In 2005, Nightwish seemed unstoppable. A year after the symphonic metal sensations had released their defining 2004 album, Once, they’d exploded across Europe, supported Iron Maiden and headed off on ...

Tarja Turunen has been singing since she was a child. In school, at public performances, and later, as the frontwoman of Nightwish. She was in the band for a decade, during which time she broadened ...

Few voices have been as inspirational in symphonic metal as Tarja Turunen’s. Her classically inspired three-octave range helped rocket Nightwish – the group she started with Tuomas Holopainen and ...

After teasing fans over recent weeks with pieces of the new album, Tarja has revealed the disc's cover which depicts her clad in black and blending into the shadows on the background. "I am very ...

Being neither a huge nor tiny Nightwish fan, I do not closely follow the career of their former vocalist, Tarja Turunen, respected though I understand she is. That being the case, I was unaware that ...

Current Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen and ex-Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen recently took part in a 50-minute Instagram live chat, where they covered everything from COVID-19 downtime to the music ...

Tarja Turunen is our guest for our first-ever holiday episode of The Metalsucks Podcast. We discuss some of her favorite memories of Christmas while growing up in Finland, how a personal tragedy ...

Hietala has brought together some impressive musicians but the pairing that will be of most interest to existing fans will be ...

Act I: Live in Rosario, the first-ever live solo offering from famed Finnish songstress/former Nightwish soprano, Tarja Turenen, was released just a couple of weeks ago. Available in 2-CD, 2-DVD and ...

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