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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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symphonic metal, power metal, gothic metal, metal, female fronted metal
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GUTI_4ever wrote:
1 hour ago

37 plays in my library =)

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fujikiri wrote:
5 hours ago

Those 3 bands that Jeroen used are better than Nightwish

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Incubo1986 wrote:
5 hours ago

amazing how a simple rant can get so much attention, anyway thanks for the LOL i shall stop spamming now

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Carona223 wrote:
5 hours ago

i'm listening to Nightwish in super high quality, this site I found www.themusicrockstar.net let's you download any song in mp3 format, its amazing how much better it sounds compared to just streaming it off last.fm, its 100% free too, you guys should give it a try.

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KataTurunen wrote:
6 hours ago

tarja tarja tarja tarja x 1000000000000000

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nDroae wrote:
7 hours ago

If the world was properly awesome, the two Nemos would work to produce a cross-eyed stereoscopic 3D image of Tarja.

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RozynDragon wrote:
7 hours ago

Come come now people, let's stop the Radiohead discussion. We all know Radiohead and Nightwish are very similar artists!

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generalenergiz wrote:
7 hours ago

Check it out! --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE

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matheusetc wrote:
9 hours ago

Best of world

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AnnaDraconida wrote:
yesterday evening

Join if you like to pimp your About Me!

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Ashona223 wrote:
yesterday evening

love Nightwish

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JoeDoeOwns wrote:
yesterday evening

lmao Radiohead? bleh -_- Another question, when is Marcelo Cabuli's solo album going to be released? just wonderin' ;)

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Liadz wrote:
yesterday evening

Radiohead is boring music labeled as depressive, but this is the wrong shout box for this comment ;D I'm kinda anxious to see how the next NW's output will sound like, and still, a bit hopeless.

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jcsotita wrote:
yesterday evening

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sas_ wrote:
yesterday evening

Tarja! NOT ANYMORE!!!

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bloomofsilence wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Tarja!YES!!!

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annurr wrote:
yesterday afternoon

EXCUSE ME! i'm not weird. well, maybe a little bit. okay, i need help. but still.

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sas_ wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Radiohead seems kind of overrated to me.

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Arvanity wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Someone knows when will next album be released?

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Lindzii wrote:
yesterday afternoon

"radiohead are good though :S" doesn't stop the fact they have weird fans, even by NW shoutbox standards.

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