Post by Isodore on Oct 13, 2006 7:45:10 GMT -5
Ya-yep, another band posted by me that people really need to listen to. Despite being posted later, I should point out that I started listening to Nightwish WAAAAAAAAAAAY before Lordi.
So..where to begin...finnish band (they do have good music, don't they?) whose musical style is widely disputed as to where it lies in the metal genre.
So with a strange music style that nobody can really agree on, who wouldn't be curious? XD
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Please note that I will viciously maul anyone who says something like "oh, so they're sorta like Evanescence" or attempts a Tarja v. Amy Lee war.
So..where to begin...finnish band (they do have good music, don't they?) whose musical style is widely disputed as to where it lies in the metal genre.
A precise definition for Nightwish's musical style is disputed. The band has been suggested as being part of the genres gothic metal, symphonic metal, and power metal.
Some fans of Nightwish have argued that the band belongs to the "gothic metal" genre due to the fact that all of their albums have female vocals in them with a dark sound and gothic subjects. Examples are "Wish I Had an Angel" and "Planet Hell". Other fans have argued otherwise, saying that they should rather be labeled "power metal", based on the argument that they play more to that style and lack core elements of "gothic metal". The Metal Crypt also proclaim the band to be "power metal", or even symphonic power metal, a sub-genre similar to the style developed by Italian bands such as Rhapsody of Fire.
Some fans and critics have proclaimed that the band is "symphonic metal"—due to the band's role in the evolution of the genre—while others, such as EOL Audio, have said that Nightwish should be categorized as an "opera metal" band, due to their use of orchestras for the albums Century Child and Once, and because Turunen was not a traditional metal singer, but rather an opera singer. This has been disputed though, due to "opera metal" being a variant name for female fronted "symphonic metal" bands.
Tuomas Holopainen once described their music as "melodic heavy metal with a female singer".
Some fans of Nightwish have argued that the band belongs to the "gothic metal" genre due to the fact that all of their albums have female vocals in them with a dark sound and gothic subjects. Examples are "Wish I Had an Angel" and "Planet Hell". Other fans have argued otherwise, saying that they should rather be labeled "power metal", based on the argument that they play more to that style and lack core elements of "gothic metal". The Metal Crypt also proclaim the band to be "power metal", or even symphonic power metal, a sub-genre similar to the style developed by Italian bands such as Rhapsody of Fire.
Some fans and critics have proclaimed that the band is "symphonic metal"—due to the band's role in the evolution of the genre—while others, such as EOL Audio, have said that Nightwish should be categorized as an "opera metal" band, due to their use of orchestras for the albums Century Child and Once, and because Turunen was not a traditional metal singer, but rather an opera singer. This has been disputed though, due to "opera metal" being a variant name for female fronted "symphonic metal" bands.
Tuomas Holopainen once described their music as "melodic heavy metal with a female singer".
So with a strange music style that nobody can really agree on, who wouldn't be curious? XD
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Please note that I will viciously maul anyone who says something like "oh, so they're sorta like Evanescence" or attempts a Tarja v. Amy Lee war.