Erno Matti Juhani Vuorinen

Erno "Emppu" Matti Juhani Vuorinen (born 24 June 1978 in Kitee, Finland) is a Finnish guitarist, mostly famous as one of the founding members, and partly song writer, of the symphonic power metal band Nightwish. He started to play guitar as a private study at the age of 12 and since then he has played in various bands including Nightwish, of which he is a founding member, Brother Firetribe, Almah(With Angra's frontman Edu Falaschi) and Altaria. E... more

Erno "Emppu" Matti Juhani Vuorinen (born 24 June 1978 in Kitee, Finland) is a Finnish guitarist, mostly famous as one of the founding members, and partly song writer, of the symphonic power metal band Nightwish. He started to play guitar as a private study at the age of 12 and since then he has played in various bands including Nightwish, of which he is a founding member, Brother Firetribe, Almah(With Angra's frontman Edu Falaschi) and Altaria. Emppu most often supports the keyboard or orchestral parts of Nightwish songs, Marco Hietala easing back to allow the higher pitched guitar of Emppu to take precedence. Vuorinen's solo techniques include short range tapping and minor to extreme whammy bar use for vibrato. His solos are usually more melodically oriented than in many other Heavy Metal bands, such as Children of Bodom, but he can also shred. Emppu is also the only member of Nightwish's current lineup never to have contributed any vocals. Vuorinen is also involved with a Brazilian... less