Been reminded of this band and this awesome record recently, and had to share my favorite song from them ever, a ten-minute epic.
From Finaland, this symphonic power metal group released this album in 2004, during my formative teenage years, so it's been imprinted of this smooth brain of mine lmao.
I feel like this could be the soundtrack to a fantasy film or some such, with the epic drama and bombastic parts during the climax.
They kind of fell off my radar for a bit (real life etc) right around Century Child, so I missed both rounds of singer drama. But I am with you 100%. Disgraceful. It was a lot to take in when I picked up the band again. But the upshot to missing it in real time is seeing how things improved. Bye Bye Beautiful and Master Passion Greed are permanently retired. Tuomas stopped writing borderline creeper unrequited love songs and has leaned more into a naturalist/humanist approach. They seem to treat Floor well. I can only hope the maturation on display has been internalized.
But then Marko up and quit, so... who knows. (._.)