Nightwish's Reviews

Century Child

What... happened???

I'm sure that you, the reviewer, have by now read this a million times already... but if you are new to nightwish than i'd DEFINATELY choose buying "Oceanborn" over this album... or any other nightwish album for that matter.
This album was just truly dissappointing to me, because after liking all of nw's other material before this so much, i had such high expectations for this album... but i ended up being very shocked (yes, in a bad way). Yes, there are good songs on this album, and yes this music is much better than 98% of other new music out there... but when we're talking nightwish, this album is just a flat out failure.

There are many reviewers saying that the new male vocalist on this album is bad... i disagree... he's not bad at all... he's discustingly horrible. His voice wouldn't sound good singing anything let alone nightwish songs. Tarja's voice is just not given much oppurtunity in this album to show itself off... and that is just flat out horrible seeing that she is one of the most amazing singers that i have ever heard in my life. WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU HAVE HALF OF THE VOCALS ON THIS ALBUM BE SUNG BY SOME MAN WITH A HORRIBLE VOICE WHEN YOU HAVE TARJA!?!?!? really, what more do you need... why ruin it or change it?

Well, that's about it. this album isn't horrible but it's not what you'd expect from this band... hopefully their upcoming album will go back to "oceanborn" style as they say it is... but after hearing this album i almost have no hope that they can recover. The few songs on this album that don't dissappoint me are "Feel for you", "ocean soul" and maybe a few others but those two are the only ones that sound as good as their older stuff.
Please let the next album be better... i REALLY don't want to lose respect for one of my favorite bands of all time.

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