Nightwish - Metal From Finland #MewsicMonday

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Happy Mewsic Monday! 🤘🏻

Hi, music fans!

Choose a country and build a list of rock songs from that country is this week's theme requested by October's Mewsic Moves Me honorary co-hostess Mary at Jingle Jangle Jungle.  

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As a Brit, Mum's music collection has always consisted mainly of British artists, plus a lot of American artists as well. There's no doubt about it, many of the classic rock/metal bands are from the UK. And we know the USA has always had amazing rock bands as well.

Sadly, British music has been going downhill ever since the Nineties. Nothing exceptional had captured Mum's soul or ears since then so all she did during the Noughties was listen to music from the past, especially 80s music. 

Then in 2007, that all changed.

While researching the Romantic poets Byron and Shelley on YouTube for her novel Poet's Blood, she came across a Finnish band called Nightwish. You see, someone had uploaded a video of clips from the BBC Byron drama series and had replaced the audio with the song "Sleeping Sun" by Nightwish.

If only Mum could find that video now because she's searched and she can't find it anywhere, so it must have been deleted. However, you can watch the official Nightwish video of the song below. 

This beautiful song enthralled Mum instantly. Mum wanted to find out more about this band she had never heard of, and why had she not heard of them before?  The lead vocalist sounded kind of Irish, were they from Ireland? 

No, she soon discovered that this amazing band called Nightwish was a Finnish band and actually of the metal genre - a new breed of metal (for Mum at the time) - Symphonic Metal. Mum was hooked. She had now found the music that spoke to her soul. Music that included most genres of music that truly moves her. Metal, rock, classical, orchestral, operatic, dramatic, bombastic, mellow, melancholic - it speaks to her like no music has ever had. This is her SOUL music. It inspires her - to write, to create, to sing, to heal.

So, here, without further ado - we have music from Finnish band Nightwish.  

 SLEEPING SUN  

The song that started it all for Mum.

Featuring the vocals of Tarja Turunen (lead vocalist from 1996–2005). 

 

GHOST LOVE SCORE

Since leaving Nightwish, Tarja has her own successful solo career.

AMARANTH

Anette Olzon from Sweden took over lead vocals from  2007 to 2012.

SONG OF MYSELF

Anette's YouTube Channel

Dutch singer Floor Jansen  is the current lead vocalist since 

2013

SHUDDER BEFORE THE BEAUTIFUL

MY WALDEN

Check out Floor's official YouTube channel 

For more music from Nightwish check out their official YouTube Channel

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Symphonic Metal Day

We had no idea that there was a Symphonic Metal Day,  so here we are, posting some Symphonic Metal music. This is Mum's favourite genre, and as she has been feeling quite sad lately, I thought I'd let her indulge herself. Music always makes her feel better. Not as better as I can make her feel, but she always calms down a bit after she's listened to some tunes.

Symphonic Metal has been Mum's favourite music genre since she discovered the Finnish metal band Nightwish 11 years ago. She finds the music so inspiring - it's a mixture of classical music with metal. Mum has always loved classical music and she's always loved rock and metal.

The music of Nightwish, and indeed other bands of the same genre, has inspired Mum's writing. It's what she listened to while writing her fantasy novels.

I like a lot of what Mum listens to and I quite like Nightwish. She has almost everything they have released so that means instrumental versions of their albums and orchestral ones. I favour the orchestral versions as cats do tend to love classical and instrumental music. Metal is a bit too loud for my liking.

I love soundtracks too - Outlander is one of my faves. But let's get back to Symphonic, shall we?

Here are some of Mum's favourites.

I like the first one the best because it's a nice song to nap to. I like it when Mum does her singing and she performs this song. Only in her bedroom, mind you.


The next song is Mum's favourite.

Meow Music Monday

Mondays are always boring and predictable, so how about some heavy metal music to start off your week? 

These cats seem to have the right idea!

   

 HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

Meow Music Monday

Here is a funny video for you all to help beat those Monday blues.