REACTION: Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth (This is a MASTERPIECE!) 

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Tuomas is more than a songwriter, he's a full on poet and composer.

This song is still an experience even when you've listened to it a 100 times, epic!!

Floor Jansen is so underrated, in my opinion. Unless you know her bands, ReVamp, After Forever, Northward and Nightwish. She is far and away the best vocalist going and it's so sad that so many will never hear her voice because she fronts a Symphonic, Metal, Rock Band and many will just by-pass because of this. As for the band, having seen them several times with the three girls singing, I have to say in my opinion, Floor has just taken them to a Higher League. Tarja was very good however one dimensional. Annette, I thought was vocally was lacking and having seen Floor, well, the and appear more complete than ever before. Bringing the very best out of "ALL". Tuomas looks so happy perhaps it's hearing his songs, sung with such Power and Control and with so much Emotion. Marco a great vocalist in his own right, compliments Floor, Emppu is just amazing and whoever they have drumming and driving the band from the back be it Jukka or Kai and the addition of Troy now make Nightwish complete...I for one can't wait to see them again and again. No Matter the Cost. To see a real show and not just a Gig is what Nightwish bring. Absolutely Fabulous ♥♥ The above is only my opinion

One word for Nightwish! EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuomas has a solo album called Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge. It is symphonic, folky, some instrumentals. The cover art is drawn by Don Rosa himself. The Lifetime of Adventure, Cold Heart of Klondyke, The Last Sled are my favorites from that album.

This song is one of the greatest songs ever written. It literally brings me to tears to hear it.

While the song itself of a story of the Earth and evolution of life, I like the little musical humour included, where they actually play out the development of human music within about 20 seconds: the song goes quiet, you hear voices, then some medieval music, then a very classical symphonic sound, then a riff from Metallica's Enter Sandman, and finally an electronic beat serving as a breakdown leading to the final verse of the song itself.

When I first heard this on the album, I was not overwhelmed. Now, though, I get tears every time they sing "We were here!" I love this song.

Wonderful reaction. It is so great that you get the essence of Nightwish. I saw them a year ago. There is nothing like it. I hope I can get to the concert for the new album. I can't wait to hear what he has written. I appreciate you taking this Nightwish journey so that we can come along for the ride. It is like rediscovering them............. :-)

off the same album this song came from is "The Eyes of Sharbat Gula". tuomas was inspired by the picture of "Afghan Girl", that one photo cover off national geographic. it was initially supposed to have lyrics included, but tuomas said that every time he tried to come up with lyrics for it they fell short and lessened its impact, so he kept it instrumental. it's an absolutely beautiful piece of music.

Finally someone can enjoy and understand(!) this song in the same time. Great job my friend!

The song that made me realise they will be playing Nightwish and their music for a thousand years. So its more than a band, its a legacy I feel only the best musicians on earth should be honored enough to perform

The Greatest Show on Earth indeed. Life, and this performance so fit one another.

I still want to hear the first written version of this. Tuomas said once, that it was around 90 min long... and as I always say, I love that little "Enter Sandman" riff (15:57) in it. It always brings a smile on my face.

Nightwish will be on tour next year, so how lucky are we, new music and new tour. Actually can't wait for Tuomas new music. This song, or masterpieces doesn't leave anybody untouched, it is just so epic and beautiful. Thank you.

Thanks for playing this to end. Epic is the word. Nice reaction, and I agree with what you said at the end. Each to their own, as well.

Oh yes that night was special ... I've seen them several times live. First concert was (if I remember right)early 1999, soon after Oceanborn Release. But 31.7.2015 Ratina Tampere was pure magic... Excitement, joy and even tears... Yes sir, 2020 Just do it🤘🤘

The Eyes of Sharbat Gula is one instrumental track from the same album as this song. No metal elements included. It's kind of entry song for the Greatest Show on Earth. I think it's beautiful song. Sharbat Gula, better know as "Afghan Girl", the woman who appeared on the June 1982 cover of National Geographic. Tuomas was inspired because of her eyes that have fierce and fear within at the same time (Thousand-Yard Stare). Thank you for your reaction btw! Keep up the good work :)

Shes not only a part of the band, shes part of the world, We Were Here!!!

Tuomas is absolute a unique song writer.

As a Christian I'm happy to be sharing this time on the planet with you man

I go see Nightwish every time they come to town, and it's absolutely worth it. Heck, it was worth having to go almost 300 miles to see them a few years ago. 10/10 would do again.

