| Album: Ocean Born Artist(Band): Nightwish Date: 10/01/1998 Review The Album (1)
Reviews about Ocean Born A classic metal album! | Reviewer: TheMetalHeadReviewer | 8/29/09 Nightwish's second album is their all time best. Oceanborn truely defines and shows how the symphonic power metal genre should sound like. Tarja's vocals are pushed to the limit, and Tuomas's songwriting could not be any better. The guitar, bass, drums, and keyboard work is the best Nightwish has to offer. Here is the rundown: 1. Stargazers: One of Nightwish's greatest songs and greatest album opener. From the very beginning, this song illustrates what makes Nightwish better than their competition. Tarja's vocals are pushed to the max and sounds goddess like. Epic and awesome. A classic. (10/10) 2. Gethsemane: Killer opening guitar/keyboard intro like many of their others, but this one really takes the cake. A song dedicated to Jesus without being chessy or preachy. Another epic song with an amazing outro solo. (9.8/10) 3. Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean: Begins with perhaps the best opening riff in Emppu's career. The song starts out fast and NEVER lets up. Tapio Wilska provides the grunts and growls on this song and it kicks major ass. Tarja is great too. Heavy and dark and excellent! (9.8/10) 4. Sacrament of Wilderness: Another nice power metal song with hints of a gothic atmosphere. The keyboards and guitar really standout here. (9.7/10) 5. Passion and the Opera: Another killer opening riff by Emppu led into some of Tarja's best vocal performances ever. It even has a vocal solo. Not as good as the previous tracks, but still worthy. (9.2/10) 6. Swanheart: The first ballad of the album. It has a nice intro with the piano and flute. Tarja sounds amazing. This is probably their best ballad in my opinion and does not get a lot of praise either. (9.8/10) 7. Moondance: A great instrumental that sounds like something coming out of Russia. Very nice and fun too. (9.5/10) 8. The Riddler: Interesting feel to this one with the keyboards and the drums. This is one the weaker songs on the album, but it still does it's job. (8.5/10) 9. The Pharaoh Sails To Orion: The greatest Nightwish song of all time in my opinion. This song just reached another level of epicness. The keyboard work in this is the best I have ever heard in a metal song. The guitar does it's job with kickass riffs and it flows rather well with the music. Wilska makes another appearance in this song, and he sounds even better here than in D&TDDO! Tarja is just stunning as well. The outro has an amazing guitar solo while Tarja delivers her best vocal performance. A true metal classic and the only Nightwish song that deserves a rating better than 10. (11/10) 10. Walking in the Air: A Howard Blake cover. Nice and well done. Not the best song, but beautiful and works rather well on the album. (It's hard to top Pharaoh Sails to Orion) (8.2/10) 11. Sleeping Sun: Another ballad, but not as nice as Swanheart. This is one of the bigger hits Nightwish has, but it's extremely overrated in my opinion. It's not a bad song, but it's just a simple song about the lunar eclipse in 1999. It's okay, but I feel it's the worst song on the album. (7.2/10) 12. Nightquest (bonus track): Excellent bonus track that really works well. They should have included this one in the main tracklist of Oceanborn. Oh well. The keyboard solo is rather unique and brings back an old style that hasn't been done since the early years of rock n'roll. Awesome track. (9.8/10) There you have it. This is the greatest symphonic power metal album ever recorded. Recommended for anyone who likes metal or music for that matter. It's just that good. If you don't even like this band and only want to own one album, that this is it. A true classic Nightwish could never come back to. Pros: Instrumentation skills are on a very high level; Masterpieces throughout; Tarja is amazing; production is much better than Angels Fall First; The Pharaoh Sails to Orion. Cons: Sleeping Sun is just weaker than the rest. Oceanborn rating: (10/10) Review The Album Ocean Born | |
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