Top 10 Nightwish Songs

With Imaginaerum being released yesterday in Finland and in January for the United States, I thought I would share my top 10 favorite Nightwish Songs with 1 being my absolute favorite.




10. Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan

9.  10th Man Down

8.  The Riddler

7.  The Kinslayer

6. Planet Hell

5.  Dark Chest of Wonder

4.  She is my Sin

3.  Dead to the World

2.  Everdream

1.  Escapist 

Symphonic Rock Singers

I'm really into symphonic rock especially from Nightwish (the first symphonic rock band that I ever heard), Within Temptation, and Epica.  What I find really strange is that people compare Tarja Turunen (former singer of Nightwish), Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation), and  Simmon Simmons (Epica) to each other.  One comment I saw on "Cry for the Moon live at Pinkpop" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9oHNBth2Ak) was "She (Simmon Simmons) sucks Tarja is best singer."

I find it strange that people compare the three, since even though all three bands are classified as symphonic rock, the three groups are so different from each other in the style of their music.  Nightwish uses the combination of a female lead singer and male lead singer really well, Within Temptation has a nice classical feel, and Epica uses a nice blend of a lead female vocalist with screamo male backup vocals.  Personally, I think all three singers are great singers and the bands perform great music.

Nighwish's End of an Era Concert:

Within Temptation "All I Need" and "Ice Queen" from their Black Symphony concert

Epica at Wacken 2009

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Poison

First let me say, I am an Alice Cooper fan.  I went to one of his concerts in 2007 and it was the best concert I have been to.  My favorite song of his is "Poison" and he did a good job performing it live.  

I was recently watching videos on youtube and came across Tarja Turunen, former lead singer of Nightwish and now solo artist, singing "Poison."  She did a horrible job performing it and ruined a really good song.  On a side note,  Tarja is horrible at interacting with the crowd.  

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Nightwish Concerts

First off, let me say I'm a huge Nightwish fan, love their music, and love to watch their concerts online.  However, when they released their tour scheduled for 2011 it pissed me off.  They only have one concert in the hole US and its in LA.  In 2009, they had 10 concerts all over the US and the year before that (2008) they had 22 concerts across the US and many were sold out.

I live in the US Midwest and not going to go to LA to see their concert even though I really want to. However, if they at least did three show in the US (LA, Chicago, and NYC), I would drive to Chicago to see the concert and crash for a night at a friends house after the concert.

Nightwish should schedule more concerts in the US.  Plenty of fans would come to each of the shows.

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