There are those who say that the intro is too long and the transitions not so smooth. To those I say that they are most likely intentional, since this song tells the story from the beginning of the universe to our time.There really was not much happening before and after the Big Bang for a long time (i.e. the intro) and evolution wasn't that smooth either (i.e. the transitions). P.S. In addition to his solo projects, Tuomas also has a band project "Auri" together with his wife Johanna Kurkela (a Finnish singer) and Troy Donockley (Nightwish's multi-instrumentalist).

Thank you for taking this journey with us to bring the spotlight to of the greatest bands of all time. Kiitos!

Chills no matter how many times I experience this

One thing that many, if not most people, do not appreciate about this groups playing never mind songwiriting is that they are not doing it in their first/native languages. English is not a first language for any of them.

I saw them in St. Petersburg, FL in April 2018 at Jannus Live. Besides the heat, the show was insanely awesome. During this song everyone in the audience was singing "We Were Here" as loud as they could. I've never experienced anything like that before. Brought tears to my eyes. So epic!

It is a masterpiece. So many transitions, ups and downs, changes of theme. Captivates with beauty and excites with energy.

Tuomas has a side project that isn't metal but it's not symphonic either. It's folk music. Called Auri. It's Tuomas and Troy from Nightwish with Tuomas' wife Johanna on vocals.

This is my favorite song of theirs. Tuomas is simply a genius. You should check out the video series on the making of Endless Forms Most Beautiful...there is about 17 of them and there like 5 mins long apiece. It shows the process the band went through in making the album and it really shows just how much work Tuomas puts in to writing and composing each song..it's very impressive. It's worth checking out just for fun .

Nightwish is really something extra ordinary. This is art. This is really art!

I had to wait 10 years to see them live. It was worth it!

Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge is the first solo album by Finnish songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, best known for his work in the symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was based on cartoonist Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, a graphic novel which featured the Carl Barks Disney comics character of the same name. Rosa contributed the cover artwork. The first single, "A Lifetime of Adventure" was released on February 5, 2014

This.is.a.masterpiece. This band is so tight so coordinated with so diverse musicians its insane. Ben a fan of nightwish since i was a little boy listening in with Tarja. But how they come along since the first era is impressive and fucking awesome, love this band with all my fucking heart.!

Haha, pronunciation of Tampere was spot on! :D

If no one else brought it up yet, there are a couple of album length pieces which Tuomas Holopainen composed which do not feature the metal element. The first: Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge, released in 2014. The second: the entire disc two of their newly released album Human | Nature.

Real MASTERPIECE

Great job. My world view is exactly the same as yours and I'd never heard anyone express it so well in a song before. This was an absolute "revelation" to me when I first heard it and totally turned me on to Nightwish. I've never looked back. Great reaction.

We are one! We are the Universe! Hell yes! As a Nightwish fan, atheist and science enthousiast, I so fucking love this 'song'. Can't hardly be called a song. I call this an experience.

Thank you, and greetings from Finland 👍

their transitions are seamless just blows me away epic

Watching this for the second time right now. I am utterly bewildered by the fact that I didn't comment when I watched it the first time, I must have been high. Seeing you react to this has been one of my most eagerly anticipated reactions for a while. Being the fan of Dawkins that you are I highly recommend checking out the Wembley version of this for your own viewing pleasure as Richard Dawkins comes on stage and reads out the bit at the end. This song was actually a slow burn for me, first few times i heard it it almost felt a bit long-winded, but the more I listened the more I got it and understood what the song was doing. Now it is a firm favourite and a song I hunger for reactions to. I especially like it when people get it straight away (unlike me) It's just a masterpiece! Telling such a grand story in such a fantastic way. It's things like this that make me proud to be human.

Thanks for the reaction once again. Tuomas is truly a composer, not just a songwriter and this is one of his truly great compositions. And you are only the second reactor I've seen who actually went to the end of the video, and thus got to Prof Dawkins narrating the excellent Darwin quote.

What Troy plays - Uilleann Pipes (elbow bagpipes) made for him by the visionary craftsman Marcus Coulter. Low Whistles by Bernard Overton. High Whistles by Chris Backhouse. Bouzoukis and Acoustics by Fylde Guitars. G7th capos. Roland keyboards. PRS Electric Guitars. Thank you for listening to the end.

