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BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:03 pm
by NordicStorm
Found this on Blabbermouth:
Helsinki (AP) - Fans of Finnish metal band Nightwish can breathe a sigh of relief. After many months of turmoil, the search for a new singer is over.
"After the break-up with [singer] Tarja [Turunen], we decided Nightwish needed a new direction," says band leader and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen. "It became clear to us from the very start that the singer had to be a diva. And when I say diva, I mean a real whiny bitch. Michael Kiske was the obvious choice."
For Kiske, who currently lives on a park bench somewhere in downtown Hamburg, it was an easy decision to accept the job offer.
"I fucking hate metal. It fucking sucks. My God, I will never work on another metal album," says Kiske. "Avantasia? What does that even mean?"
Kiske continues, "Nightwish? Yeah, I needed the money."
Reactions to replacing Turunen, a classically trained female opera singer, with the apparently male Kiske, were mixed, but sales on Nightwish bath robes, Nightwish mugs, Nightwish flags, Nightwish condoms, Nightwish suppositories and Nightwish whatnots remained as brisk as always.
"Pink Bubbles Go Ape? What the fuck was I thinking?", concludes Kiske.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:05 pm
by Stratofanius
April joke...
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:21 pm
by Elazul
Nice one

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:42 pm
by Beast_Pete
If it starts with blabbermouth...

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:37 am
by Stealth
It was obvious that it was a joke even before clicking on the thread.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:24 am
by browneyedgirl
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:38 am
by Mormegil
But still, having Kiske as their singer would have rocked.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:51 pm
by cliff
Every news published in Blabbermouth is a April's fool joke anyway !

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:02 pm
by nepi
Ha, that's nice. My first thought was: oh, once again news from Nightwish...
How many topics do we have here about "new voice of nightwish" ?

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:25 pm
by MetalAngel
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:36 pm
by browneyedgirl

I can just imagine how it is on the Nightwish forums!
*Anyone want to fill us in?

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:43 pm
by Dave
browneyedgirl wrote:
I can just imagine how it is on the Nightwish forums!
*Anyone want to fill us in?

I guess that's the reason why they have deleted those news again..

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:57 pm
by Boy-85
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't Blabbermouth be sued because of that? Just wondering, because it's so easy to sue people nowadays, at least in the USA. I don't think even Nightwish likes that kind of publicity.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:02 pm
by Dave
I actually thought that those news have never really been on Blabbermouth and NordicStorm just came up with that on his own. If that shouldn't be correct, maybe Blabbermouth really got problems, and as you can see, you can't find these news on Blabbermouth now anymore..
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:16 pm
by Stratolily
Oh, damn! I thought it was true for one minute.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:01 pm
by browneyedgirl
Alot of what happens on Blabbermouth is just rumors,and gossip. And some of the people who post there can be quite malicious.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:35 pm
by MetalAngel
browneyedgirl wrote:Alot of what happens on Blabbermouth is just rumors,and gossip.
Hmm, that's not my opinion as all the new Guns'n'Roses and Iron Maiden news were said previously on there before being confirmed on the official websites...
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:08 am
by NeonVomit
But yes, a lot of gossip. I remember one particularly funny incident between Nile and Monolith Deathcult that was actually nothing, blabbermouth just hyped it.
I do not regard it a reliable source of metal news.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:05 am
by stratoplayer
Kiske living in a park bench in Hamburg!!!

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:40 am
by Beast_Pete
Dave wrote:I actually thought that those news have never really been on Blabbermouth and NordicStorm just came up with that on his own.
I thought the same too. Let's sue Nordic!

(South Park again

)
BTW, Nightwish already has a male singer, so why another one?

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:13 am
by Patricia
Beast_Pete wrote:BTW, Nightwish already has a male singer, so why another one?

Maybe because the frontwoman was considered a bit like the spirit of Nightwish (without forgetting the others though) not only an image but also a voice..

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:44 pm
by MetalAngel
Patricia wrote:Beast_Pete wrote:BTW, Nightwish already has a male singer, so why another one?

Maybe because the frontwoman was considered a bit like the spirit of Nightwish (without forgetting the others though) not only an image but also a voice..

Exactly! Tarja was like Tuomas' mascot, as Dickinson is Harris' one. Nobody could imagine Maiden without the Air Raid Siren...nor NW without Tarja. But, that happened and that's a sort of great occasion for people to try their chance with Tuomas & Co.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:17 pm
by NeonVomit
MetalAngel wrote:Patricia wrote:Beast_Pete wrote:BTW, Nightwish already has a male singer, so why another one?

Maybe because the frontwoman was considered a bit like the spirit of Nightwish (without forgetting the others though) not only an image but also a voice..

Exactly! Tarja was like Tuomas' mascot, as Dickinson is Harris' one. Nobody could imagine Maiden without the Air Raid Siren...nor NW without Tarja. But, that happened and that's a sort of great occasion for people to try their chance with Tuomas & Co.

I wouldn't go so far as to call Bruce Steve Harris' 'mascot'. He's written a lot of songs for Maiden, and many many lyrics. Poor analogy.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:45 pm
by MetalAngel
NeonVomit wrote:MetalAngel wrote:Patricia wrote:Beast_Pete wrote:BTW, Nightwish already has a male singer, so why another one?

Maybe because the frontwoman was considered a bit like the spirit of Nightwish (without forgetting the others though) not only an image but also a voice..

Exactly! Tarja was like Tuomas' mascot, as Dickinson is Harris' one. Nobody could imagine Maiden without the Air Raid Siren...nor NW without Tarja. But, that happened and that's a sort of great occasion for people to try their chance with Tuomas & Co.

I wouldn't go so far as to call Bruce Steve Harris' 'mascot'. He's written a lot of songs for Maiden, and many many lyrics. Poor analogy.
Well, that wasn't said in a bad way. I wanted to say that Dickinson is like the oil which makes the Maiden machine to work...Do you see what I'm trying to say?
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:34 pm
by SETH
wish it was Cristina Scabbia.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Nightwish announces new vocalist
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:16 am
by neonlightchild