
DOCUMENTARY "End of Innocence”:
This documentary is the main feature of the DVD. It lasts around 2 hours and offers the fans a huge amount of pictures and backstage/private videos from the members of Nightwish’s lives. The documentary shows an interview with Tuomas (and also Jukka and Wilska), made on a small island near Kitee, in the center of Finland, where Tuomas used to spend his holiday with his family when he was young, and where he now regularly goes back to recharge his batteries. Also on this DVD: backstage shootings from all the tours (mainly the Century Child Tour in 2002), the recordings of Century Child, a discussion about Sami’s departure, about the members’ meeting, about ups and downs (like in Fall 2001, when Tuomas decided to split Nightwish…) and a lot of surprises.
END OF ALL HOPE:
The DVD offers a new video, the one for End of All Hope, a song from Century Child. This video shows extracts from a live performance in Tuska in July 2002 and extracts from a Finnish horror movie which deals with vampires. Since the visual quality of the video is quite poor, the director multiplied visual effects but, as a whole, it remains quite repetitive and disappointing, especially since most of the people were expecting a video made in a studio. Too bad!
LIVE SUMMER BREEZE 2002:
As a bonus, Nightwish offers us a few songs from the Summer Breeze Festival that took place in 2002. We can see End Of All Hope, Dead To The World (the Marco-Tarja duet stands stronger than ever before), 10th Man Down (Marco sings the male parts instead of Wiska), Slaying The Dreamer (THE song from this live show – to see Tarja and the rest of the band headbang together is impressive and brilliant), Over The Hills And Far Away and, at last, Sleeping Sun, Nightwish’s ballad par excellence. Yet, it is a pity that the audience does not show the enthusiasm that could be felt on this world tour!
OSLO, 4TH JULY, 2003:
In order to add to the Summer Breeze that might have seemed a little plain from the audience’s stand point, Nightwish offers an additional gift in this DVD – a few extracts from one of their show played in summer 2003. The sound and image quality are close from that of a bootleg, but the atmosphere in the crowd, Tarja and the guys’ presence, and the fury in songs such as Slaying the Dreamer (once again) makes this live performance a unique moment of the DVD.
PHOTO GALLERY:
Among the bonus on that DVD, there is an incredible photo gallery (most of them are new). The photos are shown through a maze in which it will be hard to find your way and see all the pictures! Persevere and try to find the picture of Tuomas naked (see below), because apart from this pleasure for the eyes of the ladies, a beautiful audio surprise is hidden as the last bonus on the DVD!
MTV BRAZIL INTERVIEW:
One last bonus is offered on the DVD, but it does not show a big interest to be honest. This bonus is a very short interview with the band – without Tarja – made for MTV in Brazil. Only Tuomas and Marco speak and we learn nothing new from them unfortunately! Too bad!
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