Nightwish

Nightwish is a finnish band, which plays symphonic metal music. It is said, that the music they play is dark and sometimes depressive, but it has a lot of messages, and if you want to understand it, you can. Their music is of value and of a high standard.
The band was founded in 1996 by Tuomas Holopainen. At that time Nightwish had three members: Tuomas, the keyboarder, Tarja, the singer and Emppu, the guitarist. Then came the drummer, Jukka, and in 1997 the band recorded its first album: ’Angel Falls First’. Next summer the band „got” a new member: Sami Vänskä, the bassist. In 1998 the new album, ’Oceanborn’ was released. It became very successful. In this year the fisrt video, ’The Carpenter’ was recorded too. The next album, ’The Wishmaster’ came out in 2000. It was very famous, and the band played a lot of gigs all over the world. In 2001 Sämi had to leave, and Marco Hietala, a member of Tarot became the new bassist. He played on the album ’Century Child’, which was recorded in 2002. The first DVD, ’End Of Innocence’ came out in 2003. In 2004 a new album, ’Once’ was released. It was a little bit different from the previous ones: it was more melodic and orchestral, like the music of movies; and a lot of fans said: „It’s a beginning of a new era.” But it was the end of fan era: on 23. 11. 2005 the band had a very big and successful concert in the Hartwall-Arena, in Helsinki, and after the show Tarja, the wonderful singer was asked to leave. A lot of fans fell away, and said: „Nightwish isn’t Nightwish any more without Tarja.” But the band was still „alive”. The guys were looking for a new singer, and they found a good one: a swedish lady, Anette Olzon joined to the band in 2006, and she was introduced on May 24th 2006. She is different from Tarja, but she is a very good singer too. The last album, Dark Passion Play was released on September 26th 2007. It was sold in Finland in 42 000 copies, which means more than platinum – already on the day of its release! The band will have a concert in Budapest in March, 2008.

Tarja's last concert

Amaranth (from the new album, with the new singer)