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Wow, you guys are having a great discussion about "Nightwish" here...

Wow, you guys are having a great discussion about "Nightwish" here...

Join in.

The topic of our discussion indirectly concerns the beard of the bassist and vocalist of the Nightwish band.

Wow, you guys are having quite the discussion about "Nightwish"...

Yeah, and also about pinuses.

10/04/12.
Thanks to my frequent observations and attentiveness, I was able to determine that a characteristic feature of the physiology of a human individual of the klov subspecies, a variety of imarisny, is the absence of a primary sexual characteristic. Which is typical for the vast majority of individuals of the male sex.
At the moment, the process of mating among individuals of the klov subspecies remains a mystery to me. Relatively recently, I described the actions of two individuals that remotely resemble the mating rituals of ordinary Homo sapiens. Given the fact that there is no primary sexual characteristic, I dare to suggest that this subspecies is capable of producing offspring through parthenogenesis. I hope that further observations will provide answers to the accumulated questions.

Is this your online diary or a journal of scientific research?

Second. ........

How many individuals of the klov subspecies are known to date?

Two extra commas, and one is missing. Scientific credibility -50. Therefore, you are not a scientist or a researcher; your observations are false and provocative, and you are not allowed to participate in discussions that even indirectly relate to Marko Hietala's beard.

How many individuals of the klov subspecies are known today?

They are also under the protection of the IUCN! I won't tell you anything.

Two extra commas, one is missing. Scientific accuracy -50.

In the conditions of the wild, it is difficult to observe the rules of spelling.

Sky, you were supposed to count all the individuals and provide the data in your report. What about the methods of statistical analysis? I only know of one individual of the klov subspecies, and considering the fact that it is a male, it should be noted that the reproductive system of this individual lacks its main function – the production of oocytes, which are necessary for reproduction through parthenogenesis. Therefore, it follows that with this approach, the individual is not capable of producing offspring. Furthermore, you overlooked the fact that this experimental specimen is characterized by the absence of secondary sexual characteristics, while the presence of primary characteristics remains questionable. Thus, summarizing all of the above, we conclude that either you did not take into account all the features, or the klov subspecies, a variety of imarisny, is an endangered species.

Put a period at the end, colleague.

I know of only one individual of the klov subspecies.

!!! 11111111

Put a period at the end, colleague.

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So, so... Just a couple more posts like this, translated into English, and rhyming, and all that will be left is to write the music – and wouldn't that make a great new hit for Nightwish? What do you say?

To be honest, this band is to my liking. I prefer Tarja Turunen's vocals. I enjoy their songs "Phantom of the Opera" and "Wishmaster".

I attended the annual Russian Tribute to Nightwish concert, where Russian musicians performed covers of my favorite band.
There were only six of them: After the Darkness, Imaginarium, Aura, Elegance Cover Project, Andem, and Anadora. I had never heard of any of them before.
I suddenly realized that I had already been to the Rock House club—back in November for some dreary black metal, tagging along with a friend. The sound in this club was bad then, and it's bad now. Everything blends into a mush, guitar riffs and solos get lost, the keyboards are barely audible—slightly less than always—and the extreme vocals dissolve into the guitar noise (though, as I've noticed, very few people actually manage to deliver extreme vocals worthily from the stage). Only the drums are heard clearly.

The first two bands (After the Darkness and Imaginarium) played most of my favorite Nightwish songs. Imaginarium really set the place on fire; they played almost exclusively upbeat bangers and played them well—I approve.
Also, After the Darkness had a girl playing an electric violin, which replaced the keyboards in the band. I didn't like the sound, but that's fine—I didn't like any of the keyboards used by the subsequent bands. Except perhaps for Anadora, who had a more or less decent sound in some places. It's not that anyone played poorly—it's just that the sounds themselves were poorly chosen.
And then the first vocalist I liked appeared on stage. Yes, the previous ones sang, to put it mildly, not very well. Especially in the group After the Darkness—Svetlana Kochetkova reinterpreted all the songs in her own way. On one hand, that's good—some kind of creativity, perhaps—but on the other, I didn't like it; the originals are better.

Evgenia "Runa" Rodnikova first sang with Aura, then provided backing vocals for Elegance Cover Project. She was one of two vocalists who could sing—and did sing—in Tarja's octaves, and that is a huge plus because, as it turned out, vocals an octave lower in old Nightwish songs sound bad.
Additionally, this vocalist has a true operatic voice. However, she sang very intently, as if she were constantly keeping in mind what and how to sing next—this is actually very noticeable from the outside and doesn't look very beautiful. She also constantly forgot the lyrics (she's the spitting image of Tarja—who once said in an interview that memorizing lyrics is very difficult for her), and a couple of times she even managed to sing with a shift of a quarter to a half beat.
As for the music, Aura was worse in my opinion than Imaginarium.
Furthermore, the first three bands used and even overused extreme vocals. Why sing songs like Crownless, Ocean Soul, and Feel For You with screaming? In Aura's case, half of every song was performed with extremes. I suppose if Nightwish is cool, then Nightwish with growling is cool squared, plus very brutal for good measure.
After Aura, another band I liked was Elegance Cover Project. I liked them primarily for their main vocalist—Olga Salikhova. She sang simply beautifully. While her operatic quality is less pronounced than Evgenia Rodnikova's, she sings without tension, easily and naturally; she sings beautifully. An ex-vocalist of the band Luna Aeterna—I haven't listened to them and haven't heard them, but the name sounds familiar.
Plus, she's just a kawaii cutie :3 I even sent her a thank-you gift on VK once I got home, there you go.
They were also supposed to have a flutist, but unfortunately, she broke both her arms snowboarding and attended as a spectator, all casted up.
It's a pity these two bands played few of the songs I love the most. Too many slow ones.

Next up was Andem. People started shouting the name of this band even before Elegance Cover Project left the stage, and as I gathered, half the crowd came specifically for Andem. I had never heard of such a band.
And it's a good thing I hadn't. Pathos and commercialism. They were the only ones to put stands with their logo and name on stage, and the "pop-factor" of their vocalist exceeds all reasonable limits. This applies to both her appearance and her vocals.
Although she sings quite well in principle. Like Anette Olzon, only flatter. But at the same time, she handled some of the old Nightwish songs well—for example, she did great on "Nemo." She didn't miss a chance to sing something in her own way or add some kind of ending to a vocal phrase.
I didn't like them very much.

And the last band was Anadora. They immediately said they would give us an epic ending, but it didn't quite work out for them. I didn't like the vocalist. Their drummer is a girl whom I initially mistook for Masha Arkhipova—the vocalist of Arkona. There was another vocalist performing with them for the first time, whom I didn't hear or even notice at all—she just stood at the edge of the stage and occasionally sang along quietly; it's unclear why. In Elegance Cover Project, two vocalists were completely justified—they sometimes performed songs that use vocal layering—but in Anadora, she just sings from time to time along with the main voice, and you can't hear her anyway.

Despite all the negatives, of which there are probably significantly more than positives if one were to count, I am satisfied; although, again, I've gone deaf for a week (I stood by the stage for five hours). I got roughly what I expected—not very progressive performances, bad vocalists with the mandatory exception of one or two cuties, mush instead of sound, and something indescribable that actually made me like the concert.
I took almost no photos, and the ones I did take are bad. Maybe I'll post other people's photos from the concert when they appear online.