Nightwish

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Floor ya está ensayando!!!

http://instagram.com/p/qOG49xOGqG/

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Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB1IrA8FwrY

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First show on the 5th of June!!.

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Todos juntos!!

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Pip Williams

July 13th: "Stuck in to writing scores for Nightwish's 8th album. Recording the orchestra and choirs in October at Angel Studios. Can't wait!!"

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NW-band camp going on. Playing, rehearsing, recording, swimming, celebrating, enjoying the Finnish summer and Troy's magical tricks. Jukka was on duty so missing from the photo. I could have played all the drum parts but they didn't ask."

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Episodio 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIhsFClj0U4

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Nightwish are proud to announce our newly-inked North American deal for the U.S. and Canada via Nuclear Blast Entertainment.

The band’s as-yet-untitled eighth studio album will be the first to feature new Dutch vocalist Floor Jansen, who has toured with the band since October 2012.

Expanding the territory of NIGHTWISH’s initial European collaboration with Nuclear Blast‘s HQ in Germany since 2004’s Once album, NBE President and A&R Chief Monte Conner looks forward to the growth of the band’s new line-up:

“It was a pleasure to work with NIGHTWISH at my former label, but now in my new capacity at NBE, I will be more directly involved with the band than ever before. I would like to thank NIGHTWISH and their management for their continued faith in and loyalty to me. I am particularly excited at the prospect of hearing Floor Jansen’s debut studio recording with the band. Her performance on last year’s live release Showtime, Storytime completely blew me away and proved why she is the PERFECT singer for NIGHTWISH.”

NIGHTWISH’s long-time co-manager Ewo Pohjola of King Foo Entertainment adds the following:

“Having Monte Conner now back with NIGHTWISH in North America makes us all really happy. And with Nuclear Blast we have always felt at home since Day One.”

Recordings of the new NIGHTWISH material are slated begin this summer. Band members have already spent time in the wilderness of Hattula, Finland working on new song demos with producer Tero “TeeCee” Kinnumen.

“It’s proven to be a very effective arrangement,” states song composer & keyboard player Tuomas Holopainen. “We have our peace here, in the middle of nature. We can concentrate 24/7.”

“There’s stuff that sounds excellent already and stuff that clearly needs some work still,” adds bassist & vocalist Marco Hietala. “We have such a strong belief in the end result that we know if will work like alchemy: ScheiíŸe [shit] will turn to gold.”

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Jukka deja la banda temporalmente!!

For a number of years, I have suffered from occasional but very difficult insomnia, something that has been my unwanted companion during many of our tours, too. I’ve done my best to try to control it or at least to cope with it. Still, we don’t even really know why we need sleep, so unfortunately there’s not much information available on why some of us suffer from sleeplessness. There is no 100% cure for the problem.
During the last month, it has become evident for me that due to my insomnia, I can’t fulfill my duties as a musician in the way that I’d want and with the precision that the music deserves. Thus I have decided to step aside from my duties as the drummer of Nightwish during the recording of the forthcoming album and the subsequent tour. I will still be involved in managing the day-to-day affairs of the band, but the dearest and the most important thing, playing, is, for the time being, not possible. Time will tell what the future holds.

On a personal level, my decision obviously feels indescribably sad. Fortunately, looking at it with some distance, it is “just” part of the constant, inevitable ebb and flow of life. The sad things are part of it as well as the beautiful, unforgettable experiences and adventures that I’ve already had the pleasure to experience in spades. Surely, there will still be many adventures ahead, too.

My good friend Kai Hahto will play drums on the forthcoming album. I’m extremely grateful that he didn’t hesitate for a minute when he decided to help us in this challenging situation. What comes to touring, everything is still open, but we will let you know as soon possible what the line-up will be.

If beginning this was hard, so is ending it. So maybe I will just quote something fitting.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot losesomething that you are.”― Eckhart Tolle
Best regards, Jukka Nevalainen / Nightwish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7TJcuuYgQ&

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El sustituto!!

