| | Nightwish Century Child CD Nightwish Discography of CDs
 (17 Customer Reviews)
 |
|
Our Price: $13.79  CDFor Sale Usually ships in 1-2 days
|  |
2003 album from the female fronted Finnish symphonic goth/metal super group. 10 tracks including, 'Bless The Child', 'End Of All Hope' & 'Dead To The World'. Century Media.
Nightwish: Tarja Turunen (vocals); Emppu Vuorinen (guitar); Tuomas Holopainen (piano, keyboards); Marco Hietala (bass, background vocals); Jukka Nevalainen (drums).
Possibly the biggest success story in the history of Finnish heavy metal, Nightwish celebrated their second chart-topping album in their homeland with 2002's Century Child, which eventually collected numerous awards and went double platinum (60,000 units in Finland) within a year of release. The group's fourth LP overall, Century Child wisely repeated its predecessors' winning characteristics: symphony-enhanced power metal laced with accessible pop sensibilities (mostly straightforward song structures and romantic lyrics), distinguished by the operatic voice of classically trained singer Tarja Turunen. Undoubtedly the key to Nightwish's remarkable success (and since, hugely influential on countless followers like After Forever and Epica), Turunen is actually more restrained in her delivery than one might expect, rarely belting her way overboard in an effort to match the metallic aggression of opening shots "Bless the Child" and "End of All Hope." Never losing momentum, she duets with bassist Marco Hietala on "Dead to the World," returns to center stage on the platinum-selling single "Ever Dream" (which combines the group's commercial attributes to perfection), and leads the band towards commercial apotheosis on the gentle ballad "Forever Yours," which could fit perfectly well in any pop diva's catalog. "Slaying the Dreamer" and "Ocean Soul" resume the power metal with strings and choirs motif, and "Feel for You" curiously appears to draw its eerie riffs and strings from the theme of the Halloween movies! And before they embark on the album's final, ten-minute, three-part magnum opus, "Beauty of the Beast," Nightwish take a very competent stab at "The Phantom of the Opera" -- no, not the Iron Maiden classic, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical's title track. Which makes for an interesting tidbit when considering this album's appeal: fans of more aggressive heavy metal might find it simply too saccharine for the palate, but those with an affinity for straightforward rock and pop will not only eat it up, but ask for seconds. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia
Century Child Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Strong, emotional and powerful music. The perfect album.
I don't like to exaggerate, but this is the best album ever made. None of the songs are weak, not one. They all have a great mixture of metal, rock and symphony.
Bless the Child: 10/10 (Awesome Intro)
End Of All Hope: 10/10 (The song that made me love Nightwish)
Dead To The World: 10/10 (My favorite song at the moment)
Ever Dream: 10/10 (Soothing track and meaningful lyrics)
Slaying the Dreamer: 10/10 (Gothic Metal at its best)
Forever Yours: 8/10 (Good but not great)
Ocean Soul: 7/10 (Weakest from the album, but not weak on its own)
The Phantom of the Opera: 8/10 (I hated the original, but with the added metal sound, its great)
Beauty of the Beast: 9/10 (Great closing song)
Submitted by Walter (Malta)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.
 incredible
why are you reading this, just get this now!
Submitted by losralat (ponce, puerto rico) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
One of The Best
this album is one of nightwishs best albums. my favorite songs are end of all hope, dead to the world and feel for you. On a scale from 1-10 i have to say bless the child (10), end of all hope (10), dead to the world (10), ever dream (10), slaying the dreamer (9), forever yours (8), ocean soul (8), feel for you (10), phantom of the opera (10), and beauty of the beast (9). overall a great album!!!
Submitted by Lindsay (Las Vegas NV)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Interesting Story, Incredible Buy
Scenario..late night..doing random searches for music videos on google video, come across one with "End of All Hope" dubbed to scenes from Final Fantasy. Absolutely unfreakin' believable. PUMP IT!! Went on ebay, bought a brand new copy for 13 bucks including shipping to get it here from a guy in FInland. Never heard of the band before. Amazing, it's like if you'd combine Survivor with Evanesence.
