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Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Metal · 2015 · 23 tracks · 2h 37m

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Nightwish

A seventy-eight minute celebration of evolutionary biology. Massive orchestral swells, uilleann pipes, and Floor Jansen's versatile vocals define this scientific epic.

March 25, 2015 · Nuclear Blast Entertainment

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A profound sense of wonder and awe directed at the natural world and the history of life.

Tracklist · 23 Tracks · 2h 37m
01
Making the Recordings
01
Shudder Before the Beautiful
6:20
01
Shudder Before the Beautiful
6:29
02
Sagan (music lyric video)
02
Weak Fantasy
5:25
02
Weak Fantasy
5:25
03
Élan
4:47
03
Élan
4:47
04
Yours Is an Empty Hope
5:39
04
Yours Is an Empty Hope
5:39
05
Our Decades in the Sun
6:40
05
Our Decades in the Sun
6:39
06
My Walden
4:39
06
My Walden
4:38
07
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
5:08
08
Edema Ruh
5:16
08
Edema Ruh
5:16
09
Alpenglow
4:49
09
Alpenglow
4:49
10
The Eyes of Sharbat Gula
6:04
10
The Eyes of Sharbat Gula
6:04
11
The Greatest Show on Earth
23:59
11
The Greatest Show on Earth: Chapter I) Four Point Six / Chapter II) Life / Chapter III) The Toolmaker / Chapter IV) The Understanding / Chapter V) Sea‐Worn Driftwood
24:08
Moments Worth Waiting For
The spoken word introduction by Richard Dawkins that grounds the album in scientific awe.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Endless Forms Most Beautiful sound next to the rest of Nightwish's catalogue?

Choir/Choral+2.2σ

The instrumentation foregrounds choir/choral far more than the catalogue usually does.

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