What is Nightwish?
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox Musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | Name = Nightwish | Img = Nightwish-Melbourne-2008.jpg | caption = Nightwish live in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]], on 30 January 2008 | image_size = 250 | Landscape = yes | Background = group_or_band | Origin = [[Kitee]], [[Finland]] | Genre = [[Symphonic metal]], [[Alternative metal]], [[Gothic metal]], [[power metal]] | Years_active = 1996 – present | Label = [[Spinefarm Records|Spinefarm]], [[Nuclear Blast]], [[Roadrunner Records|Roadrunner]], [[Nems Enterprises (label)|NEMS Enterprises]], [[Century Media]], [[Drakkar Entertainment]] | website = [http://www.nightwish.com www.nightwish.com] | Current_members = [[Floor Jansen]]<br />[[Tuomas Holopainen]]<br />[[Emppu Vuorinen]]<br />[[Kai Hahto]]<br />[[Troy Donockley]] | Past_members = [[Tarja Turunen]]<br />[[Sami Vänskä]]<br />[[Anette Olzon]]<br />[[Jukka Nevalainen]]<br />[[Marco Hietala]] }} '''Nightwish''' is a [[symphonic metal music|symphonic metal]] [[band]] from [[Finland]]. They formed in July 1996 and played [[acoustic music|acoustic]] mood [[music]]. The band's [[keyboardist]] and [[composer]] Tuomas Holopainen had the idea of forming a band. He asked Tarja Turunen to [[singer|sing]] and Emppu Vuorinen to play [[guitar]]. At the beginning of 1997, the band started playing stronger music. Jukka Nevalainen joined the band to play the [[drums]]. Vuorinen used an electric guitar instead of an acoustic guitar. In May 1997, Nightwish signed a [[contract]] (binding agreement) with Spinefarm Records and they released their first album 'Angels Fall First'. In 1998, Sami Vänskä joined the band to play [[bass guitar]]. The same year Nightwish released 'Oceanborn', which was quite different to 'Angels Fall First'. In May 2000 they released 'Wishmaster', which was similar to 'Oceanborn'. They also entered the contest to be Finland's representatives for the [[Eurovision Song Contest]], with the song 'Sleepwalker'. They won the phone [[v