Nightwish 5 stars worthy Rock Songs Rating

 
Nightwish 5 stars worthy Rock songs

 I have already written something or other on the Nightwish band. Now, I will mention a small list of their songs that I consider 5 stars worthy. The first song worth mentioning is "Amaranth". I mention Amaranth because it was the first Nightwish song I heard. I heard it along with the music video in the Fuse channel. It was sang by the new, lead singer of Nightwish. In the music video, a young boy had found a fallen angel. Her eyes where bleeding.

He took this angel back to his town. Eventually, the town's people try to kill the angel by burning down the boy's home. The video ends with the angel returning to heaven. Now, onto the lyrics of the song. "Amaranth" does sound like the name of an angel; however, it is the name of a flower. This flower only blooms, for a short period, in Autumn. The color of the flowers is bloody red or purple.

Aside from the odd name, the lyrics are about conflicts between religious doctrines and reality. The towns people thought the angel girl was a demon. However, she was truly and angel, despite her wounds. Only the boy saw the angel girl for what she truly was. Here, the reality of the angel conflicted with the orthodox views of angels.

The chorus of the song is more introvert. It focuses more on the sorrow of the child. The angel is his suffering given physical form. Aside from the lyrics and the pretty imagery, it is important to bring into attention the works of the lead guitarist, Marco Hietala. Truly, his guitar works has a strong, violent, epic mood. They worked together with the general whole of the song. Truly, Nightwish's "Amaranth" deserves 5 stars rating.

The next lovely song is "Bye Bye Beautiful". This song is about war, in general. The verses create a vivid vision of death. This is most noted in the line that says, "Blink your eyes just once and see everything in ruins". From then on, the chorus begins. The chorus is a series of angry questions sang by the Nightwish's Marco Hietala. Aside from the angry guitar and that line, there is really not much else to mention about "Bye Bye Beautiful". Truly, this song deserves 5 stars rating. 

The "Planet Hell" song is another of Nightwish songs critiquing war and carnage. The speaker is appalled by all the sights of death. His only desire is "to leave behind/ All the days of the earth." He advices the speaker to focus on saving themselves. They need to save a penny for the ferryman. This ferryman refers to the God Charon. He ferries people across the river Styx.

In "Planet Hell", there is a lovely blending of pagan and Catholic imagery. The whole Ark lines refers to Noah's Ark. This one is another boat reference. In the story of Noah's Ark, the faithful survived in the ark while the sinners drowned. When they say that "This world ain't ready for The Ark", it means that we are too sinful to be saved. Aside from these grim lines, the guitar work was pretty peachy. Truly, Nightwish's "Planet Hell" is a 5 stars worthy rock song.

The "End of all Hope" is another one of those darkly, angry church songs. There, Nightwish sings of the end of all hope. For them to lose a child, kills all hopes. They make great emphasis on the unforgiving nature of the world. At a certain point, they mention Mandylion. Mandylion was a cloth that covered the face of Christ. It supposedly has his image imprinted on it.

Part of their end of all hope motif, includes the Mandylion cloth without Jesus face on it. There is also the death wish without a prayer. Do not forget: Death Wishes ,aka suicide, is an unforgivable sin, according to the catholic church. I think that is everything worth mentioning about the "End of all Hope". "The End of all Hope" is another 5 stars worthy Nightwish song.

The next song worth mentioning is the Carpenter. The music video is kinda odd. It seemed to be more about Deadalus. In that music video, the old guy was crafting wings for himself to escape. The song itself was about Jesus. It also mentions the places where his tools where use. Nightwish was quite efficient in alluding to the cross and Jesus. In any case, this cute song deserves 5 stars rating.

Now, onto the song "Gethsemane". The "Gethsemane" is about the pains that Jesus suffered in the garden of Gethsemane. There he prayed to be released from the death he was about to face. For all his prayers, even the son of God, had to submit to God's will. Nightwish did a good job with this concept. The lyrics and the electric guitar are really beautiful. 5 stars for both of them.

As for the "Sleeping Sun" song, it is about death. The speaker wishes to go down with the sun. It is sad about something or other. From time to time, the chorus mentions the poet's pain. Well, most poets suffer from the lost of someone or other. It adds a greater dept to their poetry. Aside from this, Nightwish had a very beautiful solo built around the "Sleeping Sun" song. Truly, another 5 stars worthy music song. 

The next song worth mentioning is called "While Your Lips are Still Red". The song has a carpe diem theme about it. We should all enjoy the moment while we are still young. Once the time for love has passed, it will never return. This is noted well in the ephemeral " while your lips are still red" title.  Music wise, this song is accompanied by a pretty decent piano. As for the music video, it was about a wedding of sorts. In any case, Nightwish's "While your lips are still Red" deserves 5 stars rating.

The last song worth rating is Nightwish's "The Phantom of the Opera". Like many of their contemporary artist, Nightwish felt compelled to bleed the Phantom of the Opera. Marco Hietala sang the part of the phantom. Tarja Turunen sang as Christine. Frankly, I that song sounded awesome being played with an electric guitar. It sounded even better than the movie version... more or less. The Nightwish singer almost matched the aria of Christine. You know, the only part of the song that I did not like was the line that Nightwish added. It was awkwardly phrase and it did not match the style of the original song. If poor OG was still alive, he would have liked this remake of his song a lot. Anyhow, the Phantom of the Opera song, sang by Nightwish, deserves 5 stars rating.