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[witchscauldron]

I have let it be well known in the past I don't like Nightwish.

Or, at least, I didn't like Nightwish.

Their new singer? Fantastic! Suits the band 100% better than Tarja's wailing ever did. The male vocals are not destroying themselves trying to keep up with the music or the octave anymore.

I can't really say I'm a fan, yet, and I may never be, but they've really, seriously improved themselves. It's listenable, which is more than I can say from previous encounters.

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[misslynx.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if Tarja was actually formally trained or not

Yes, she is. She trained at the Sibelius Academy - that's where she met Tuomas - and she's performed with the Finnish National Opera and the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

The band has certainly improved. Part of that improvement, I feel, is that the male vocalists are not strained and hissing trying to keep up with a female vocalist in a range they're not capable of. They're definetely more of a band now, a balanced group contributing to the songs; I always felt that Tarja's voice relegated the rest of the band to being her backup instrumentalists.

That part I do somewhat agree with - she definitely overshadowed the rest of the band, and it was her tendency to treat them as just backup that apparently led to the split. I do think they come across as more of a unit now and less Tarja-and-her-backup-band.