| "Sacrament of Wilderness" | ||||
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| Single by Nightwish | ||||
| from the album Oceanborn | ||||
| Released | 26 November 1998[1] | |||
| Studio | Caverock, Kitee, Finland | |||
| Genre | Power metal | |||
| Length | 4:09 | |||
| Label | Spinefarm | |||
| Composer(s) | ||||
| Lyricist(s) | Tuomas Holopainen | |||
| Producer(s) | Tero Kinnunen | |||
| Nightwish singles chronology | ||||
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"Sacrament of Wilderness" is the second single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released as the first single from their album Oceanborn, and a split-single with Eternal Tears of Sorrow and Darkwoods My Betrothed.[2]
The single's cover art features the owl with the same scroll as in the cover of Oceanborn and Wishmaster.[3]
It reached the number-one spot in the Finnish charts during several weeks, as well as the subsequent, "Walking in the Air". Both were certified with Gold Disc in Finland with more than 5,000 sold copies.[4]
The cover of the single features the same owl as in "Passion and the Opera", and is a zoomed in photo of the painting displayed as the European Oceanborn cover.
- ^ ""Sacrament of Wilderness" single". Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- ^ Once Upon a Nightwish, Deggael Communications, 2007. ISBN 978-952-99749-2-4
- ^ Nightwish.com – Nightmail Archived 6 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The band: Biography". Retrieved 13 November 2009.