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"Amaranth" history:
What a long time we had to wait for the release of this new single! While the teaser “Eva” did not charm all the fans because of its simplicity and the fact that it did not represent the album and Anette’s voice, “Amaranth” came to reassure everyone: on May 25th 2007, Nightwish made an extract available for the fans: power, choir and catchy chorus were there! Needless to say that everyone was deadly impatient to listen to the whole song. This was reinforced by a new video uploaded on the band’s official VideoBlog that showed the band on the shooting of the video “Amaranth” and that ended with a few new seconds from the song. But the wait was eventually shorter than planned since, just like what happened with Eva, the song was leaked on the internet before its release and radio broadcast. The song was an immediate success; fans were delighted, but the band and its management a little less. Later, maybe because of a few critics read, the album was re-mixed one last time, and when “Amaranth” was officially broadcast on the radio for the first time, at the end of July 2007, people discovered a new version, with Anette’s voice and the guitars put forward.

The single "Amaranth" that almost never came out :
"Amaranth" as a single? The idea was not clear as water from the beginning. Indeed, while the band was recording the new songs, Tuomas and the band clearly considered “Amaranth” (which demo was called “Reach” at the time) as being the worst song out of the fifteen that had been recorded. So, until the last moment, it was planned to use the song as a simple bonus track. That was until the day when Anette recorded the song in such a way that the whole group was blown away by her performance. The idea of taking the song out from the album was immediately forgotten and, when the time came to choose the singles from the album, “Amaranth” had become an obvious choice to follow “Eva”.

While Your Lips Are Still Red :
As the only previously unreleased track on the single (if one does not consider demo and orchestral versions as unreleased tracks), "While Your Lips Are Still Red" is not really a song by Nightwish: this is most of all a musical theme, composed by Tuomas for the soundtrack of the movie “Lieksa!”, which is sang by Marco. This is a beautiful ballad with violins, which video was put exclusively and officially this time, on YouTube. One can see scenes with Tuomas and Marco, singing, and extracts from the movie. A nice and simple video that fits perfectly with the song.