Masonic Nightwish & The Order of The Amaranth

Just some observations on the Finnish band Nightwish, one of the most popular bands to come from the country. Finnish metal bands often talk about Finnish pagan traditions(Amorphis, Turisas) and I see no point in addressing the pagan stuff, this post will relate specifically to Nightwish's use of Masonic Symbolism. There's masonic stuff on every album so I'm gonna skip around a bit.

I thought I'd start with the second album Oceanborn. The cover itself is interesting enough.

• Reptilian Eye over the Earth
• Mars, Venus(?)
• Masonic/Minerval Owl w/Scroll
• Lady in the lake(?)

Considering the album is called "Oceanborn" I'd like to point out that some versions of their first album "Angels Fall First" contain a bonus track called "A Return to the Sea" which has some lyrics that seem to describe an extinction level event either in ancient times or modern I can't say for sure. After naming extinct species the song refers to the "Fall of Man" and describes it as "Darwins Resurrection" with "seadrops foaming empty human skulls on the shores of atlantis" leaving mother earth "Healed and Happy." I also heard Tuomas studied Marine Biology in college maybe that explains the creepy Darwin stuff. 

The Video for the song "Sleeping Sun" off of Oceanborn shows Tuomas Holopainen the keyboardist and main songwriter for the group dressed as a Knights Templar.

The next album in line is Wishmaster,note the kid on the cover seems to have obtained a scroll like the one on Oceanborn.

For this album I'll just focus on the song "The Kinslayer" its hard not to notice the creepy guys voice towards the end of the song saying things like "There is no god our creed is but for ourselves, you're not a hero unless you die, our species eat the wounded ones." The last thing the song mentions is "15 candles 4 pink 9 blue and 2 black", I have no idea what this means at all please leave a comment if you know, also the song is listed "In memory of the Redeemers 4/20/99" which was the date of the Columbine shooting. Click here for The Kinslayer vid w/lyrics.

The Singer Switch

Im gonna skip over the next few albums bear with me.

Tarja Turunen(above) was the singer of the group from 97-05, she was fired shortly after the recording of a live performance recorded for DVD. 

 The DVD cover features a masonic phallus we can compare to the Hendaye Cross and Cross at Venonae.

Masonic Grave (below) with Heart at the top.

Annette Olzon(Sweden) was hired as the new singer in 2006. Previously she had done some songs with a band called The Rasmus who's cover art wreaks of project monarch. Her first album with Nightwish was 2007's Dark Passion Play. She has a son named Seth(Set) and one named Nemo (Not just a Nightwish song title also Omen spelled backwards).

The first video off of NW's Dark Passion Play was for a song called "Amaranth"

 The Order of the Amaranth is a masonic womens organization founded in 1873 based on Queen Christina of Sweden's "Order of Amarantha" for ladies and knights of her court. Men must be master masons and women related to mason by marriage, daughter, sister, niece, etc and recommended by a master mason. Here's a look at an Amaranth Fez and embroidered patch.

The video for Amaranth shows an angel falling to earth and being carried like the painting "Wounded Angel" by Finnish artist Hugo Simberg.

This may seem irrelevant considering Wounded Angel has been the Finnish national painting since 2006 but Simberg's paintings for the Tampere Cathedral in Finland(where the painting is located) are a bit more interesting.

The Garden of Death

He painted naked boys all around the church.

He also painted the winged serpent at the ceilings highest point which some contemporaries saw as a sign of sin and corruption.

There's also the window with a skeleton riding a horse I cant make out the rest of it, but on symbolism alone this church has a strange vibe. The garden of death, naked boys, and symbols of corruption at the highest point seem suspect to me, also the lyrics to many NW songs seem very critical of Religion but yet Tuomas is often seen wearing a Rosary and the DVD menu for "End of an Era" is full of crosses. 

Random Masonic Covers -

Order of Eastern Star? Shriners perhaps?

More religious stuff?

Oh boy.

The owls are not as they seem...

Fallen Angels huh?

Conclusion

I'm not saying these people are evil, however I am suspicious when a band is  at the height of their career and replace their singer with one nowhere the same caliber and the first music video has the same title as a masonic fraternity and the other frequent masonic references. Also mind control connections with the Kinslayer lyrics and the Columbine shooting which was an obvious black operation false flag, check out this interview with Evan Long director of The Columbine Cause.

Thanks for reading

Peace.

Bonus - Nightwish: Tutankhamen w/lyrics. Talks about a stargate.