Finnish metal!

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Alfred Soto: A sea chanty crossed with the “Jeopardy” theme — now that’s something. Although they play metal, this Finnish band is closer to electronic pop with power chords. Not unpleasant either.
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Will Adams: Well, it is Eurovision season, after all.
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Micha Cavaseno: Post-Tarja Nightwish has revealed a surprisingly unfortunate weakness in their operatic power metal, and it’s the fact that the band is a little long in the tooth for this. Vocalist Floor Jansen is adequate and like both her predecessors, remains unique while doing well for the field of Nuclear Blast nerdcore that is still inexplicably paying a shit ton of rents out in Europe while other metal sub-genre acts are panhandling. Yet the old hats she’s coming in to assist… These old Finns don’t bring it anymore. For god’s sake, they sound like Styx at this point, just eagerly cashing in on their past dazzlings. As far as symphonic metal goes, Nightwish have always been more eager to mug it up than wilder acts like Therion, Arcturus or Wintersun. But at this point, all they’ve got is the desire to please, and not much actual reward. 
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Patrick St. Michel: When people say lyrics don’t really matter to them, I wonder what they think of songs like this, where the only defining element is the love-it-or-leave-it lyrics. Anyway, this is the sort of metal I slowly back away from at all opportunities. 
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Thomas Inskeep: Is that a pennywhistle? On a supposed symphonic metal track? This is so toothless it’s barely hard rock, let alone metal. And is that Sarah Brightman singing lead?
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Katherine St Asaph: I am more pro-shameless AMV-bait/Evony-ad symphonic metal than taste should permit, even late-career cuts as anemic as this, but even I have limits. They’re located somewhere around the “Titanic” theme.
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David Sheffieck: Chugging guitars aside, it’s a bit too much of a light touch to really land the melodrama promised by lyrics like, “Come / Surf the clouds / Race the dark.” Yet even if it doesn’t quite manage the heights it could reach, it’s a rare song that can pull off a lyric like that with a straight face and not seem insufferable — Nightwish’s lightness helps as much as it holds them back.
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