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Metal Injection — Power metal enthusiasts far and wide travel to Florida every year for the biggest power metal festival known as ProgPower. We have a slew of new photos including snaps of Symphony X, Primordial, Nightwish, Solution 45, Pretty Maids and many more. Che... more info

Metal Injection — In what is a shocking development for power metal fans, Nightwish have announced they have parted ways with vocalist Anette Olzon. Olzon was a controversial replacement, as I've heard both sides of the coin. They preferred her to original vocal... more info

Metalsucks — Nightwish and mumu-loving vocalist Anette Olzon have parted ways. For the time being, at least, Floor Jansen (above), who does not appear to favor mumus, will be singing with the band instead. This news means about as much to me as the death of ant... more info

411 Mania — News and thoughts on Metallica's James Hetfield ranking high on a list of the greatest heavy metal guitarists, band drama over Nightwish bringing in a replacement vocalist, KISS playing David Letterman and more! more info

Guardian Music — Donington Park, Castle DoningtonNow into its 10th year, attracting close to 100,000 fans and sprouting more stages, Download is becoming the heavy metal Glastonbury. The elements conspired in this process this year, with torrential rain on the openin... more info

Metalsucks — Some bands are obnoxiously bad, and some bands are just kinda annoying; like, if you’re at a bar and the DJ puts on Oceano, that shit could disrupt your conversation, but if that same DJ were to put on Nightwish, you could probably at least kinda-... more info

Altsounds — *Line up:* Anette Olzon – vocals Marco Hietala – bass, vocals Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen – guitars Tuomas Holopainen – keyboards Jukka Nevalainen – drums “The hybrid of the album and the movie will be... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Today's full Live Perfomance, one hour and 43 minutes of it, comes from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, their live performance at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland on October 21, 2005. It was the final concert of a long worldwide t... more info

Altsounds — For many nights they had the wish to go back to the country of thousand lakes, which is famous for it's vodka but also for its many great Heavy Metal bands! Time to announce two very special performances of one of Finland's finest on board 7000... more info