Nightwish - Century Child

THE BEST NIGHTWISH ALBUM EVER.

The best thing about Century Child was Marco. The music sounded a bit tired to me and Forever Yours might very well be the most boring song Tuomas has ever written. But this album's also got some great tracks like The Beauty Of The Beast and Ever Dream. A rather commercial album compared to the three that came before, but a good one still.

This album marked their transformation between "Old" and "New" Nightwish. Not Tarja's departure.

Nightwish were already moving away from the Power Metal genre years before Anette joined the band. I am so sick of people accusing her of ruining the band. I honestly enjoy Tarja's delivery of vocals better than Anette's, but the world doesn't need to trash Anette.

Good album,but not their best...

"Oceanorn" is a really mindblowing masterpiece, and its follower "Wishmaster" just quite as good. "Once" is also a really great album, that differs already too much from Nightwish's original routes but in a really good way ("Once" is actually an album I didn't quite get some time ago, but it just grew inside me and I came to love it just as much as all the others). I also love "Dark Passion Play", even if Anette's vocals are not as good as Tarja's she did a wonderful and corageous job in this album and Tuomas exceeded himself in the lyric writing department with "The Poet and the Pendulum"... My feelings towards "Dark Passion Play" are really hard to explain, I don't love it as much as I do love its predecessors (with the exception of "Angels Fall First") but there's something about this album that overwhelms me as well. Actually "Once" and "Dark Passion Play" are probably the most difficult albums for me to tell my opinion about them (but for the record I LOVE THEM). I would have to say "Imaginaerum" is the album that pleasently surprised me the most since "Century Child" and it's another one I absolutely love, even if my opinion about it is not quite formed yet given its recency. But even given all this, I would choose "Century Child" as my immediate answer to the question "Which is your favourite Nightwish album?".

Cant decide what i like better This or Once

It's good, but too commercial...

The last Nightwish album I really liked. I wasn't and still am not too pleased with the direction they took from this album on towards more "hollywood" kind of metal which is not my kind of music. Still I must admit that this album is quite good. Marco Hietala's vocals compliment Tarja's softer vocals well, guitars sometimes sound harder than ever before and songs differentiate between the outcries of soul and soothing moments which, I think, sets it apart from other band's works.

More gothic and melanholic and so gooooood! Beauty Of The Beast is amazing song

Hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm. Symphonic power metal ?

Written by salah mustain on 10.02.2014 at 06:21

Hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm. Symphonic power metal ?

Yes?

It's not hard to compose

Written by Warman on 09.04.2014 at 23:43

Yes?

Not really, only a few hints of the power metal era remain. Not enough for me to even mention it.

Written by salah mustain on 10.04.2014 at 03:48

It's not hard to compose

And that's what define symphonic power metal?

No i meant that evryone can do this work , do u see?
it's not as difficult as progressive or tecknical

Boring album, album by album and you hear such sound and you're use to it .. same time we all remember how good was 1th one... so here are 2 good songs, others are average, some even boring ...and no not because female vocals, because of week more pop song writing and became mainstream ...

For me this album is "swansong for the Wish of Night".
It sounds different from Oceanborn/Wishmaster, still it hasn't got anything fresh to offer. Maybe Slaying the Dreamer was some kind of experiment but I don't like it much. Nightwish didn't need that kind of agression, Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean is example of good NW more "agressive" song. About half of the songs here are ballads or ballady and they're not at Sleeping Sun level. Though maybe someone can relate to lyrics like in Feel For You. I did in high school
Oceanborn's magic athmosphere is gone but you have another one here, and it's just as emotional.
Part of me hates this album because it led to disaster, to Once. But Century Child ain't bad on its own.
Don't really get why people love that one so much, maybe it was their first and mine was Oceanborn. First impression is very important, you know.

Of their highest rated albums on here, this is probably my least favourite. Still a good album overall with some great songs (especially the first 6).

I see how chicks would dig this kind of fluffy girly shit. Men who profess love for this girly band or wear any of their merch should be kicked in the nuts.

This must have been the first metal album I ever bought. It's funny to think that out of the first four albums of Nightwish, this is the one I have listened least. So, even if Century Child has some personal value for me, it's still the first sign of weakness in their discography. It just lacks that one kickass song that manages to capture my attention, but on the other hand there are way too many ballads for my taste. "Bless the Child" and "End of All Hope" come close, but not quite there.

This is the album that got me into Nightwish, I will never forget my first time I heard it, it was also the first time I heard Nightwish and this kind of metal with operatic vocals. It was an amazing experience, love at first listen. It has a special place in my heart, although I love all the first 4 Nightwish album the same way, even if they are so different from one another.

Probably favor this one to Wishmaster but aside from a alright first half it loses momentum and gets kind of bland.

Yeah definitely above Wishmaster, but the songwriting still feels very directionless in most songs. It's definitely heavier, which is a good sign, and Marko's vocals are great. I enjoy "Ocean Soul" despite being poppy, but the other songs are fairly meh. Tarja doesn't bother me as much this time around which I suppose is a plus too.

My first "new" album - i.e. the first one that came out after I discovered Nightwish. Haven't listened to it much in the last years, but I remember liking it a lot at the time. I also remember that Feel For You, of all songs, was my favorite for a time. And later Ocean Soul. Of course, most of the time it was just Ever Dream, but really, almost every Nightwish song is special in some way, and Century Child's tracklist is no exception.