Erämaan Viimeinen

Infobox Single
Name = Erämaan Viimeinen
Format = single


Artist = Nightwish
from Album =
Released = December 5, 2007
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Symphonic power metal
Length = 5:11
Label = Spinefarm
Producer = Tuomas Holopainen
Tero Kinnunen & Mikko Karmila
Chart position = * #1 (Finland)
Reviews =
Last single = “Amaranth”
(2007)
This single = “Erämaan viimeinen”
(2007)
Next single = “Bye Bye Beautiful”
(2008)"Erämaan Viimeinen" (English: "Last of the Wilds") is a single by Finnish symphonic power metal quintet Nightwish, released on December 5, 2007. It is the same song as the instrumental “Last of the Wilds” from the band’s last album Dark Passion Play, but with Finnish lyrics and Jonsu from Indica on vocals, and became the third single of the album after “Amaranth”. It was followed by “Bye Bye Beautiful” on February 15, 2008. The single was, like their earlier single “Kuolema tekee taiteilijan”, never released outside of Finland, where it peaked at number one in the charts.

Erämaan viimeinen is not an exact replica of Last of the Wilds. It has vocals and lyrics (naturally, being a vocalized version), there's no seashore-sound in the beginning, there's an additional keyboard-track in the C-part and the kantele-outro has been removed.

The song is also included on the Platinum Edition of Dark Passion Play. [ [http://www.nightwish.com/en/news/ Nightwish official website] ]

Track listing

# “Erämaan Viimeinen” - 5:11
# “Erämaan Viimeinen (instrumental version)” - 5:40

The instrumental version of “Erämaan Viimeinen” is actually “Last of The Wilds”, but without the ocean sound intro.

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