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| artist = [[Nightwish]]
| artist = [[Nightwish]]
| cover = Nightwish Angels Fall First.jpg
| cover = Nightwish Angels Fall First.jpg
| alt = A nighttime image with a tree far in the distance and the moon above in the skyline. The sky is a dark black and the image colors fade to a bright red near the tree.
| alt =
| released = {{start date|1997|11|01|df=yes}}{{efn|Standard edition release date. Limited edition released on 30 September 1997.<ref name="release">{{cite web | title=Angels Fall First| url=https://www.nightwish.com/releases/angels-fall-first|accessdate=2023-12-02}}</ref>}}
| released = 1 November 1997
| recorded = [[Kitee]] Huvikeskus Studios, April–May and September 1997
| recorded = April–September 1997
| venue =
| studio = Huvikeskus ([[Kitee]])
| studio =
| genre =
| genre = [[Power metal]]
* [[Power metal]]
* [[symphonic metal]]
| length = 51:39
* [[folk metal]]
| length = 51:29
| language = {{hlist|English|[[Finnish language|Finnish]]}}
| label = [[Spinefarm Records|Spinefarm]]
| label = [[Spinefarm Records|Spinefarm]]
| producer = [[Tuomas Holopainen]] and Nightwish
| producer =
* [[Tuomas Holopainen]]
* Nightwish
| prev_title = Nightwish Demo
| chronology = [[Nightwish]] studio album
| prev_year = 1996
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[Oceanborn]]
| next_title = [[Oceanborn]]
| next_year = 1998
| next_year = 1998
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| type = studio
| type = studio
| single1 = [[The Carpenter (Nightwish song)|The Carpenter]]
| single1 = [[The Carpenter (Nightwish song)|The Carpenter]]
| single1date = 1 November 1997
| single1date = 29 September 1997
}}
}}
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 =[[AllMusic]]
| rev1 =[[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/angels-fall-first-mw0000000595 | title = Nightwish – Angels Fall First review | accessdate = 25 August 2014 | last = Rivadavia | first = Eduardo | work = [[AllMusic]] | publisher = [[All Media Network]]}}</ref>
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/angels-fall-first-mw0000000595 | title = Nightwish – Angels Fall First review | access-date = 25 August 2014 | last = Rivadavia | first = Eduardo | work = [[AllMusic]] | publisher = [[All Media Network]]}}</ref>
| rev2 =''[[Metal Hammer]]'' (GER)
| rev2 =''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2Score = 7/10<ref name="martin" >{{cite book | last = Popoff | first = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties | publisher = [[Collector's Guide Publishing]] | date = August 1, 2007 | location = Burlington, Ontario, Canada | page=313|isbn = 978-1-894959-62-9}}</ref>
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|7}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metal-hammer.de/suche/?searchString=nightwish+angels+fall+first&from=01.01.1900&to=01.01.2100&pub=mth&src=all&src=wbs&src=pct&sortBy=publishdate&filter= |title=Nightwish - Angels fall First |language=German |publisher=''[[Metal Hammer]]'' |date=April 1998 |accessdate=25 August 2014 }}</ref>
| rev3 =''[[Metal Hammer]]'' (GER)
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|7}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.metal-hammer.de/suche/?searchString=nightwish+angels+fall+first&from=01.01.1900&to=01.01.2100&pub=mth&src=all&src=wbs&src=pct&sortBy=publishdate&filter= |title=Nightwish - Angels fall First |language=de |magazine=[[Metal Hammer]] |date=April 1998 |access-date=25 August 2014 }}</ref>
| noprose=yes
| noprose=yes
}}
}}


