Delengen ing ngisor iki lan banjur wangsulana pitakonan ing basa sing padha karo wacana:  Passage: Tuomas Holopainen, panulis lirik lan musik band kasebut, ujar manawa dheweke entuk inspirasi kanggo lagu Nightwish saka musik film. Lagu kaya "Beauty of the Beast" (saka Century Child), "Ghost Love Score" (saka Once) lan "The Poet and the Pendulum" (saka Dark Passion Play) minangka conto pengaruh iki. Holopainen uga ujar manawa musik film minangka musik sing dirungokake kanggo luang. Dheweke seneng, umpamane, skor musik kanggo The Village, Van Helsing, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe lan Crimson Tide, lan praktis kabeh sing ditulis dening Hans Zimmer. Lagu liyane, kayata "Bye Bye Beautiful" (saka Dark Passion Play), lan "Wish I Had an Angel" (saka Sepisan) duwe unsur metal industri, lan sawetara liyane, kayata "The Islander" lan "Last of the Wilds" (saka Dark Passion Play), "Creek Mary's Blood" (saka Sepisan), lan Angels Fall First album duwe unsur musik rakyat. Band-band sing diandharake minangka pengaruh ing Nightwish kalebu Children of Bodom, Theatre of Tragedy, The Gathering, My Dying Bride, Tiamat lan The 3rd and the Mortal. Nightwish uga wis dicathet minangka sumber inspirasi kanggo band liyane. Simone Simons, penyanyi utama saka band simfoni / gothic metal Walanda Epica, nyatakake yen dheweke wiwit nyanyi amarga album Oceanborn 1998 Nightwish. Sander Gommans saka After Forever kandha yèn Nightwish "mesthi duwé prabawa marang kita sajeroning nyiptakaké lagu-lagu anyar". Penyanyi utama band power metal Sonata Arctica Tony Kakko wis nerangake sepira pengaruh Nightwish tumrap dheweke. Ing wulan Desember 2015, Dave Everley saka Metal Hammer nggambarake dheweke minangka "band metal paling sukses ing daratan Eropa, menehi utawa njupuk Rammstein".  Pitakonan: Simone Simons iku tokoh utama kelompok apa?
Epica