Deep into the past follow the aeon path, greet a blade of grass, every endless form most beautiful. Alive, aware, in awe before the grandeur of it all, our floating pale blue ark of endless forms most beautiful.

NIGHTWISH - ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’ - Episode 21 'TROY’ (OFFICIAL TRAILER)

Album of the Week  |  Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Nightwish)

NIGHTWISH - ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’ - Episode 20 (OFFICIAL TRAILER)

NIGHTWISH - ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’ - Episode 19 (OFFICIAL TRAILER)

Photo by Ville Akseli Juurikkala 2015

Deep into the past follow the aeon path, greet a blade of grass, every endless form most beautiful. Alive, aware, in awe before the grandeur of it all, our floating pale blue ark of endless forms most beautiful.

This is NOT an official music video. This is just a lyric video with band elements added in.

Non-scientists guide to EFMB

Since I was struggling with some terms Tuomas used in the new album I made myself a quick guide, so I will no longer wonder if my friends (Luca, Lucy) are older than they say. Most definitions taken from Wikipedia. Goldilocks zone from science.howstuffworks.com

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth and a special thin middlefinger to fill the same ecological niche as awoodpecker.

Tiktaalik is a monospecific genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the late Devonian period. Tiktaalik may be representative of the evolutionary transition from fish to amphibians.

Panthalassa, alsoknown as the Panthalassic Ocean, was the vast global ancestral Pacific Ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea during the late Palezoic and the early Mesozoic eras. It included the Pacific Ocean to the west and north and the Tethys Ocean to the southeast.

A eukaryote is any organism whose cells contain a nucleus  and other organelles enclosed within membranes.

The Goldilocks zone  is an area of space in which a planet is just the right distance from its home star so that its surface is neither too hot nor too cold.

The last universal ancestor (LUA), also called the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), cenancestor, or progenote, is the most recent organism from which all organisms now living on Earth have common descent.

The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 419.2 ± 3.2 Mya (million years ago), to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 358.9 ± 0.4. Fish reached substantial diversity during this time, leading the Devonian to often be dubbed the “Age of Fish”.

Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone representing about 40% of the skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis.

Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey.

The title track from the latest studio album “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” will be released as a single on Friday 8th of May. You can pre-order cd single and exclusive numbered 10" silver vinyl from the official Nightwish Shop (only 200pcs printed worldwide)! Golden, green, blue and black vinyls also available. => http://www.madsupply.com/shop/item?id=1137

#Nightwish - Weak Fantasy live @ NYC 2015.

2015.04.09 #Nightwish (full concert) [Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City] !!!

Intro+Shudder Before The Beautiful.

At the back of our brains, there is a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder. - G.K. Chesterton