Album Of The Week 2025 - Archive
Album Of The Week 2025 - Archive Album Of The Week - 04/01/2025 Century Child - Nightwish To kick off 2025 we have the third of my 18 Nightwish albums to be selected, the album, Century Child being the bands 4 th studio album, released in 2002. By the time this album came out in 2002, Nightwish were already well established on the metal scene and were big selling artists, especially in their native Finland where their previous album, Wishmaster (album of the week 01/07/2023) went to number 1. As stated previously, Nightwish are a band that helped changed my opinion to metal back in the late 90’s prior to which it was not a genre that held much interest for me. Nightwish introduced me to the dark symphonic side of metal which blends rock guitars with melodic vocals, choral and orchestral effects. The mix, when done right, is powerful, atmospheric, grandiose and is generally very easy to listen to. Like any genre, there are plenty of bands that struggle to get it right...