'''''Angels Fall First''''' is the debut studio album by [[Finns|Finnish]] [[symphonic metal]] band [[Nightwish]]. The original 500-copies limited edition features seven tracks, two of which are not on the regular edition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nightwish.com/en/news/archive?month=11&year=1997 |title=First album out |publisher=Nightwish's Official Website |date=1 November 1997 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006112921/http://www.nightwish.com/en/news/archive?month=11&year=1997 |archivedate=6 October 2009 |accessdate=25 August 2014 }}</ref> This edition is highly sought after by collectors and in 2012 a copy was sold for $1137.23 on [[eBay]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://heavymetalcd.com/cd_prices/auction/140726092235 |title=Nightwish - Angels Fall First limited 500 copies, Metallica, Exodus, Overkill |publisher=Heavy Metal CD.com |accessdate=13 April 2014 }}</ref> The album was released in the US by [[Century Media Records|Century Media]] in March 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nightwish.com/en/news/archive?month=02&year=2001 |title=Nightwish releases to hit the USA |publisher=Nightwish's Official Website |date=22 February 2001 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102072220/http://nightwish.com/en/news/archive?month=02&year=2001 |archivedate=2 January 2010 |accessdate=25 August 2014 }}</ref>
'''''Angels Fall First''''' is the debut studio album by Finnish [[symphonic metal]] band [[Nightwish]], originally released by [[Spinefarm Records]] on 30 September 1997 as a 500-copy limited edition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nightwish.com/en/news/archive?month=11&year=1997 |title=First album out |publisher=Nightwish's Official Website |date=1 November 1997 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006112921/http://www.nightwish.com/en/news/archive?month=11&year=1997 |archive-date=6 October 2009 |access-date=25 August 2014 }}</ref> This edition is highly sought after by collectors and in 2012 a copy was sold for $1137.23 on [[eBay]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://heavymetalcd.com/cd_prices/auction/140726092235 |title=Nightwish - Angels Fall First limited 500 copies, Metallica, Exodus, Overkill |publisher=Heavy Metal CD.com |access-date=13 April 2014 }}</ref> It was subsequently released to the general public on 1 November, with four additional songs. The album was released in the US by [[Century Media Records|Century Media]] in March 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nightwish.com/en/news/archive?month=02&year=2001 |title=Nightwish releases to hit the USA |publisher=Nightwish's Official Website |date=22 February 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102072220/http://nightwish.com/en/news/archive?month=02&year=2001 |archive-date=2 January 2010 |access-date=25 August 2014 }}</ref>


''Angel Fall First'' is a [[power metal]] album with [[Gothic music|gothic]], [[Folk music|folk]] and [[Classical music|classical]] elements.<ref name="AM"/>
''Angels Fall First'' is a [[power metal]] album with [[Gothic music|gothic]], [[Folk music|folk]] and [[Classical music|classical]] elements.<ref name="AM"/>


==Background and legacy==
==Background==
Tuomas Holopainen wrote the music for the album during his time in the [[Finnish Army]].<ref name="MHammer">{{cite web|last1=Everley|first1=Dave|title=How Nightwish became a modern metal phenomenon|url=http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/features/2015-12-08/how-nightwish-became-a-modern-metal-phenomenon|website=[[Metal Hammer]]|publisher=Team Rock|accessdate=2 January 2016|date=8 December 2015}}</ref> In a 2008 interview with the British magazine ''[[Kerrang!]]'', Tuomas Holopainen remembered: {{quote|It came about in August 1996, around a campfire. We were at my summer cabin, a bunch of friends camping out, barbecuing, singing songs, and then it just hit me that I wanted to start a band. But we were too far ambitious at that time for it to remain simply acoustic and making music with just acoustic guitar, keyboards and female voice, was just a bit boring, and we naturally started heading in a heavier direction. The funny thing about ''Angels Fall First'' is that it was only supposed to be a demo to send out to record labels. But then Spinefarm heard it and thought it was perfect, so they put it out as it was with no remixing or anything. I used to be a bit embarrassed but now I can feel proud and nostalgic about those songs.<ref name="kerrang_2008">{{cite book |last=Ruskell |first1=Nick |title=[[Kerrang!]] |chapter=Treausre Chest. An Ultimate Portrait of a Life in Rock. Tuomas Holopainen. |volume=1223 |location=London, UK |publisher=[[Bauer Media Group]] |date=16 August 2008 |page=54 }}</ref>}}
[[Tuomas Holopainen]] wrote the music for the album during his time in the [[Finnish Army]].<ref name="MHammer">{{cite web|last1=Everley|first1=Dave|title=How Nightwish became a modern metal phenomenon|url=http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/features/2015-12-08/how-nightwish-became-a-modern-metal-phenomenon|website=[[Metal Hammer]]|publisher=Team Rock|access-date=2 January 2016|date=8 December 2015}}</ref> In a 2008 interview with the British magazine ''[[Kerrang!]]'', Tuomas Holopainen remembered: {{quote|It came about in August 1996, around a campfire. We were at my summer cabin, a bunch of friends camping out, [[barbecuing]], singing songs, and then it just hit me that I wanted to start a band. But we were too far ambitious at that time for it to remain simply acoustic and making music with just acoustic guitar, keyboards and female voice, was just a bit boring, and we naturally started heading in a heavier direction. The funny thing about ''Angels Fall First'' is that it was only supposed to be a demo to send out to record labels. But then [[Spinefarm Records|Spinefarm]] heard it and thought it was perfect, so they put it out as it was with no remixing or anything. I used to be a bit embarrassed but now I can feel proud and nostalgic about those songs.<ref name="kerrang_2008">{{cite book |last=Ruskell |first1=Nick |title=[[Kerrang!]] |chapter=Treasure Chest. An Ultimate Portrait of a Life in Rock. Tuomas Holopainen. |volume=1223 |location=London, UK |publisher=[[Bauer Media Group]] |date=16 August 2008 |page=54 }}</ref>}}
The original pressing featured Holopainen's home contact address, an accident from reprinting the demo sleeve for the album.<ref name="kerrang_2008"/>
The original pressing featured Holopainen's home contact address, an accident from reprinting the demo sleeve for the album.<ref name="kerrang_2008"/>


