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Nightwish Ghost Love Score with Tarja Turunen


Tarja Turunen
Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer-songwriter. She is a lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves.[1]

Turunen studied singing at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. She is a professional classical lied singer, and the former lead vocalist of the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, which she founded with Tuomas Holopainen and Emppu Vuorinen in 1996. Their combination of hard and fast guitar riffs with Turunen's dramatic, "operatic" lead vocals quickly achieved critical and commercial popularity. Their symphonic metal style, soon dubbed "opera metal", inspired many other metal bands and performers. MORE



NIGHTWISH - Amaranth (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) with Annette Olzon


Annette Olzon

Olzon was raised in a musical family and has been singing since childhood.[2] Her mother also forced her to play the oboe for 8 years. She toured with her mother's band and sang with them on some occasions. Later, she started to take part in various talent shows and received laudable recognition.[2] The first band she joined at seventeen years of age (Take Cover) was a cover band. However, it was short-lived as she took part in several bands and projects. At twenty-one, she played the leading role in the rock opera/musical "Gränsland" in Helsingborg. After that she got into the Balettakademien in Gothenburg. She sang in choirs, did studio work for various projects and occasionally performed as a wedding singer. Olzon also sang a duet with Michael Bormann (ex-Jaded Heart singer) on his album Conspiracy.

In her earlier days, Olzon took singing lessons at the Copenhagen Music Conservatorie, in Helsingør, Denmark, with a private teacher. Nowadays, she takes lessons from a private teacher at the Malmö Music University when needed.[2]

Before singing, Olzon has worked in a factory, in a hamburger restaurant, as a waitress, as a veterinarian assistant, in a number of offices and as a hair dresser.[3] She has also studied musical artist education, psychology, project management and leadership and organization.[3] MORE



Nightwish with Floor Jansen - Romanticide




Floor Jansen

Floor Jansen (pronounced [ˈfloːr ˈjɑnsə(n)]; born 21 February 1981) is a Dutch singer, songwriter, and vocal coach. She is currently the lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

Jansen first became known as a member of symphonic metal band After Forever, standing as their lead vocalist from 1997, when she joined at age 16, to their disbanding in 2009. When After Forever disbanded, she formed ReVamp and has released two albums with them. In 2012 following the departure of their lead vocalist Anette Olzon, Nightwish brought in Jansen as a touring member until the end of their Imaginaerum World Tour. In 2013, they announced Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish. In 2018, she and Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad premiered their hard rock duo Northward.

A frequent collaborator of Arjen Anthony Lucassen, she is a member of his progressive metal supergroup Star One, and sang in the Ayreon albums Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer, 01011001, and The Source, as well as the live album Ayreon Universe – The Best of Ayreon Live. She also sang lead vocals in several songs of the MaYan album Quarterpast and in Avalon's Angels of the Apocalypse. She is the older sister of fellow singer Irene Jansen, who also worked with Ayreon.

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Jansen can sing from classical to belting and raspy vocals like screaming and death growls.[23][24][25] She is a soprano.[26][27][28][29]

Jansen started studying music at the Dutch Rock Academy in 1999, entering the Conservatorium Tilburg three years later. She studied musical theatre and a year of opera.[23][24] After After Forever split up she started teaching performing in her own course called Wanna be a Star?!

She used to play the guitar, piano and flute and has completed several years of music studies.[30][31] MORE
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Magriet Mol - Vocals
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So the word "Asrai" refers to a kind of aquatic fairy, apparently. In 1985, Dutch twin sisters Magriot (vocals) and Karin (drums) Moldecided to form a band, and in 1987 named it after this denizen of folklore. Several lineup changes and EPs later, they released their first album in 1997. Some more lineup and label changes later, they released their third album "Pearls in Dirt", from which the following clips are taken:

Asrai - Sour Ground


Asrai Interview by Connie Bach @ femmemetal.net


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Manon - Synths
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Asrai - In Front of Me
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Karin Mol - Drums (let me TELL YOU internets, it was HELL finding a oic of her playing the damn things!)
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Their history is ridiculously complicated by a whole hecklaod of lineup changes, but they've always been majority women. The current lineup is Margriet on Vocals, Manon on Synths and Karin on drums.

