The couple huddled on the bench gaze open-mouthed at the scene in front of them. Parading along the shore of one of the crystal-blue lakes that sandwich the Finnish city of Tampere are six people ...

Nightwish's new song “Shudder Before The Beautiful” is available for streaming over on the website of the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Times). Chief songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas ...

I usually hate Nightwish, but I just watched this video for the title track from their newish album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, and I have to say, it’s not awful! I mean, I think the keyboards are ...

There’s something almost incongruous about seeing a major musical figure in awe of another person – but Nightwish mainman Tuomas Holopainen clearly feels a little intimidated being in the same room as ...

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In the video for Bye Bye Beautiful the four male members of the band are replaced by four female models throughout the verses Despite speculation Holopainen said in a Finnish interview that the female ...

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.