Submitted by Phil (Saint Louis, MO)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Quite possibly, the best album ever made
I'm not one to exaggerate things, but this is one album I could put on every day and never get bored of it. I'd know, since I've had it since 2003 and only missed a day or two not playing it. I'm not obsessed, its just that every time I hear it, I find a new layer, even if I hear it right now (which would make it like me 1000th time). Highlights of this album are very hard to choose, since every single track is awesome, but if I had to choose, they'd be; End of All Hope, Dead to the World, Slaying the Dreamer and Feel for You. Anyway, if you really listened to this album and you hated it, or thought it was below-average, don't go for any gothic-rock albums, cause they cannot possibly get better than this
Submitted by Clinton (Malta)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No List All Reviews | Have you heard this album? |  |
Purchase Century Child CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Lacuna Coil In A Reverie CD (1999)
Century Child
 $13.85 
The Italian goth metal act's 1999 album. Nine tracks. Century Media.
Lacuna Coil includes: Christina, Andrea (vocals).
Personnel: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro (vocals); Cristiano Migliore (guitar); Marco Coti Zelati (bass guitar).
Recording information: Woodhouse Studios, Hagen, Germany.
On its 1999 full-length debut, IN A REVERIE, the Italian goth-metal ...
| | Lacuna Coil Comalies CD (2002)
Century Child
$12.79 
U.S. edition of the Italian goth rock act's third album includes enhanced video track 'The Making of Coma Lies'. Century Media. 2002.
ECD Content includes: The making of COMLIES documentary, exclusive band photos, band contact links.
Initial pressings included a limited ...
| | Edguy Hellfire Club CD (2004)
Century Child
$13.05
| | Nightwish Once CD (2004) Bonus Tracks; Enhanced CD
Century Child
$15.85
| | Kamelot Black Halo CD (2005)
Century Child
$15.19
Most metal magazines have rated this album "Best Of The Month" and gleefully singing its praises, like Burrrn, Metal Heart, Monster and Metal Invader.
Kamelot/The Blood Brothers: Khan (vocals); Thomas Youngblood (guitar); Glenn Barry (bass instrument); Casey Grillo (drums).
Additional personnel: Jens Johansson, Shagrath.
Crimes is Blood Brothers' V2 debut, and their fourth album overall. The quintet is still led by blaring, interwoven vocals of Johnny Whitney and Jordan Blilie. One screams and yelps in a very high register, the other is not so high, but still great at screaming. The Brothers' basic sound is jagged and post-punk-derived, full of hyper percussion and jerking, screeching guitars. But while this might sound like chaos, ...
| | Lacuna Coil Karmacode CD (2006) Enhanced CD
Century Child
$12.69
| | Oomph Unrein CD (2004) Import
Century Child
$13.95 
| | Smokey Robinson Motown Legends: Shop Around CD (2004)
Century Child
$6.59
| | Andrew Hill Nefertiti CD (1976)
Century Child
$13.85
| | Wykked Wytch Something Wykked This Way Comes CD (2003) (Import) Import; United Kingdom
Century Child
$11.99
| | Nevermore In Memory CD (1996) Bonus Tracks; Reissue; Remastered; Extended Play
Century Child
$9.45
Personnel: Warrel Dane (vocals); Jeff Loomis (guitar, drum programming); Pat O'Brien (guitar); Van Williams (drums).
Audio Mixer: Neil Kernon.
Liner Note Author: Martin Popoff.
Recording information: Village Productions, Tornillo, TX (04/1998-05/1998).
Sporting some of singer Warrel Dane's most extreme vocal workouts, In Memory is an impressive musical display of neo-progressive yet heavy melodic metal. With an identical band lineup and producer Neil Kernon returning to helm the console, the results on this follow-up to 1995's eponymous debut are predictably similar. The bombastic medley of Bauhaus cuts, "Silent Hedges/Double Dares," is representative of the continuing evolution of the band and its heavy rhythmic reworkings. While the melodies are commercial, Nevermore refuses to get bogged down in technique and, in so doing, avoids the sterility and weakness that some associate with a certain other Seattle melodic metal band. With subtle, clean performances mixed with all-out metal hollering, Dane sounds like a doctorate-level student of Geoff Tate's vocal style ("The Sorrowed Man" being his thesis). Perhaps borrowing a little too heavily from Queensr˙che, Dane ...
| | Mark Roberts Giving The World Away CD (2006)
Century Child
$16.45
| | Yuki Okazaki Essential Best Okazaki Yuki CD (2007) (Import) Japan
$24.95 |
|
|
1382 
Email a Friend
