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 ...

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 ...

Following the career-best showing of 2015’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Nightwish returned with an unwieldy double-album (the second disc of which is almost wholly instrumental) that offered little ...

It may be the uninhibited preposterousness of symphonic metal that has kept Nightwish from major mainstream triumph, but they’re headlining Wembley Arena in December, so they are clearly on the right ...

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 ...

Now an arena-metal fixture around the world, there’s some real fun in trying to deduce the ultimate Nightwish setlist. Looking over our Top 20, it’s clear that these storytellers have a hell of a ...