Symphonic metal is a musical genre that mixes classical music with metal music. Nightwish, a band from Finland, is one of the most recognized of the genre. Starting with its musical art works, this thesis questions, with a sociological approaches, the combinatorial dimension of its symphonic metal. References sources from different origins – symphonic metal has everything of an oxymoron – are assembled, maybe continued by Nightwish. From the collective elaboration of a band which models, by the individual peculiarities of its members, the art works it makes, to Nightwish' amateurs practices, by way of the influences of the band and its imaginary world, this thesis follows – in the art work process – the idea of continuation. From an actor of Nightwish' world to another, would musical art work not be a continued process, a resurrection, at each listening, of a mythic creature, made and remade, again and again?
