 SACRAMENT OF WILDERNESS
Sacrament of Wilderness is what one could call one of the album’s “classics”. It was chosen to be the band’s first single to promote the release of Oceanborn. A video – showing the band playing live – was even been quickly shot...too quickly shot. Let’s simply say that this video is not really a success (you will not see it on a DVD pretty soon...)
 WALKING IN THE AIR
Walking in the Air was chosen to be the second single from the album. This time, no video was made for this Howard Blake cover (from The Snowman movie). Only a 4 tracks E.P. was released with Walking in the Air and three other ballads by the band.
 SLEEPING SUN
On August 11th 1999, a total eclipse of the sun took place in France and in Europe. For the occasion, Drakkar Records asked Tuomas to write a special song, a ballad would be great. Tuomas accepted but was not really enthusiastic to be controlled. So he wrote Sleeping Sun which quickly became THE Nightwish ballad. The song was so good (with complete objectivity, of course) that a video clip was shot and a new version of Oceanborn was released with Sleeping Sun as a bonus track.
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Tuomas who was not really convinced with his voice on Angels Fall First (opinion shared by most of the people who heard his vocal feats on The Carpenter) decided not to sing on Nightwish’s tracks anymore. Yet, as he composed Oceanborn, he felt the need to have a masculine voice on two tracks (Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean, and the huge The Pharaoh Sails to Orion). Tuomas then called out his friend Wilska whose voice perfectly matched what Tuomas had been looking for (the Devil’s voice for the first track and a pharaoh for the second one). Wilska’s vocal parts’ recordings went off very quickly – after a few takes, he was told: “it’s a wrap, thanks for coming”. So when the album came out and reached the top of the Finish charts, Wilska was afraid that his performance was not worth the album! He can put his mind at rest, he’s perfect!