Musical background:
Piano, clarinet, tenor sax & music theory in music school for 11 years. Keyboards in different groups since '93. (Dismal Silence, Nattvindens GrĂ¥t, Darkwoods My Betrothed, Sethian, For My Pain, Nightwish). Occational whoring in Timo Rautiainen...
Metal Til Death conducted an interview with NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen on September 26, 2008 at the Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, Maryland.
It sounds like a metal version of Yes mixed with Heart and Fleetwood Mac. "I'll take that as a compliment," says Tuomas Holopainen, composer/keyboardist for the Finnish orchestral metal band Nightwish .
From myspace.com/nightwish : As four guys looking like they're fresh out of high-school and a girl in leatherpants played at the legendary rock-venue Lepakko in Helsinki, Finland, no-one could've known that one ...
Finland's Nightwish takes a sweeping, operatic approach to heavy metal, the requisite power chords and drum pounding accompanied by Tuomas Holopainen's keyboard, which brings a full, symphonic sound to the ...