Aren't these Kate Beckinsale's eyes from The Underworld?

Hehe, you're funny, Pitseleh!
:)

Who wants to sing for Nightwish ?.
 

Just seen this on the official website, I wonder who will be the next singer?.

ATTENTION VOCALISTS !

Hello there! The hassle with the media seems to have died. We´ve been off tour for some months and we´ve had a nice and long vacation. It´s time to get back in business:

Nightwish is currently and actively looking for a new singer/front woman for the band. We need the obvious things: Looks , charisma, courage and, of course, a big voice. Good grasp of the English language is also very helpful. We don´t necessarily need a classically trained vocalist like Tarja Turunen (the former vocalist). We welcome all kinds of styles and voices, natural and trained, from rock and pop to classical, and all that you can find in between. You should however be prepared to sing with a lot of dynamics and versatility. From loud and high to very sensitive stuff. You should preferably send us a cd containing 2-3 songs, that you consider to be your best work. If you send an album, would you mark out 2-3 most important songs, please? If you record and send Nightwish songs, then the most important thing is your PERSONAL TOUCH. Photographs are needed as well.

We will look into different applications and all candidates, but doing it this way would save us some time and energy. If you think you have it, just send your stuff to our management, and we´ll be happy to take you onboard.

Here´s the address. Good luck!

NOTE!!!

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- age
- recent photo
- email -address


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FIN-00100 Helsinki
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I don't enjoy NightWish much.
But I DID enjoy their cover of the Phantom of the Opera.
It was fun to listen to.
So there's that.

Yeah, I agree, the Phantom of the Opera thing was sweet. And, I think they're pretty awesome. I don't listen to them much, but I had a cd of theirs at some point. It was tasty.

I loved The Phantom Of the Opera. I think it's even better than the one in the soundtrack. WAY better in my opinion.

I have to disagree. Nothing can beat the actual version.
I dislike the guy's voice in nightwish. A lot.

I felt that the actual one has no life in it. It bored me.

Eh, I guess it's all just a matter of taste.
I'm not sure if I even like the musical at all. Hah.
I just really like that song, how it's put together, etc.

I just recently got really into nightwish. I heard it on a friends myspace, and just totally fell for it. So I got "once" this weekend. My favorite song is Nemo. The CD has been playing non-stop since i bought it. So now, I was reading through the thread, and I am totally bummed out over them getting a new lead singer, I hope whoever they get has that "almost opera" sound that tarja has. It makes them sound so unique. But just in case, I think I will go out and buy all the old CDs I can find.

I do like nightwish, at the time I bought most of their albums, the latest being Nemo.
I used to listen to them almost constantly, howerver I did get bored with it. I do listen to them occasionaly and like them.

Tajra's voice has been getting less powerfull in the later albums. it was much better in oceanbourn, century child and especialy nemo are a bit less vocaly speaking.

I do hope that they find a vocalist that can avoid/overcome the comparison with tarja. They would need to move on.

I like their cover of Over the Hills and Far Away. My husband is into them, and has all of their CD's. They were cool to see live in concert. I'm glad I got to see them before Tarja left. I'm curious to see what kind of new vocalist they're gonna end up with, as I think her shoes will be difficult to fill.

I've just started listening to them.I only have "Planet Hell" and "Riddler Riddler" right now. I actually enjoy their music quite a bit. Their guitar is a bit excessively energetic, but I love the lyrics. I really do enjoy Orchestral Gothic Metal.Excellent genre. Another good band if you like them would be Umbra Et Imago.

I never got chance to see them live, and their my favourite band too :(

Ah well, lets hope they get a good replacement, though i agree with you that it'll be tough, Tarja is one of a kind.

Yeah,if you like "Once", then you should definitely check out their older stuff. It sounds even more"almost opera"-like.

Oooh their version of the Phantom of the Opera bothered me very much. I wanted to strangle the guy when he started singing *ahem* anyway, Nightwish was a pretty good band.
I don't think Tarja's voice is anything too spectacular, it's very good but there's better stuff out there. I wouldn't say she's one of a kind, in fact I think Vibeke from Tristania has a much better voice.
From what I hear they are changing their style so they may not even try for a similiar vocalist.

Hate to depart from the subject, but I have a question for you, Ash of Barcelona.

I was in Barcelona a few months ago and wandered into a really cool hand-made women's clothing shop in the Old City. The clothing was very Goth and looked like long beautiful shrouds or female vampire clothing. It was hand sewn white and black loose netting over black basic crinoline or gauze underdress. I lost the buisiness card.

Do you know what dressmaker I am referring to? Can you give me their name? Website? The store was run by the woman who makes the dresses herself. It was so nice.

PS. I loved Barcelona but was not able to check out the Goth Scene because it was during the week...sad. The city was fantastic though. Best Wishes.

I agree about her voice. I mean it's better than some, but way too operatic for their music. And of course they are going to change their style. After this many albums they are going to start repeating themselves more and more so the only choice is either to stop making music alltogether or start experimenting. ;)

I like Nightwish a decent bit. I used to have everything imaginable by them on my compute before my entire music folder got wiped out. I haven't listened to them much lately though.

i've seen them live. they were good, but i honestly expected them to be a bit better. having said that, i saw them in september 2005, about four weeks before they kicked out tarja so maybe that was just inter-band tensions filtering through.

as for tarja's solo work, she has a beautiful voice but it's just kinda souless and unoriginal. sje's jsut like antoher pop-opera diva now.

*sigh* hope the new singer's good.........

I hope so too wunky, as I said to someone else earlier on in this thread, it will be interesting to see who the new singer will be, and how she will handle both the new material, and how she performs the older songs (that Tarja sang), only time will tell.

Also they must be a good songwriter that can add a new dimension to their music, and hopefully more into metal music, than Tarja was (Kerrang suggested in an interview with Nighwish, last summer, that Tarja was not a big fan of metal music).

Me too.
But I got to see them with the new vocalist if it was for Tarja and Cabuli-thing.
I own all their records expect the live-cd and End of Era. I don't like Once. It doesn't sound like Nightwish what I was used to listen. I don't recognize it. It's so different from the other records and it doesn't sound like Nightwish. And Tarja's singing isn't the very best of her. She is too selfconfident. Like too clean. :(
Century Child, Oceanborn and Angels Fall First are much better than Once and they sound like the good old Nightwish. And those still sound good even I have listened for example Century Child over three years.

I love Nightwish. I've been a fan of Nightwish for a few years now. Friend of mine went to Helsinki for the end of the tour concert. He loved it. the dvd is out now, I'm listening to it right now..

My fave song is I think; dead to the world, dark chest of wonders, Creek Mary's blood, Planet hell. Yep those are my fave's.

Only a shame that Tarja's out of it. They're looking for a lead singer now. A real bugger that she's out of it, because she had a beautiful voice.

I like Nightwish as well. I've liked the band ever since... well, ever since forever, I guess. The rumors about firing Tarja from the band have gone wild and somewhat ridiculous here in Finland. I'll say, Nightwish will never reach the same popularity with some new face than they did with Tarja.

Ummmm, I know this is probably bad, but I have never heard of them.