Once (Nightwish album)

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Once
Once cover
Studio album by Nightwish
Released 2004
Recorded 2003–2004
Genre Symphonic metal
Length 60:07
Label Spinefarm Records
Nuclear Blast
Roadrunner Records
Producer(s) Tero Kinnunen
Professional reviews
Nightwish chronology
Century Child
(2002)		 Once
(2004)		 Unknown title
(2007)


Once is the fifth studio album by Nightwish, released June 7, 2004 by Nuclear Blast Records. Spinefarm Records also released a platinum edition of this album on November 24, 2004, containing the original tracks in addition to Live to Tell the Tale, White Night Fantasy and the video for Nemo by Antti Jokinen. The North American version of Once contains the video for Wish I Had an Angel instead.

During the first week of its release, Once entered the German, Finnish, Norwegian and Greek charts as number one, selling over 80,000 copies in Germany alone. It was also the first Nightwish album to chart in the U.S., reaching #42 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. In May, Nemo was the first single to be released from this album, followed by Wish I Had an Angel in September, Kuolema tekee taiteilijan (only in Finland) in November and The Siren in July 2005.

Nightwish added a lot of new elements to their music for this album (probably best audible as the Rammstein-like chorus riff and synthesized drum-beat of Wish I Had an Angel, or the long Native American prayer chant on Creek Mary's Blood) without losing their distinctive sound. One of the most important additions is that of a symphonic orchestra, namely, the London Session Orchestra. The song Ghost Love Score is an apt example of the combined work done by the orchestra and Nightwish, which the name hints at.

Once is currently the last of the Nightwish studio albums to feature vocals by Tarja Turunen.

The cover features the sculpture Angel of Grief by William Wetmore Story, also found on the cover of Evanescence's Evanescence EP.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Dark Chest of Wonders" – 4:29 (Tuomas Holopainen)
  2. "Wish I Had An Angel" – 4:06 (Tuomas Holopainen)
  3. "Nemo" – 4:36 (Tuomas Holopainen)
  4. "Planet Hell" – 4:39 (Tuomas Holopainen)
  5. "Creek Mary's Blood" – 8:30 (Tuomas Holopainen)
  6. "The Siren" – 4:45 (Tuomas Holopainen, Emppu Vuorinen)
  7. "Dead Gardens" – 4:28 (Tuomas Holopainen)
  8. "Romanticide" – 4:58 (Tuomas Holopainen, Marco Hietala)
  9. "Ghost Love Score" – 10:02 (Tuomas Holopainen)
  10. "Kuolema tekee taiteilijan" – 3:59 (Tuomas Holopainen)
  11. "Higher Than Hope" – 5:35 (Marco Hietala, Tuomas Holopainen)
  12. "White Night Fantasy" – 4:05 (bonus North American/Platinum Finnish version)
  13. "Live to Tell the Tale" – 5:02 (bonus North American/Platinum Finnish version)

[edit] Members


 v • d • e Nightwish
Tuomas Holopainen | Marco Hietala | Emppu Vuorinen | Jukka Nevalainen
Former members: 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" | "Eva"
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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