Over the Hills and Far Away (album)

For the Richard Sharpe related album, see Over the Hills Tuomas Holopainen synthesizers, keyboards,
& Far Away: The Music of Sharpe. backing vocals on track 1
For other uses, see Over the Hills and Far Away (disam-
biguation). Erno Emppu Vuorinen guitars
Sami Vnsk bass guitar
Over the Hills and Far Away is the rst EP by Finnish Jukka Nevalainen drums
symphonic metal band Nightwish, released in 2001
through both Spinefarm Records and Drakkar Records.
Bassist Sami Vnsk would leave the band after the 2.2 Guest musicians
recording of this CD, due to musical dierences between
him and Tuomas Holopainen, to be replaced by the cur- Tapio Wilska (from Finntroll) vocals on track 2
rent bassist and male vocalist, Marco Hietala.[5]
Tony Kakko (from Sonata Arctica) vocals on track
The editions by Drakkar and Century Media contain dif- 4, backing vocals on track 1
ferent additional live tracks taken from the live DVD
From Wishes to Eternity, recorded in Tampere, Finland,
on 29 December 2000.[6] 2.3 Production
The EP debuted at number one on the Finnish Singles Tero Kinnunen - producer, engineer, mixing
Chart and spent twelve weeks in the top three, topping it
for another four weeks and spending six weeks at number Mikko Karmila - engineer, mixing
two.[7] It charted for a total of 49 weeks, including two
weeks in early 2004.[8] The EP has been awarded double- Mika Jussila - mastering
platinum certication in Finland and has sold over 36,000 Sami Vnsk - cover photo
copies to date, becoming the sixth-best-selling single of
all time in Finland.[9] Over the Hills and Far Away entered Tomi Laurn - illustrations
also the European charts, in the Top 100 of Germany,[10] Cartography by some Raised in the Barrel Spine-
Austria,[11] France[12] and Switzerland.[13] dude
The EP has two new songs and a remake of Angels Fall
Firsts Astral Romance, sung by Tony Kakko beside
Tarja Turunen. The title song is a cover from the North- 3 Charts
ern Irish singer and guitarist Gary Moore, and has back-
ing vocals by Tuomas Holopainen and Kakko; Tapio
Wilska sings on 10th Man Down. 4 Certications

5 See also
1 Track listing
List of best-selling singles in Finland
Main article: List of Over the Hills and Far Away editions

All tracks written by Tuomas Holopainen, except Over 6 References

the Hills and Far Away by Gary Moore.
[1] Over the Hills and Far Away at AllMusic

[2] Begrand, Adrien (23 January 2005). Nightwish: Once /

2 Personnel Over the Hills and Far Away. PopMatters. Retrieved 30
August 2014.
2.1 Nightwish [3] Pierce, Ken (2 February 2008). Nightwish: Over the
Hills and Far Away. Sea of Tranquility.org. Retrieved
Tarja Turunen vocals 30 August 2014.

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[4] Nightwish: Over the Hills and Far Away (in German).
Metal Hammer. July 2001. Retrieved 30 August 2014.

[5] The band- Biography. Nightwish.com. Retrieved 6

November 2009. External link in |publisher= (help)

[6] Over The Hills and Far Away (brazilian version) -

Nightwish. Whiplash.net. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
External link in |publisher= (help)

[7] Nightwish - Over the Hills and Far Away (song)".

Finnishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved 30
August 2014.

[8] Nightwish: Over The Hills And Far Away (in Finnish).
Musiikkituottajat IFPI Finland. Retrieved 18 June
2011.

[9] Kaikkien aikojen myydyimmt kotimaiset singlet [Best-

selling domestic singles of all time] (in Finnish). Musi-
ikkituottajat IFPI Finland. Retrieved 29 August 2013.

[10] Album - Nightwish, Over the Hills and Far Away.

Charts.de (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved
30 August 2014.

[11] Nightwish - Over the Hills and Far Away (album)". Aus-
triancharts.at (in German). Media Control Charts. Re-
trieved 30 August 2014.

[12] Nightwish - Over the Hills and Far Away (album)".

Lescharts.com (in French). Media Control Charts. Re-
trieved 30 August 2014.

[13] Nightwish - Over the Hills and Far Away. Hitparade.ch

(in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 30 August
2014.

[14] Tilastot - Nightwish (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat

IFPI Finland. Retrieved 25 August 2014.

7 External links
Nightwishs Ocial Website
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