal. trashmetal. doommetal....they mix everything and that is what I love about nightwish. They are not some kind of gothic band...they are so much more.

Idd masterpiece, maar staat nightwish eigenlijk wel in de top 2000.......kunnen wij als fans daar misschien iets aan doen?? 😏😎🤘🤘🤘spread the word

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f27vgpcTpOw.html Hello Mana, here's a new link for you to check out on your own free time. It's a fan-made mix of Nightwish: Bless the Child with concert footage of both Tarja and Floor. You can get to compare and contrast their singing styles. Since at least at this point, we haven't seen you touch the old school yet.

Awesome reaction! You might also enjoy "Weak Fantasy" from the same show :)

Sensory overload….Nightwish style!!

Hello from Finland!Really good reactions..you're nice Bad Ass🤘

"That came out of nowhere " Haha, Tuomas is such a genius! To coax a reaction that underlines the meaning of the intro; bloody amazing. This is a masterpiece!

Beautiful song 😊😌👏👏👏👏👏👏

Really hope you head back for more Nightwish. Would love to see you react to Storytime, Live @ Wacken 2013. You loved Romanticide, so I'm almost positive you'll love Storytime.

I love your obvious delight when listening to this. And your face was a picture when you discovered the Metallica riff! Very entertaining.

100/100. You noticed Bach (classic) and Enter Sandman. Top!

Im kinda understand a little bit of the story telling behind the presentation & the riffing and the beat after watching this many times Fire works = big bang theory Nomad voice = earliest human civilization Metallica riff = the birth of modern metal Techno beat = mainstream music & many more to interpret.. A masterpiece, genius song composition & presentation

love that performance of "Last Ride Of The Day" from Tampere! for a while, whenever i was on my way home from work, i would put it on. Floor's "Tampere! Would you like to make a little ride with us?!" would almost bring tears to my eyes. so happy i found this band!

Pretty lady pretty lady please react to childern of bodom angles don't kill please please

Richard Dawkins says a little bit more at the very end "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been And are being, evolved."

First time watching. Love the vid and floor is amazing

The Enter the Sandman riff I believe was a NW nod to Metallica as the “evolution “ of metal..

The keyboardist Tuomas is one of the greatest composers of this time. He wrote every nightwish song including this masterpiece. There are not many if any band at all that can compete with nightwish.

Make Rhapsody of Fire , UNHOLY WARCRY please , From Brazil :^)

That drummer is fucking awesome

Long intros, It's like another day in the office for Nightwish's songs.

That looked like a Floor-gasm when she first came in. Great stuff

an emotional journey that does not necessarily correspond with time …

for my 45 yars and nightwish and about 20 yars ai love this an history its not thru but this its for you fucking ssory teather

I've never realized that Metallica part! Dude, WHAT A BAND

LOOL...you been around a lot of hay lately....

You beautiful girl I love you so much 🌹