Wishmaster (album)
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July 18, 2000 |
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Drakkar ( D ), Spinefarm Records ( FI / BRA / KR / ARG / RUS / USA ), Toys Factory ( JP ), XIII Bis ( F ) |
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CD |
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Title (number) |
11 (exclusive bonus track) |
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running time |
56 min 12 s |
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Nightwish |
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Wishmaster is the third album by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish . It was released on July 18, 2000.
history
Wishmaster hit number 1 on the Finnish album charts right after it was released and stayed there for three weeks. During this time it was also awarded a gold record . The album was "Album of the Month" in the rock-hard edition 6/2000, ahead of the long-awaited new works by Bon Jovi and Iron Maiden . Wishmaster also rose to number 21 in the German album charts and to number 66 in France .
The "Wishmaster World Tour" started in Kitee , the hometown of the band. After the performance there the band gold discs for the album got Oceanborn and the singles Sacrament of Wilderness , Walking in the Air and Sleeping Sun . After that, the tour took the band first to the major music festivals in Finland and then in July 2000 to South America . The three-week tour through Brazil , Chile , Argentina , Panama and Mexico became the band's greatest experience up to then. This was followed by successful shows at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT), Wacken Open Air , Biebop Metal Fest and the first headlining European tour with Sinergy and Eternal Tears of Sorrow . In November Nightwish also played two shows in Montreal ( Canada ).
With the song "Sleepwalker", the band took part in the Finnish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 , but despite a majority in the telephone vote only achieved third place due to the jury's assessment . At the end of the Tampere concert in 2001 (seen on the DVD From Wishes to Eternity ), Nightwish went platinum for Wishmaster .
Track list
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- She Is My Sin - 4:46
- The Kinslayer - 3:58
- Come Cover Me - 4:34
- Wanderlust - 4:50
- Two For Tragedy - 3:50
- Wishmaster - 4:24
- Bare Grace Misery - 3:41
- Crownless - 4:28
- Deep Silent Complete - 3:57
- Dead Boy's Poem - 6:47
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FantasMic - 8:17
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Sleepwalker - 3:10
Single releases
Deep Silent Complete
Deep Silent Complete is the only official single from Wishmaster . It contains the Japanese Wishmaster bonus track "Sleepwalker" as the B-side and achieved gold status in Finland.
The Kinslayer
The The Kinslayer -Single appeared only as a very rare one-track promo CD .
Contents of the songs
"The Kinslayer" is dedicated to the Littleton school massacre at Columbine High School . The dialogue in the middle of the song, according to the survivors, quotes the actual conversations between the murderers and their classmates during the shooting.
“Crownless” is dedicated to all arrogant and selfish people and is about the fact that everything is fleeting and how quickly things come after arrogance .
According to songwriter Tuomas Holopainen, "Dead Boy's Poem" is the most personal song he has ever written. In the song a little boy - voiced by Sam Hardwick - recites a poem , always interrupted by Tarja's singing.
"FantasMic" is Holopainen's tribute to Walt Disney . Nightwish's bandleader describes himself as a great fan of Disney, whom he honors in the text as the "King of Fantasy". In addition, key points of various fairy tales are circumscribed in the course of the text of the epic - in addition to Sleeping Beauty and others, Holopainen's favorite fairy tale Beauty and the Beast can be found at one point, after he had dedicated a song to it in the debut Angels Fall First .
"Wanderlust" and "Wishmaster" are about the magician Raistlin from the fantasy novels Dragonlance .
Web links
- Reviews of Wishmaster on the baby blue pages
- Wishmaster lyrics
- Comments from Tuomas Holopainen (composer and lyricist) on the individual songs
- Gallery of the different covers
Individual evidence
- ↑ OGAE website on ESC preliminary decisions
- ↑ finnishcharts.com: Nightwish in the Finnish charts
- ↑ musicline.de: Nightwish in the German album charts ( memento of the original from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Only included on the Japanese version.
