“It’s hard trying to choose another song from this album because there’s a lot of good stuff on it, but I have a soft spot for Cadence of Her Last Breath. “Here’s another long song! I love this one for all the same reasons that I said about Ghost Love Score I like playing interesting songs with a variety of atmospheres.”ĬADENCE OF HER LAST BREATH (Dark Passion Play, 2007) THE POET AND THE PENDULUM (Dark Passion Play, 2007) My biggest influence from the prog world would be Jethro Tull, but I also love listening to Yes and Genesis and all those bands, and there’s a correlation between the structures and the length of a lot of their songs and this one.”
That’s why I like this song there’s lots of variety and the song is always interesting to perform live. “I’m a big fan of old prog rock and this is a song that has a lot of different parts going on, and different atmospheres in different places in order to support the story. I really like the oriental mixes that we got on this song, and the story about the certain odyssey going on there.” The Siren is a weird piece because it almost has no lyrics and just a few lines, but it still has a vibe of its own. “We took a big leap forward when we released Nemo as a single, but I think my favourite songs from the Once album are Ghost Love Score and The Siren. Being Finnish country boys, we’ve always gotten along really well and this band has felt like home ever since I joined.” I’d been playing in bands for quite a while already, and I had a studio engineering side job, but once I joined Nightwish I didn’t really go back to that because I started touring a lot. “I have many happy memories from making this album and I got to do a lot of the vocals on this song. They gave me a lot of freedom with the bass lines for this album, and I put in a few fills including the nice bass effects close to the end of this song.” They called me when they had some trouble with their former bass player around 2001. Before Nightwish I was playing bass and doing some background vocals in a band called Sinergy and we were warming up for the band in 2000.
“ Bless the Child was actually the first song that I worked on when I joined the band.