Editing Angels Fall First (section)

==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|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"/>

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 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"/>