Nightwish
Wishmaster
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 | She Is My Sin | 4:45 | 132,983 | |||
| 2 |
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The Kinslayer full track | 3:59 | 148,970 | ||
| 3 | Come Cover Me | 4:33 | 101,164 | |||
| 4 | Wanderlust | 4:49 | 93,930 | |||
| 5 | Two for Tragedy | 3:49 | 80,359 | |||
| 7 | Bare Grace Misery | 3:38 | 82,158 | |||
| 8 | Crownless | 4:26 | 85,875 | |||
| 9 |
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Deep Silent Complete full track | 3:57 | 101,897 | ||
| 10 |
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Dead Boy's Poem full track | 6:48 | 105,564 | ||
| 11 | FantasMic | 8:15 | 73,846 | |||
| 6 |
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Wishmaster full track | 4:23 | 170,532 | ||
| 12 | Sleepwalker | 3:05 | 36,628 |
About this album
Wishmaster is the third album of Finnish metal quintet Nightwish, released on July 18, 2000 by Spinefarm Records.
Perhaps even moreso than its predecessor, Wishmaster has a very clear fantasy theme. While commonly considered to be closer to conventional power 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. Wishmaster was inspired by the fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings and Dragonlance, mentioning Elbereth, Lórien, and the Grey Havens from the former; and Dalamar, Raistlin Majere (Dalamar’s shalafi, or “master”), and the Inn of the Last Home from the latter. “FantasMic” is a song about the Disney animated movies, particularly their fantasy and fable elements, taking its title from the Disneyland show Fantasmic!.
The song “Wishmaster” has remained one of Nightwish’s greatest hits, appearing on several best of compilations. Since its release, it has been a recurring track on live performances, and it was featured for example on the live DVD End of an Era, recorded in 2005. As of 2008, it’s still often performed live despite the band’s change of vocalists. Other recurring live songs from the album are “She Is My Sin” and “The Kinslayer”.
Perhaps even moreso than its predecessor, Wishmaster has a very clear fantasy theme. While commonly considered to be closer to conventional power 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. Wishmaster was inspired by the fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings and Dragonlance, mentioning Elbereth, Lórien, and the Grey Havens from the former; and Dalamar, Raistlin Majere (Dalamar’s shalafi, or “master”), and the Inn of the Last Home from the latter. “FantasMic” is a song about the Disney animated movies, particularly their fantasy and fable elements, taking its title from the Disneyland show Fantasmic!.
The song “Wishmaster” has remained one of Nightwish’s greatest hits, appearing on several best of compilations. Since its release, it has been a recurring track on live performances, and it was featured for example on the live DVD End of an Era, recorded in 2005. As of 2008, it’s still often performed live despite the band’s change of vocalists. Other recurring live songs from the album are “She Is My Sin” and “The Kinslayer”.
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Shouts
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DieKaltenWind wrote:
their best album, in my opinion. Come Cover Me <3
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tartainia wrote:
The albums awesome,but being a HUGE Nightwish fan,what d`ya expect?
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maiarajansen wrote:
The whole album is perfect, but FantasMic + Crownless = ♥
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wiklina4 wrote:
My fav. ;]
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ShagrathManson wrote:
The best album!
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annurr wrote:
wishmaster is growing on me. i think i might even prefer it to oceanborn.
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Colony666 wrote:
the swansong
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silversadheart wrote:
I think "Oceanborn" is better, though Tarja is better here... "Dead Boy's Poem" is extremelly beautiful. And about the cover artwork, I like it, is not that stunning as Ocenborn's, but in my opinion is very pretty because the child, the parchment and the swans are kinda emotional and poetic ^^
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zhuny wrote:
Wishmaster <3 Kinslayer <3
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TillySamira wrote:
Deep Silent Complete is love <3
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nDroae wrote:
Oh, sorry I'm not allowed to like Wishmaster way better than Oceanborn without being able to justify it :-P
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MollieB wrote:
V agreed
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Terraprisma wrote:
agree. oceanborn has better melodies and drumming. Nevertheless I like Wishmaster because of it's positive mood <--> century child, once, dpp
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JimKnopf- wrote:
This album has nothing Oceanborn doesn't have. Also Oceanborn has a mystic and epic athmosphere, Wishmaster hasn't.
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spinnerinFM wrote:
maybe the best nightwish album,... no is the best :D maybe because of tarja's awesome voice
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nDroae wrote:
For a long time I didn't realize that was a child, but thought it was some kind of monstrous being with a pumpkin head or something... any way, for me this is their first great album; I really don't like Oceanborn much at all, I (SHOCK AND HORROR) don't really like Tarja's voice on Oceanborn, and the music mostly doesn't do much for me. From this album onwards everything has been awesome. :)
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Chmielowa94 wrote:
Great album <3.
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MollieB wrote:
Great album! But ugly cover :P
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creepingdeathv2 wrote:
this album got me into nightwish...and into finnish metal...
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creepingdeathv2 wrote:
kickass album...
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