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Nightwish - Amaranth

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Wishmaster - Nightwish (Subtitulos Español)

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Description: Nightwish is a symphonic power metal band, formed in the town of Kitee, Finland in 1996. The band currently consists of Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards), Marco Hietala (bass, vocals), Emppu Vuorinen (guitars), Jukka Nevalainen (drums and percussion) and Anette Olzon (vocals). Anette Olzon was announced to be the replacement for former vocalist and frontwoman Tarja Turunen in 2007. She has appeared on Dark Passion Play and Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places), and performed on the two-year Dark Passion Play tour. The band’s leader, keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, composes songs that are often classified as either sym Nightwish is a symphonic power metal band, formed in the town of Kitee, Finland in 1996. The band currently consists of Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards), Marco Hietala (bass, vocals), Emppu Vuorinen (guitars), Jukka Nevalainen (drums and percussion) and Anette Olzon (vocals).
Anette Olzon was announced to be the replacement for former vocalist and frontwoman Tarja Turunen in 2007. She has appeared on Dark Passion Play and Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places), and performed on the two-year Dark Passion Play tour.

The band’s leader, keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, composes songs that are often classified as either symphonic metal or power metal; their musical style has also been described as a symphonic metal variant, called opera metal and even in some cases called ‘epic metal’.
Nevertheless, Nightwish is considered one of the main developers of the symphonic metal genre, which encompasses similar bands such as Within Temptation, Therion, Epica, Edenbridge, Lunatica, and Visions of Atlantis.

The original idea of Nightwish was largely inspired by The Gathering, and the idea was to use keyboards, acoustic guitars and the operatic vocals of their then singer Tarja Turunen. This idea was changed in 1997, as a drummer was added, and the acoustic guitar was replaced by an electric guitar.

The idea of using operatic vocals was changed dramatically with their third album Wishmaster (2000), and more so on future albums, especially Dark Passion Play (2007). In 2001, Holopainen asked Sami Vänskä, their bassist since 1998, to leave, and he was replaced with Marco Hietala (Tarot, ex-Sinergy), leaving Sinergy. The bassist would, apart from playing his instrument, also perform male vocals.

Century Child (2002) marked a new change in Nightwish’ music, as they used a live orchestra on several songs, to get a more present feeling of classical music. This was developed further with their US breakthrough Once (2004) and Dark Passion Play (2007), the latter being the first to use orchestra on all of the songs.

In October 2005, after touring for their Once, the four other members of Nightwish decided that it was best to continue Nightwish without Tarja, a feeling they expressed through an open letter.

This was due to the fact that they felt that her husband Marcelo Cabuli and commercial interests had changed her attitude towards Nightwish.
Tuomas Holopainen gave the letter to Tarja after the last concert of the tour. In spring 2007, 35-year-old Anette Olzon from Katrineholm, Sweden was announced to replace Tarja Turunen.

The band released a new single, Eva, featuring their new singer in May, 2007.
It was followed by another single, Amaranth, on August 22, and a studio album in late September entitled Dark Passion Play.
The third international single of the album was Bye Bye Beautiful, released on February 15, 2008, and the next was The Islander, released in May, 2008.

In the June 2009 edition of the Finnish magazine Soundi, Holopainen stated he had started work on a new album. In October 2009, rumors about the new album's name were going around with the title Wind Embraced, but Olzon listed the rumors as "not true" and said that the songs for the new album had not yet been completed apart from 3 songs written before May 2009. Holopainen said in a recent interview, "[...]I can't reveal to you anymore but there is going to be a big twist so to say, on the next album." In an interview with Uilleann pipist Troy Donockley (who recorded with the band on Dark Passion Play), when asked about his involvement in the new album, he stated "Oh yes, I will be playing on the next album and from what Tuomas has told me, it is going to be something extraordinary.

The discography consists of seven studio albums, one extended play, four live albums, seven compilations, thirteen music videos and nineteen singles. The band was formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen; Nightwish's current line-up has five members although Turunen has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the original bassist, Sami Vänskä, has been replaced by Marco Hietala, who also took over the male vocalist part.

Although Nightwish has been popular in Finland since 1997 when they released their debut album, Angels Fall First, they did not achieve worldwide fame until the release of the albums Oceanborn, Wishmaster and Century Child, which were released in 1998, 2000 and 2002, respectively. The 2004 album, Once, had sold more than one million copies by the end of 2005 and allowed the band to host the Once Upon a Tour, concluded in Finland on October 21, 2005, when they played their last concert with Turunen on vocals and also when the End of an Era DVD was recorded. In May 2007, former Alyson Avenue frontwoman Anette Olzon was revealed as Turunen's replacement, and the album Dark Passion Play was released on September 26 after the singles "Eva" in May and "Amaranth" in August.

The next Nightwish single, "Storytime", is scheduled to be released on November 11, 2011, and the seventh studio album, Imaginaerum, will come out on December 2 alongside a movie of the same name, directed by Stobe Harju, who previously directed Nightwish's "The Islander" music video. The band is also scheduled to start the Imaginaerum World Tour in the USA city of Los Angeles on January 21, 2012, at the Gibson Amphitheatre. ... (more) (less)
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"Nightwish1996-Present• 9 Album Released: • 22 Singles Released;• 0 Wins & 0 Nominations; Genres: Symphonic Metal, Power Metal, Folk Metal & Gothic Metal;"


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"Seen live: 1 Time Festival Shows: 07.06.2008: Rock am Ring 2008"


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Discografia (53 music items)

" 1. Once (2004) - 8/10 2. Century Child (2002) - 7/10 3. Dark Passion Play (2008) - 7/10 4. Imanginaerum (2011) - 6/10 5. Over the Hills and Far Away (2001) - 6/10 6. Wishmaster (2000) - 5/10 7. Oceanborn (1998) - 4/10 8. Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015) - 3/10 9. Angels Fall First (1997) - 3/10"


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"June 30, 2016 at Törnävänsaari, Seinäjoki, Finland Setlist: Roll Tide (Hans Zimmer song) 1. Shudder Before the Beautiful 2. Yours Is an Empty Hope 3. Ever Dream 4. Storytime 5. My Walden 6. Élan 7. Weak Fantasy 8. Sahara 9. I Want My Tears Back 10. Nemo 11. Ghost Love Score 12. Last Ride of the Day 13. The Greatest Show on Earth"



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