Our Fragile Echo presents: The Greatest Show On Earth

***Our Fragile Echo presents: The Greatest Show On Earth*** is the sole concert performance within the The Päiviö Selänne Farewell Tour, featuring live performances of songs from Our Fragile Echo's albums *Infected Martyr*, *Parasitic Cruelty*, *Apocalypse*, and *Our Fragile Echo*. The concert album also features covers of songs by various artists: Metallica, Black Veil Brides, Breaking Benjamin, Motionless in White, Nightwish, Linkin Park, Alestorm, Within Temptation, Ice Nine Kills, Visions of Atlantis, DragonForce, Cradle of Filth, Bullet for My Valentine, Evanescence, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Lorna Shore, Slipknot, Spiritbox, I Prevail, Bring Me The Horizon, We Came As Romans, Morbid Angel, Architects, Nickelback, and Otep.

## Artistry

### Musical style

While generally classified as a symphonic metal concert, *Our Fragile Echo presents: The Greatest Show On Earth* featured songs classified as a variety of genres and musical styles, including: symphonic metal, symphonic rock, nu metal, alternative metal, alternative rock, heavy metal, melodic metalcore, emo, gothic metal, metalcore, folk metal, hard rock, pirate metal, post-hardcore, symphonic power metal, post-grunge, pop rock, pop punk, fantasy metal, symphonic death metal, power metal, symphonic black metal, Celtic metal, djent, progressive metal, thrash metal, speed metal, symphonic gothic metal, electronic rock, deathcore, soft rock, horror metal, nu metalcore, rap metal, glam metal, technical death metal, folk rock, pagan metal, horror punk, doom metal, screamo, melodic death metal, doom metal, progressive metalcore, rap rock, post-metalcore, symphonic folk metal, sea shanty, gothic rock, new-age, classical, Celtic rock, acoustic rock, grunge, groove metal, electro-industrial, industrial metal, death-doom, old school death metal, and Christian rock.

All songs, regardless of their genre classification, however, make heavy use of classical instruments and keyboard orchestration.

### Vocals

The concert additionally featured a variety of vocal styles contributed by Päiviö Selänne, Sini Nykänen, Kullervo Venäläinen, Juliette Fisher, Anya Starveil Castella, and Maggie Scott, consisting of melodic singing (including falsettos and operatic vocals), unclean vocals (screaming, death growls, and "black metal shrieks and snarls"), rapping, and spoken word segments. In addition to Nykänen, Venäläinen, Scott, Fisher, and Castella, Heljä Ketola and Rhavonian "Rhav" De'Laka provided backing vocals.

## Gross and profit

The performance spanned eight hours, twenty-four minutes, and nineteen seconds (excluding interludes and breaks). With a ticket price of $287.50 and 80,000 attendees, it grossed $23 million, 30% of which went to the venue ($6.9 million) and 8% of which went to the promoter ($1.84 million), leaving the nine performers with a gross profit of $14.26 million (62% of the total ticket sales).

After subtracting costs of 3% (making the gross profit of the concert $22.31 million) spent by the venue, promoter, and performers to make the show possible, the final profits for the venue, promoter, and performers came out to $6.69 million (costs: $210,000), $1.79 million (costs: $50,000), and $13.83 million (costs: $430,000), respectively.

The $13.83 million profit earned by Our Fragile Echo, Starveil, Rhav, and Maggie would be evenly split among the nine performers, resulting in each musician taking home a check for $1,536,666.67.

## Personnel

* Our Fragile Echo — associated performer
	+ Päiviö Selänne — lead vocals, additional vocals spoken word, bass guitar, piano, acoustic guitar, trumpet, harmonica
	+ Sini Nykänen — co-lead vocals, backing vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, ukulele
	+ Kullervo Venäläinen — backing vocals, lead vocals, additional vocals, spoken word, rhythm guitar
	+ Heljä Ketola — backing vocals, additional guitars, flute
	+ Hellä Karttunen — drums, percussion>
	+ Juliette Fisher — additional vocals, lead vocals, backing vocals, harp, violin, viola, cello, hurdy gurdy
* Additional musicians
	+ Anya Starveil Castella — additional vocals, lead vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar, electric violin
	+ Rhavonian "Rhav" De'Laka — backing vocals, keyboard orchestration
	+ Maggie Scott — additional vocals, backing vocals, rhythm guitar