As of December 2009, ''Angels Fall First'' has sold more than 36,000 copies in Finland alone.<ref name="finifpi">{{cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.fi/tilastot/artistit/nightwish |title=Tilastot - Nightwish |language=Finnish |publisher=[[Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland]] |accessdate=25 August 2014 }}</ref>
As of December 2009, ''Angels Fall First'' has sold more than 36,000 copies in [[Finland]] alone.<ref name="finifpi">{{cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.fi/tilastot/artistit/nightwish |title=Tilastot - Nightwish |language=fi |publisher=[[Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland]] |access-date=25 August 2014 }}</ref>


The band, and especially band leader and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen has since frowned upon the album, considering it essentially an extended demo. In a 2011 interview, when asked what album other than ''[[Imaginaerum]]'' Holopainen wanted to make into a movie, he replied that it would be ''Angels Fall First'', and that it would be "a black-and-white comedy".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tuomas-holopainen.com/index.php/en/interviews/85-chat-transcript-friday-17th-june |title=Chat Transcript: Friday 17th June |date=17 June 2011 |access-date=21 November 2011 |work=Tuomas-Holopainen.com |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018202517/http://www.tuomas-holopainen.com/index.php/en/interviews/85-chat-transcript-friday-17th-june |archive-date=18 October 2011 }}</ref>
The songs of the album were played more and more seldom live leading up the departure of vocalist [[Tarja Turunen]] in October 2005, and no songs from the album were performed with vocalists [[Anette Olzon]] or [[Floor Jansen]] until the ''[[Decades: World Tour]]'' in 2018.


The male vocals heard on "Beauty and the Beast", "The Carpenter", "Astral Romance" and "Once Upon a Troubadour" are sung by keyboardist–band leader Tuomas Holopainen, as well as the whispers in the beginning of the demo version of "Etiäinen".<ref name="interview">{{cite web |url=http://www.metal-rules.com/interviews/NightwishCenturyChild.htm |title=Nightwish - Interview With Tuomas Holopainen |last=Lahtinen |first=Luxi |publisher=Metal-Rules.com |date=November 2002 |access-date=13 April 2014 }}</ref> Following this release, Holopainen never sang credited on an album again, because he thought that he was not good enough.<ref name="interview"/>
The band, and especially band leader and keyboardist [[Tuomas Holopainen]] has since frowned upon the album, considering it essentially an extended demo. In a 2011 interview, when asked what album other than ''[[Imaginaerum]]'' Holopainen wanted to make into a movie, he replied that it would be ''Angels Fall First'', and that it would be "a black-and-white comedy".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tuomas-holopainen.com/index.php/en/interviews/85-chat-transcript-friday-17th-june |title=Chat Transcript: Friday 17th June |date=17 June 2011 |accessdate=21 November 2011 |work=Tuomas-Holopainen.com |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018202517/http://www.tuomas-holopainen.com/index.php/en/interviews/85-chat-transcript-friday-17th-june |archivedate=18 October 2011 }}</ref>


==Track listing==
The male vocals heard on "Beauty and the Beast", "The Carpenter", "Astral Romance" and "Once Upon a Troubadour" are sung by keyboardist–band leader [[Tuomas Holopainen]], as well as the whispers in the beginning of the demo version of "Etiäinen".<ref name="interview">{{cite web |url=http://www.metal-rules.com/interviews/NightwishCenturyChild.htm |title=Nightwish - Interview With Tuomas Holopainen |last=Lahtinen |first=Luxi |publisher=Metal-Rules.com |date=November 2002 |accessdate=13 April 2014 }}</ref> Following this release, Holopainen never sang credited on an album again, because he thought that he was not good enough.<ref name="interview"/>
{{main|List of Angels Fall First editions}}


== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
{{main|List of Angels Fall First editions}}
| headline = ''Angels Fall First'' track listing
| all_lyrics = [[Tuomas Holopainen]]
{{tracklist
| all_writing = [[Tuomas Holopainen]]
| all_music = [[Nightwish]]
| title1 = Elvenpath
| title1 = Elvenpath
| length1 = 4:40
| length1 = 4:38
| title2 = Beauty and the Beast
| title2 = Beauty and the Beast
| length2 = 6:22
| length2 = 6:22
| title3 = [[The Carpenter (Nightwish song)|The Carpenter]]
| title3 = [[The Carpenter (Nightwish song)|The Carpenter]]
| length3 = 5:57
| length3 = 5:56
| title4 = Astral Romance
| title4 = Astral Romance
| length4 = 5:12
| length4 = 5:11
| title5 = Angels Fall First
| title5 = Angels Fall First
| length5 = 5:34
| length5 = 5:34
| title6 = Tutankhamen
| title6 = Tutankhamen
| length6 = 5:31
| length6 = 5:30
| title7 = Nymphomaniac Fantasia
| title7 = Nymphomaniac Fantasia
| length7 = 4:47
| length7 = 4:45
| title8 = Know Why the Nightingale Sings
| title8 = Know Why the Nightingale Sings
| length8 = 4:14
| length8 = 4:13
| title9 = Lappi (Lapland)"
| title9 = Lappi ([[Lapland (Finland)|Lapland]]): I. Erämaajärvi
| length9 = 2:15
*<small>"Erämaajärvi"</small>
| title10 = Lappi (Lapland): II. Witchdrums
*<small>"Witchdrums"</small>
| length10 = 1:19
*<small>"This Moment Is Eternity"</small>
| title11 = Lappi (Lapland): III. This Moment Is Eternity
*<small>"Etiäinen"</small>
| length9 = 9:20
| length11 = 3:12
| title12 = Lappi (Lapland): IV. Etiäinen
| length12 = 2:34
| total_length = 51:29
}}
}}
{{track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Bonus Tracks
| headline = 2007 reissue bonus tracks
| title13 = A Return to the Sea
| collapsed = yes
| length13 = 5:46

| title14 = Nightwish
| title10 = A Return to the Sea
| note14 = demo
| length10 = 5:46
| length14 = 5:49
| title11 = Once upon a Troubadour
| title15 = The Forever Moments
| length11 = 5:21
| note15 = demo
| length15 = 5:36
| title16 = Etiäinen
| note16 = demo
| length16 = 2:59
| total_length = 71:39
}}
}}


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
All information from the album booklet.<ref>(1997). "''Angels Fall First'' liner notes". In ''Angels Fall First'' [CD booklet]. Spinefarm.</ref>
===Nightwish===
*[[Tarja Turunen]] – [[soprano]]
*[[Tuomas Holopainen]] – [[synthesizers]], keyboards, piano, vocals (on track 2, 3, 4, 11)
*[[Emppu Vuorinen]] – lead guitar, acoustic guitar and bass guitar
*[[Jukka Nevalainen]] – drums and percussion


'''Nightwish'''
===Additional musicians===
*[[Tarja Turunen]] – [[Singing|vocals]]
*Esa Lehtinen – flutes
*[[Tuomas Holopainen]] – keyboards, male vocals (on track 2, 3, 4 & "Once Upon a Troubadour"), arrangements
*[[Emppu Vuorinen]] – guitars, bass
*[[Jukka Nevalainen]] – drums, percussion


'''Additional musician'''
===Production===
*Esa Lehtinen – flute
*Tero Kinnunen – engineer, mixing, arrangements with Nightwish