Kai Hahto (nacido el 1 de enero 1973 en Vaasa, Finlandia) es un profesor de baterí­a, baterista de la banda de Death Metal Wintersun, y miembro fundador de la banda de Grindcore Rotten Sound. Aparte de esto, ha tocado en muchas otras bandas, cuyos estilos varí­an desde el Black metal al Jazz.

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Troy was in North Yorkshire when his friend Jukka recorded his video statement, but says..
"Although I was deeply despondent at the prospect of us doing ANYTHING without our beloved Jukka, he has cheered me up with his selfless and optimistic approach to this awful situation. He will 'fix' himself soon, and I know he will return in triumph to his rightful place as the engine driver of this wondrous Nightwish vehicle. So, lets give a big round of applause to our very brilliant friend Kai who is stepping in to keep things alive and moving forward..."

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Kai Hahto gave an interview to Pohjalainen newspaper where he revealed that the last song of the upcoming album is almost 30 minutes long. Hahto wrote the music/notes for the drum parts and will stand in for Jukka for a year and a half, so album recordings and the following tour as well.

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Kai Hahto, drummer hailing from Vaasa, stepped out of a train from Kitee around 5 pm last Monday.

Now the plan for him is to substitute for the drummer of Nightwish, the metal band enjoying worldwide fame.
He has been furiously writing down sheet music until Wednesday night.
His task is to learn by heart Nightwish’s upcoming album and play the drum parts for it in a studio located in Kitee woods.

Hahto will be substituting for the next year and a half Nightwish’s original drummer and his friend Jukka Nevalainen.

No drama was involved in the change of line-up.

Nevalainen is stepping aside due to insomnia problems that have been going on for a long time.

Hahto’s job is not exactly an easy one. At the time of the interview, he had managed to write most of the drum parts.
“It would be easier if Nightwish played simple three-cord rock, but the songs are all in all very demanding.”

The last track of the upcoming album is nearly half an hour long. Hahto is thanking his creator for having at some point learned to write sheet music for drums.

“Tuomas has after all quite a precise vision of what the album should sound like,” he says, referring to the band’s guitarist (sic) Tuomas Holopainen.

Hahto already knew the band members.

Having worked as a drum technician for Nevalainen, Hahto was aware that if Nevalainen for some reason or another would have to excuse himself, it would be him that steps up.

“After all, no one is being replaced here. I’m just substituting for him.”
According to Hahto, the band has welcomed him with open arms.
There are no pressures even though the London symphony orchestra is booked to play the background score for the album in the autumn.

Nightwish’s tour slated to start next year will take the drummer from Vaasa across the globe.

“You never imagine doing something like this. Luckily my wife told me to go because jobs like this only come once in a lifetime,” says Hahto.
His wife and children will be staying home in Vaasa.

However, the tour schedule has been arranged so that Hahto and other band members with families are able to see their kids often.
 

Nightwish line-up changes

The band was founded in Kitee in 1996. Jukka Nevalainen joined the band a year later, after which the band changed its style from acoustic to an electrically amplified sound.

Permanent line-up changes have also taken place along the band’s career. In 2006 Anette Olzon was hired as the vocalist due to a falling out between Tarja Turunen and Tuomas Holopainen. Since last autumn the vocalist is Floor Jansen from Holland.

Kai Hahto has worked as Nightwish’s drum technician and knew that in an emergency he would be the first choice to substitute for Jukka Nevalainen.

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Pip Williams on Twitter August 10th: "3rd Nightwish score is in stark contrast to the first two songs. Very slow and dark, with an amazingly infectious main melody!" "An assortment of exotic percussion will feature on this, plus an opportunity to bring out the awesome contra-bassoon!" "Troy will put his stamp on this one too- well he does on everything he touches, but this song is tailor made for his unique talents!"
 

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While NIGHTWISH are currently working on their upcoming new studio album, fans can enjoy a series of five special clips, with impressions of the »Imaginaerum« world-tour.
Today marks the start with an impressive clip for the NIGHTWISH classic 'Planet Hell'."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRJ_csyXosU