FrigidSymphony wroteunknownkadath666 wroteMetastable To Chaos wroteNot sure if you'll put it as a classic but I would like to see Nightwish's Oceanborn reviewed.
Nightwish being put in the classics seems like a bit of a travesty to me.
Indeed. And if it happens before SA, it's outright blasphemy.
Bullshit. Ecliptica is the only SA album that could even be mentioned in a discussion about classic metal albums. I'd say it's a masterpiece of an album, I would give it a score in the lower/mid 90s, but I don't see how it's a classic. It's only seven years old, and not exactly unique in any way (just a more melodic and possibly even better version of Stratovarius' Visions). If it had been released in 1997 it would have been a classic, as it's better than most of the debut albums released that year (Rhapsody, Edguy, Hammerfall, Nightwish etc) but I really don't think it can be considered a classic. In a few years maybe, but not yet.
The sound on Oceanborn, on the other hand, was pretty unique back in 1998, and has exploded in popularity since then, with Nightwish as one of the forerunners. It's also, in my humble opinion of course, just as good if not better than Ecliptica. I would say Oceanborn might be a classic, while Ecliptica is definitely not a classic yet. Anyway, Oceanborn deserves a review, and Ecliptica deserves a better review than the current one, which is pretty terrible.