meh, Each to there own. i prefer NightWish metal/classical merging to the majority of classical or metal now a days. most metal nowadays is 3 chord tosh, and most classical nowadays just plods along 4 hours or trys to be too commerical and pop-like. thats just my opinion anyway. i mean blind guardian and iced earth r ok but it does get very samey imho. maybe i just feel a female vocalist adds so much to the music.

"Keyboards are nice, but it's nothing like the real thing.
Like look at the album Auferstehung by Janus.
They used a 45-50person orchestra for that album and it could never sound as good with a keyboard."

as i said, there new albulm uses an orchestra, not just keyboards. though i,ll check out Janus.

but i like what i like. e.g i feel Lacuna coil pale in comparison to Evanescence, not the other way round.

still u put on Fortuna Imperatix Mundi , and then u realise all the above sucks in comparison.