| Ebisu Liquid RoomTokyo, Japan21.We want to wish you all a Merry Christmas!BIG thanks to all of you, fans!!Also onsale at the venue box office and any outlets.Last Of The Wilds) will be released on 5th of December in Finland.DPP, but with finnish lyrics.World Music Awards Sunday night (November 4) in Monte Carlo.Finland after selling more than 90,000 copies.Tour starts from Lithuania at 17th of February and ends to Portugal at 19th of April including total of 38 gigs!Note that the contest is available only to UK residents.Follow the link below for instructions.From left to right: Marco Hietala, Tuomas Holopainen, Tarja Turunen, Jukka Nevalainen and Emppu Vuorinen.Associated
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Nightwish was the brainchild of Tuomas Holopainen (later keyboardist of the band), conceived after spending a night around a campfire with friends.Holopainen invited guitarist Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, who was a fairly new acquaintance, and vocalist Tarja Turunen to the project, as she was renowned around the school they attended for her excellent vocal skills.However, after this recording Holopainen decided that Turunen's operatic voice was too powerful for a project like this one, and decided to add in metal elements.Angels Fall First, Nightwish's debut album.In early 1997, drummer Jukka Nevalainen joined the band.At the same time the acoustic guitar was replaced by an electric guitar.Nightwish's original style into a new take on metal, forming what Nightwish is today.The demo was entitled "Angels Fall First", and their future debut album with the same name includes these songs and four more in a different order.In May of the same year, they signed with the Finnish record label Spinefarm Records for two albums.Tuomas Holopainen on vocals.On "Angels Fall First" he sang on "Once Upon a Troubadour", "The Carpenter", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Astral Romance", and he growled on the "Dark Passion Play" song "Master Passion Greed".The Metal Observer stated that Nightwish's debut album paled drastically in comparison to their later work.Holopainen, joined the band.After shooting the band's first video clip ever, for the song "The Carpenter" from the debut album, they released Oceanborn, the successor of Angels Fall First.This album was more technical and progressive than their first release in terms of songwriting and arrangements.Finntroll) on two songs ("Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean" and "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion"), meaning much to Nightwish as this was their first guest vocalist."Oceanborn" reached number 5 on the Finnish album charts and the first single from that album, Sacrament of Wilderness, went straight to number 1 on the Finnish single charts, where it stayed for several weeks.The second single to come out was "Walking in the Air", a cover of Howard Blake's piece, part of The Snowman's soundtrack.It had been Holopainen's dream since he first saw "The Snowman", seven years old, to record a cover of it.This single sold 15,000 copies during the first month in Germany, and included the songs "Sleeping Sun", "Walking in the Air", "Angels Fall First" and "Swanheart".The song "Sleeping Sun" also led to the band's third music video.It is still known as one of Nightwish's greatest and most listened songs, together with the later releases "Nemo" and "Wish I Had an Angel".For the last half of 2007, it has remained Nightwish's third most listened track on Last."Oceanborn" was a certified gold in August the year after the release.The next year, in 2000, Nightwish participated in the Finnish qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Sleepwalker" (later released on the Spinefarm special edition of their next album).In 2006, as Lordi, another metal band won the entire competition for Finland with their song "Hardrock Hallelujah", Holopainen was asked in an interview if he thought that Nightwish could have done better if they have only gotten the chance.He answered that he didn't, instead, he was proud of Lordi.During those three weeks it was certified gold.With "Wishmaster", Nightwish started a line of longer, epic songs to follow, one on each studio album.All of these songs are around or at least ten minutes, which sticks out as Nightwish's songs usually are around five."Over the Hills and Far Away", their first, and only, E.The record included guest performances by Tony Kakko (from the power metal band Sonata Arctica) and Tapio Wilska.They also released a VHS, DVD and CD with live material recorded in a show in Tampere, on December 29, 2000.Tuomas has afterwords said that he and Sami still keep in touch, killing off rumours saying that they haven't met since.Though, they are not interested in making another project together.In 2002 Nightwish released Century Child, and the singles "Ever Dream" and "Bless the Child".The main difference from previous albums is the use of a live orchestra from Finland on "Bless the Child", "Ever Dream", "Feel For You" and "The Beauty of the Beast", to get a more present feeling of classical music.Century Child was certified gold two hours after its release, and platinum two weeks afterwards.The chosen track was "End of All Hope".The clip contains pieces from the Finnish movie, Kohtalon kirja (English: The Book of Fate).In 2003, Nightwish released a second DVD, entitled End of Innocence that tells the story of the band in Holopainen and Nevalainen's words for two hours.The