Episode 102: Nightwish The kingslayer year 2000. English Version.
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00:00:15 - Today a famous Finnish band with a female singer.
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00:01:56 - Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kite, Finland, formed in 1996 by composer and keyboardist to Ole Miss Hallopaynon, guitarist M.P. Barinen and singer Tarja Turunin, all of them high school classmates.
00:02:09 - They make a power heavy metal with operatic features, with a lot of classical music to give.
00:02:15 - This Wishmaster record made them known all over Europe, starting several tours of the
00:02:19 - Old Continent.
00:02:21 - With a very cohesive sound and a more focused focus on melody and atmosphere, it's no wonder it was such a huge hit, it reached its peak at number one on the official finished charts and debuted in Europe at number 21 in Germany and number 55 in France.
00:02:36 - The song The Kingslayer Something Like The Killer of Kings is part of this album.
00:02:41 - The band lyrically in this song, focused and got into the mind of a killer, Kingslayer, is a dialogue between a victim and his killer, which is dedicated to the family and survivors of the 20th of April 1999 in Colorado, when two teenagers killed nine boys, four girls and finally themselves.
00:02:59 - The song was composed by Tuomas Holopaynon, it is a duet between Tarya Turunin and Ike
00:03:04 - Bill from Babylon Horse.
00:03:06 - It also includes parts of texts from William Shakespeare and The Tempest.
00:03:11 - Musically, this song is very good, thunderous and apocalyptic.
anecdotes told by its protagonists, songs that made history, live and enjoy them in classic rocks all time.00:04:17 - For who you come to, for who you please don't be
00:04:43 - For and for cause in religion
00:04:47 - Some words they never give
00:04:50 - Some tears they never will dry
00:04:53 - For they are quite right for my guide
00:04:58 - Even the big guy there only come for
00:05:03 - Kill your friends, I don't care
00:05:06 - Or he kills, find it's there
00:05:09 - Need to understand, no need to forget
00:05:14 - No, there's no set of things to be followed
00:06:09 - I see a mess of fearful fear, like me a demon of red
00:06:25 - Trying to die for peace, you made me what I am
00:06:30 - In this world of a million religions, everyone plays the same way
00:06:36 - Your brain is in vain, you'll all be over soon
00:06:52 - Mother, help me, save me, please
00:06:56 - There is no god, our creed is but for ourselves
00:07:02 - Not a hero, unless you die
00:07:06 - The auspicious is the wounded ones
00:07:09 - And we are no waiting for them
00:07:11 - They are waiting for deep pain
00:07:14 - As for pain, the deadly pain
00:07:16 - Run away with your impeccable kin
00:07:20 - Good ones have born bad sons
00:07:24 - Can't seem not by falling
00:07:28 - For every lie, sir
00:07:30 - Fine words fill in us forevermore
00:07:35 - If it can lose any rest on this world
00:07:40 - Well, if we won't proceed on where we suppose to go