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Album Review by Metal Invader

Mtuk Metal Zine interview with Asrai

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SCREAMERS



MAWASI KHAI -vocals and ngoni (French/Guadelopean/African (nobody seems to know which African country they were from, exactly) Sadly, they broke up in 2008



D-Fe - Kemite



D-Fe - Muziki (Toute la musique que j'aime)








Kim McAuliffe - guitar Kelly Johnson - lead guitar Enid Williams - bass & vocals Denise Dufort - drums




Girlschool - Race With The Devil



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ANYONE KNOWS HER NAME? CAUSE THE ONLY FEMALE NAME I SEE IS IDENTIFIED AS A DRUMMER.



Sasamaso: Fariseo (Madagascar)


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MARIA BRINK



IN THIS MOMENT - The Gun Show (OFFICIAL VIDEO) (USA)


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ALEXIS BROWN




Straight Line Stitch-- (Taste Of Ashes USA)


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Opera vocals

LIV MOON




LIV MOON / 「死の舞踏~ディエス イレ~」 (期間限定)






MIRI MILMAN




Distorted - Children of the Fall (Israel)


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PAULINA "PAULA" MASLANKA



Delight - Divided (Poland)


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SIMONE SIMONS



Epica - Consign to Oblivion (The Netherlands)








JI-IN CHO




KRYPTERIA - Live To Fight Another Day (Germany)


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TARJA TURENEN




NIGHTWISH - Nemo (Finland)


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ANNETTE OLZON



Nightwish - Amaranth (Finland)


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GROWLERS





OTEP SHAMAYA




OTEP "Crooked Spoons" USA
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Kaori Okumura

Yellow Machinegun - Heartache (Japan)


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ANGELA GOSSOW




ARCH ENEMY - My Apocalypse (OFFICIAL VIDEO) (Swedish)


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VERONICA FREEMAN




BENEDICTUM - "HEAVEN AND HELL" Live in 2006 Netherlands



Benedictum - Valkyrie Rising (USA)

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DORO PESCH





DORO - Herzblut (2009) - Version I (Germany)


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MARY ABAZA



MERLIN "DIE" RUSSIAN DEATH METAL


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Some Links:Fuck yeah Female Fronted Metal

Female Metal Magazine
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and is apparently no. 1 on the Itunes charts!1 in the USA and UK

here's a taste:
Within Temptation - Faster & Mother Maiden Short Film



The first of three short films, to be released this year. These movies give further insight into the concept of Within Temptation's fifth studio album "The Unforgiving" and are based on the comic storyline; the characters are impersonated by actors. Each film is followed by a band performance that, all together, form a dark and compelling tale of life, love, revenge, rage, and regret. The first movie, titled "Mother Maiden", ties in with the band's first single & video for 'Faster', introducing the main characters of the narrative.


Thoughts? I for one love the fact that the powerful old lady, Mother-Maiden; likes her work. I've read way too many stories of people with great power who don't like it for one reason or another, and its refreshing to see someone who's fine with their fate.


And congrats to the new addition to the family!
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ETA: Vocal recordings from MaYaN below.

I used to play this song a great deal a few years ago:

Epica - The Last Crusade (Live Chile 2005)


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Wikipedia

Sharon Janny den Adel (born 12 July 1974, in Waddinxveen, South Holland, Netherlands) is a Dutch singer and composer, best known as the lead vocalist and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic metal/rock band Within Temptation. She has performed with various bands since she was 13, including a blues rock band called Kashiro,[1] and joined Robert Westerholt in Within Temptation in 1996

Together with her husband, Robert Westerholt, den Adel is one of the founding members of Within Temptation. She has defined their work as epic and cinematic.[3] Her vocals play a major role in the band's sound, despite having never received formal vocal training.[4] Sharon sings in the mezzo-soprano range but her vocal quality is light and lyric despite her range. MORE




By the way, she designs the ban's clothing, since she was actually majoring in fashion design in college when she met guitarist Robert Westerholt and they both formed the band.


Within Temptation Website


Within Temptation - Stand my Ground



Within Temptation - The Howling Official Video


Within Temptation - The Howling (For the The Chronicles of Spellborn video game)


Within Temptation - Angels


Within Temptation - Our Solemn Hour


Within Temptation - What have you Done? Feat. Life Of Agony frontman Keith Caputo




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