Century Child

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Century Child
Image:Nightwish Century Child.jpg
Album by Nightwish
Released 2002
Recorded 2002
Genre Symphonic metal
Length 50 min 11 s
Label Spinefarm Records
Producer(s) Tero Kinnunen
Professional reviews
  • Allmusic.com (4.5/5) [1]
Nightwish chronology
Over the Hills and Far Away
(2001)
Century Child
(2002)
Once
(2004)

Century Child is the fourth album by Nightwish, released in 2002 by Spinefarm Records.

The album is regarded as Nightwish's largest-effort creation so far, containing orchestral backings, ethereal production (sounding decidedly different from their other albums) and likely the strongest concept album undercurrents the band's catalogue offers.

Spinefarm Records has also released a 2-CD special edition of the album. It includes the CD with copy protection (existence of which isn't mentioned), liner art with the bandmembers' signatures, and a beautiful see-through Video CD containing the music video for their Gary Moore cover of "Over The Hills And Far Away". In addition, you can find a personal code in the booklet which allowed, for a limited time, for you to download three extra tracks ("Nightwish", "The Forever Moments" and "Etiäinen", from a demo the band made while they still were an acoustic project) and the entire album to listen to on your computer.

Track listing

  1. "Bless the Child"
  2. "End of All Hope"
  3. "Dead to the World"
  4. "Ever Dream"
  5. "Slaying the Dreamer"
  6. "Forever Yours"
  7. "Ocean Soul"
  8. "Feel for You"
  9. "The Phantom of The Opera"
  10. "Beauty of the Beast"
Nightwish
Tuomas Holopainen | Marco Hietala | Emppu Vuorinen | Jukka Nevalainen

Sami Vänskä | Tarja Turunen

Albums and EPs
Studio albums/EPs: Angels Fall First | Oceanborn | Wishmaster | Over the Hills and Far Away | Century Child | Once

Live albums: Once At Dynamo | Once Over Argentina | On A Dark Winter's Night | Symphony Of Angels | Gates Of Metal | The Beauty Of The Beast | Bless The Century Child | Over The Hills To Wacken | Wishmastour 2000

Compilations: Bestwishes | Tales from the Elvenpath | Highest Hopes

Videos and DVDs
From Wishes to Eternity | End of Innocence | End of an Era


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