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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nightwish have been busy lately on their world tour in support of their new album ‘Imaginaerum.’ They released the disc's first single ‘Storytime’ last year and now they have released a brand new ...

No release in 2024 was as sonically or conceptually grand as Nightwish’s Yesterwynde, an album that drew on metaphorical ancient computers, the Welsh language, Tongan choirs and the very meaning of ...

Tuomas Holopainen is a fickle, fickle man. Since Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish’s 1996 inception, he’s discarded two frontwomen and is currently on his third. Fans have mixed feelings about ...

Nightwish keyboardist/vocalist Tuomas Holopainen has made a solo album called Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge, and while you might assume I mean he’s made a solo album about Charles ...

Nightwish have always done things against the grain, from their symphonic, operatic music to the unexpected side project of keyboardist and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen. He has completed the ...

Nightwish have already has a very busy year with their latest album, ‘Imaginaerum,’ taking off and a full length feature film to accompany the disc. With a busy touring schedule on tap, 2012 will be a ...

Image caption Lu from Taiwan is a big fan of Nightwish. Nightwish fans have had a busy year. Since October 2015, over 60 fans from 50 countries have been filming a crowdsourced Nightwish fan ...

Tuomas Holopainen of the band Nightwish is a full-blooded nature person. This gave a conservation biologist an idea for the name of a new species he found in Finland. Discovered in eastern Lapland ...