documentary also features bits of live concerts, exclusive footage, etc.These rumours were, at the time, proven to be false, as the band continued on to play concerts for another year and released another album."Nemo" includes an electric guitar solo).Nightwish live in 2004, during their "Once World Tour".Once utilizes a full orchestra in nine of the eleven songs on the album.Unlike Century Child, Nightwish decided to look for an orchestra outside of Finland this time, choosing the London Session Orchestra.Finnish, "Kuolema tekee taiteilijan" (English: "Death Makes an Artist").Greek, Norwegian and Hungarian album charts.The success of the album allowed them to perform the Once World Tour, which enabled them to play in many countries the band had never visited before.Nightwish performed at the opening ceremony of the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, held in Helsinki, highlighting acclaim the band has recently gained.The compilation is entitled Highest Hopes, also featuring a live cover of Pink Floyd's song "High Hopes" (from the The Division Bell album).This song was the first in which Hietala performs the vocals by himself (sample).Turunen by Tuomas Holopainen after the concert, and afterwards posted on the band's website.It was written by Holopainen but signed by the other band members.After those, the final synthesizers and vocals were recorded.To find a replacement for Turunen as the female vocalist of the band, on March 17, 2006 the band allowed vocalists interested for the position to send in demo tapes as an audition for the spot.Holopainen has said in interviews he did not wish to reveal her identity until new material was available because he did not want fans judging her by nothing more than a picture, or past work.This was the first published song (excluding short audio samples on the website) to feature Olzon.On the 13th of June Nightwish released the title, Dark Passion Play, and artwork to the new album on their official website, as well as the name and the cover of the second single (this time CD), "Amaranth".Marco Hietala on vocals and acoustic bass, Tuomas Holopainen on keys and Jukka Nevalainen on drums.Dark Passion Play was released around Europe in the last week of September, 2007, in the UK on October 1st, and the United States on October 2nd.Several magazines, including Kerrang!New lead singer Anette Olzon performing live on the Dark Passion Play tour in Seattle (USA) 2007.Tallinn, Estonia, disguising itself as a Nightwish cover band called "Nachtwasser".The Dark Passion Play tour has now visited the United States, Canada, most of Europe, and have (as of December 18, 2007) a planned tour in parts of Asia and Australia, a second tour in North America, Europe and more.Viimeinen", a previously unreleased vocal version of the instrumental song "Last of the Wilds".Indica performs the Finnish vocals."Bye Bye Beautiful" was later revealed to be the fourth single by Nuclear Blast's official website.Nightwish has confirmed that they will do a third US tour in 2008's second semester.Tuomas Holopainen, writer of most of the band's lyrics and musical scores, says that he gets most of the inspiration for Nightwish's songs from film music.Songs like "Beauty of the Beast" (from Century Child) and "Ghost Love Score" (from Once) are examples of this influence.Also it seems fantasy novels are a big influence on Nightwish's music, many of the lyrics make fairly clear references to fantasy novels, especially the Dragonlance series, Songs such as Wishmaster, The Kinslayer, and Wanderlust seem to be heavily influenced by the novels.For example, through thinking this about boy choirs and heavy metal music, "Meadows of Heaven"'s finale was composed.On the other hand, Nightwish has also been noted as a source of inspiration for other bands.Simone Simons, lead singer of Epica, stated that she began singing due to Nightwish.Visions of Atlantis Nicole Bogner also acknowledged that Nightwish had greatly inspired them for their first album.Sander Gommans of After Forever said that Nightwish "will certainly influence us in creating new songs".Power metal band Sonata Arctica's lead singer Tony Kakko has explained how much of an influence Nightwish is to him.Musical style
A precise definition for Nightwish's musical style is disputed.The band has been suggested as being part of the genres gothic metal, symphonic metal, and power metal.Tuomas Holopainen once described their music as "melodic heavy metal with a female vocalist".In the beginning of Nightwish's career, Holopainen's idea of the band was to create a new but still old genre; the kind of acoustic music played by the open fire on hiking events, to confront radio and CD scene.As he realized that Turunen's voice would be much too strong for such a project, though, he abandoned it to instead focus on metal.Since, Nightwish's music has been very experimental, focusing on mixing genres and using material that is old, but new to the scene.The uplifting fantasy themes, epic atmospheres, high vocals, guitar and keyboard solos and fast melodic musical style of Nightwish's music, especially the first three albums, place them in the power metal genre similar to other Finnish bands such as Sonata Arctica and Stratovarius.The gothic metal tag is usually used by magazines such as Kerrang as many Nightwish songs have gothic elements.Nightwish's musical style began with Century Child and was developed further with especially Once.The guitars were downtuned and simplified to a lower rhythmical sound closer to modern hard rock than the old melodic power metal style leads and Tarja's vocals lost some of their operatic edge, becoming closer to standard rock female singing.Lead band member Tuomas Holopainen has said in an interview that Dark Passion Play would have a lot in common with the last album (Once).DVDs
