Title: Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Type: Studio Album

Artist: Nightwish (band)

Genre: Metal

Subgenre: Symphonic Power Metal

Release Date: March 25, 2015

Label: Nuclear Blast Records

Tracklist: 1. Shudder Before the Beautiful

                      2. Weak Fantasy

                      3. Elan

                      4. Yours Is an Empty Hope

                      5. Our Decades in the Sun

                      6. My Walden

                      7. Endless Forms Most Beautiful

                      8. Edema Ruh

                      9. Alpenglow

                      10. The Eyes of Sharbat Gula (instrumental)

                      11. The Greatest Show on Earth

 A 2-CD version was released that included instrumental tracks of the songs, and a 3-CD edition was also released that included the instrumental track CD and a third CD of orchestral versions of the songs.

All tracks were written by Tuomas Holopainen and Marco Hietala.

Lineup: Floor Jansen (lead vocals)

                  Emppu Vuorinen (guitars)

                  Marco Hietala (bass, acoustic guitars, vocals)

                  Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards, piano)

                  Troy Donockley (uilleann pipes, low whistles, bodhran, bouzouki, vocals)

Additional musicians: Kai Hahto (drums)

                                                 Metro Voices (choir)

                                                 Orchestre de Grandeur (orchestra)

 Endless Forms Most Beautiful is the eighth studio album by the Finnish symphonic metal Nightiwsh. It was the band's first release to feature Dutch singer Floor Jansen on lead vocals, and their first album with Troy Donockley as an official member of the band. It was also their first without Jukka Nevalainen on drums, as he took a break from the band in 2014 because he was suffering from severe insomnia.

 Endless Forms Most Beautiful was mainly inspired by the works of Charles Darwin. The title of the album is from a quote from Darwin's book The Evolution of Species. Tuomas Holopainen said about the album, "It's all about the beauty of life, the beauty of existence, science, nature."

 The album received mostly positive reviews, and reached high spots on North American and European music charts. The album has gone 2x Platinum in Finland and Gold in Germany, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic.