Biografije izvodjaca i bendova- Nightwish

2005

In February 2005, Nightwish won five awards in Emma-Gala (Finnish Grammy). Among the others they won awards for "The Band of the Year" and "The Best Selling Album of the Year". Tuomas and Marco flew from European tour to Helsinki to receive the awards. The last show in the European tour was so far the biggest gig of their own, in Stuttgart there were 10,001 people watching the show!
In March, Nightwish performed the first time in Japan and Australia; in April and May, they had to have a break because of Tarja's other interests, but at the end of May the band started the tour again by playing with Iron Maiden in Poland and with Mötley Crüe in Norway.
In July, the 3rd single, a new version of Sleeping Sun, was released since the record label had decided to use it to promote the forthcoming collection Highest Hopes. The new version of the video for "Sleeping Sun" was directed by Joern Heitmann and shot in August 2005 in Prague. During the Autumn 2005, Nightwish played several shows and performed in the legendary Hammersmith Apollo Venue for sold out seats. After a short festival tour in South America (in October), the Once World Tour was coming to an end. The final concert was played on 21 October for 11,500 people in Hartwall-Arena in Helsinki. The concert was also recorded to be released as an End of an Era live DVD.
After the last concert, Tuomas, Emppu, Marco and Jukka fired Tarja Turunen, and her manager Marcelo Cabuli. The reason for this was because during the Once Tour their attitude and actions had turned out to be against almost all that Nightwish represents. As one may guess, the news of the firing was followed by an incredible sensation and hullabaloo. Once the nearly ridiculous fuss was finally starting to calm down in the end of 2005, Nightwish was able to look to the future and wait for an adequate singer to be found.
By the end of 2005, "Once" has sold approx. 1,000 000 copies worldwide as well, it has sold triple platinum in Finland, platinum in Germany, and gold in Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Greece, and Austria. The "Highest Hopes" collection has sold double platinum in Finland and gold in Norway by the end of the year 2005.

2006

The year 2006 began with good news for Nightwish: Their "Highest Hopes" Best-Of compilation had not only crossed the Finnish Double Platinum mark of 60,000 sold copies, it was also Finland's best-selling album of 2005, having sold more than 65,000 times. With the media frenzy finally slowing down, the band members found time to concentrate on the important things again. Tuomas had already written the majority of the new songs, Emppu recorded some new tunes with the Finnish hard rock band Brother Firetribe, Marco returned to the Tarot camp to record the eagerly awaited album "Crows Fly Black" and Jukka had his own business projects going on.

In March, Nightwish brought home two prizes from the Emma Gaala. The band was awarded an Emma as "Best Finnish Artist 2005" and one for "Most Sold Album 2005". In the same month, the band officially started to look for a new vocalist through an open call for auditions on their website. In April, the Finnish music video awards, the Muuvi, brought more happy news to Nightwish. The jury awarded the band a Silver Muuvi for their "Sleeping Sun" video, shot in 2005. The video also made it to the second place in the public voting. May finally brought two long-expected releases. The Nightwish book, written by Mape Ollila, was released in Finland. Shortly after, Nightwish's second full-length live DVD "End Of An Era" was released and reached gold status in Finland after just one day. It was later certified gold in Germany and France as well. In the following weeks, the band retreated to their summer camp to rehearse the new songs and have a good summer. Meanwhile, the media kept themselves busy with unending speculations about the new singer.

In September, Nightwish went to the studio to begin recording the next album.


2007

The auditions for the position as new lead singer ended in mid-January. All in all, the band had received and listened to more than 2,000 demos from singers from all over the world. Exciting news that was followed by the announcement of the first new live shows, scheduled to happen in the USA and Canada in October and November.

On May 24th, all speculating and waiting was put to an end when Nightwish introduced their new lead singer, Anette Olzon. Within minutes, the news was all over websites and news stations around the world. One day later, the first single "Eva" was released as an internet-only single. The single's entire revenue was donated to a children's charity.

In June, the band went to Los Angeles to shoot two videos for their upcoming singles "Amaranth" and "Bye Bye Beautiful". Both were directed by the renown Finnish director Antti Jokinen, who had already worked with Nightwish for their "Nemo" video. "Amaranth" was released in August and sold gold in just two days in Finland. It made good charts positions all across Europe and went straight to the top of the single charts in Finland, Hungary and Spain.

The new album "Dark Passion Play" was released in late September and had a very successful start all across the world. It was awarded double platinum in Finland after just two days and received four more gold awards so far. The album entered the charts at the top position in several countries. The world tour is booked, first shows already sold out, the new era has begun...
"Nightwish, jedan od najtraženijih bendova na ovim prostorima, potvrdili su svoj nastup na otvaranju Exita 08, 10. jula.

Nightwish je jedan od najtraženijih bendova kod nas, o čemu svedoči i anketa Kontra magazina „Na Exitu 08 voleo bih da vidim“ na kojoj su među 113 izvođača finski metalci zauzeli 11 mesto. Mnogo pisama obožavalaca Nightwish stiglo je i u Exit u poslednja tri meseca. Njihov poslednji album „Dark Passion Play“, objavljen je krajem septembra prošle godine, najskuplji je album u istoriji finske muzike i popeo se na prvo mesto top lista u Hrvatskoj, Mađarskoj, Švajcarskoj, Češkoj, Nemačkoj i Finskoj. U Velikoj Britaniji zauzeo je 3 mesto na top 40 listi rock albuma, a u SAD je na sedmom mestu top liste hard rock albuma. Kerrang!, jedan od najrelevantnijih rok magazina u svetu, dao je albumu ocenu 5/5.

Nightwish mnogi opisuju kao symphonic i power metal bend i kao soundtrack metal bend. Masovnom upotrebom instrumenata i vokala tipičnih za klasičnu i filmsku muziku Nightwish je definisao symphonic metal. Tuomas Holopainen, klavijaturista, osnivač benda i autor muzike i tekstova, kaže da je najviše inspiracije pronašao u filmskoj muzici i stil svog benda je opisao kao „melodični heavy metal sa ženskim vokalom“. Basista i vokal Marco Hietala naziva stil Nightwish “film score metal”. Zbog učešća više od 175 muzičara na poslednjem albumu, za orkestralne i solo deonice, stil benda sada mnogi opisuju i kao epic metal.

Ženski vokal u ovom bendu predmet je interesovanja javnosti i medija već dve godine. Od početka, od 1996. godine, kada je bend osnovan, pevačica u bendu bila je operska pevačica Tarja Turunen. Tarja je uz buran prekid saradnje i veoma bučnu javnu prepisku izbačena iz Nightwisha. Dilemu o tome da li će bend bez nje zvučati dobro kao pre, brzo je otklonila šveđanka Anette Olzon, koja je među 2000 pevačica prijavljenih na konkursu izabrana za novi glavni vokal. Anette peva na poslednjem albumu, koji je bend doveo u sam vrh svetskih top lista i sredinom januara je sa bendom krenula na turneju u okviru koje u julu dolazi i u Novi Sad.

Dok čekate objavljivanje novog singla “Bye Bye Beautiful”, najavljeno za 15. februar, možete gledati njihov videoblog na youtube.com. Videćete kada i zašto se smeju tokom nastupa, da li imaju pripremljenu koreografiju, kao i šta očekuju od turneje koja bi, prema najavama, mogla potrajati dve i po godine."