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Oceanborn by Nightwish

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Stargazers 4:26 166,048
2 Gethsemane 5:22 140,741
3 Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean 4:46 105,510
4 Sacrament Of Wilderness 4:09 160,085
5 Passion And The Opera 4:51 115,418
6 Swanheart 4:45 123,873
7 Moondance 3:32 151,921
8 The Riddler 5:16 113,036
9 The Pharaoh Sails To Orion 6:25 166,048
10 Walking In The Air 5:29 167,252
11 Sleeping Sun 4:02 230,458
12 Nightquest 4:15 79,709
13 Sleeping Sun (Live at Summer Breeze Open Air) 4:30 218
14 Swanheart (Live at Pakkahuone) 3:53 105,268
15 The Pharaoh Sails To Orion (Live at Pakkahuone) 6:45 311
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About this album

Universal Music Division Mercury (2008) Released: 9 Jun 2008 15 tracks (72:26)
Oceanborn is the second album of Finnish quintet Nightwish, released in October 1998. Oceanborn is among their darker albums, making use of the harsh vocals of Tapio Wilska in songs like “The Pharaoh Sails To Orion” and “Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean”.

Most of the album is fantasy-themed with tracks like “Swanheart” and “Walking In The Air” (from the animated motion picture, The Snowman), however other songs such as “Gethsemane” have a more religious feel to them. In addition, there are also some theatrical tracks like “Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean”.

Since the album’s release, “Sacrament of Wilderness” has remained a fan-favorite at concerts, and it’s still performed often. Both “Sleeping Sun” and “Walking in the Air” have also been performed often on shows, but “Walking in the Air” and “Stargazers” have been dropped since vocalist Tarja Turunen’s dismissal in 2005. The “hoi’ing” in “Moondance” is sung by Tuomas Holopainen, Jukka Nevalainen and Tapio Wilska, making it the only Nightwish song with vocals by Jukka. Gethsemane is often mistakenly titled “Gothic Sanctuary”.
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  • leisuresuite

    Awesome! Nightwish's most consistently kickass album.

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  • FairyDark

    Best album by far.

    last month

  • criminal_manboy

    Very good album!

    last month

  • Sharon_55

    Their best <3

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  • BeIieve

    Hurray for Power Metal

    March 2012

  • Arsaya

    My favourite.

    February 2012

  • assderasse

    Fantastic !

    February 2012

  • CGholy

    Imaginaerum is amazing, but Oceanborn is Oceanborn. [2]

    February 2012

  • Enigmatic_Smile

    Their best album and my favourite. I was listening it a few years ago for the first time and now - it's giving me the same shivers. The most symphonic album by Nightwish.

    January 2012

  • Tobbessen

    @benbalik too much pseudo,overdosed and wanna be symphonic if you ask me. This was good old authentic finnish metal

    December 2011

  • Tarjarules1

    This is one of there best albums :)

    December 2011

  • benbalik

    Their best album by far.Current stuff is too symphonic for my taste.

    December 2011

  • lufesampaio

    Imaginaerum is amazing, but Oceanborn is Oceanborn.

    December 2011

  • Elverion

    the last good album

    December 2011

  • NekaneSaiz1992

    Una obra de arte

    December 2011

  • morphinella

    My favourite NW album ♥

    November 2011

  • cobforever

    the best album

    November 2011

  • CGholy

    Flawless

    October 2011

  • wolvinglacialis

    my favourite ♥

    August 2011

  • FerMJ

    My favourite album along with Wishmaster.

    August 2011
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