Wishmaster (album)

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Wishmaster
Wishmaster cover
Studio album by Nightwish
Released July 18, 2000
Recorded Jan 2000-Mar 2000
Genre Power metal
Length 56:15
Label Spinefarm Records
Drakkar Entertainment
Century Media
Producer(s) Tero Kinnunen
Professional reviews
Nightwish chronology
Oceanborn
(1998)		 Wishmaster
(2000)		 Over the Hills and Far Away
(2001)


Wishmaster is the third album by Nightwish, released July 18, 2000 by Spinefarm Records.

More than perhaps even its predecessor, Wishmaster has a very clear fantasy-theme. While commonly considered to be closer to more conventional Heavy Metal, there is still a great variety with slower songs like Come Cover Me and Two For Tragedy, and more epic pieces like Dead Boy's Poem and FantasMic.

The Kinslayer is written about the victims of the Columbine High School massacre.[1] Wanderlust and Wishmaster were influenced by the Dragonlance series of fantasy novels, the first referring to a trait the kender race have that leads them to venturing across the world, the latter mentioning Dalamar as the apprentice and his shalafi, Raistlin Majere.[1]. FantasMic is a song about the Disney animated movies, particularly their fantasy and fable elements.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "She Is My Sin" – 4:46
  2. "The Kinslayer" – 3:59
  3. "Come Cover Me" – 4:34
  4. "Wanderlust" – 4:50
  5. "Two for Tragedy" – 3:50
  6. "Wishmaster" – 4:24
  7. "Bare Grace Misery" – 3:41
  8. "Crownless" – 4:28
  9. "Deep Silent Complete" – 3:57
  10. "Dead Boy's Poem" – 6:47
  11. "FantasMic" – 8:27
  12. "Sleepwalker" (Bonus track on the Spinefarm limited edition) – 2:55

[edit] Credits

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Tuomas Holopainen. Lyrics - Wishmaster. Nightwish Official Website. Retrieved on 2006-08-26.
Nightwish
Tuomas Holopainen | Marco Hietala | Emppu Vuorinen | Jukka Nevalainen
Sami Vänskä | Tarja Turunen
Discography
Albums and EPs: Angels Fall First | Oceanborn | Wishmaster | Over the Hills and Far Away | Century Child | Once
Singles: "The Carpenter" | "Sacrament of Wilderness" | "Passion and the Opera" | "Walking in the Air" | "Sleeping Sun (Four Ballads of the Eclipse)" | "The Kinslayer" | "Deep Silent Complete" | "Ever Dream" | "Bless the Child" | "Nemo" | "Wish I Had an Angel" | "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" | "The Siren" | "Sleeping Sun"
Live albums: From Wishes to Eternity | End of an Era
Compilations: Wishmastour 2000 | Tales from the Elvenpath | Bestwishes | Highest Hopes
Videos and DVDs: From Wishes to Eternity | End of Innocence | End of an Era
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