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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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This edition is highly sought after by collectors and in 2012 a copy was sold for $1137.23 on eBay.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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 in March 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Angels Fall First is a power metal album with gothic, folk and classical elements.<ref name="AM"/>
BackgroundEdit
Tuomas Holopainen wrote the music for the album during his time in the Finnish Army.<ref name="MHammer">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In a 2008 interview with the British magazine Kerrang!, Tuomas Holopainen remembered: Template:Quote 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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Following this release, Holopainen never sang credited on an album again, because he thought that he was not good enough.<ref name="interview"/>
Track listingEdit
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PersonnelEdit
All information from the album booklet.<ref>(1997). "Angels Fall First liner notes". In Angels Fall First [CD booklet]. Spinefarm.</ref>
Nightwish
- Tarja Turunen – vocals
- 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
- Esa Lehtinen – flute
Production
- Tero Kinnunen – engineering, mixing, recording
- Mika Jussila – mastering
- Garry Black – cover photo
- Toni Härkönen – photography
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