Escapist by Nightwish

Genre: Metal
Year: 2008

"The Islander" is the tenth track on symphonic metal band Nightwish’s Dark Passion Play album. It was confirmed to be the albums fifth single on the website Nightwish-World on February 23, 2008, only a week after the fourth single, "Bye Bye Beautiful", was released. It was released on May 21, 2008, and the video itself premiered on April 14, 2008Nightwish.com. On the day of release, "The Islander" topped the Finnish Charts, entering at #1 entirely on physical sales. As some of Nightwish other songs (including for example "Creek Mary's Blood" from Once), the song is highly influenced by folk music rather than the symphonic power metal they usually play, and uses only acoustic guitars, rather than electric. It is fully Read full article at wikipedia.org

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