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Tuomas Holopainen is a Finnish composer, musician, poet and producer-He is best known for being the keyboardist, band leader and main songwriter (as well as very occasionally backing studio vocalist), of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.
Known best for heavy metal music, he has also studied jazz and classical styles, but he didn't appreciate these styles explaining to be influenced by harmonic film music.
He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side projects are the Gothic metal band For My Pain... and the band of Timo Rautiainen.
Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including recent collaboration with Nightwish bass player, and male vocalist, Marco Hietala on “While Your Lips Are Still Red”, for the Finnish film “Lieksa!” in 2007. He has revealed that he is working on another "movie project", but that he can't reveal anything about it yet.
Personal life
Tuomas Holopainen was born in Kitee, Finland on Christmas Day (25 December 1976). His musicality and skill in text expression showed early in school. His mother signed him up for piano class in school when he was seven years old, and he later studied clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano and music theory for eleven years at a music college. Tuomas lives at Melbourne, Australia, in January 30, 2008.
Holopainen joined his first bands in 1993. He played in several bands, including recording keyboards for three albums with black metal band Darkwoods My Betrothed and playing with Dismal Silence, Nattvindens Gråt and Sethian.
Holopainen is a Disney, J. R. R. Tolkien and Dragonlance fan. In 2006 Holopainen said that he is "not religious, but an open-minded, thinking individual". He doesn't consider "religion to be bad, but human interpretation of it." His own religion is also something very personal to him.
In 2007 Holopainen said he believed in a God with a sense of humor. He is an avid Black metal fan, although he states he does not agree with all of its views. During the winter of 2005/2006 he says he watched the film The Village 10 times a week, often 2 or 3 times a day. He referred to this film as "'Escapism' at its best". Holopainen often describes himself being an escapist, and has written a song about it with the same name. The Score by James Newton Howard is one of his favourites.
Music
Tuomas Holopainen has said that his work is often inspired by film music and fantasy novels. Nightwish' first three albums were more reminiscent of power metal, but on later albums influences from film music ("Beauty of the Beast", "Ghost Love Score", "The Poet and the Pendulum"), industrial metal ("Bye Bye Beautiful", "Wish I Had an Angel") and folk music ("Last of the Wilds", "The Islander") can be heard. "Master Passion Greed" has very strong elements of thrash metal. Holopainen has said that his biggest inspirations are Greek composer Vangelis and German composer Hans Zimmer. Some of Nightwish's lyrics make references to fantasy novels, including "Wishmaster", "Escapist", "Elvenpath" and "Wanderlust" which have elements from the Dragonlance series and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. References to The Kharolis Mountains, Shalafi and Krynn can be found in these songs. The music of "7 Days to the Wolves" is inspired by Stephen King's Dark Tower series, like the first part of the "The Poet and the Pendulum."
Holopainen has also stated that he was not a fan of heavy music at all until he attended a Metallica and Guns 'N Roses concert in Kansas City whilst on a foreign exchange trip. Other notable artists mentioned by him as having an impact on his life include Howard Blake, Gary Moore (both artists of which Nightwish have covered songs), The 3rd And The Mortal, My Dying Bride, Carcass, Queen, Rammstein, Herbie Hancock, Pantera and Xentrix. In particular, the lyrics of My Dying Bride, and the orchestral elements of Hans Zimmer's work.
Holopainen has been noted as a source of inspiration for other bands, especially within symphonic, gothic and power metal. Simone Simons, lead singer of Epica, stated that she began singing due to Nightwish.Ex-singer of Visions of Atlantis, Nicole Bogner, also acknowledged that Nightwish had greatly inspired the band, especially for their first album. Sander Gommans of After Forever said that Nightwish "will certainly influence us in creating new songs". Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica’s lead singer Tony Kakko, who has worked with Nightwish both in making the "Beauty and the Beast" duet with Tarja Turunen and as a crowd warmer, several times explained how much of an influence Nightwish is for him.
Discography
With Nightwish
* Angels Fall First (1997)
* Oceanborn (1998-)
* Wishmaster (2000)
* Over the Hills and Far Away EP (2001)
* Century Child (2002)
* Once (2004)
* Dark Passion Play (2007)
* Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) (2009)
With Darkwoods My Betrothed
* Heirs of the Northstar (1995)
* Autumn Roars Thunder (1996)
* Witch-Hunts (1998-)
With Timo Rautiainen
* Sarvivuori (2006)
* Loppuun Ajettu (2007)
With Kylähullut
* Lisää Persettä Rättipäille (2007)
* Peräaukko Sivistyksessä (2008-)
Others
* Fallen (For My Pain album) (2003)- For My Pain...
* Into the Silence (2003)- Sethian
* Love and Other Disasters (2008-)- Sonic Syndicate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Holopainen
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