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Nightwish in 2005. From left to right: Marco Hietala, Tuomas Holopainen, Tarja Turunen, Jukka Nevalainen and Emppu Vuorinen.

Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band formed in 1996 in the town of Kitee. Nightwish composes songs that are often classified as either symphonic metal or power metal, and sometimes as variants of the genre called opera metal and epic metal. Nightwish is considered one of the main developers of the symphonic metal genre, which encompasses similar bands such as Epica, After Forever and Visions of Atlantis.