Quote Originally Posted by Musashiden
As for the Gathering, never heard of it. Nightwish though... very good stuff. Although, I don't think too highly of them for dumping Tarja... it'd be a rare thing if they found another vocalist with her abilities.
Respect them for it, think highly of them for it, they threw away their main selling point because she had a total disreguard of respect and duty to the band and felt that SHE was Nightwish, when she failed to realize that the band is Nightwish not her as a person.

Also check out The Gathering. Their first two albums are Death/Doom, then they did some Gothic metal material (Mandylion in particular is fantastic AND is one of the best Gothic metal albums ever released), then they went and turned all prog. rock and released some more great albums (particularly How To Measure A Planet?