Nuclear Blast is a record label founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Initially distributing to

music hardcore punk , it began to publish albums of bands of death metal , grindcore , etc and especially

power metal. The head office is in Donzdorf ( Göppingen ) .

• Nightwish is a symphonic power metal band from Finland , formed in 1996.

• Its members are : Floor Jansen (vocals), Marco Hietala (bass ) , Emppu Vuorinen ( guitar) , Tuomas Holopainen ( keyboard ) , Jukka Nevalainen (Drums) and Troy Donockley ( bagpipes, flutes)

• Among his albums we can include: Wishmaster , Century Child , Imaginaereum

• Threshold is a group of English progressive metal, formed in 1988 .

• Its members are : Damian Wilson (vocals) , Karl Groom (lead guitar), Steve Anderson (bass) , Richard West ( keyboards) and Johanne James (drums)

• Among his albums are : Hypothetical , Critical Mass , Subsurface

• Avantasia is a power metal supergroup influenced opera , composed in 2000 in Fulda , Germany. The name of this project is a mixture of two words: Avalon and Fantasy and " describes a world beyond human imagination" .

• Its members are: Tobias Sammet , Sascha Paeth , Felix Bonhke and Michael " Miro " Rodenberg

• The albums that we highlight are: The Scarecrow , The Wicked Symphony and Angel Of Babylon