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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).

The vocalist 1996 to 2005 was Tarja Turunen. Anette Olzon (ex-Alyson Avenue) joined the band on their 2007 album Dark Passion Play, the corresponding World Tour and the Made in Hong Kong (and in Various Other Places) live EP.

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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1	Nemo	5,678
2	Amaranth	5,415
3	Wish I Had an Angel	4,868
4	Bye Bye Beautiful	4,377
5	Wishmaster full track	4,032
6	Over the Hills and Far Away	3,410
7	Ever Dream	3,395
8	Planet Hell	3,392
9	Dark Chest of Wonders	3,294
10	The Kinslayer full track	3,248
11	Sleeping Sun full track	3,144
12	End of All Hope	3,051
13	Bless the Child	3,012
14	The Islander	2,947
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fujikiri wrote:
39 minutes ago

I didn't mean as the 'ruled by Spain' part, I meant it as the use of spanish language. But yeah, you are right since that's the correct meaning of the word, it's just sometimes confused/used with "spanish-speakers" so I went for it instead of "ss" because, well, that would pretty obvious/foolish. "It's like when they exclude Spain from the spanish-speakers countries, etc, etc" people would be like "O RLY?" and I too of course! (An example of this would be how the "Oh-so-smart-michael" used "hispanic" earlier in his rants) And lol @ MichaelGayTrollNoBallsWhatsoever rant. And since when South America is a continent?

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Rozen-rot wrote:
2 hours ago

"It's like when they exclude Spain from the hispanic countries just because we are not part of latin america". The term 'hispanic' refers to people of Spanish origin who live in countries that are no longer ruled by Spain such as Mexico & South America. Excluding Spain is the entire point - these people are of Spanish descent but are not ruled by Spain. Ontopic: Anette is awesome.

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tobyislulz wrote:
2 hours ago

I agree with MollieB 100%. Listen to this person, for she is wise.

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JoeDoeOwns wrote:
3 hours ago

this arguing is dumb.. lets just ENJOY the music :D

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teresaaah wrote:
3 hours ago

Ghost love score is in top 15 weee \o and its almost beating the islander S2

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MollieB wrote:
3 hours ago

Just keep in mind that US (or Americans) are made up from immigrants from allllll over the world. I feel like this conversation is making Amercans sound like a single race and it's not. Somewhere on here someone said that we are idiots that make fun of how people look - not true. And my reply to whoever said that is: Have you been here, lived here and or even saw our Colleges? Our Colleges (well mine and my brother) have people from all over the world from different cultures. So please don't make stupid comments if you haven't lived here yourself. Even though a lot of countries stereotype us a lot and show pointless hatred - I will always be proud where I was born (which a lot of you all feel about your motherland).

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kaplis wrote:
4 hours ago

GHOST LOVE SCORE!!! LOVE

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iouaywe wrote:
4 hours ago

Kingmichael = lol, Garooo = correct

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MollieB wrote:
4 hours ago

Being a US citizen, lol I have to say I think we just think of ourselves as Americans and not Canada, mexico or whatever - just US citizens. I hope that helps

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Garooo wrote:
4 hours ago

"It's just again U.S. citizens thinking their are the only people in the world." Well, not really. It's a fact that when they started calling themselves Americans, they were the only free country in America, so it made sense to an extent. Right now, not so much. There is a ton of factors that could explain why, but thinking that it's because they feel that they are the only people in the world is way too easy.

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MollieB wrote:
4 hours ago

"Not even Europeans who think they're so smart because they question the use of the demonym "American" call people not from the United States "Americans". In conclusion, Nightwish sucks. " LOL I have to say the random conclusion of your rant is funny - like everything goes back to nightwish.

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MollieB wrote:
4 hours ago

"Looks fake. On the CD Stargazers is spelt wrong. And real or not those are some poor choices for the CD. " yeah I saw there are a lot of the tracks miss spelled lol

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NightVermillion wrote:
4 hours ago

My stomach hurt because of so much laughter, Kingmichael. Thanks for the joke! I don't remember last time I had a good laughter like this one (:.

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Kingmichael wrote:
5 hours ago

Americans are people who live in the United States of America. You think just because you live in a country on a continent called "South America" that you're even technically an American? You wish. Everyone wants to be American, but the only true Americans are people from the United States. You can distinguish the true Americans from the fake Americans (e.g., Mexicans, Canadians, Argentinians, etc.) because of the fact that true Americans are superior in basically every way possible. We have more money than fake Americans, we're smarter than fake Americans, we have bigger balls than fake Americans, we make better music than fake Americans, etc. Know what I'm saying? Anyway, when's the last time you heard someone call a Brazilian an American or some shit? Never. They don't even call themselves American. Not even Europeans who think they're so smart because they question the use of the demonym "American" call people not from the United States "Americans". In conclusion, Nightwish sucks.

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ReddWynd wrote:
5 hours ago

Mexicans are not Americans, they are NORTH Americans. And lol @ the whole "Americans are ignorant stereotype."

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fujikiri wrote:
5 hours ago

""but it just sounds really werid to call a mexican for example an american. " Why? Then we have a geographical problem.. America is not actually North America :-)" [2] Exactly. Seriously America is a continent and actually Mexico is from North America, right? It's just again U.S. citizens thinking their are the only people in the world. It's like when they exclude Spain from the hispanic countries just because we are not part of latin america.

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Lindzii wrote:
7 hours ago

Looks fake. On the CD Stargazers is spelt wrong. And real or not those are some poor choices for the CD.

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MollieB wrote:
8 hours ago

It looks very nice even though I have all the songs. I like how the double disk has a picture of Tarja on one side and Anette on the other.

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MollieB wrote:
8 hours ago

Is this real? http://cgi.ebay.com/NIGHTWISH-2-CD_W0QQitemZ290330538670QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_CDs?hash=item43990c72ae&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1240|293%3A1|294%3A50

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runforafall wrote:
14 hours ago

"but it just sounds really werid to call a mexican for example an american. " Why? Then we have a geographical problem.. America is not actually North America :-)

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18.04.2009 - Best music video in Finland

19 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/nightwish

The best music video in Finland in 2008 isNightwish's "The Islander" video, directed by Stobe Harju. The videowas awarded a golden "Muuvi" in last evening's ceremony in Helsinki.

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