Despite the fact that contains some of Nightwish’s biggest hits, like “Wishmaster”, “She is my Sin” and “Dead Boy’s Poem”, the lyrics indicate that something has been bugging the maester’s heart and mind. This was quite obvious on their 3rd album, Wishmaster. It didn’t take long for Nightwish’s members to start being arrogant. “Young love must live twice only for them” This album sold more than 68.000 copies in Finland during the first days of its release, on December 7th, 1998.

Powerful, strong melodies, brilliant keys and extraordinarily beautiful vocals by the amazing Tarja, even though her voice was still in a very immature state. Oceanborn is considered up to today one of the best albums of the band. Since Angels Fall First was not enough for Tuomas, he decided to put a huge effort in their next release. Thus, came their debut album on November 1st, 1997.įun fact: Tuomas still does not consider it as their debut, but only as a demo. Even though it was sent as a demo to the record labels, Spinefarm Records thought it is absolutely fantastic and decided to release it. Angels Fall First would be the key for it. Then, he decided to take the band to a heavier direction. It was about 1996 when Tuomas Holopainen’s ambitions grew a little bigger and wanted to do something more than just an accoustic band. Who knew that this early adulthood plan that had been in Tuomas’s head once, would now become Finland’s biggest band and one of the most successful European bands of all time. One of them, was Emppu Vuorinen, the guitar player up to today, while Tarja Turunen, the once called “Angel Of Music” and now “Finland’s most metal diva” came afterwards to complete Tuomas’s plans a band playing accoustic folk music, music for campfires. Tuomas Holopainen, the maestro, mastermind and keyboard player of the band, gave birth to Nightwish during summer 1996 in Kitee, Finland, while sitting around a campfire with some of his closest friends. Strange enough if you think that they have always been about innocence. Nightwish is a severely controversial band, especially over the last 10 years. Everything that came afterwards is nothing more than a try-to-be-like band.

Those are the only original symphonic metal bands ever, pioneers of their genre. If the symphonic metal scene has to proud of something, it is only Therion and Nightwish.

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