два новеньких обзора альбома от финской прессы, позитивных.
Iltalehti:
(September 27th 2007 by Mikko Räsänen)
In August I wrote a comprehensive review of Nightwish's new album, song by song.
Back then, after a couple of days of listening, I was positively stunned of the diversity and the rich sounds of it. Especially Poet And The Pendulum struck me with it's bombastic sound so that for a while after listening to it other bombastic metal sounded like nothing. For a while it overshadowed the rest of the album and the overall view took shape only after several times of listening.
As a reviewer I'm so critical that in a year I come across only few albums which deserve five stars. When it comes to Nightwish's Dark Passion Play I had to consider digging that fifth star out of the closet, for the first time this fall. I thought that it deserved a little con because the amazing While Your Lips Are Still Red is missing from the album and it was left as a bonus track on Amaranth single and that Whoever Brings The Night and possibly Cadence Of Her Last Breath felt almost like fillers.
The strengths of the album – the compositions, the diversity of the songs and the use of the choir, new vocalist Anette Olzon, the general level of production – are so incomparable that I don't want to punish the entirety for the sake of a few little cons. Congratulations, Nightwish – you made the first five-star album of this column.
And this one is from Raahen Seutu (posted on the Finnish side by Sharona):
With the new album Dark Passion Play Nightwish rises stronger than ever from the rubbish heap of the most imaginative speculations that followed the headlines, suspicions and the leaving of Tarja Turunen.
The transition from operatic metal to symphonic metal has succeeded. The most expensive album of the Finnish pop culture is Nightwish's greatest artistic victory, magnificently built arch from death to the meadows of heaven. The fierceness, the unavoidable beauty and the absolute grandeur of it will last longer than its predecessors.
The hands of the record sellers aren't shaking for the new vocalist Anette Olzon. Her singing rings in the rich sounds clear as a mountain creek. Now at last Nightwish is a band, not a bunch of men backing an opera singer.
The listening experience is extremely strong because of the music but also because of the feelings it awakes. Images rush in your eyes like you were watching the wildest adventure film.
However, it's not a soundtrack in question because already the opening track The Poet and the Pendulum makes lords of the rings kneel. Holopainen opens a window to himself to the core. This almost fourteen minute long masterpiece, built around the poet's symbolic death, proves three things:
Holopainen is one of the greatest Finnish composers, he's a pure blood poet and an artist who makes music from the only right starting points; his own. 
The album does not run out of cathartic experiences. A real discharge song is Bye bye beautiful written to Tarja Turunen, in which Marco Hietala's voice whips and lashes. Amaranth gets stronger and stronger every time, overshadowing even Nemo.
The Islander, composed by Hietala, is gorgeous whistling of Celtic pipes and the scent of a sea. Marco's voice rings warm and strong in this Irish sounding song.
The final track Meadows of heaven grows almost to heavenly measures with the power of gospel choir. The heart-rending, endless darkness confronts such a wistful lightness that the combination can do nothing but fill your heart. The circle closes, the pendulum halts.
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