Once
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Fifth of the ten Nightwish records held here. It came eight years into a run that began in 1996, the same year this tree dates Symphonic power metal from. It is one of the four records Symphonic power metal is listed as starting from. It is one of the four records Symphonic metal is listed as starting from.
From Wikipedia
Once is the fifth studio album by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 7 June 2004 by Spinefarm Records in Finland and Nuclear Blast in the rest of Europe. It is the fifth and last album to feature Tarja Turunen on lead vocals. The album cost nearly €250,000 to make (1,000,000 including the videos), which made it Finland's most expensive recording ever until the release of Nightwish's next album, Dark Passion Play, which cost over €500,000 to produce. As of 2013, Once had sold 2.3 million copies worldwide, becoming Nightwish's most successful album to date.
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