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Nightwish have six songs written for their next album: “Every time I sit in front of my keyboard, I’m like, ‘Ah yeah, this is great!’”

Work is underway on the followup to 2024’s Yesterwynde

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"We avoided being seen together at the airport." The messy story behind Nightwish's Bye Bye Beautiful - the most controversial song of their career

Nightwish's angry-sounding goodbye song for Tarja Turunen left her replacement Anette Olzon in a difficult position

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“I was 18 when I recorded it, so we didn’t know anything about writing, about recording, about singing”: Nightwish’s Floor Jansen on her worst album – and the prog metal deep cut which makes her cry

The velvet-voiced symphonic metal singer details the soundtrack of her life

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“I’ve been struggling to free my mind. I’ve learned so much. Finally it’s happening”: How Tarja Turunen brought a decade of development to bear on diverse album Frisson Noir

It may sound risky to put Dani Filth, Chad Smith, Marko Hietala on a record that explores tango, flamenco and Japanese folk – but she’s very happy with the very heavy results

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"I probably should've put them through hell." Tarja reflects on her public dismissal from Nightwish in 2005

Fallouts, tabloids and mended bridges: Tarja Turunen talks us through the lessons she's learned in 30 years of making music

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"Her voice was insanely gorgeous and powerful. I've got all her albums, live recordings, everything." Tarja picks the songs that have soundtracked her life

Former Nightwish singer and solo star Tarja picks her records,artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the music that terrifies her

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“It feels like the start of something heavier and more direct”: Nightwish’s Floor Jansen returns with metallic new single Run and announces 2027 tour dates

The symphonic metal singer is keeping busy during her band’s live hiatus

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“My stroke was caused by stress." Tarja Turunen on Nightwish, buried hatchets and fighting back to good health

In 2023, the original queen of symphonic metal shared some reflections on her past

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"We often felt like the strange duck on the festival bill because there was a woman in the band." How two modern metal icons united for a collaboration over a decade in the making

Metal fans couldn't believe their eyes when these two amazing singers appeared on the same song

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"A Russian girl came to my parents’ door with suitcases and said, ‘I have sold everything in my life. I’m going to marry your son and live with you now." How two unknown European bands changed the face of metal in the 90s - and broke up its boys club

In 1997, two key releases by two emerging bands had a game-changing impact on the metal scene as we knew it

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The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)

From legends like Iron Maiden and Metallica to rising stars such as Bloodywood and Spiritbox, these are the metal albums that have defined the 2020s so far

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Cool new prog you must hear from Crown Lands, Tarja, Ed O'Brien and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Ebony Buckle, Grice, Amulets and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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"The whole thing was such a shock...everything was shaking and we were crying for two weeks." The inspiring, sad and triumphant story of the 'girl next door' opera singer who'd become a heavy metal icon

Tarja Turunen didn't just kick the door down for women in metal in the 90s: she made opera cool as hell

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"I shifted from Garbage, Radiohead and Silverchair to black metal." The classic 90s album that changed the life of the singer who'd go on to front one of her country's biggest bands

She's a household name in her home country, and it was the voice of a fellow metal icon who helped her on her journey

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In 1997, two key releases by two emerging bands had a game-changing impact on the metal scene as we knew it

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"We often felt like the strange duck on the festival bill because there was a woman in the band." How two modern metal icons united for a collaboration over a decade in the making

Metal fans couldn't believe their eyes when these two amazing singers appeared on the same song

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"It was about a feeling of being a terrible person and f***ing up everything." Rejected by MTV, lonely nights on the road and the start of a split: the story of Nightwish anthem Nemo

How Nightwish's goth-tinged anthem turned them into symphonic metal's brightest stars

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"Nightwish, Him and Lacuna Coil all bow before them." Ranking every Paradise Lost album from worst to best

From debut album Lost Paradise to the brand-new Ascension, we revisit and re-order the back-catalogue of one of metal’s most despondent bands

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“We were shocked it went so well! But this music has lived within us for a long time – it makes sense for it to be natural”: Auri have finally come to life with III: Candles & Beginnings

Tuomas Holopainen, Johanna Kurkela and Troy Donockley step off the Nightwish oil tanker to drift on the luxury yacht of their ethereal offshoot’s third album

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“Organised religion is causing the worst genocides and most horrible situations in the history of mankind”: Nightwish’s Floor Jansen goes on vicious tirade against Christianity

Nightwish’s lead singer takes no prisoners when asked whether she has religious beliefs or not

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“There’s a magical feel… if the bleakness of the world outside is too much, hole up here and shut it all out”: Nightwish offshoot Auri return with III – Candles & Beginnings

Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley and Johanna Kurkela offer beautiful distractions in a collaborative set of soundscapes

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"Metallica rented our equipment but the sound guy wasn't up to his job." Former Nightwish bassist Marko Hietala on the 10 songs that changed his life

Former Nightwish bassist/songwriter Marko Hietala shares the 10 songs that changed his life

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"We had already split up and still had to do a tour." How Within Temptation became one of symphonic metal's biggest success stories

From helping shape symphonic metal in the 90s to the romantic split that almost destroyed the band in the 2000s, this is the history of Within Temptation

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Nightwish offshoot Auri to return with third album III - Candles And Beginnings in August

Folk prog trio Auri will undertake their first ever live tour through Europe in August, September and October

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“I didn’t just walk away from Nightwish. I walked away from everything, so I could figure out what the problem was”: Marko Hietala had to adjust to a new normal, and the result is Roses From The Deep

Marko Hietala explains why he had to leave Nightwish, and believes there’s no hate involved in the split, as he focuses on second solo album Roses From The Deep

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