"Where Were You Last Night" by Ankie Bagger (on "Wish I Had an Angel" single)
"High Hopes (Live cover)" by Pink Floyd (on Highest Hopes compilation)
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Something Wicked Pt.See all 119 customer reviews...Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?Visit our audio help page for more information.Nightwish returns with an ambitious epic metal opus that begins promisingly enough but quickly devolves into another formulaic power rock affair.With new vocalist Annette Olzon in the ranks, the Finnish outfit stands poised to make a thoroughly convincing and wholehearted classic (listen to "The Islander" for further proof) but falls short, delivering a decent but distracted recording.Although it is their sixth studio album,Dark Passion Play marks the beginning of a new era for Finnish symphonic metal masters Nightwish.With new vocalist Annette Olzon onboard, Nightwish returns with their most accessible material to date.This is perfectly exemplified in the vocal melodies in Amaranth, Eva and the scorching duet with bassist Marco Hietala titled Bye Bye Beautiful.Nightwish mastermind Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards) not only wrote all the lyrics and all but two songs on the album, but also helmed the project as one of the producers along with T.Kinnunen and Mikko Karmila, who also mixed the album.Nightwish have taken the symphonic elements of their prior works and infused them with a new voice to create a sound representative of the album title: dark, playful and, most of all, passionate.Check Your Zip Code For Shipping.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?The easiest way to shoot video reviews.For certain, he's a gifted songwriter.It's refreshing that on "Dark Passion Play," the first album with new singer Anette Olzon, elements of the "old" Nightwish are in evidence, as well as songs that take Nightwish in a different direction.It might be tempting for some to write off "The Islander" and "Last of the Wilds" as not Nightwish, but the truth is that Nightwish is whatever Holopainen and the rest of the band want it to be.No reason Nightwish can't do the same, especially with Olzon bringing a welcome rock sensibility to her vocals.DPP emerges as the herald of a new era for Nightwish, one I am anxious to see evolve.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."This is a very special album, for those who can take it that is...That is taken over by a glorious army of guitars wrenching the listener from make believe onto a battlefield of sound and energy.The latter part of the song reminded me of one of my favorite fantasy movies "Kull the Conqueror" which is a glorious marriage of orchestra and metal.The song is loud and long with many different dynamics and themes, changing from a sad cello to a mosh pit showdown.Days to the Wolves is another fantastic piece, it's different I know, so different in fact that people can have a hard time understanding it but I can blast it of as loud as my poor ears can take it and it even makes me walk faster if I'm listening to it on my ipod.The guitars here are pure pleasure and give the song a movie like feel, for someone who loves soundtracks this one tasty morsel.The best part of this album is the crazy mix of sounds, from war ballet to battle music and ballads with an edge this is one cool piece of music.Honestly I love all the music on it but the two pieces I dissected a bit are my favorite, even my dad likes Nightwish, but hey he's a cool dude who is into martial arts and all this funky movie stuff, so it makes sense!For all the picky critics out there, go ahead, rip it apart but it only matters how each person perceives it, I don't want everyone to like this, it will make it common and washed out, I respect Nightwish for creating what they like to hear and I am proud to admit that I love all their creations.Happy listening, don't forget your battle ax...Was this review helpful to you?Along with most other fans, I was worried about the future of Nightwish after all of the (somewhat) recent hullabaloo over the band's change of lead singer.Those worries, I am pleased to say, were completely unnecessary.Let it suffice to say that unlike any other Nightwish album (and I own and love them all), there is not one single track on this album that I have any urge to skip over.Even after many repeated spins.There is so much variety in the musical styles presented here that the sound never becomes boring or repetitive.Yet it all the while maintains that distinctive flavor that is uniquely Nightwish; with the power to evoke a visceral response in the listener (me).That, to me, is quite an accomplishment.And as the new lead singer for Nightwish, she services the music very well.That being the case, I can't wait to see what the "new" Nightwish has in store for future albums where her input will have more consideration.Her voice is warm and accessible but can pack considerable punch.But music is so subjective and everyone's tastes are so different.So I guess what I really would like to say is, regardless of any of the reviews you've read (mine included), if you are 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