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Then I had a conversation about it with someone and they recommended Nightwish to me.

Third down on the "Similar Artists" list :-) http://www.last.fm/music/Evanescence/+similar

(Incidentally, I discovered both by downloading every MP3 I could find from the network in my university residence.)

I'm just a few years younger than you (mid 30s) and I discovered Amy's voice the same way.

Then I had a conversation about it with someone and they recommended Nightwish to me.

This internet advertising thing really works. I own a lot of CDs from both bands now.

Of course they have better things to do, like making sure finnish symphonic metal bands don't enter the country!

I feel safer already!

Evanescence is a mediocre version of Nightwish.

It only worked with the very first versions of WMP 7 for W9x/2k (when the MSDRM v2 first appeared), but MS soon patched it, and the patch was bundled with a security update.

And yes, I've tested it myself, back in 2002. I no longer have any machines running Windows, but i still have this screenshot, taken from WMP8.

As you can see, the DRM terms of the files were pretty draconian - one could not even back up licenses. As a result, when I was forced to re-installed Windows, the files were rendered unusable (as the licenses were lost). I still have them analogically re-recorded, but for my ears at least, the quality is not the same.

For anyone interested, the files were downloadable for those, who had purchased a limited edition of Nightwish album called Century Child. They included their old demo songs, which have never been published anywhere else.

If you want Nightwish, just go and buy their discs. Nightwish deserves better than some crappy 128 kbit/s AACs are. And you don't need individual songs, because not a single song on their albums suck...

Those who do not know the band, go there to listen some samples (as 192 kbit MP3).

If you want Nightwish, just go and buy their discs. Nightwish deserves better than some crappy 128 kbit/s AACs are. And you don't need individual songs, because not a single song on their albums suck...

Those who do not know the band, go there to listen some samples (as 192 kbit MP3).

I'll start worrying if Century Media cripples the next Iced Earth album, or Spinefarm Records decides to bork the next Nightwish epic.

Sorry the link to Nightwish disappeared. Look here Nightwish