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| Nightwish Ranked
Probably five years out of style and old news, but I've never ranked them and feel by now that I have should. | | 1 |  | Nightwish
Once
The most complete offering by Nightwish imo, and it can still grind riffs out that rivals a peppercorn shaker. I love practically everything on here (yes, even Wish I Had An Angel has a high spot amongst these tracks) and have since the moment I listened to it in my highschool years. | | 2 |  | Nightwish
Oceanborn
A phenomenal encapsulation of the band and has the benefit of sounding classic with just the opening melodic riff of Stargazers, with every song being equivalently solid throughout. | | 3 |  | Nightwish
Century Child
This always seemed the most underrated amongst Nightwish discussion, but I'm sure it's another fan favorite for people out there. It's a very solid album and is sort of like a less eye-popping showcase of the band's strengths. | | 4 |  | Nightwish
End Of An Era
I just feel like I have to include it. I had the DVD when it came out, and while there's some pretty silly moments tied into some of the performances, I on more than one occasion was enthralled by the "evening with Nightwish" setting and settled in for some good justifiably epic concert going. | | 5 |  | Nightwish
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
I just heard this for the first time the other day, and I was substantially surprised. I think this is truly a strong record, and a legitimate successor to the combination of songwriting and musical sound of Once. I think the notion of "return to form" is applicable here, but regardless, the record stands on it's own merits as well and could even be a great introduction to the band itself. | | 6 |  | Nightwish
Angels Fall First
It's not exceptional, but it is pretty good. I'm not sure where the song Return to the Sea comes from, but it's associated with the album on the YouTube playlist and it's one of the stronger tracks along with Astral Romance, Tutankhamen, the T/T and the four part Lappi. The demo for the song Nightwish also would have benefitted from being included here. The fact that the band immediately went into progressing further into their metal territory after this allows for Angels Fall First to have a characteristic of its own by being sort of Nightwish-lite, even if the band isn't 100% in its stripped down incarnation. | | 7 |  | Nightwish
Wishmaster
I've never been able to get into this at all. Even on my relisten the other day, I basically checked out on track two... I have no idea why, but this even made me stop checking out Nightwish after the awesomeness of Once and overshadowed my liking of Oceanborn back in the day for a good long while. | | 8 |  | Nightwish
Imaginaerum
This and Dark Passion are basically equal in the sense that for me they hold an equal amount of flaws between them for mostly the same reasons in the songwriting. Imaginaerum gets the edge because of the larger scope and general cohesiveness in concept, but really I only like half of these records at best. | | 9 |  | Nightwish
Dark Passion Play
Every time, from the first note of singing, I get sort of put off. The higher, airy register of Annette right out the gate just doesn't seem to fit, and it feels like it's "really" trying to. There isn't anything here instrumentally or otherwise that is better than anything off Once, I don't think even a single section of a song. None of it sounds vital the way everything did on the prior album or from even any of the others before. It isn't horrible by any means, but to me this sort of is a good example of just missing the mark. | | 10 |  | Nightwish
HUMAN. :II: NATURE.
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Assemblage
10.25.21 | "Did you love it, did you hate it, what would you rate it? You're the best, you're the best. What should I rank next? Hit the like if you like and please subscribe. Hit the bell as well. Over here next to my head is another rank you can check out, hit that up or the link to subscribe to the channel. Assemblage- Nightwish ranking, forever." | Pikazilla
10.25.21 | 9 is embarrassingly bad, especially considering how good the albums before it are | Groundking
10.25.21 | Once > Wishmaster > Imaginaerum > Oceanborn > Century Child > Endless Forms > Human Nature > Angels > DPP | Assemblage
10.25.21 | Yeah that's how I feel about it as well. The whole thing feels like a step down, and all the innovation from past albums were removed to where it's like a band performing as if they were Nightwish. If there was something more to it, the change in singer could be overlooked, but it seems like it was decided to keep everything straight and basic as possible to play it safe and it just hasn't aged well enough to overcome those faults. | Assemblage
10.25.21 | That's a neat ranking Groundking. What are your standout tracks for Wishmaster? Do you not feel Endless Forms has much in common with Once? | Muzz79
10.25.21 | Glad you enjoyed Endless Forms. Their best imo | Assemblage
10.25.21 | Yeah, honestly if anyone had it in places higher than what I have it here I wouldn't mind. I think I'm going to give it another listen tonight. | Groundking
10.25.21 | @Assemblage I discovered Nightwish through the song Crownless, so that would be one, DBP and She is my sin I'd say were the songs I go back to most often on there.
Yeah that's the problem, it's the 4th album of that sound and formula (Century Child, Once, DPP and itself). The Greatest Show is unbelievable, but I find the rest to be too much the band just going through the motions. It doesn't help that it follows Imaginaerum which I love for how many different things they try breaking the mould a bit. Imaginaerum was my favourite at one point but I listened to it too much. | JDubb
10.25.21 | 9 is so 1 - by a long shot. But dig some 1 and 5 too. And 4 is one of the best concert dvds out there. | Sinternet
10.26.21 | pretty good rank, 1 is 1 for sure
dark chest of wonders is so so nostalgic for me | Dewinged
10.26.21 | Nice, I was thinking of ranking these guys too but I need to give one or two more passes to some albums. Once is I think my favorite though and I'd rank higher the Anette albums. From my first impressions, the two albums with Floor are among their weakest material for me even if she kills it live. | Assemblage
10.26.21 | No kidding, Dark Chest of Wonders is like crack. I get that opening stuck in my head far too often and then half the album plays out on my head from there. I loved that how whatever Dark Chest promised as it's opening track, you get rather continuously throughout the whole album. Romanticide and Ghost Love Score, I mean c'mon, lol. Those are so hard to get out of your head. The Siren is a straight up vibe, Planet Hell is probably one of my least favorites and even that is a ripper.
@Dewinged: I definitely would suggest Endless Forms if you're thinking about going through some relistens. If you're not feeling it about halfway through that's cool too, although I do find the closer to be very worthwhile. I'd like to see your ranking when you're done. | Flugmorph
10.26.21 | actual garbage take to put 9 where its at | Flugmorph
10.26.21 | dark passion play fucking rules yo | Pikazilla
10.26.21 | no it doesnt | Groundking
10.26.21 | DPP sucks, it's like they decided to write a parody album of themselves. | DungeonBoy
10.26.21 | I'd swap 7 with 5, otherwise pretty close to perfect imo | Dreamflight
10.26.21 | Can't say I agree with this considering how low Imaginaerum is. That album is amazing.
Also the last album wasn't that bad either.
| ConcubinaryCode
10.26.21 | I used to listen to the band a lot (along with lacuna coil and within temptation) but looking back I can really only say the top 3 are worth a damn. Once really is their opus. | JDubb
10.26.21 | Last word - 9 slays all!!! | Muzz79
10.26.21 | No last word - great band great discog | Gavierra
10.24.23 | Top 3 picks are solid but 9 should be 4. Really cope take | artiswar
10.24.23 | I disagree with almost everything you said but it's nice to see a Nightwish list | Gavierra
10.27.23 | Human II Nature should be number one because NOOOOIIIIIIIISE |
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