The official web site of NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen has posted a one-hour audio interview with the band's orchestral collaborator, Pip Williams, conducted on September 3 in London, England. All the questions were taken from the site's official forum where members posted their questions. NIGHTWISH will release its new album, "Imaginaerum", in Finland ...
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Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH will release their new album, "Imaginaerum", in Finland on Wednesday, November 30 and the rest of Europe on Friday, December 2 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD will be made available in North America through Roadrunner Records. "Imaginaerum" track listing: 01. Taikatalvi 02. Storytime 03. Ghost River 04. Slow, Love, Slow ...
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Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have released a mobile app called Nightwish: Mobile Backstage which allows the band to create a digital fan club and gives it the tools to reach the group's fans "real fast and easy!" At the moment, the app is available for iPhone only, but it will be released through ...
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"Storytime", the new single from Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH, will be released on Friday, November 11 via Nuclear Blast Records. In order to "avoid mix-ups" with various things named "Imaginarium", the title of NIGHTWISH's upcoming album and movie has been changed to "Imaginaerum". The "Imaginaerum" track listing and audio samples of all the songs that ...
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Bassist Johan Husgafvel of Swedish industrial metallers PAIN will sit out the band's upcoming European headlining tour for "family" reasons. His temporary replacement will be Andre Skaug (CLAWFINGER), who previously toured with PAIN in 2007. Commented Johan: "The forthcoming PAIN tour is just about to start and I'm completely sure that all of the shows ...
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A number of hard rock and heavy metal musicians have posted comments regarding the reports that Norway had been rocked by a two-act tragedy first a downtown Oslo explosion, then a shooting at a youth camp resulting in more than 90 deaths. Some of the messages follow below. Matt Sorum (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS ...
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NIGHTWISH frontwoman Anette Olzon has uploaded the demo recording that she sent to the band in November 2005 which led to her being hired to replace Tarja Turunen as the Finnish group's lead singer. The track, her version of the 2002 NIGHTWISH single "Ever Dream" (from 2002's "Century Child" album), can be streamed below. Around ...
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NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon has launched a MySpace page where she has posted two demo tracks that she recorded in 2009 for what was supposed to become her debut solo album. She says, "The songs are not mixed or produced, just recorded in the moment, and therefore are very rough songs. But I ...
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Singer Anette Olzon's pre-NIGHTWISH band, the Swedish AOR act ALYSON AVENUE, will release its third album, "Changes", on June 19 through the group's own label Avenue of Allies. The CD was co-produced by Chris Laney (real name: Ulf Larsson), who has previously worked with H.E.A.T., CRAZY LIXX and BRIAN ROBERTSON, among others. Guest musicians on ...
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NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon recently completed tracking all the vocal parts for the band's new album, "Imaginarium" at Finnvox studios in Pitjnmki, Helsinki, Finland. Olzon was forced to delay the start of her recording sessions for "Imaginarium" because she needed a longer recovery period after she suffered broken ribs in a fall. The band's keyboardist ...
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Genelec, the Finnish manufacturer of high-quality active home theater loudspeaker systems, visited Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH during the recording sessions for their long-awaited new album, "Imaginarium", at Petrax studios in Finland with world-renowned mixing engineer Mikko Karmila. The eight-minute clip, which can be seen below, features keyboardist/mainman Tuomas Holopainen and bassist/vocalist Marco Hietala talking about ...
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NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon recently completed tracking all the vocal parts for the band's new album, "Imaginarium", and the mixing sessions for the CD began on April 13. Olzon was forced to delay the start of her recording sessions for "Imaginarium" because she needed a longer recovery period after she suffered broken ribs in a ...
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NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon has decided to push back the tentative release date of her debut solo album to after the band has completed touring in support of its new studio album, "Imaginarium". "I had planned to release my solo album now when we have had a break from NIGHTWISH," Olzon writes on her official ...
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According to a post on NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon's official blog, she has completed tracking all the vocal parts for the band's new album, "Imaginarium", and the mixing sessions for the CD are scheduled to begin today (Wednesday, April 13). Olzon was forced to delay the start of her recording sessions for "Imaginarium" because she ...
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The vocal recording sessions for the new NIGHTWISH album, "Imaginarium", finally began on April 4 after being postponed for a few weeks in order to allow the band's singer, Anette Olzon, a longer recovery period after she suffered broken ribs in a fall. According to the band's keyboardist and main composer Tuomas Holopainen, "seven songs ...