Thank you so much for not just "listening and commenting" on the song but actually analyse and understand the meaning behind it. Also you mentioning of Senpai Dawkins made me happy. You just earned a loyal subscriber.

Everytime I listen this song and watch this fragment of the show, I can't resist to the desire, the need to shout(or at least whisper) that "We were here". That makes me feel like I'm at that show trying to sing along

You and Soul Train Brother are so important to me... you are a very special person to me! BTW... that concert in 2020 will be the best dollars you will ever spent!

If you want to hear more from Tuomas, there are several things to check out: - his solo album The Life and Times of Scrooge - his project Auri: I recommend the songs The Space Between and Night 13 - the Score of the Imaginaerum Movie (they produced a movie for the Imaginaerum album and turned the songs into the score) - he also participated in a project called "U Meet" ...

Thanks for waiting...an artist's masterpiece doesn't stop after the music stops, that's why there are 5 minutes left. Agree with you in many points. Few of my experiential experiences are: One: Everything happens only once. Even what appears to be a most repetitive routine, only happens once. 'Can't step into the same river twice'. Two: everything was quite OK, before I was born, so if that's where 'I' am going back to. It's OK. Three: there is no 'I' anyway, and there is no 'other'.

Troy's "pipes" aren't regular bagpipes. They're called Uilleann pipes. You use more pure bellows to play then the Scottish pipes that use the bellows and the mouth piece. His pipes use reeds that are VERY F'IN FRAGILE and expense to replace. I tried to learn how to play them and that was a no go!! HOLY HELL Brotha!!

You wanted some pure orchestral by Tuomas? Well, you got it at the end. All by him.

This is one of the most grand music live shows there is...maybe the greatest show on earth (except creation itself). Yes---Masterpiece for sure.

I was there. it was amazing. I have seen them live many times and it seems they are just getting better and better.

Nothing like being at the show and everyone singing at the top of their lungs we were here !!!!!!

Love watching your reactions, have a listen to the Pink Floyd cover by Nightwish, Brilliant version of High Hopes. The Live version

great reaction.. one of their most epic masterpieces rver

Excellent job, friend, as usual. Speaking as an agnostic: To live and walk on this gem of a world, given all the hostilities of space, the violence of star birth and death, the planetary and galactic collisions and everything it took over billions of years to make a gleaming garden home out of dust, fire and ice upon which we can sip wine, write poetry, make music, raise a family, build spacecraft and venture forth ultimately to colonize a million other worlds... What an adventure, a miracle and a gift beyond all measure.

Don't forget the movie Imaginaerum. Made by Nightwish and with music from them. Very good movie

The fireworks makes this the best venue for this song. Surprised you didn't catch the Metallica at 15:55. Great that you took it all the way to the end. Can't even imagine what else is in the brain of Tuomas, that we will some day experience.

Great video man. Keep going. There is so much for you to explore still. Check out more tracks at Wacken 2013 that you haven't covered yet. The entire concert is online along with the whole set list. You can pick anyone one of them and they will blow you away. PEACE!

aka Altorego 666 Tuemas the key board player has got to be one of this era's best composers, they play the best sounding music i have heard since the 70's

This song always brings tears to my eyes

It was beyond belief, I was there :) About halfway of that walk-out-thing on the left side looking from stage towards crowd edit: As for non-metal music by Tuomas? Check his solo album "The Life and Times of Scrooge" as well as the self-titled album from Auri (Tuomas, Donockley & Tuomas's wife Johanna Kurkela). Also "Satojen merien näkijä" from Johanna Kurkela's "Hyvästi, Dolores Haze" album is by Tuomas.

Absolutely, you're right!

Tuomas Holopainen - Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge. It's the only album he released under his own name so far. It's beautiful, and I'm planing on buying that LP this month.

Never i clicked on a video so fast! lol

Just seeing your reaction now, for that I apologize. NightWish Army Wisconsin Chapter here! You want to hear some symphonic music from him without the metal? He has a side project (2 albums) with his wife Johanna And Troy. That band would be Auri. It is symphonic meditation music based on human nature and history. Love your reactions! ❤️🤘

Last of the Wilds is an Instrumental track they played live a couple of times otherwise check out AURI it's a "part-time" band with him, his wife and Troy

Superb reaction! I live on the left of that white bridge, too bad i didn't get to see this concert ! 😁 You should visit, you seem to have a very Nordic mind set 😊

Their later albums have a third CD that has entirely symphonic instrumental versions of all the songs on the album, no metal. This song included. You should check that out. Also, the low wind instrument Troy plays in the beginning is called a tin flute, or a tin whistle. I think in the D key. He plays uilleann pipes later on. If you watch the performance of this song in Wembley Arena, you also get to see Richard Dawkins himself come up on stage in the end.

