How long have you been a fan?

I've been a fan since late 2006 so just over 2 years.

I've been a fan two and a half years

4 years

Lady Draconian wrote:

I've been a fan since late 2006 so just over 2 years.

Me too

a bit longer than 2 years.

3 or 4 years...

since i heard "the phantom of the opera", which is a looong long time ago

I've been fan since the year 1998.

Not a fan of the new singer at all, but Old Nightwish I got into them around Century Child release

2 years and a half.

About half a year... I know, I'm a musical n00b

I've known about them longer though, I think since Tayla let me listen to her MP3 back in year 9 (2 years ago) but I've only really been a fan since I looked them up on last.fm after seeing Ena's graphics.

Around a year and a half.

First time I bought a band-themed T-shirt(well, I don`t know how to explain it in other words), it was a Nightwish one, ofc, back in 2004. I used to love them at that moment, because they were enchanting.
I felt in love with Tarja at first, because she was mystical and oh-so-beautiful. My first true love was "Nemo" and my heart still skips a beat when I hear it. Well, whatever, now I don`t listen to Nightwish at all. I`ve listened to their "Dark Passion Play", but I don`t find it amazing or something. Just plain boring.

Just to tell that through Nightwish I discovered metal universe

I hear them for first time when I was 10 years old and I´m a fan 5 years ago

I've been a fan since 2000 with the release of Wishmaster. And it is still one of their best studio albums.

Something like 2 years.

Bit of a weird story for me. In 2002 a friend of mine kept sending me songs from Century Child (I think the first one was End Of All Hope). I kept trying to listen to them but I'd never heard metal or anything like Tarja's voice before and I found it really weird

So I totally forgot about them until someone lent me Dark Passion Play in 2007... and I was like WTF is this awesomeness? I loved it so much that I got someone to copy me their entire back catalogue (I'm in the process of buying the CDs now though ). Then I started to fall in love with Tarja's singing...

Now I prefer Tarja to Anette, but it was Anette who really got me into Nightwish. So I am grateful.

About since 2005 when I first heard Nemo.

I'm a fairly late fan. I became one in like mid 2008 when I was barely thirteen. But it took me a while. The first NW song I heard was Amaranth and I hated it. Then I tried Sleeping Sun and I also hated it. I also noticed the Anette vs. Tarja debate on youtube comments and I was confused...hating the idea of a change in singers and all of it, so I wanted nothing to do with Nightwish...lol.

Then, a few weeks later, I heard Dead Boy's Poem and I almost cried. Then, I gave the other songs a listen and I immediately liked all of it, trying out a few songs from itunes and loving all of it. I got used to the change in style from my norma music tastes. Having only one other symphonic metal band experience (WT was my first!) After a while, I loved all of the songs, and I grew to love Sleeping Sun and Amaranth, then I was hooked. Been hooked ever since.

11 years, I was introduced to them by my dad 3 months before Wishmaster came out.

Ethereal90 wrote:

About since 2005 when I first heard Nemo.

Same here. Say what you want about "Nemo" being too catchy, simplistic, etc, but I bet that it won many new fans for Nightwish.

I came into the Nightwish fandom at an awkward time. It was in 2006. After Tarja, but before Anette. So naturally I fell in love with Tarja's voice. Then Eva was released in 2007 and I listened to it on the internet. I was really confused by it because the voice was so different. I thought it was a very pretty song, but I wasn't entirely sure of my feelings on the new singer yet. Then DPP was released and I was still too much of a Tarja fan to be fair about it. I really liked Anette, but I still had that "no one can be better than Tarja" sense of mind. I kept listening and listening to the album and one day realized that I could sing through the entire album without lyrics. I couldn't say that about other Nightwish albums. Slowly I grew to love Anette more and more. Now she's pretty much my favorite singer ever. . .