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The vocal recording sessions for the new NIGHTWISH album, "Imaginarium", finally began on April 4 after being postponed for a few weeks in order to allow the band's singer, Anette Olzon, a longer recovery period after she suffered broken ribs in a fall. Check out photos from the studio at Olzon's official blog. ...
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An audio sample of "Kråkevisa", a new song from LEAVES' EYES — the German/Norwegian band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY — is available for streaming at this location. The track comes off LEAVES' EYES' new album, "Meredead", which will be released on April 22 ...
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The first in a series of trailers for "You Only Live Twice", the seventh album from PAIN, the Swedish industrial metal outfit led by musician and producer Peter Tägtgren, can be viewed below. The CD will be released on June 3 via Nuclear Blast Records. "You Only Live Twice" final track listing: 01. Let Me ...
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The vocal recording sessions for the new NIGHTWISH album, "Imaginarium", were recently postponed until April 4 in order to allow the band's singer, Anette Olzon, a longer recovery period after she suffered broken ribs in a fall. In a new posting on her blog, she states about her condition, "Well, it still hurts and I ...
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PAIN, the Swedish industrial metal outfit led by musician and producer Peter Tägtgren, will release its seventh album, "You Only Live Twice", on June 3 via Nuclear Blast Records. "You Only Live Twice" final track listing: 01. Let Me Out 02. Feed The Demons 03. The Great Pretender 04. You Only Live Twice 05. Dirty ...
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Swedish industrial metal outfit PAIN, the solo project of musician and producer Peter Tägtgren, will release its seventh album, "You Only Live Twice", on June 3 via Nuclear Blast Records. Commented Tägtgren: "[The title] has nothing to do with James Bond. I am sure i will hear this for the rest of my life! The ...
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Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH will kick off the "Imaginarium" world tour in Los Angeles. The very first show of the trek will take place at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California on Saturday, January 21. This will be the biggest NIGHTWISH show production ever on North American soil and strictly a one-off — there ...
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The vocal recording sessions for the new NIGHTWISH album, "Imaginarium", have been postponed until April 4 in order to allow the band's singer, Anette Olzon, a longer recovery period after she suffered broken ribs in a recent fall. She writes on her blog, "me, [NIGHTWISH manager Ewo Pohjola of King Foo Entertainment Ltd.] and [NIGHTWISH ...
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Kaaos TV conducted a video interview with PAIN/HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren on February 18 at Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki, Finland. When asked how PAIN's forthcoming album, which is tentatively titled "You Only Live Twice", compares to the group's previous releases, Peter said, "It's definitely got more variety, and it's heavier and darker... I just ...
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Swedish metallers PAIN, who are led by HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren, will release their as-yet-untitled new album on June 3 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2008's "Cynic Paradise" was recently described by NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon — who also happens to be the girlfriend of PAIN bassist Johan Husgafvel — as "more aggressive" ...
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NIGHTWISH mainman Tuomas Holopainen has revealed more details about the band's upcoming "Imaginarium" album and movie project exclusively to Petri Silas of Finland's Soundi magazine. In an interview that was conducted on February 13, just prior to Tuomas flying over to London to oversee the recording of the album's orchestral parts and choir sections, Holopainen ...
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Singer Anette Olzon of Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH will enter the studio in March to begin laying down her vocals for the band's next album, "Imaginarium". Writing on her official blog, Anette states, "Just got an e-mail from [NIGHTWISH keyboardist and main songwriter Tuomas Holopainen] from [the studio in] London [where he is overseeing the ...
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Rare footage of former NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen singing a cover version of the song "Ben" by Michael Jackson accompanied by her first music teacher Plamen Dimov on the piano can be viewed below (courtesy of Anette Olzon Central). The clip was apprently filmed in 1994 when Tarja was just 17 years old. ...
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In the midst of recording a new album, Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have been preparing a movie. "Imaginarium" is a music fantasy film based on the forthcoming NIGHTWISH album of the same title and its 13 songs. The protagonist of the film is a songwriter with an otherworldly imagination. He is an old man who ...
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Swedish metallers PAIN, who are led by HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren, are working on the follow-up to 2008's "Cynic Paradise". NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon, who also happens to be the girlfriend of PAIN bassist Johan Husgafvel, writes on her official blog that Tägtgren is putting the finishing touches on the new CD this ...
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