Totally agree with you about the meaning of life.

I hope they'll be able to bring their full production over across the pond for you guys, but don't be disappointed if they can't do that and play at smaller venues, since they are not very known in the states..

I'm so glad you did this one, and watched to the end. I find that the experience is more complete with Richard Dawkins. I wish I could have been there. I'm waiting for their next tour, I haven't seen them live yet.....but I will.

from the same concert, there is an amazing version of "sleeping sun" its worth watching i think! Great reaction

this song has a message and you got it. We WERE here.... so make the best of that time. Because there is nothing after

There are a couple of virtual concerts in 2021, to book on Nightwish.com. The dates for you depend on where you are around the World. Apart from Nightwish at Wembley SSE indoors, I have rearranged dates in 2021 close to me in Leeds and Bradford for Diana Ross, The Who, and Rick Wakeman. I can't really see those being rearranged again in 2022.

They released an album Imaginaerum (The Score) which is what I think you're looking for when you asked for music from Tuomas without the metal. It's beautiful and I love to listen to it while working.

I so want to see (or hear, you could say) Toumas score a movie. He has such a good sense of instrumentation and theatricality, it would be awesome.

The last couple Nightwish albums included fully orchestral arrangements of all the songs

literally the best live show i've ever seen in person or on video.

Just watch the Wembley live version off this song... Prof. R Dawkings comes out and speaks the lyrics live! Just please watch and reveiw it of the live version.

This is a stunning track. I saw them in Birmingham UK back in Dec 18. Absolutely amazing.....waiting for them to tour again.

It exists. The album is The Life and Times of Scrooge. He partnered with the cartoonist who created Scrooge McDuck. I have the album and it is very good. The Last Sled is my favorite from that album.

Finally!! Oh yes it is!! :)

When they do come to the US again, look for them in smaller theaters. We don’t get them in big shows like this here. It is still a good show. I have seen them twice and met them once. Very good here but different. This video was film at home in Finland so home court crowd. This band is the biggest think to come out of Finland or so I have read.

Wondering if anyone here knows the purpose of the last break where the enter Sandman riff is? If you catch it, it's a sequence of the evolution of music - starting with chants/ohms going to classical, to a banjo to metal and electronica. I just thought it was clever....

They never cease to amaze me and never disappoint that's for sure!!!!

Does Nightwish have a secret formula? All their music captivates me 😍

They do a world tour next year and hit the states from October 1st With LA and New York on the 5th with Lowell on 22nd. If you live elsewhere in the world I can get the dates. I tend to follow them around the globe. Seen them at Wakken and here as well as Buenos Aires, some 27 live events

If you want to hear something that’s not metal that Tuomas composed, try the album Auri, it’s a joined work between Tuomas, his wife Johanna, and Troy.

Every time I watch/listen to nightwish I get hit emotionally. I love it, keep up the awesome job! New subscriber here!

The story is about the evolution of the universe and hence life here, we are all made of star stuff so, atoms in general. When we die it makes no difference about your beliefs. The atoms go their own way and you become something new, part of you can become a flower or bee, some will go back into the universe and become something else . So in reality you never die.

yes, he’s got two solo projects out by now. an album "The Life And Times Of Scrooge" under his own name and a self-titled album by his solo project AURI. both almost entirely symphonic. check those out. you won’t be disappointed.

Check out "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck". It is a comic book story that Holopainen wrote an entire soundtrack for it. It isn't symphonic metal but he wrote all of it himself. Tuomas Holopainen is such a rare talent. It will blow your mind when you hear the songs.

You couldn't go wrong with Toumas' "The Life and Times of Scrooge." Sounds exactly what you are looking for.

I love how it goes calm again, then J.S. Bach brings it back to epic level, then they top it off with a splash of Metallica, before cascading into the greatest ending of all time!!!

Troy uses what is called Ulean Pipes. I probably misspelled the heck out of it though.

I imagine this is what the gospel music of a world that never knew religion would sound like.

We Were Here. Such an epic way to end a performance.