My Favourite Band Q&A + Story | Nightwish!
Those who truly know me and are close to me will know who my favourite band is. For years Nightwish has been a huge part of my world. From the genius writer and composer Tuomas Holopainen to the many talented and enthralling voices of the singers Tarja, Anette and Floor, the band has fuelled my creativity, inspiration and got me through many difficult times in my life.
I first fell in love with Nightwish when I was in school, having seen another student wearing one of their hoodies. Interested, I looked them up when I got home and I never looked back. It was in secondary school that I began to explore the "Gothic" way of things and their earlier music seemed to match what I was looking for. I loved metal and rock but Nightwish included orchestra, epic scores and chorus choirs that I had not heard mixed with metal before. Symphonic metal was a whole new concept to me but it very quickly grew on me. The music, however, was just one half of it. The musical genius composed by Tuomas... I will never have words enough to do this man justice in praise! Every new album he creates, every new song, every new chorus; he is the poet! Even just sitting reading the lyrics without the musical backing, they are beautiful words.
I often get asked, as a Nightwish lover, which is my favourite singer (there has been 3) and my answer has always been the same. I love them all! I have never felt compelled to fall into that argument and pick, for I have long felt and believed that each singer, in their own way, has brought something to the music. A unique style, a pitch level, a presence.
How long has the band been around?
Roughly about 25 years!
What genre of music is the band?
Symphonic Metal, Operatic Metal? I want to add a mix of other things, as over the years, with every new album, they add new elements that are so unlike their historic albums. Nightwish can be their own genre!
Symphonic Metal, Operatic Metal? I want to add a mix of other things, as over the years, with every new album, they add new elements that are so unlike their historic albums. Nightwish can be their own genre!
What was the first song you heard?
The very first song I heard was Nemo from the album Once (2002). I believe at the time it was just released on video and I was OBSESSED with it! I think I got the album the following Christmas.
The very first song I heard was Nemo from the album Once (2002). I believe at the time it was just released on video and I was OBSESSED with it! I think I got the album the following Christmas.
Have you seen the band live?
I certainly have! 2009 at Newcastle during the Anette Era! That was when the album Dark Passion Play had come out. I have never felt such a trill in my life, nothing has ever topped it!
Do you own merch?
I do! A few T-Shirts, hoody, Stickers, posters, magazines, things like that! Of course their CD's and live DVD's.
What is a song that hits you in the feels?
I Have To Let You Go from their Imaginaerum Movie Score.
What was your most played song of 2020?
For this, I had to look to Spotify for an answer, yet that does not include all those times played before the app came about. In 2020, my most played was Tribal from the Human. :||: Nature Album.
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