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Sorry for belated answer, found this thread today...

Originally Posted by Siberys

That would definitely be an influence. One of my ideas for this is that it's because we're still in a rock and roll era. A lot of Speed and Death Metal music doesn't appeal as much, but how often do you hear any sort of Hard Rock, Rock'n'Roll or heavy metal music on just your ordinary commercial, movie premere, or television show?

In my country, a lot. Basically, thanks to Nightwish, many of Finnish documents now has songs from Nightwish as their theme/background music. This goes even as far as fashion shows, as I know at least three different local fashion shows which used Nw's music as background music...