"It all began when Tarja wanted to rerecord her vocals on the song", - Tuomas says. "we thought that why not rerecord the bass, too, to get Marco on the credits, because the royalties from the old version goes to Sami. When we began rerecording the song, it turned out that the keyboard parts for the choruses were nowhere to be found, so I played the keyboards again. In the end, only the drums and guitars were left as they were. we didn't want to make any dramatic changes, however, we just tried to get a fresh sound. I was actually against the whole thing from the start - I said that the song should be left alone because it's quite perfect like it is. But Tarja didn't like her vocals so we decided to give her a chance to fix them. I guess the final result turned quite OK."
Emppu agrees that the song should not have been messed with. "We didn't rerecord the guitars. Actually, I don't think the song should have been remade at all. The Beatles didn't do a remake of "Yesterday", did they? There's no beating the original."
Sleeping Sun sprang to number one on the Finnish singles chart right upon its release, boosted by a video that both Tarja and Tuomas found quite rewarding to shoot. “I wasn’t too impressed when I saw the script on paper”, Tuomas says. “I mean, what kind of a 21st century Metal band makes a video with knights in armor, clashing swords, riding to battle? But then we heard that the director had also made Rammstein’s ‘Amerika’ and ‘Keine Lust’, clips that obviously look at least as ridiculous on paper but turned out amazing on film. I talked with him on the phone for about 30 minutes, and he managed to convince me to give it a shot.”
Dressed in a magnificent long, white dress, Tarja walks through a battlefield covered with blood and scattered with fallen knights and dead horses, while Jukka, in full plate mail, twists an arrow out of his chest. Tuomas, an aristocratic Knight Templar, is seen both in battle and kneeling down in prayer. Wielding his spear among enemies like a true Berserk, Marco goes down in a blaze of glory and finally dies in the armor-plated arms of Emppu. During the chorus, Tarja waves a large red and gold flag like Joan of Arc, and in the end, the entire band march side by side towards the camera under a greyish black sky.
“I think the clip works because of the contrast between the actual song and the video”, Tuomas says. “I think it’s the best video we’ve ever made.” (да, да, конечно))))) Айлендер рулит!
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Tarja told she enjoyed the experience immensely. “I went on the set for my make-up really late, at ten-thirty at night or something, and we began shooting my parts around twelve-thirty (2 часа????). I had my birthday on the same day. It was such an amazing experience – I’ve never been kissed by 30 knights in shining armor, but that night was! I had no idea they had brought a cake for me on the set, or that the people who had supplied the armor and costumes for the video had made me a magnificent dagger. As we drove to the set, there were 30 knights waiting for me in a salute. I almost cried. Then the knights rot in line and came to kiss me one after another (вот, наверное, забавный эпизод))). I was so impressed by it all! The set was beautiful, and the crew was so quick and professional that we were able to wrap it up according to schedule, at something like 6 am. It was a very positive experience, and the end result is great, too.”
A record company representative on the set had a different view of Tarja’s mood – according to her, Tarja was unsatisfied and complained about the train of the dress getting dirty in the fake blood, mud, and horse dung. Apparently the birthday cake and flowers hadn’t interested her much, either.
The financial dispute regarding the video shoot is yet another illustrative example of the countless, seemingly important and pointless arguments that the band, the King Foo duo, and the record label kept having with Marcelo. This time Marcelo had demanded that the record company pay for Tarja’s personal make-up artist’s fees, her per diem and flights to Prague. He also informed the label that since the rerecording of the song was Tarja’s idea, taking part in the video shoot was to be thought of only as sales promotion for the new single release and that Tarja actually had no contractual obligation to do the shoot. In any case, the label thought that the demands to fly Tarja’s own make-up artist on the set no matter what the cost seemed simply unreasonable.
After Marcelo’s demands were not instantly met, he suggested that maybe one of the extras could be left out so that the money could be used to pay for Tarja’s make-up artist. Marcelo himself would apparently fill in for the missing knight. The record company did not agree to this either and forbade Ewo to book a flight for make-up artist. In the end, the video production company, Katapult, had their own personnel do Tarja’s make-up, which, judging from the end result, turned out quite nice, although the matter was a subject of discord at the shoot. According to Marcelo, Tarja agreed to do the video just out of the kindness of her heart (
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Просветите меня - с этого видео есть Making of...???
Могу тебе завтра процитировать весь эпизод 
И злость такая берет, когда читаешь о делишках Марсело.
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