Live report :
NIGHTWISH Live in Paris, with EKLIPSE and BATTLE BEAST (POPB, on April 17, 2012)
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EKLIPSE
, NIGHTWISH
, BATTLE BEAST
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Publishing date : 4/22/12
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Author : metalmp
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Approximate translation of the file
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Empty... It is the impression that I have while arriving in front of the markets of the POPB this April 17 towards 18h30. A line of spectators stretches themselves sagement on about one hundred meters to attain the pit, while the markets taking to the tiers are of a calm that I rarely noted to Paris. Is this duty to the vacation that have just begun or am I therefore among these late ones that risk rediscovering itself all at the far end of the room without nothing to be able to see? To the interior, this is not the crowd of the big evenings: Bercy is in small configuration, the tiers the more masked tops by curtains. The scene, surprisingly narrow, seems more cut for a room of the size of a Zénith than for the POPB...un little less than 10,000 spectators met tonight, and attain the first row never seemed me so easy...
AS 19h30, the lights of Bercy extinguish themselves. On scene, four chairs and two lamps welcome EKLIPSE, feminine quartet composite of three violonistes and a violoncelliste. If the group wants to be a feminine version of APOCALYTPTICA, it is necessary reconnaitre, despite the encouragements of the public, that it lacks this madness dose that animates the masculine group. The only key a little "extreme" lies in the make-up of the girls… For the remainder, they are all simply too wise, too calm, executing perfectly their scores but without bringing although this be of original or of surprise. Even if one connait perfectly the attirance of NIGHTWISH for the classical music, one has the right to to wonder if EKLIPSE is really to his place on this turn…
Setlist EKLIPSE: ?
BATTLE BEAST does, for his part, flow a lot of ink the latter times. His first album, Steel, appeared some months ago, strong strike while drawing in the Metal the most traditional one, and currently of return in force, the one of the years 80, heavy and mélodique. If the group seduced on CD (astonishing that it was not commented on on Metal Intégral… One not the doubtless step received, damage), that does it give on scene? It is simple: BATTLE BEAST door perfectly well his name, taking battle to every song. Nitte, vocaliste to the song all also as powerful mélodique, most oldest person of the formation, puts itself in true leader of clan, haranguing the public, the guest to get up the hands, to jump, to budge... The "kids" that the accompany do not force themselves to exempt a talkative, explosive, powerful and direct energy. Unquestionably, one is located in another category, the one that lorgne of the side of the ACCEPT, DIAMOND HEAD and METALLICA of the first hours, and the public is totally receptive to this offloads energy that precedes the ceremony masters. And even if the clichés are numerous - start with the titles of the songs - BATTLE BEAST knowledge perfectly to use them to his advantage, in the purest one and lasts tradition of the kind. To review in poster head, without any hesitation.
Setlist BATTLE BEAST: Justice And Metal, Armageddon Clan, Cyberspace, Steel, Iron Hand, Victory, Enter The Metal World, Show Me How To Die
When the POPB is again dived in the black one to 21h15, clamor calms itself quickly, the public itself attentive fact to this game of shadows of chair to tips projected on the strange curtain of scene that falls in the middle of Taikatalvi, unveiling a superb scene dominated by a screen that will project all to the long one Concert of the always supplementary pictures to the songs. This screen, nevertheless, is only an artifice that very supplantent (too?) numerous explosions of gas, throws of flames or of distilled smoke during the almost two hours that lasts the spectacle. A spectacle where each is at his place, NIGHTWISH fact naturally honor to Imaginaerium, his last born one, reserving to the public the trifle of 10 extracts (more the" outro" Imaginaerium) on the 13 songs that contains his last album! If Annette OLZON henceforth totally is integrated to the Finnish formation, if she seems perfectly comfortable with the public, with which she easily has fun herself, his pleasant song is sometimes close of the false vocal line, notably on the titles of another era. Nevertheless, his complicity with Marko HIETALA, bass player with which she divides the song, is undisputable, just as with the remainder of the team the very (too? again) smiling guitarist Emppu.
Even there quintette, a new musician appears on the very succeeded I Want My Tears Back. Troy DONOCKLEY will remain with the group until Last Of The Wilds, then will rejoin it again on Over The Hills And Far Away of Gary MOORE to that it naturally is dedicated. Discreet, but effective, Troy "suffered" as all, the explosions of gas and other pyrotechnic effects that, smooth talker that is Marko, are not able, despite their number, do more noise than these "thousands of spectators than you are" …
If the spectacle perfectly is broken in and impressive, I reproach two things to NIGHTWISH : too many compliments that spoil the spontaneity own to the rock (" You’re so many ! " Declares, among of other compliments and smile ecstatic, Annette before a splendid version épurée of Nemo, while number of seats of the tiers are empty, too polite compliments of Marko, smile telephoned of Emppu…). Next, only three songs are coming from the period Tarja, all extracts of Once, the last album with the lyric singer (Wish I Had An Angel, Nemo and Planet Hell). As if, subrepticement, NIGHTWISH had decided to forget his glorious one passed to impose, is worth that is worth, Annette OLZON. What the group concentrates on its last deliveries, is, but is it necessary to pass "in force" (10 titles ofImagenaerium) and to be unaware of its first years? Quid of a Wishmaster, of a The Kinslayer, does She Is My Sin in place and place of one of the numerous ballads of the evening?
Except these remarks, NIGHTWISH abode a fabulous group of scene that knows to use the technology of which it disposes for some to put full seen it, sometimes, as on Last Ride Of The Day that comes to close this concert, in a manner breathtaking, thanks to the video of Russian mountains before a firework series that would not deny KISS for that finishes in beauty this evening. Damage, only, that the public was not more numerous...
Setlist NIGHTWISH: Taikatalvi, Storytime, WishI Had An Angel, Amaranth, Scaretale, Slow Love Slow, I Want My Tears Back, The Crow The Owl And The Dove, The Islander, Nemo, Last Of The Wilds, Planet Hell, Ghost River, Dead To The World, Over The Hills And Far Away. Reminder: Finlandia, Song Of Myself, Last Ride Of The Day
Exceptionally, you will find not here clichés of the concert of Paris. In fact, the number of accreditations for this concert has, it seems, beaten records... Nico proposes you its photos of the concert of LYON, April 20 2012.
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