Nightwish - Amaranth

“Amaranth” is the second single of Finnish symphonic power metal quintet Nightwish’s Dark Passion Play album.

The video begins with two boys playing by a stream, having a good time, but when one of the boys rounds up a small point, he looks up, and sees an angel lying on a few rocks, unconscious and bleeding from her eyes. The first boy points out the angel to his friend, and they run to her aid. Throughout the video, they are seen carrying a now-blindfolded angel on two poles. They travel to a nearby village in order to heal her. Residents of the village are confused and some look at her with contempt, possibly seeing her as an object of evil even though she is an angel. This may be reference to Lucifer or the Devil. Fell from heaven during the great battle in heaven, a fallen angel is often viewed as evil.

The boys go to a house and sit the angel down on a table. One of them touches the angel's wings, and she regains consciousness. The boy tilts her chin up and a drop of blood that was bleeding from her eyes falls into his open hand, which closes. A mob of men—made up of some of the villagers who saw the boys bring in the angel before—barge into the house and they drag the two boys out. The angel, meanwhile, is thrashing either because of the blindfold, because she is terrified that she doesn't know what's going on around her and how to defend herself, or because the boys who guided her are gone. A man outside sets the house on fire with a torch. The rest of the mob is outside rejoicing as the house burns down, but the angel escapes back to heaven. It can also be argued that the mob's goal was to send the angel back to heaven, not to kill her. It can also be argued that the village is the boys' own, as is the house, and that the men were trying to protect them.

Subsequently, the band can also be seen performing underground

"Amaranth" is one of Nightwish's most successful singles reaching number 1 in Spain, Hungary and Finland. It went straight to number one in Finland and stayed at number 1 for 3 weeks, dropping to number 2 in its fourth week on the chart. "Amaranth" then returned to the top spot the following week and remained there for a further 6 weeks. In total it spent 21 weeks inside the Finnish Top 40. In the UK it failed to chart on the mainstream chart but topped the Rock Singles Chart for 5 weeks.