Nightwish have never shied away from a good cover. According to setlist database setlist.fm, Finland’s symphonic metal maximalists have tried their hand at 20 across their decades-long career, tackling everyone from vintage metal mainstays like Ozzy Osbourne to native composer Jean Sibelius.
10 of those majestic reinterpretations have been officially released by the band, so – as Tuomas Holopainen et al gear up to release their next full-length opus – we thought it high time to look back and rank them. This is every Nightwish cover that’s ever made it onto an album, EP or single, listed from worst to best.
