NIGHT WISH
BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2018
NIGHTWISH
Playing: Sunday, 12th August 2018

Stage: Ronnie James Dio Stage

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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 day they would be performing gigantic tours and would become the most successful ba… Morend to ever come from Finland with album sales in figures with more than six digits, well known by their name NIGHTWISH.

From their first album of "Angels Fall First" onwards Nightwish gradually grew, or rather evolved.

The final shackles of labeling scattered with the release of their fourth album, entitled "Century Child". It strayed more away from the more obvious references to melodic “power” metal, and showed promise of a band that was really starting to find its own sound, a band that would yet become something greater. The orchestrations and the choirs met on this album were indeed magnificent and befitting the epic feel of that Nightwish had always yearned for.
Nightwish's 2004 album "Once" sold platinum on its release day in Finland and later in Germany, gold in Austria, Sweden, Norway.
Everybody knew of Nightwish. Even the Finnish prime minister confided as a Nightwish-fan.

The first era of Nightwish ended with an open letter in which the band fired it´s formidable frontperson Tarja Turunen. Was this to be the end of Nightwish? No one knew. People took sides, and a true circus of the media-type began.

On "Dark Passion Play" the music in conjunction with the lyrics conjure a brooding atmosphere never yet seen, or actually felt, in this magnitude in the saga of Nightwish. The past years and the events leading to this day have naturally affected the outcome of this album, as it is known that Tuomas communicates best through music.
This sixth Nightwish album stands at a dividing line, separating what has been and what will become. Less