Female Fronted Music

Once is the fifth studio album by Finnish symphonic power metal quintet Nightwish, released in 2004 by Nuclear Blast Records. Spinefarm Records also released a platinum edition of this album, 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.
Once is the last of the Nightwish studio albums to feature vocals by Tarja Turunen. In an interview Tuomas Holopainen (main song writer of the band) said that it is up to the listener to find out the meaning of the title Once and that every name has a meaning.
The cover features the sculpture Angel of Grief by William Wetmore Story.