News taken from Tuomas' Website and Facebook
14.5.2014. // Demo Update
A big hello from Hattula, Finland. Tero ("TeeCee" Kinnunen) and I have been here for the past 2,5 weeks recording a demo of the new Nightwish songs. It has come together beautifully and we now have a total of 12 songs to work with. We are all very eager to finally get together and start the rehearsals in July. If everything goes as scheduled, we should have the ready album in our hands by the end of January 2015. It`s still too early to analyze the material more closely, but the album will once again explore all the ends of the spectrum, bringing the very best out of the newcomers Floor and Troy. And stealthily the album ended up having a theme running through it. Excited beyond words now! Best wishes to you all,
Tuomas
12.8.2014. // Studio & Drum Update
Hello all!
The drum recordings will begin in about a week so time to build up the studio! The four days we`ve rehearsed with Kai so far have been very productive, so it looks like we`re going to be able to stick to the original schedule. He`s a phenomenal musician and a wonderful person so we will definitely manage! We miss our Jukka dearly, though.
Best wishes to you all,
-Tuomas
16.11.2014.
Music video shooting today.. things are progressing
Looking forward to the new album? Planning to go see a show?
We know we are
-Tuomas's web team
16.12.2014. // Final day of mixing...for 2014 anyway
..We have just finished the second round of mixing, so all the songs are now appr. 95% done. A bit more fine tuning and we should have The Giant ready by mid-January.
Read more about the new album in our latest interview with Tuomas.
4.1.2015. // THE VERY LAST DAY OF MIXING
Happy & finished!
(Tero will be able to light his fireplace for the whole winter with his notes for mixing the last song of the album)
A massive thank you for Mikko and Tero, brilliant job, as always!
Onto Mika`s (Jussila, the mastering engineer) lair next…
Cheers!
Tuomas
15.1.2015.
Mastering complete!
Time to celebrate.
7.2.2015.
Warmest greetings everyone,
Some of us like to stay neutral on issues concerning internet/Facebook, but I feel it only proper to remark on a quite remarkable situation. I saw that our first single "Èlan" was leaked on the internet today, and I was quite baffled by some of the reactions I read. I was then asked to make a short statement, and the following is what I feel about the issue.
The leaking of a full album, or just a single song in advance, is a huge blow to the wonderful mystery which is surrounding the impending release of our new music. We have deliberately cultivated this so as to give our fans an event; a (hopefully) powerful surprise. The passionate posts on the bands Facebook page (which were done in the heat of the moment) were no doubt a honest reaction to the disappointment in someone deliberately spoiling a part of these efforts. To suggest that the band or the record label would do this on purpose is very "conspiracy theory" and simply not true. The very thing we care about most is the music on the album, and the impact it will have on people.
With that in mind, do try to avoid listening to this "leak" and any others for that matter. Just wait to hear it as it is supposed to be - a labour of love, the fruit of dedicated hard work and of the highest quality.
The way we would wish to experience it ourselves.
Yours Sincerely,
-Tuomas
26.3.2015.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
-Charles Darwin