New festival date confirmed: Rock Fest Barcelona on July 23-25th
"And….a BIG announcement regarding our North America tour will come on November the 10th…But we will keep it our little secret until that day!"
Message from Kai today: "On my way to a studio with Nightwish. Last few percussion parts to play. Album about to be recorded. Cheers!!"
'Two months of mixing 'till X-mas and mastering in mid January, then two months of promoting and distributing and everything will be ready in the end of March/beginning of April....'
A FINE DAY IN OXFORD RECORDING PROFESSOR RICHARD DAWKINS FOR THE UPCOMING ALBUM "
THE MIXING HAS BEGUN. ONE DOWN, 11 TO GO !
I translated the part dealing with those recordings (nothing new and interesting otherwise in that interview): How would you describe Floor's working in the studio compared to previous singers?Quite honestly, I have to say I haven't been there following former singer's recording sessions. This time the difference was that there were actually two singers present in the studio all the time. While the one was singing the other one was thinking behind the glass what kind of harmony could fit in with it. We took turns singing the vocal parts and after that we had a dialogue how we could make the songs even better. NW's characteristic has been alternating between female and male voices. What kind of a duet partner Floor was?All of us have our own kind of voices. Still we got our sounds fit well together. Though I have to admit that some of us are little louder than others, so we had to adjust our volume levels a little. All in all everything went really naturally and just as naturally I always had the lower voice and Floor had the higher one.That co-operation should be heard clearly on the album.
"Anyway,how would you compare this recording to the previous albums? Earlier NW records have become more bombastic album by album. Are you going to continue with this style or are you trying to 'slow' things down?"You can find calmer moments on this album but the fact is the bombast is the trademark of this band. And you'll certainly find epicness from this album. When we have discussed with each other we have found that this album is considerably more band oriented than before. Of course you can find choir and orchestra there but perhaps they serve the band playing slightly better than before.
NW just announced for M'era Luna festival
"Had a lovely email from Tuomas today. Mixing is going really well and can you believe, the epic closer has 430 tracks and 55 gig of files!!"
Marco wrote to Nightwish facebook page: This world is great. The injustice of political and religious regimes is the greatest shame we human beings have imposed on it and ourselves. After that has been said, me and my mate Tuomas Holopainen are simply grateful that my voice and his song were requested to be used and heard in this context. Thank you Amnesty InternationalMarco Hietala. Bassplayer and co-vocalist of Nightwish.
Nightwish will Headline Rock the Ring in Hinwil, Switzerland on Friday 19.06.2015
We are exited to announce that our very special guest on our North American tour in 2015 is Sabaton!!! This upcoming and award winning Swedish band will surely rock you off your socks and we are glad they team up with us and the Dutch metal heads from Delain. This promises to become a tour you don't want to miss!
