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Nightwish
Formed in 1996 by keyboardist and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen with guitarist
Emppu Vuorinen and classical singer Tarja Turunen, Nightwish have sold over
seven million records, making them Finland's most successful rock band ever.
They had big ideas from the start, writing mythological songs and putting
crashing heavy metal arrangements around them after discovering Turunen's
operatic voice was drowning everything else. The result was an original style
that came to be dubbed ‘symphonic metal.’ They achieved early success on a
national level in 1997 with the single “The Carpenter”...
