Context [Nightwish](https://nightwish.com/) is a symphonic power metal band from Finland and one of the biggest names in the European metal scene. Since 1996, they have released 9 studio albums and numerous singles, EP's, and live albums. The most recent album *Human. :II: Nature.* just came out this April. Throughout their career, Nightwish has explored many different themes, ranging from love and sorrow to science and nature. It might be super interesting to look at how the lyrical themes of Nightwish have evolved over the past 24 years. I scraped all the lyrics of Nightwish from the metal lyrics archive [Dark Lyrics](http://www.darklyrics.com/) using GitHub user medakk's [script](https://github.com/medakk/darklyrics-scraper). Content The raw data scraped from Dark Lyrics is stored in a plain text file (nightwish\_lyrics.txt). To increase data usability, I extracted the following information and stored it in a CSV file (nightwish_lyrics.csv): - **lyric:** Each row is one line of lyric - **album_title:** The title of the album in which the lyric was from - **year**: The year in which the album was released - **track_title:** The title of the corresponding song track - **track_number:** The track number of the song in an album You can use the cleaned CSV file or start from the plain text file and do your own text mining! Inspiration I was inspired by the [Taylor Swift lyrics dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/PromptCloudHQ/taylor-swift-song-lyrics-from-all-the-albums) and thought we could perform [similar analyses](https://news.codecademy.com/taylor-swift-lyrics-machine-learning/) on Nightwish. Some example questions to explore: 1. What are the most common themes (or topics) in Nightwish's lyrics? 2. How have Nightwish's lyrical themes changed over the years? 3. Which songs/albums are most similar/dissimilar to one another? 4. Can you predict the Nightwish album based on lyrics? 5. Can you generate new lyrics in the style of Nightwish?