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Nightwish

Ghost Love Score

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Once is the fifth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on June 7, 2004 by Nuclear Blast and on November 24 by Spinefarm, with the US release on October 5 by Roadrunner Records. In an interview Tuomas Holopainen (main song writer of the band) said that it is up to the listener to find out the meaning of the title Once. Every name has a meaning — though, he doesn’t feel comfortable talking about it. This is the last of the Nightwish studio albums to feature vocals by Tarja Turunen. The album continues the more streamlined musical approach first heard on Century Child, moving even further away from the older, power metal-influenced sound of their previous albums into a slightly more mainstream-approachable feel. “Once” utilizes a full orchestra in... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ My love will be in you ... My fall will be for you ... Into the blue memory ♫

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Popular in Metal (See Charts): Master Of Puppets, One, Enter Sandman, Paranoid, Emerald Sword, Wisdom Of The Kings, Phantom Of The Opera, Lateralus, Stargazer, and Unholy Confessions.

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Pierre Broekaart wrote on December, 5th 2019 at 3:40pm:
Epic

Johannes Silver wrote on August, 2nd 2019 at 3:24pm:
GLS is really the best song ever. It handles the most important item - love - and in a intelligent amazing way not just "baby I love you yeah" POP style but much more deeply with metaphoras. It is so rich musically and versatile...has many phases and structures...I have no words to describe the magnitude. However, it is not too long and there is nothing too much. The more you understand it the greater it appears to be. Real symphonic metal which is core for NW music and a genre which covers almost everything when done on this master level.

anael wrote on March, 13th 2017 at 8:52pm:
best song ever. 5 movements, great drums, great guitar, amazing adagio.


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