Oceanborn

Oceanborn is a work on which NIGHTWISH bound glittering keyboards, racing guitar and operatic vocals. While having a classical air, the rhythm section and riffs keep a strong drive as metal. Scaling up at a stroke from the debut, it is the second album that established the band’s direction. On “Stargazers,” “Sacrament Of Wilderness” and “The Pharaoh Sails To Orion,” grand songs and lyrical songs appear alternately, and the album is wrapped in a dense fantasy. Songs like “Gethsemane,” “Swanheart” and “Walking In The Air” breathe the band’s full playing too. Tarja Turunen’s expressiveness also leaps greatly from the debut. It is an early masterpiece that defined the band’s symphonic worldview.