Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Nightwish have long stood apart from other European metal ...

Being a rock vocalist can sometimes be a humbling experience, but if you're able to roll with the punches, it can also show a bit of your humanity to the crowd. Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen ...

No release in 2024 was as sonically or conceptually grand as Nightwish’s Yesterwynde, an album that drew on metaphorical ancient computers, the Welsh language, Tongan choirs and the very meaning of ...

“Write a lyric for the song only you can understand,” Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish sings in their 2015 single “Élan.” An ode to the endless possibilities of existence, this song invites the ...

Nightwish‘s next album will serve as the third part of a trilogy, according to keyboardist/songwriter Tuomas Holopainen. The Finnish metal band’s ninth and most ...

He’s a jolly soul, Marko Hietala. Of all the members of Nightwish, the bassist and co-singer is easily the most likely to laugh at life’s absurdities. But although this solo album – originally sung in ...