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Nightwish - Wishmaster



8.5 | 1231 votes |
Release date: 29 May 2000
Style: Symphonic power metal

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01. She Is My Sin
02. The Kinslayer
03. Come Cover Me
04. Wanderlust
05. Two For Tragedy
06. Wishmaster
07. Bare Grace Misery
08. Crownless
09. Deep Silent Complete
10. Dead Boy's Poem
11. FantasMic
12. Sleepwalker [bonus]

Top 20 albums of 2000: 20

Additional info
Produced by Nightwish & Tero Kinnunen

All music by T. Holopainen, except 3, 7, 8 by
T. Holopainen/Emppu Vuorinen
All lyrics by T. Holopainen
Arrangements by Nightwish & Tero Kinnunen

Drakkar released a limited edition with a 3D cover.

XIII Bis Records (France) re-released the album in 2001 as part of a limited boxset called "Wish Box", which contains an autographed and enhanced CD, a keyholder and a Nightwish calendar.

Cover artwork by Markus Mayer

Guest review by
marco
Rating:
8.5
Man, it's so hard when we are talking about my favorite power metal band, Nightwish. They are definitely unique with their gothic influenced orchestrated power metal and because they have the world's most talented female singer Tarja Turunen on their side. The album Wishmaster is the follow-up to Oceanborn, which was released 2 years ago. Over these 2 years, Nightwish has definitely evolved as a band and because of it this album is much more mature than any other album this far. But what is Nightwish all about?

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published 18.09.2003 | Comments (5)

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01.02.2010 - 21:37
Reza
Account deleted
The best Nightwish album? Of course !
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24.05.2010 - 16:18
Rating: 9
Itoc
Trønder
My second first ever bought metal album =)
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24.05.2010 - 18:48
Rating: 10
Warman
Erotic Stains
Could be their best.
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03.09.2010 - 00:07
Wishmaster
Account deleted
Oceanborn and Wishmaster are the best Nightwish albums.
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14.01.2011 - 23:49
Rating: 9
Luxoline

I think that Wishmaster may be my favourite album. It really is an awesome album with "Fantasmic" "The kinslayer" "Crownless" "She is my sin" "Wishmaster" and "Wanderlust". And the other songs don't stay behind
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16.01.2011 - 02:56
the mariner

Such a great album. From beginning to end. Every now and then I go on my Nightwish binge, and this is album is so cohesively arranged, both in its lyrical and musical content, that I have to listen to its entirety. Bad Ass.
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17.04.2011 - 03:42
Rating: 7
M C Vice
ex-polydactyl
I think I can hear Holopainen doing backing vocals in the courus of FantasMic. There's definatly a male voice behind Turunen's, and I'm sure it really sounds like Holopainen's.
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"Another day, another Doug."
"I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples."
" 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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11.01.2013 - 10:49
Rating: 8
NocturnalStalker
Metal Addict
Great album and, I think, the darkest one in Nightwish discography (including Tuomas' own requiem - Dead Boy's Poem).
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"And we are not who we think we are
We are who we're afraid to be"
- Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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20.05.2013 - 21:29
dinualin94
Account deleted
This album is the best from nightwish along with oceanborn. Deep Silent Complete is a masterpiece!
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21.05.2013 - 15:11
Rating: 10
Susan
Smeghead
Wishmaster... Oh, those were the days! Such a great band once upon a time.
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"A life all mine
Is what I choose
At the end of my days"
--The Gathering "A Life All Mine" from Souvenirs
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02.10.2013 - 00:48
serega25

Wonderfull songs, great power metal !!!!:banger:
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23.05.2014 - 02:59
Rating: 7
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Good album, but still one sound, cany cant beat 1th one what is best and will be best..here are to much nonsence keys (still not prog , sympho sound) ... best song is ''She Is My Sin''
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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10.03.2018 - 18:48
Tatsella
Fangirl
Good album, I love it but to be honest it's Oceanborn part 2. It has nothing new to offer, that's why they've changed style since.
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18.02.2020 - 22:14
Rating: 10
Metal Rasputin

Hey, they made another Oceanborn, but this time a little more simplified and easier to play live. Not original album by any means, but Wishmaster and Oceanborn represent Nightwish pretty much at their very best. I can put these two into my player any time and it's always good time guaranteed. I love it.
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You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!
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16.04.2020 - 22:47
abysss

Amazing album, probably their most fast-peaced... I love it!
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17.05.2020 - 06:52
Rating: 9
Lulucifer

Absolute banger
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22.06.2023 - 10:42
Rating: 6
majormalfunction

I listened to this album quite a lot back in the day but I can't say i'm impressed by it today. It's catchier, faster and more streamlined than Oceanborn but not nearly as exciting.
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Everything's twice as bright with money in your hands
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12.07.2023 - 07:53
Rating: 5
24emd
Theory Snob
This one is ridiculously overrated. It's very much a continuation of the last album, but it's a woefully mediocre one at that, and I thought the previous had its issues. This one is half as epic as the last, with the orchestration even more generic. Almost as average as the debut, except the performance and production is better. I will not deny Tarja is a talented vocalist, but boy at times she sounds downright awful.

"Wanderlust" is a reasonably good song, and the title track is nice and catchy, but otherwise it's quite hard to find highlights. Guitarwork is pretty fun for most of the time, so there's that I guess.
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"I am too stupid to be human, and I lack common sense." - Proverbs 30:2
"Music? Well, it's just entertainment, folks!" - Devin Townsend

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06.03.2024 - 22:25
Rating: 8
RoyBoy432
Dr. Quark
I'm 24 years late, but I realized that the riff in "She Is My Sin" sounds very similar to "Touch Like Angel Of Death" by Children Of Bodom.
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