Floor'd

I recently found out that the band that is basically responsible for my discovering the genre of Metal - Nightwish - has a new singer (as well as another new band member who plays assorted woodwinds, like uilleann pipes and tin whistles, which is awesome all by itself ^^). Again. I liked the previous one, Anette, sort of. She was different, not bad but it didn't quite fit in my opinion. Now I wasn't really sure what to expect this time around. I read that she already sang as a sort of substitute on their last tour, so I decided to finally check it out now that she's official, and I found this video of her doing a song from the Album Once (incidentially my first ever Metal album ... heh) - Ghost Love Score. (You can find it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3brcft… )

Well, to make it short ... it fucking blew me away. I haven't really been listening to the band a lot these past years, since they went away more and more from the "old stuff", but holy hell that's a comeback right there ... I daresay that Floor surpassed Tarja's original version (not to mention her live versions ... ) by a substantial margin.
Especially the end of the song in this particular video ... I am at a loss for words. And somehow, I just *had* to paint it.

Nothing fancy, really, it's basically a sort of screencap study (although not really because I wanted to give it a painterly look still), and took me maybe 3-4 hours. I could probably go nuts on the details a lot more, but I like it as it is. Even though I decided to skip some of the outfit details (I really was in no mood to paint all those pesky small little thingies, see the video to see what I mean ^^).

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