I take my hat off for you Sir !  YIKES ___ 14O decibel , jet take offs ?  
Did you ever measure the actual SPL ?  With hear protection of course !

Flight of the Bumblebee on pedals by Dr. Carol Williams
 

 
I love to hear and see musicians like this  to keep me humble !

MORE  Carol Williams !  
 

NIGHTWISH - Ghost Love Score  
 

 
The Dutch Lead singer ; Floor Jansen is AWESOME  !

#1 !

#1 !

Love Manring!
:-D

Manring always amazes me. If nothing else, you have to tip your hat to a guy who sat in his room & figured out how to play in 64 different tunings in one song............
 
Peter (who's still struggling with the one)

I watched some of, and read about, Nightwish last night.  Interestingly, they've had three different lead singers; the one in the video that Wolf linked is the latest.

Dave,Thanks for checking  that out.  I am a little curious about the Symphonic type Metal with Female fronted  opera like  lead singers. There is musical drama and performance art there that I find appealing to some extent. Kind of Kool in a way .  
 
New stuff for me to hear  and maybe even explore !

I thought the combination worked well.  And Wolf, if you haven't seen them with the first singer, you may like her as much as the third.
 
From what I read, most of what they record includes symphony orchestras.  I watched a few of their live videos, and while I'm not sure, it did seem to me that there may have been more musical content than was being produced by the musicians.  Put another way, it seemed to me that perhaps the orchestral and choral parts were not being reproduced by a keyboard, but by a recording.
 
Which is a whole, and perhaps interesting, discussion in itself.

Dave, yes I have checked out their other lineups ,in some cases I have come to the same conclusion as you . In my post #4114 in this thread and on this page is a link to an EPICA performance, another band in the same genre in a live performance with a full symphony !
 
Singer Simone Simons shines very bright here !
 

Amazing Grace played in harmonics on bass by Victor Wooten  
 

Bach - The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080  
 

 
This is a very important piece of music for me.
Classical Counterpoint .  This is what makes me tick when I jam !  
 
Bach was the jam master ! BUT he wrote it all down ____
 
Lucky for us to study!

Been listening to Wolf's link in the office today. I needed about an hour of that to help this Monday along into the past.  
 
Often wonder what would J.S. Bach post on the Listening thread.