
Marco Hietala
Actor · b. 1966 · Tervo, Finland
Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala is a Finnish heavy metal musician. Internationally, he is best known as the former bassist, male vocalist and secondary composer to Tuomas Holopainen, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He is also the vocalist and bassist as well as composer and lyricist for the heavy metal band Tarot.
Movies9
Movie5.7FantasyDramaImaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood, he remembers practically nothing from his adult life. His music, friends, all his past including the memory of his daughter are a blur in his fragile mind. All he has left is the imagination of a ten year old boy. As he drifts away into coma, it seems impossible to get back what he has lost. Or is it?
Imaginaerum
2012 · 173 votes
Movie8.5DocumentaryMusicEnd of Innocence is the second official DVD release of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. The DVD features numerous clips of the band performing livetracks, including a recording of the band performing one of their first songs; "Beauty and the Beast", with bassist Marco Hietala performing the male vocal part (in the past this part was performed by Tuomas Holopainen or Tony Kakko, from Sonata Arctica)
Nightwish: End of Innocence
2003 · 6 votes
Movie6.5MusicAyreon Universe is Ayreon live in concert for the first time ever, organized and arranged by Arjen A. Lucassen and Joost van den Broek. This performance was filmed during the second show in Tilburg on Saturday September 16th 2017. Joining Arjen Lucassen for this concert were guest perfomers Floor Jansen (Nightwish/After Forever), Damian Wilson (Headspace), Hansi Kursch (Blind Guardian), Tommy Karevik (Kamelot), Anneke Van Giersbergen (The Gathering/Vuur), Marco Hietala (Nightwish/Tarot) Jonas Renkse (Katatonia).
Ayreon Universe - Best of Ayreon Live
2018 · 1 votes
Movie8.0MusicDocumentaryShowtime, Storytime is a video release, released as a double Blu-ray from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Nuclear Blast recorded their live performance at Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany on 3 August 2013. Showtime, Storytime is the first Nightwish production to feature Floor Jansen on vocals. She initially replaced previous vocalist Anette Olzon during their North America tour leg, and on 9 October 2013 it was revealed that she would become an official band member, along with Troy Donockley. The running time of the concert is 1 hour and 38 minutes. The album also contains a 120-minute documentary about the first days of Jansen in the band, still as an only live member, and her process of adaptation in the band, called "Please Learn the Setlist in 48 Hours".
Nightwish: Showtime, Storytime
2013 · 22 votes
Movie8.0MusicA sold-out spectacular show recorded during their 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful World Tour' at Tampere Stadium, Finland (July 31, 2015).
Nightwish: Live Ratina Stadion, Tampere
2016 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DocumentaryMusicPromised Land of Heavy Metal is a documentary about the history and philosophy of Heavy Metal and how it became such a big deal in a small country called Finland.
Promised Land of Heavy Metal
2008 · 2 votes
Movie7.8MusicRecorded during Nightwish's "Decades World Tour" on September 30th., 2018 at the Microestadio Malvinas Argentinas venue in Argentina. Track List: 1. Swanheart / 2. End of All Hope / 3. Wish I Had an Angel / 4. 10th Man Down / 5. Come Cover Me / 6. Gethsemane / 7. Élan / 8. Sacrament of Wilderness / 9. Deep Silent Complete / 10. Dead Boy's Poem / 11. Elvenjig / 12. Elvenpath / 13. I Want My Tears Back / 14. Amaranth / 15. The Carpenter / 16. The Kinslayer / 17. Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean / 18. Nemo / 19. Slaying the Dreamer / 20. The Greatest Show on Earth / 21. Ghost Love Score.
Nightwish: Decades (Live in Buenos Aires)
2019 · 6 votes
Movie7.8MusicEnd of an Era is a concert from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland, on 21 October 2005, the final concert of a long worldwide tour for their album Once. During the concert the band was joined on-stage by John Two-Hawks, who performed "Stone People" from his album Honor as an introduction to "Creek Mary's Blood", which featured his voice and cedar flutes. End of an Era is the final Nightwish production to feature Tarja Turunen on vocals. She was dismissed by a letter after this concert. In addition to original Nightwish songs, three significant covers appear, their known cover of Gary Moore's "Over the Hills and Far Away", Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera", and a cover of Pink Floyd's "High Hopes". The running time of the concert is 1 hour and 43 minutes. It also contains a 55-minute documentary about the fifteen days prior to the concert, A Day Before Tomorrow, and a photo gallery.
Nightwish: End of an Era
2006 · 32 votes
Movie8.3MusicDelain 10th Anniversary Show and Live 1. Intro (The Monarch) 2. Hands of Gold (featuring Alissa White-Gluz) 3. Suckerpunch 4. The Glory and the Scum 5. Get the Devil Out of Me 6. Army of Dolls 7. The Hurricane 8. April Rain 9. Where Is The Blood (featuring Burton C. Bell) 10. Here Come the Vultures 11. Fire With Fire 12. The Tragedy of the Commons (featuring Alissa White-Gluz) 13. Danse Macabre 14. Sleepwalkers Dream (featuring Rob van der Loo, Sander Zoer, and Guus Eikens) 15. Your Body is a Battleground (featuring Marco Hietala – video) 16. Stay Forever 17. See Me In Shadow (featuring Liv Kristine and Elianne Anemaat) 18. The Gathering 19. Pristine (featuring George Oosthoek) 20. Mother Machine 21. Sing to Me (featuring Marco Hietala – video) 22. Don’t Let Go 23. We Are the Others DVD/Blu-Ray Bonus Content: 1. We Are the Others – A Decade of Delain documentary 2. “We Are the Others” – live at Masters of Rock 2015 3. “Suckerpunch” official music video
A Decade of Delain - Live at Paradiso
2017 · 6 votes
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TV6.2RealityFinnish version of The Best Singers series. Each week, one artist is chosen and the remaining artists perform covers of their songs and are judged by that artist.
Vain elämää
2012 · 4 votes
TV7.5DocumentaryKaamos is a five-part documentary series from the eras of Finnish metal music from the 1970s to the 2020s. Interviews with dozens of artists, bands and the main influencers of the heavy metal tribe open up the most significant milestones in metal music, behind-the-scenes events, wave bottoms and success stories for the first time to the general public.
Kaamos
2026 · 2 votes