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Trollheart · 08-02-2011, 12:11 PM

Random Track of the Day
Tuesday, August 2 2011

So what have the gods of chance rolled for us today? Nightwish, it would seem. Well, I've heard a few of their songs, but not that many. What I have heard I've liked, and this is from a live album, and although my music library and the album art has it as from “Over the hills and far away”, checks show that this track was not on that album. I have a feeling it may be from the live “From wishes to eternity”, but at any rate, it's the live version of “Kinslayer”, which appears on their 2000 release, “Wishmaster”.

Kinslayer --- Nightwish --- Originally from Wishmaster on Drakkar

The song was written about the Columbine school massacres, and features dialogue between the two shooters in the middle. It's a keyboard-heavy intro, with angry guitars and Tarja Turunen at her operatic best on vocals. As might be expected, it's a very intense, angry song, eerie keyboard passages perhaps mimicking the two killers stalking through the corridors of the school in their search for victims. A very unsettling track, when you know what it's about, but very powerful and effective.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Random Track of the Day *Tuesday, August 2 2011* So what have the gods of chance rolled for us today? Nightwish, it would seem. Well, I've heard a few of their songs, but not that many. What I have heard I've liked, and this is from a live album, and although my music library and the album art has it as from “Over the hills and far away”, checks show that this track was not on that album. I have a feeling it may be from the live “From wishes to eternity”, but at any rate, it's the live version of “Kinslayer”, which appears on their 2000 release, “Wishmaster”. Kinslayer --- Nightwish --- Originally from Wishmaster on Drakkar The song was written about the Columbine school massacres, and features dialogue between the two shooters in the middle. It's a keyboard-heavy intro, with angry guitars and Tarja Turunen at her operatic best on vocals. As might be expected, it's a very intense, angry song, eerie keyboard passages perhaps mimicking the two killers stalking through the corridors of the school in their search for victims. A very unsettling track, when you know what it's about, but very powerful and effective. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018