You can’t talk about symphonic metal without mentioning Nightwish. Not long after forming in the mid-1990s, Tuomas Holopainen’s majestic mavens became the measuring stick for the genre. They scored ...

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Formed in 1996, Nightwish gained instant popularity in its native Finland with the 1997 release of its first album, Angels Fall First. Eventually, Nightwish achieved international success with album ...

Nightwish's new song “Shudder Before The Beautiful” is available for streaming over on the website of the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Times). Chief songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas ...

Nightwish mastermind Tuomas Holopainen has revealed that his favorite rock/metal song of all time is actually a ballad — Metallica's "One." "[It's] such a brilliant composition and lyric and music ...

Nightwish have a released a new song, “Shudder Before the Beautiful,” via Finnish news outlet Helsingin Sanomat. You can stream it below. I’m gonna be honest: I did not make it past the first verse. I ...

Nightwish have released “Noise,” the first single from their forthcoming double album, Human. :II: Nature.. It will be their first new studio album in five years. Never having been much of a Nightwish ...

Julkaistu 20.08.2016 10:52. Even after ten years, Argentinian Andrea Schnidrig still remembers her first experience with Nightwish very clearly. When she came home one day, her son was watching a ...

Last Saturday, Jan. 21, Finnish/Swedish symphonic metal legends Nightwish kicked off their 2012 world tour at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, Calif. Hailed as their most important U.S. show ...

End of an Era is a concert from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland, on 21 October 2005, the final concert of a long worldwide tour for their album Once.

That the spark of the idea for the hugely popular symphonic metal band Nightwish came to Tuomas Holopainen around a campfire back in 1996 is no surprise when one learns about his love for the outdoors ...