Sleepwalker (Nightwish song)

"Sleepwalker" is a song by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, made and performed during the national Eurovision Song Contest tryouts in 2000. Although they placed first in the Finnish televote, the jury overruled them, selecting Nina Åström instead.

"Sleepwalker"
Promotional single by Nightwish
from the album Wishmaster
Released18 July 2000 (2000-07-18)
Genre
Length
  • 2:57 (original)
  • 3:10 (heavy version)
LabelSpinefarm
Songwriter(s)Tuomas Holopainen
Producer(s)
  • Nightwish
  • Merv de Peyer
Nightwish promotional singles chronology
"The Kinslayer"
(2000)		 "Sleepwalker"
(2000)		 "Eva"
(2007)

The song was released as the band's third promotional single,[1] containing the original Eurovision version and an alternative radio edit which was slightly different, both in the use of instruments and Tarja Turunen's vocals being softer and not so very operatic. "Sleepwalker" went on to appear on reissues of the 2000 album Wishmaster and on the 1997–2001 4-CD Box Set. The radio edit (subtitled "heavy version" on future releases) can be found on the original Japanese edition of Wishmaster, the "Deep Silent Complete" single, the Wishmastour 2000 compilation, and the Spinefarm special edition of the "Bless the Child" single.

A line from the song ("end of innocence, unending masquerade") was later reused as the title of Nightwish's 2003 DVD End of Innocence.

The line "Silently the senses, abandon all defences" is most likely straight from the song "Music of the Night" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. The main theme of the musical was later covered by the band on their 2002 album Century Child.

References
  1. "Nightwish - Sleepwalker". Discogs. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.