*Mika Jussila – mastering at [[Finnvox Studios]]
'''Production'''
*Tero Kinnunen – engineering, mixing, recording
*Mika Jussila – mastering
*Garry Black – cover photo
*Garry Black – cover photo
*Toni Härkönen – band photography
*Toni Härkönen – photography


== Charts ==
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
{{col-begin}}
! scope="col"| Chart (1998)
{{col-break}}
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position

===Album===
{| class="wikitable" border="1" cellspacing="2" width="300px"
!align="center"|Year
!align="center"|Chart
!align="center"|Position
|-
|-
{{album chart|Finland|31|artist=Nightwish|album=Angels Fall First|rowheader=true|accessdate=June 20, 2024}}
|align="center" |1998
|align="center"|[[The Official Finnish Charts|Finnish Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Nightwish&titel=Angels+Fall+First&cat=a |title=Nightwish - Angels Fall First (album) |work=Finnishcharts.com |publisher=[[Media Control Charts]] |accessdate=25 August 2014 }}</ref>
|align="center"|31
|}
|}
{{col-break}}


{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
===Singles===
! scope="col"| Chart (2022)
{| class="wikitable" border="1" cellspacing="2" width="450px"
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
!align="center"|Year
!align="center"|Title
!align="center"|Chart
!align="center"|Position
|-
|-
{{album chart|Finland|5|artist=Nightwish|album=Angels Fall First|rowheader=true|accessdate=June 20, 2024}}
|align="center"|1999
|align="center"|"[[The Carpenter (Nightwish song)|The Carpenter]]"
|align="center"|[[The Official Finnish Charts|Finnish Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Nightwish&titel=The+Carpenter&cat=s |title=Nightwish – The Carpenter (song) |work=Finnishcharts.com |publisher=[[Media Control Charts]] |accessdate=25 August 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214072814/http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Nightwish&titel=The+Carpenter&cat=s |archivedate=14 December 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref>
|align="center"|3
|}
|}
{{col-end}}


== Certifications ==
== Certifications ==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Finland|artist=Nightwish|title=Angels Fall First|type=album|award=Gold|domestic=true|salesamount=36,526}}
|-
{{end}}
|'''Country'''
|'''Organization
|'''Year'''
|'''Sales'''
|-
|Finland
|[[Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland|IFPI]]
|2001
|Gold (+ 20,000)<ref name="finifpi"/>
|-
|}


== References==
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Bibliography===
*{{cite book
|title=[[Once Upon a Nightwish]]
|last=Ollila
|first=Mape
|publisher=Deggael Communications
|year=2007
|isbn=978-952-99749-2-4}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.nightwish.com/en/ Nightwish's Official Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101231042248/http://www.nightwish.com/en/ Nightwish's Official Website]


{{Nightwish}}
{{Nightwish}}

{{Authority control}}


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[[Category:1997 debut albums]]
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[[Category:Spinefarm Records albums]]
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[[Category:Finnish-language albums]]

Latest revision as of 15:45, 22 September 2024

This article is about a music album. For the video game, see Angels Fall First (video game).

Angels Fall First
A nighttime image with a tree far in the distance and the moon above in the skyline. The sky is a dark black and the image colors fade to a bright red near the tree.
Studio album by
Nightwish
Released1 November 1997 (1997-11-01)[a]
RecordedApril–September 1997
StudioHuvikeskus (Kitee)
Genre
Length51:29
Language
LabelSpinefarm
Producer
Nightwish studio album chronology
Angels Fall First
(1997) 		Oceanborn
(1998)
Singles from Angels Fall First
  1. "The Carpenter"
    Released: 29 September 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[3]
Metal Hammer (GER)[4]

Angels Fall First is the debut studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, originally released by Spinefarm Records on 30 September 1997 as a 500-copy limited edition.[5] This edition is highly sought after by collectors and in 2012 a copy was sold for $1137.23 on eBay.[6] It was subsequently released to the general public on 1 November, with four additional songs. The album was released in the US by Century Media in March 2001.[7]

Angels Fall First is a power metal album with gothic, folk and classical elements.[2]

Background

[edit]

Tuomas Holopainen wrote the music for the album during his time in the Finnish Army.[8] In a 2008 interview with the British magazine Kerrang!, Tuomas Holopainen remembered:

