Angels Fall First
Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox". Template:Album ratings
Angels Fall First is the debut studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, originally released by Spinefarm Records on 30 September 1997 as a 500-copy limited edition.[1] This edition is highly sought after by collectors and in 2012 a copy was sold for $1137.23 on eBay.[2] It was subsequently released to the general public on 1 November, with four additional songs. The album was released in the US by Century Media in March 2001.[3]
Angels Fall First is a power metal album with gothic, folk and classical elements.[4]
Background
Tuomas Holopainen wrote the music for the album during his time in the Finnish Army.[5] In a 2008 interview with the British magazine Kerrang!, Tuomas Holopainen remembered: Template:Quote The original pressing featured Holopainen's home contact address, an accident from reprinting the demo sleeve for the album.[6]
As of December 2009, Angels Fall First has sold more than 36,000 copies in Finland alone.[7]
The band, and especially band leader and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen has since frowned upon the album, considering it essentially an extended demo. In a 2011 interview, when asked what album other than Imaginaerum Holopainen wanted to make into a movie, he replied that it would be Angels Fall First, and that it would be "a black-and-white comedy".[8]
The male vocals heard on "Beauty and the Beast", "The Carpenter", "Astral Romance" and "Once Upon a Troubadour" are sung by keyboardist–band leader Tuomas Holopainen, as well as the whispers in the beginning of the demo version of "Etiäinen".[9] Following this release, Holopainen never sang credited on an album again, because he thought that he was not good enough.[9]
Track listing
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
Template:Track listing Template:Track listing
Personnel
All information from the album booklet.[10]
Nightwish
- Tarja Turunen – vocals
- Tuomas Holopainen – keyboards, male vocals (on track 2, 3, 4 & "Once Upon a Troubadour"), arrangements
- Emppu Vuorinen – guitars, bass
- Jukka Nevalainen – drums, percussion
Additional musician
- Esa Lehtinen – flute
Production
- Tero Kinnunen – engineering, mixing, recording
- Mika Jussila – mastering
- Garry Black – cover photo
- Toni Härkönen – photography
Charts
Template:Album chart| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
|---|
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
|---|
Certifications
Template:Certification Table Top Template:Certification Table Entry
|}Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Notes
References
Bibliography
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
External links
Template:Navbox musical artist
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedAM - ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedkerrang_2008 - ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ (1997). "Angels Fall First liner notes". In Angels Fall First [CD booklet]. Spinefarm.