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Marko Tapanni "Marco" Hietala (born January 14, 1966 in Tervo, Finland) is a heavy metal vocalist and bassist. Internationally, he is most known as the current bassist, male vocalist and composer, of the symphonic power metal band Nightwish. He is also the vocalist and bassist as well as composer/lyricist for heavy metal band Tarot.
Biography
He joined Nightwish for their 2002 album Century Child, following the departure of previous bassist Sami Vänskä. He was a prominent guest musician in Delain, a project involving many members of the gothic/symphonic metal community. He also participated in the recording of Invitation, by Altaria, providing backing vocals. Hietala has also been part of the bands Sinergy and Northern Kings.
Since his arrival to Nightwish, several songs have been written to contain duets with the former Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen, allowing songwriter and band leader Tuomas Holopainen to take advantage of Hietala's distinctive raucous voice to add a new dimension to the band. A famous example is Nightwish's cover of "The Phantom of the Opera", from the album "Century Child".
During Nightwish's shows, Turunen would take a break halfway through the set. Before Hietala joined the band, the band would perform an instrumental song during this time. Since Hietala joined the band however, they have performed covers of well-known songs, with Hietala singing the lead vocal part in this break. The band has performed Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train", W.A.S.P.'s "Wild Child", Dio's "Don't Talk to Strangers", Megadeth's "Symphony of Destruction" and most recently, Pink Floyd's "High Hopes". Some of these songs have been put up for sale as well on various Nightwish album releases. Hietala has had much more involvement on the new Nightwish release, Dark Passion Play, which was released in September 2007. He sang some songs, completely, and wrote the music for the song "The Islander".
In Delain, Hietala played the bass for the album Lucidity and was also the main male vocalist on the album. He is also featured as vocalist in two of the songs on Delain's new album April Rain.
In March 2009, Marco joined the band Sapattivuosi. They cover Black Sabbath songs in Finnish.
On April 1, 2010, it was said that Hietala would leave the band to concentrate on a choir career. This was identified as an April's Fool joke. This is a reference to his participation in Kuorosota 2010. Kuorosota is a Finnish television programme that is broadcast on Nelonen. Popular Finnish celebrities are invited to assemble a choir from a town of their choice; to take part in a "clash of the choirs" contest. Hietala was the master of the Kuopio choir. He came second in the contest, losing to the Joensuu choir in the final that was broadcast in March 2010. Tarot's single "I Walk Forever" from the "Gravity of Light" album was performed for the first time by Marco, Tomi Salmela and the Kuopio choir during Kuorosota 2010.
In June 2010, Hietala joined the Heavy Metal supergroup HAIL! on two occasions performing Black Sabbath's Neon Knights with Ripper Owens, Andreas Kisser, James LoMenzo and Paul Bostaph at two of their shows in Finland.
Discography
Nightwish
* Century Child (2002)
* Once (2004)
* End of an Era Live DVD (2005)
* Dark Passion Play (2007)
* Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) (2009)
* TBA (2011)
Tarot
* The Spell of Iron (1986)
* Follow Me into Madness (1988-)
* To Live Forever (1993)
* To Live Again (Live CD) (1994)
* Stigmata (1995)
* For the Glory of Nothing (1998-)
* Suffer Our Pleasures (2003)
* Crows Fly Black (2006)
* Undead Indeed (Live DVD) (2008-)
* Gravity of Light (2010)
Sinergy
* To Hell And Back (2000)
* Suicide By My Side (2002)
Northern Kings
* Reborn (2007)
* Rethroned (2008-)
Delain
* Lucidity (2006)
* April Rain (2009)
Sapattivuosi
* Ihmisen merkki (The Sign of Man) (2009)
Other appearances
* Conquest - Worlds Apart (1999)
* Gandalf - Rock Hell (2001)
* To/Die/For - Epilogue (2001)
* Virtuocity - Secret Visions (2001)
* Dreamtale - Beyond Reality (2002)
* Charon - The Dying Daylights (2003)
* Aina - Days of Rising Doom (2003)
* Altaria - Invitation (2003)
* Shade Empire - Sinthetic (2004)
* Raskasta Joulua - Raskasta Joulua (2004)
* After Forever - Being Everyone (2005)
* Turmion Kätilöt - Niuva 20 (2005)
* Turmion Kätilöt - Pirun Nyrkki (2006)
* Verjnuarmu - Muanpiällinen helevetti (2006)
* Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Before the Bleeding Sun (2006)
* Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
* Defuse - Defuse (2006)
* Raskasta Joulua - Raskaampaa Joulua (2006)
* Jalven Veljet: Aamut Joella - Valoisa Päivä (2007)
* Amorphis - Silent Waters (2007)
* Nuclear Blast All-Stars - Into the Light (2007)
* Marenne - The Past Prelude (2009)
* Amorphis - Skyforger (2009)
* Elias Viljanen - Fire-Hearted (2009)
izvor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Hietala
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