This blog can never have enough Nightwish, and that's the rule if there ever will be one. We'll give Tarja some time to shine today though, by looking at Once, definitely my favourite album with her on vocal duties. I've featured a couple of the songs from this album before, but today we'll get a little weird. Really, that's not a word I would use to describe any incarnation of the band, but "Creek Mary's Blood" might be one of their strangest songs, but in the best way. While it's still symphonic metal, the band makes use of a lot of Native American elements, including vocals and flute work from John Two-Hawks. It's something that really stands out from a vast sea of generic symphonic music, and "Creek Mary's Blood" becomes something that is both epic, but also very mysterious and worldly. It's strange, sure, because it's not something they did regularly back then, and even now, but these tracks are what give the band something special. "Creek Mary's Blood" is definitely special.
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