Nightwish live in concert.
ON TOUR

Nightwish

103
critic concert reviews
metal

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

84
%
Based on 
103
critic concert
reviews
LAST 12 MONTHS RATING  
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Nightwish is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 103 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Nightwish is rated as a superb live performer, with impressive shows overall. Nightwish concert reviews describe live shows and performances as symphonic, glorious, anthemic, theatrical, ferocious, enchanting, and operatic.

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Latest release

The Phantom of the Opera (feat. Floor Jansen & Henk Poort) [Live] - Single (January 27, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
metal
ORIGIN
Kitee, Finland (1996 - present)
BIO
Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen.
HAS PERFORMED with
Sonata Arctica, Sabaton, Pain, Beast In Black

CRITIC concert REVIEWS

Gaffa (Sweden)

June 4, 2023
67
%
Nightwish Live In Concert

Rocknytt (Sweden)

June 4, 2023
80
%
Nightwish Live In Concert In Sweden

Reflections of Darkness (Germany)

December 15, 2022
90
%
Barclays Arena, Hamburg, Germany

Reflections of Darkness (Germany)

December 12, 2022
88
%
PSD Bank Dome, Düsseldorf, Germany

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

November 30, 2022
100
%
As far as pre-gig rituals go, asking how many NIGHTWISH fans you can fit into a Five Guys is just one of the games gig-goers are playing before the Finnish masters of symphonic metal finally take to the stage, just a mere three years after announcing the tour.

Backseat Mafia

November 24, 2022
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As the stage was turned around in quick time, a feat which I truly commend the roadies on as it really was lightning fast, we were then treated to a genuine lesson in Power Metal courtesy of Beast In Black. ‘Blade Runner’ kicked things off and the strings of Heikkinen and Kabanen were mesmerising with the crunching pow

Norway Rock Magazine (Norway)

June 21, 2022
75
%
Nightwish at Sweden Rock Festival 2022

Past critic reviews published in

1013 Music Reviews (USA), God Is In The TV Zine (UK), Express and Star (UK), Birmingham Live (UK), V13 (Canada) and more

IMAGE CREDIT

Markus Felix [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons