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Nightwish is a Finnish goth/pop metal band, formed in 1996. While the songs are mostly written by the band's keyboard player, Tuomas Holopainen, their success is also widely attributed to the vocals. These are performed by Tarja Turunen, who has studied classical singing in the Finnish Sibelius Academy, and currently studies opera singing in Germany. In recent songs, Marco Hietala, the bass player, has started to sing as well.

The musical style of Nightwish has been described as pop metal epic metal, power metal, opera metal, symphonic metal, and goth metal, amongst others. Tuomas Holopainen once described their music as "melodic heavy metal with a female voice". However, the commercial success of Nightwish and their numerous media appearances have labelled them more as pop metal by power metal elitists.

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The band has a number of album releases but by far their most well known is their latest album Once, released last year. Were I to describe this band I'd say Evanescence mixed with Metallica. Nikki says Ramstein mixed with Opera. Off their latest album my favourite is Ghost Score Love and Dark Chest of Wonders. I am sharing their entire discography on the hub. Jump on and listen to this amazing (IMHO anyways) band

I've heard many comparisons made to Evanescence.

i've heard great things about this band.

Then get on and download

hmm there haven't been too many goth bands from finland hittiing it big in north america have there?

Korzic wrote:Nikki says Ramstein mixed with Opera.

No, no... I believe my exact phraseology was "bad dinner theatre opera mixed with Rammstein".

I like them.

Lacuna Coil as well.

Check them out too.

They're Italian.

A couple of my friends like Nightwish. Not my cup of tea, but I don't object to listening to them if they happen to have it on.

*scalds Rob with his cup of tea*

I like. Good band. Hurray for metallica crossed with evanescence.

It doesn't sound like Metallica crossed with Evenesentseyaeuiowrwiur. I like Eveanjetulyaweituwe. And I love Metallica. I do not love Nightwish.

i heard some of this with buzhwa on the way to cedar point...it sounds like evanescence with opera to me. The songs were long and too gothic for me.

Why can't I find their cd anywhere?

I didn't know Nikki likes Evanescencalyptica.

Somewhat, yeah.

Any thoughts on which one of their cds i should get?

If you like this kind of music, you might also like some songs by Dutch bands Within Temptation, After Forever, Epica and Autumn.

This needed a bump and more people need to listen

No it didn't!!!!!!!!!!

Yes it did!