When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Tim Tronckoe Tuomas Holopainen was a teenage misanthrope. Growing up in the small Finnish ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Nightwish have long stood apart from other European metal ...

Most successful bands can trace their rise to glory back to one particular moment in time. For Finland’s Nightwish, the undisputed champions of symphonic metal, that moment came with the release of ...

Since many Nightwish fans play music themselves, what would be a greater way to show respect to the band than make an arrangement of their own of the band's biggest hits, play it and film a music ...

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 ...

Nightwish singer Floor Jansen released a new solo single on Friday (March 25). The intense, piano-driven number, titled "Fire," also has a music video. And there's more coming soon. Nightwish fans can ...

Nightwish and singer Anette Olzon have parted ways. Olzon replaced original singer Tarja Turunen in 2007 and recorded two studio albums with the Finnish symphonic metal band. ReVamp and former After ...

Just as The Lord Of The Rings cannot be read in one sitting, or Michelin Star banquets be downed while answering emails at work, Yesterwynde is a thing that requires you to be a participant. Like the ...

While promising a new album is just around the corner, Nightwish have announced the official leave of founding drummer Jukka Nevalainen, revealing his replacement in the process. And although he's ...

Floor Jansen – vocalist for Finnish symphonic metal powerhouse Nightwish – is one tough lady. Except when it comes to power metal – then her heart goes aflutter... The first song that I remember ...

Last year was a bit of a rollercoaster for Nightwish and their vocalist Floor Jansen. They’d played a buncha shows, but Jansen was diagnosed with and battled breast cancer before welcoming her second ...

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.