Hammer is speaking to both vocalists more than a decade on from their collaboration on the Within Temptation song Paradise ...

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 ...

Former Nightwish vocalist Anette Olzon just dropped a huge bombshell about her exit from the Finnish symphonic metal act. In a new interview, Olzon claims she was unceremoniously fired from the band ...

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 25: Singer Floor Jansen of the Finnish band Nightwish performs live on stage during a concert at the Max-Schmeling-Halle on November 25, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Nightwish's ...

No one could accuse of Nightwish of lacking ambition. As if the extraordinary opulence, intricacy and grandiloquent melodrama of last year’s grand conceptual piece, Imaginaerum, were not sufficiently ...

Nightwish lead vocalist Floor Jansen is recovering after recently undergoing gallbladder removal surgery. The medical procedure, known as a cholecystectomy, was precipitated by a bout of pancreatitis ...

Nightwish‘s next album will serve as the third part of a trilogy, according to keyboardist/songwriter Tuomas Holopainen. The Finnish metal band’s ninth and most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of rock’s greatest bands have delivered classic debut albums – music that becomes engrained in rock culture. Nightwish, it’s fair to say, aren’t one of them. Angels Fall First can best be ...

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Symphonic metal existed before Nightwish – pioneered by outfits like Sweden’s Therion and Italy’s Rhapsody – but no band has made it bigger, better or more bombastic than the great Finnish collective.