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Kitee, Finland (1996 – present)

Nightwish is a symphonic power metal band, formed in the town of Kitee, Finland in 1996. The band currently consists of Anette Olzon (vocals), Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards), Marco Hietala (bass, vocals), Emppu Vuorinen (guitars), and Jukka Nevalainen (drums and percussion).

Anette Olzon was announced to be the replacement for former vocalist and frontwoman Tarja Turunen in 2007. She has appeared on Dark Passion Play and Made in Hong Kong (and in Various Other Places), and performed on the two-year Dark Passion Play tour.

The band’s leader, keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, composes songs that are often classified as either symphonic metal or power metal; their musical style has also been described as a symphonic metal variant, called opera metal and even in some cases called ‘epic metal’.
Nevertheless, Nightwish is considered one of the main developers of the symphonic metal genre, which encompasses similar bands such as Within Temptation, Therion, Epica, Edenbridge, Lunatica, and Visions of Atlantis.

The original idea of Nightwish was largely inspired by The Gathering, and the idea was to use keyboards, acoustic guitars and the operatic vocals of their then singer Tarja Turunen. This idea was changed in 1997, as a drummer was added, and the acoustic guitar was replaced by an electric guitar.

The idea of using operatic vocals was changed dramatically with their third album Wishmaster (2000), and more so on future albums, especially Dark Passion Play (2007). In 2001, Holopainen asked Sami Vänskä, their bassist since 1998, to leave, and he was replaced with Marco Hietala (Tarot, ex-Sinergy), leaving Sinergy.

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nDroae wrote:
36 minutes ago

Well, this has been an interesting day for the Nightbox....

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Lindzii wrote:
38 minutes ago

lol, radiohead fans.

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Incubo1986 wrote:
59 minutes ago

I really can't understand why opinion is so divided on here. Radiohead are a truly great band who have inspired, challenged and above all created some outstanding albums. They have incorporated a massive range of influences from R.E.M and Talking Heads to Aphex Twin, Can and Brian Eno and have still created their own distinctive yet accesible sound. It would be arrogant of me to state Radiohead as the greatest ever band but no other band comes even close. Radiohead are a summary of every genre-defining band, amalgamated into a single body of work and to criticise Radiohead is to criticise nearly every band you could've or should've listened to by now. Radiohead have followed and will continue to follow the natural progression of music and to spend your life ignorant of this wonderful band is a spectacular fail for those seriously unlucky people!

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matheusetc wrote:
1 hour ago

Nightwish the best♥

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matheusetc wrote:
1 hour ago

↓ O.O'

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byammo wrote:
1 hour ago

check this out --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE

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Hayzi22 wrote:
3 hours ago

Nightwish is my favorite.

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Lindzii wrote:
3 hours ago

@os_teriyaki; you just made me think of this...http://therockblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/tarja-turunens-most-hilarious-foto-shoot/

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Dan-EternalW wrote:
4 hours ago

Anyone who reads anything into the lyrics of Tarja's lyrics is giving the person who wrote them too much credit. They're about as coherent as the lyrics to a My Bloody Valentine song (and without the fitting musical context). For example: Sleep Like a pillow Down(ward) And (Where) She won't care Anyway (where) Soft As a pillow Touch her there Where she won't dare Somewhere Sleep Like a (royal) (subject) dance with care Think That you grew Stronger there Speak Your trouble(s) She's not sc(ared) Soft like there's silk Everywhere Sleep (is a) pillow Come ___ ____ Where she won't dare Anyway (where) (Look) In the mirror She's not there Where she won't care Somewhere. Perhaps that will be her next cover, it would make about as much sense as doing Poison (and more than Smells Like Teen Spirit, I dare say).

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os_teriyaki wrote:
yesterday evening

Also, about half of My Winter Storm seems to be about Tuomas (or at least the Nightwish split) if you ask me. "Wake up, wake up, it's a frightened Dead Boy" / "There's a little devil in my mouth, writing ugly words for me to shout" / "She tried so hard, every word was torn apart" etc. etc.

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os_teriyaki wrote:
yesterday evening

Tuomas takes himself seriously, yup. And that's why he hasn't and will never sell out. If Nightwish has become "more commercial" (or will in the future) it's by accident. He writes for the music and not the cash :P

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Rozen-rot wrote:
yesterday evening

Wait... when has Nightwish done anything remotely nu-metal? Do you even know what nu-metal is? Or are you just throwing out evil mainstream terms? "Pop", "Nu-Metal", "MTV" - the horror, the horror!

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Lindzii wrote:
yesterday evening

"is that song that britdamage quoted officially dedicated to Tuomas? If it is, I think I'll start listening to Tarja" Yeah, it's a total bitch at him. Go listen to it. "Enough".

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nDroae wrote:
yesterday evening

Karla: yup :) Well not *officially* officially, but obviously. "Build a wall and make me crumble, just because I am in love / Don't you cry now, look at all the dolls and toys that you have got.... You drew a play written with my blood / went ahead just to feed the lot." I love that song :-P

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HeavenDuff wrote:
yesterday evening

like britdamage said... I'm not the only one to see him as a selfish, self-loving, self-proclaimed leader of Nightwish. He is a sell-out, one of the worst of his kind. He sold his soul in return for money. Very nice album Anette btw :)

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HeavenDuff wrote:
yesterday evening

Please... if you know anything about Nightwish you will know that Tuomas takes himself so seriously and that he his the self-proclaimed leader of this band. He's the one taking all the decisions, turning this band into some pop-nu-metal shit. First they released Once, which was pretty much a good sign of what was going to happen next. Once was so different, Tarja's vocals were weak, compared to what she had done in the past. Tuomas was already trying back then to change the band in something ever more commercial and mainstream than symphonic metal actually was. And then, he kicked out Tarja, replaced her with a pop-vocalist to make sure to get the biggest fanbase possible, loosing in the process, a lot of the long time fans of Nightwish. But... who cares when you can get an army of MTV kids to buy your records? No. Believe me, Tuomas takes himself very seriously. He is selfish and I don't think that any other musician in the band will ever have his name in the lyrics of a song.

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fujikiri wrote:
yesterday evening

is that song that britdamage quoted officially dedicated to Tuomas? If it is, I think I'll start listening to Tarja

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Lindzii wrote:
yesterday evening

@Quispiam; You don't need high self esteem to be selfish.

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Rozen-rot wrote:
yesterday evening

I've listened to My Winter Storm and Dark Passion Play, which means Tarja and Tuomas are my two closest friends, I know their personalities like the back of my hand. Only my opinion is valid - irrational reasoning ftw.

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Quispiam wrote:
yesterday afternoon

HeavenDuff: Haha, Tuomas selfish? My impression of the Shadow Wolf is that he doesn't care much for himself at all, or at least doesn't rank himself that high. What about his name being mentioned in a song? You seriously think no other rock/metal/pop song has been written about the writer? Pick one that hasn't been. "Oh me gosh, he left me, I'm lonely, I'm the worst person in the universe" is the general meaning of most pop songs, if you haven't noticed.

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