List of Nightwish Band Members - Current Members

Current Members

Tuomas Holopainen

Active: 1996–present

Instruments: Keyboards, piano and male vocals

Albums with the band: All Nightwish releases since the first 1996 demo

Tuomas (born December 25, 1976) is a Finnish composer, musician, poet and producer. 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. 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 couldn't reveal anything about it yet. This project may have been the Imaginaerum movie.

Erno Vuorinen

Active: 1996–present

Instruments: Lead guitar, bass guitar (1997–1998) and classic guitar

Albums with the band: All Nightwish releases since the first 1996 demo

Erno or Emppu (born June 24, 1978) is a Finnish guitarist. He started to play guitar as a private study at the age of 12 and since then he has played in various bands including Nightwish, of which he is a founding member, Brother Firetribe, Almah (with Angra's frontman Edu Falaschi) and Altaria. As of 2008 one of his side-projects Brother Firetribe released their two albums, "False Metal" (Re-released as "Break Out"), and "Heart Full Of Fire" worldwide.

Jukka Nevalainen

Active: 1997–present

Instruments: Drums, percussion

Albums with the band: All Nightwish releases since the first 1997 album, Angels Fall First

Jukka (born April 21, 1978) is a finnish drummer. He spent his early years in the city of Kitee; his drumming career started at the age of eleven when his music teacher at school told him that a new educational program for music was opening, and he thought Jukka would fit in well as a drummer. His first band was "The Highway" but he joined his first real band at the age of 15–16. The band had a rehearsal place, but was restricted to practice only a couple of days a week. After he left that band, he joined up with Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen and they got a permanent practice place.

Marco Hietala

Active: 2002–present

Instruments: Bass guitar, classic guitar, male vocals

Albums with the band: All Nightwish releases since 2002 album, Century Child

Marco (born January 14, 1966) is a finnish vocalist and bassist, he is often seen as an icon for the Finnish metal scene. He is also the vocalist and bassist as well as composer/lyricist for heavy metal band Tarot. He joined Nightwish 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. Marco is the bassist and lends his voice to a number of songs. 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.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.