Season Of Mist's "The Islander" t-shirt is now also available from the Nightwish-Shop.

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We wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010!

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Season Of Mist have designed an exclusive "The Islander" T-shirt which is available only in France and through their own e-shop. This officially approved shirt "The Islander" was designed by artist Jérôme Cross.
You can order T-shirt here.

Anette Olzon will join the Finnish rock band THE RASMUS on stage this Friday, November 20 at The Dome 52 in Graz, Austria to perform THE RASMUS new single, "October & April". The concert will be broadcast on Germany's RTL 2 station on November 27.

U.K.s Terrorizer magazine recently conducted an interview with NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen. A few excerpts from the chat follows below.

Last time around you went into the new album with so much up in the air, who would be the vocalist on it being the biggest hurdle you had to get over. Does it feel like a different process this time around? Are you happier about heading back to the writing desk?
Tuomas: Much much happier, so much more light at the end of the tunnel. I have a very clear vision of the next album already, which feels really weird but I have all the song titles. I know how many songs there are going to be. I have four songs done already even though it's still pretty preliminary, the whole album, but I have a good idea what it's going to be like and uh, it's still going to be metal but I thinks it's going to be a bit brighter than "Dark Passion Play".

Brighter - more pop songs? No more long epic symphonic compositions? They must be a sod to write.
Tuomas: No, they come much easier for me. I remember "Creek Mary's Blood", that's eight-and-a-half minutes, that came out in two hours. "The Poet And The Pendulum" in just a couple of days, same thing with "Ghost Love Score", they just come up naturally, I don't know. But then again a song like "Nemo", I couldn't get it together. I worked for months and months and it's only four minutes.

That's surprising!
Tuomas: I guess. You need, to make a song which is only four minutes and make it interesting and timeless, that's the ultimate challenge. And ballads, also I think ballads are the hardest thing to do because to make a really genuinely touching slow song, which is not cheesy, that is incredibly hard. I think "Walking In The Air" is a good example of a perfect ballad, that's beautiful, I think the best song ever written, by Howard Blake, and it's not a bit cheesy.

Well it is, a little bit. Actually it was suprising last night when you played it live – we'd not heard that for years.
Tuomas: That was Annette's choice, she really loves the song and she just asked is there anyway we could do "Walking In The Air" acoustically in Hartwall? and I thought that's a really good idea, lets give it a try. And we tried it out and it was the highlight of the show for me last night.

You can find a full interviw here.

Nightwish is showing respect for Finnish singer/songwriter veteran Jaakko Teppo by recording his song "Hilma ja Onni" in Finnish. Jaakko Teppo is well known in Finland of his humorous protest songs associated with the labor movement. 15 years ago a serious illness forced Jaakko Teppo to withdraw from the stages. Today many of the brightest stars in Finland are honoring Jaakko Teppo's legacy for Finnish music culture by recording his songs on tribute album "Pörsänmäen Sanomat". Nightwish's rendition of "Hilma ja Onni" is available on iTunes & CDON.COM and the album "Pörsänmäen Sanomat – Tribuutti Jaakko Tepolle" can be ordered through www.fanzone/jaakkoteppo.

The profit of the sales is directed to Jaakko Teppo. Thank you for your support!

Nightwish will release Lokikirja-box on November 11th 2009. It will contain all their albums and with a box comes a nice booklet with pictures and lyrics.

Lokikirja-box contains albums:

• - Angels Fall First
• - Oceanborn
• - Wishmaster
• - Over The Hills And Far Away
• - Century Child
• - Bless The Child - The Rarities
• - Once
• - Dark Passion Play

Nightwish will return with a new album in 2011.

NIGHTWISH played a special homecoming show on Saturday (19.09.2009) at the sold-out, 11.000-capacity Hartwall Arena in Helsinki to mark the end of the band's colossal "Dark Passion Play" world tour. Support at the gig came from APOCALYPTICA.

NIGHTWISH's setlist:

01. Intro - Finlandia (w/ U.K. multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley)
02. 7 Days To The Wolves
03. Ever Dream
04. Wishmaster
05. Romanticide
06. Amaranth
07. The Siren (w/ Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto)
08. While Your Lips Are Still Red (w/ Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto)
09. Poet And The Pendulum
10. Nemo
11. Sahara
12. Dark Chest Of Wonders
13. The Islander
14. Walking In The Air (w/ U.K. multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley)
15. Last Of The Wilds (w/ U.K. multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley)
16. Meadows Of Heaven
17. Ghost Love Score
18. I Wish I Had An Angel
19. Outro - The Heart Asks Pleasure First

Anette Olzon performed on August 13, 2009 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra at a special concert in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the Stockholms Kulturfestival (Stockholm's Culture Festival). According to Anette, The evening was in the theme of Sweden-Finland and it was called Suomi Safari. There was a big symphonic orchestra, choir and more soloists that have something to do with Finland.

Kuolema tekee taiteilijan


Meadows Of Heaven

Skånes Dansteater returns to Malmö Opera in the autumn of 2009 with the new production BLACK SILK.

With 18 dancers and about 100 participants in the Opera orchestra and choir, this will be one of their biggest performances ever. The evening begins with the Asia-inspired piece HEART OF SILK choreographed by Pontus Lidberg and ends with a new choreography by Jorma Uotinen to Finnish heavy metal by the metal group NIGHTWISH, reorganized for the symphony orchestra.

Rehearsals are allready in full swing.

If you want a peak on the way, see their open rehearsals on the August 24th and on the September 14th 2009. The premiere of Black Silk is on the 10th of October 2009 at Malmö Opera. www.skanesdansteater.se

Please notice that this is not a NIGHTWISH show, but a dance spectacle with NIGHTWISH music.

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