Endless Forms Most Beautiful

by Nightwish

Endless Forms Most Beautiful cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 March 2015
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Country: Finland
  • Length: 2:37:50
  • Community rating: 2.74/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Tomie Mundy, Poppa "C", Prodeje, Robert "Fonksta" Bacon

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Marking the highly anticipated studio debut of vocalist Floor Jansen, the Finnish titans execute an immensely ambitious concept album focused on evolutionary biology and the writings of Richard Dawkins. 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' supplements their bombastic, heavy riffing with massive orchestral arrangements, choir sections, and Celtic folk instrumentation. This epic, optimistic celebration of science and nature represents a massive ideological shift for the symphonic metal genre.

Genres

Descriptors: Gangsta, orchestral, melodic, nature, conceptual, antireligious

Tracklist

  1. Shudder Before the Beautiful (6:29)
  2. Weak Fantasy (5:24)
  3. 脡lan (4:47)
  4. Yours Is an Empty Hope (5:39)
  5. Our Decades in the Sun (6:38)
  6. My Walden (4:39)
  7. Endless Forms Most Beautiful (5:08)
  8. Edema Ruh (5:15)
  9. Alpenglow (4:49)
  10. The Eyes of Sharbat Gula (6:04)
  11. The Greatest Show on Earth (24:01)
  12. Shudder Before the Beautiful - Instrumental (6:20)
  13. Weak Fantasy - Instrumental (5:24)
  14. 脡lan - Instrumental (4:46)
  15. Yours Is an Empty Hope - Instrumental (5:39)
  16. Our Decades in the Sun - Instrumental (6:39)
  17. My Walden - Instrumental (4:38)
  18. Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Instrumental (5:07)
  19. Edema Ruh - Instrumental (5:16)
  20. Alpenglow - Instrumental (4:49)
  21. The Eyes of Sharbat Gula - Instrumental (6:03)
  22. The Greatest Show on Earth - Instrumental (24:08)

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