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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.
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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space-paranoids wrote:
oh my. if you look at the related videos on the right of that video, there's now a Tarja doing the Caramelldansen meme...I thought that was just for anime? lol
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nDroae wrote:
But mainly just Delaaaaaaaaain ^_^ And MFVF is just across the border :P
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space-paranoids wrote:
btw, has anyone here heard of "thepoetuh" on YouTube? it's these two girls that imitate Tarja's voice and attempt to be Tarja singing DPP covers XD. recently they did a "Fishmaster" special! LOL
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Dalive wrote:
Op metalgebied is het zeker wel een groot voordeel als je Nederlander bent, aangezien de meeste concerten vaak hier worden gegeven <3 Op de grotere bands zoals Epica en Within na.
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RozynDragon wrote:
Why do so many people want to be Dutch?? O_O There's really nothing special about it =P
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YourStarMusic wrote:
Please join this very first ReVamp forum with Floor Jansen (ex-After Forever)!! http://z10.invisionfree.com/ReVampMusic/
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Neytiri_ wrote:
pretty good
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Kazesamurai1000 wrote:
i would like multiple accents including Swedish, British and Australian!
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space-paranoids wrote:
I almost tl;dr'd on this whole thing, lol. back when I was 12, some of my friends and I wished to be part-English just because of Harry Potter, haha. i'm just azn. mostly Filipino and some Puerto Rican here and there. I'm not sure if what my mother meant by 'Puerto Rican' as in, 'Puerto Rican-European, Puerto Rican-African, or the native Puerto Ricans' >_> I've listened to Delain before. They're okay. Took me a few tries to get used to him. The only songs I like are the ones that featured Marco Hietala, Liv Kristine, and Sharon den Adel in it. xD Dragon Force seems to be a very, very, love-or-hate band.
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JoeDoeOwns wrote:
*facepalm* crazy as hell lol
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Lindzii wrote:
i fink ur kinda prty?
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annurr wrote:
BUT I STILL CAN'T GET OVER WHAT YOU DID. YOU BROKE MY HEART INTO TWO PIECES. HOW COULD YOU. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THAT.
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annurr wrote:
I'm calm. I'm taking deep breaths. It's all cool.
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Lindzii wrote:
you calm now?
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annurr wrote:
It wasn't me
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os_teriyaki wrote:
Okay I'm totally confused with what's going on so now seems like a good time to say goodnight xD
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Lindzii wrote:
YEAH ANNA. CALM DOWN.
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nDroae wrote:
Sorry Mollie, I was thinking of the last time they imitated some Top Model program actually.... :)
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annurr wrote:
MollieB.. would you like to COMEEEEEE COVERRRR MEEEEEEEE WEEEEEETTHHH YOUUUUUUUU
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JoeDoeOwns wrote:
and Mollie didn't do anything to you so...shut up... :P
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21.10.2009 - Nightwish to record a new song in Finnish!
21 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/nightwish
Nightwish is showing respect for Finnish
singer/songwriter veteran Jaakko Teppo by recording his song “Hilma ja
Onni” in Finnish. Jaakko Teppo is well known in Finland of his humorous
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