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Nightwish is tagged as: symphonic metal, power metal, gothic metal, metal, female fronted metal

Nightwish is a symphonic power metal band, formed in the town of Kitee, Finland in 1996. The band currently consists of Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards), Marco Hietala (bass, vocals), Emppu Vuorinen (guitars), Jukka Nevalainen (drums and percussion) and Anette Olzon (vocals).
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...
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Top 10 Nightwish Songs
Nemo
Wish I Had An Angel
Amaranth
Wishmaster
Bye Bye Beautiful
Over The Hills And Far Away
Ever Dream
The Kinslayer
Bless The Child
Planet Hell
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Top 10 Nightwish Albums
Dark Passion Play
Once
Century Child
Wishmaster
Oceanborn
Angels Fall First
Over the Hills and Far Away
End of An Era
From Wishes To Eternity
Highest Hopes: The Best of Nightwish
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