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Spinefarm 2015 double album release with 3 bonus tracks and gatefold cover

‘Over The Hills And Far Away’ is Nightwish’s first and only EP, released in 2001. It features 4 brand-new tracks – a cover, a remake and two original songs written specially for this EP – along with 6 stellar live performances, this is a chapter in the Nightwish legacy not to be passed up. The EP starts with the beautiful rendition of the Gary Moore classic ‘Over The Hills And Far Away’, a song that has been elevated to entirely new proportions, complete with the blaring guitars and soaring operatic vocals we have come to expect from one of the first bands to combine the two. Coming next is, one of the greatest Nightwish songs in my opinion, the mesmerizing ‘10th Man Down’, a song written about the gruesome reality of, you guessed it, war. While this song may be depressing, its energetic chorus coupled with vibrant melodic structures easily makes it one of the band’s top performances. ‘Away’ falls into the Track 3 slot, and manage to slow things down tremendously, being one of the band’s lightest tracks. The 2001 remake of ‘Astral Romance’ is a nice surprise with male vocal duties by none other than Sonata Arctica frontman Tony Kakko. After this come six live tracks, all taken from ‘From Wishes To Eternity’.

Track listing:
1. Over The Hill And Far Away
2. 10th Man Down
3. Away
4. Astral Romance
5. The Kinslayer-live
6. She Is My Sin-live
7. Sacrament Of Wilderness-live
8. Walking In The Air-live
9. Beauty And The Beast-live
10. Wishmaster-live
11. 10th Man Down-live
12. Over The Hills And Far Away-live