It came about in August 1996, around a campfire. We were at my summer cabin, a bunch of friends camping out, barbecuing, singing songs, and then it just hit me that I wanted to start a band. But we were too far ambitious at that time for it to remain simply acoustic and making music with just acoustic guitar, keyboards and female voice, was just a bit boring, and we naturally started heading in a heavier direction. The funny thing about Angels Fall First is that it was only supposed to be a demo to send out to record labels. But then Spinefarm heard it and thought it was perfect, so they put it out as it was with no remixing or anything. I used to be a bit embarrassed but now I can feel proud and nostalgic about those songs.[9]

The original pressing featured Holopainen's home contact address, an accident from reprinting the demo sleeve for the album.[9]

As of December 2009, Angels Fall First has sold more than 36,000 copies in Finland alone.[10]

The band, and especially band leader and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen has since frowned upon the album, considering it essentially an extended demo. In a 2011 interview, when asked what album other than Imaginaerum Holopainen wanted to make into a movie, he replied that it would be Angels Fall First, and that it would be "a black-and-white comedy".[11]

The male vocals heard on "Beauty and the Beast", "The Carpenter", "Astral Romance" and "Once Upon a Troubadour" are sung by keyboardist–band leader Tuomas Holopainen, as well as the whispers in the beginning of the demo version of "Etiäinen".[12] Following this release, Holopainen never sang credited on an album again, because he thought that he was not good enough.[12]

Track listing

[edit]
Main article: List of Angels Fall First editions

All lyrics are written by Tuomas Holopainen; all music is composed by Nightwish

Angels Fall First track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Elvenpath"4:38
2."Beauty and the Beast"6:22
3."The Carpenter"5:56
4."Astral Romance"5:11
5."Angels Fall First"5:34
6."Tutankhamen"5:30
7."Nymphomaniac Fantasia"4:45
8."Know Why the Nightingale Sings"4:13
9."Lappi (Lapland): I. Erämaajärvi"2:15
10."Lappi (Lapland): II. Witchdrums"1:19
11."Lappi (Lapland): III. This Moment Is Eternity"3:12
12."Lappi (Lapland): IV. Etiäinen"2:34
Total length:51:29
2007 reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
13."A Return to the Sea"5:46
14."Nightwish" (demo)5:49
15."The Forever Moments" (demo)5:36
16."Etiäinen" (demo)2:59
Total length:71:39

Personnel

[edit]

All information from the album booklet.[13]

Nightwish

Additional musician

  • Esa Lehtinen – flute

Production

  • Tero Kinnunen – engineering, mixing, recording
  • Mika Jussila – mastering
  • Garry Black – cover photo
  • Toni Härkönen – photography

Charts

[edit]
Chart (1998) Peak
position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[14] 31
Chart (2022) Peak
position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[14] 5

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[15] Gold 36,526[15]

Notes

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  1. ^ Standard edition release date. Limited edition released on 30 September 1997.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Angels Fall First". Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Nightwish – Angels Fall First review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  3. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 313. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  4. ^ "Nightwish - Angels fall First". Metal Hammer (in German). April 1998. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  5. ^ "First album out". Nightwish's Official Website. 1 November 1997. Archived from the original on 6 October 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Nightwish - Angels Fall First limited 500 copies, Metallica, Exodus, Overkill". Heavy Metal CD.com. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Nightwish releases to hit the USA". Nightwish's Official Website. 22 February 2001. Archived from the original on 2 January 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  8. ^ Everley, Dave (8 December 2015). "How Nightwish became a modern metal phenomenon". Metal Hammer. Team Rock. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  9. ^ a b Ruskell, Nick (16 August 2008). "Treasure Chest. An Ultimate Portrait of a Life in Rock. Tuomas Holopainen.". Kerrang!. Vol. 1223. London, UK: Bauer Media Group. p. 54.
  10. ^ "Tilastot - Nightwish" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  11. ^ "Chat Transcript: Friday 17th June". Tuomas-Holopainen.com. 17 June 2011. Archived from the original on 18 October 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  12. ^ a b Lahtinen, Luxi (November 2002). "Nightwish - Interview With Tuomas Holopainen". Metal-Rules.com. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  13. ^ (1997). "Angels Fall First liner notes". In Angels Fall First [CD booklet]. Spinefarm.
  14. ^ a b "Nightwish: Angels Fall First" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  15. ^ a b "Nightwish" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.

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