
Keyboards, piano, tenor sax, clarinet, guitar, vocals Musician, composer, lyricist, record producer

Power metal, Symphonic metal, Black metal Lakota name which means “The Wolf of the Shadow” Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including recent collaboration with Nightwish bass player Marco Hietala on “ While Your Lips Are Still Red”, for the Finnish film “Lieksa!” in 2007. His current side projects are the gothic metal band For My Pain. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed.

Holopainen is best known for being the keyboardist, band leader and main songwriter, of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

Known best for heavy metal music, he has also studied jazz and classical styles. Tuomas Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, youngest of three siblings in Kitee, Finland) is a Finnish composer, musician, poet and producer.
