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Once is the sixth album by Nightwish, released June 7, 2004 by Nuclear Blast Records. Spinefarm Records also released a platinum edition of this album on November 24, 2004, containing the original tracks in addition to Live to Tell the Tale, White Night Fantasy and the video for Nemo by Antti Jokinen. The North American version of Once contains the video for Wish I Had an Angel instead. During the first week of its release, Once entered the German, Finnish, Norwegian and Greek charts as number one, selling over 80,000 copies in Germany alone. In May, Nemo was the first single to be released from this album, followed by Wish I Had an Angel in September, Kuolema tekee taiteilijan (only in Finland) in November and The Siren in July 2005. Nightwish added a lot of new elements to their music for this album (probably best audible as the Rammstein-like chorus riff and synthesized drum-beat of Wish I Had an Angel, or the long Native American prayer chant on Creek Mary's Blood) without losing their distinctive sound. One of the most important additions is that of a symphonic orchestra, namely, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. The song Ghost Love Score is an apt example of the combined work done by the orchestra and Nightwish, which the name hints at. Once is currently the last of the Nightwish albums to feature vocals by Tarja Turunen. The cover features the sculpture Angel of Grief by William Wetmore Story, also found on the cover of Evanescence's Evanescence EP.
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