Fugazi

Pretty impressive stuff. 👀

But also an upcoming album: We are proud to announce our upcoming album “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜” Out 𝙁𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙮 3 via @napalmrecordsofficial Pre-Orders have started, you can check the link in our bio! This might be the biggest album we ever made… More epic, more filmscore, more powerful and heavy and more diverse than ever! We wanted to combine everything that has made up the musical journey of Xandria so far and bringing some new elements as well. TRACKLIST: 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝘽𝙚 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙄´𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙮 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙄𝙨 𝙈𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙄𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙄𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙉𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝘼𝙨𝙩é𝙧𝙞𝙖 https://www.xandria.de/

A new single, Ghosts: Music by Marco Heubaum, lyrics by Ambre Vourvahis Produced by Marco Heubaum Vocals recorded and co-produced by Julian Breucker at Sawdust Studios Orchestral arrangements and sound design by Lukas Knoebl Choir performed by Sofia Session Orchestra & Choir Mixed & Mastered by Jacob Hansen Video by AVA Studios, concept by Ambre Vourvahis, Anja Molendjik and Oliver Sommer Makeup and hair by Dorothea Eisel "Ghosts actually started as a reminiscence to good old Swedish meldodic death metal and with that archetypical guitar riff that you hear right in the beginning. And then we integrated it into our Xandria soundscape with lots of film score atmosphere and big choirs, because it was exciting to mix these elements and do our own thing with it (still we kept the working title "Swedish Fire" for a long time...). It is a good example for how diverse the new album will be and how many different influences we were putting into it. We had a lot of things - little musical dreams - in our minds and hearts that we wanted to realize, and along with what you already heard in the first two new songs this is just one of them. There will be quite some more surprises coming..."

Welcome to the forums! I hope you find a buyer for your tickets. 👍 I'm curious, since you have discovered Nightwish during the pandemic, how did it happen for you? Did you hear/see them on YouTube, or some other social media? Was it in a brick-and-mortar music store, if that's is still a thing in the UK? 😁

Aye, this album is something else altogether... sort of weird and wonderful, in a transition state between where Nightwish started (acoustic fireplace stuff) and where they would end up very shortly (fast-paced metal) and kind of uneven because their musical and lyrical and arranging abilities were evolving so fast, almost from song to song. A few of the songs haven't aged so well IMO, but unfortunately those are the ones they chose to play during the Decades tour lol! 😁 On one hand I wonder what some of the other songs would sound like with a different singer and a modern production, but I don't think that many of them would actually make sense for modern Nightwish. 'Once Upon A Troubadour' with Floor and Troy? I think they wasted an opportunity to sing it at the Islander Arms! 'Astral Romance' and 'Beauty And The Beast' might be good candidates for a live comeback... but I'm not holding my breath. 'Nymphomaniac Fantasy' ? No singer, not even Troy would accept to sing these lyrics ever again while keeping a straight face! 🤣

I just found out about this voice teacher reacting to both Nightwish and Floor, she's a breath of fresh air. The Vocalyst GLS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZDWE_lIPLc The Phantom Of The Opera (Beste Zangers) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFOsPfdPPhI Mio Bambino Caro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaNCsBgTCGc Storytime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZarE0Sr-Fw Sancta Terra (Epica) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubx8kUzzcl4 Ever Dream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np2aVzqcQIk The Phantom Of The Opera (Tarja) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCe7wkx78s

Another show announcement! https://70000tons.com/home/ Don’t you ever dream of sailing through the pristine Caribbean Sea alongside 3,000 headbangers from around the world watching your favorite metal bands? Finnish symphonic legends, NIGHTWISH, will grace the stage twice on board Round 11 of 70000 TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, once on our journey towards beautiful Bimini and once on the way back. This is only the first of 60 world class artists that will join us next year! This journey we will embark on will be “I”ndelible, forever etched in the history books of Heavy Metal! Round 11 of 70000 TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise will sail from Miami, Florida to Bimini, The Bahamas and back on board the Freedom of the Seas from January 30th to February 3rd, 2023! ---- This will be the second time Nightwish play at 70000 Tons Of Metal, the first time going back to January 2012 with Anette. Of course since they perform twice during one cruise, these will actually be their third and fourth shows at that festival.

A few updates: And:

Welcome to the forums Martin, and thanks for your thoughts for Floor. I think the news came as a shock to all of us. I'm especially impressed at Floor keeping a smile on and carrying on through the Latin America tour, knowing that she had this condition and that a surgery would be required ASAP. Last year it was the gallbladder, now breast cancer... Floor can't catch a break! 🥺

Indeed, the setlist was static for the whole Latin America tour. They might change things up a bit next month back in Europe! The latest playlists: Mexico - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaX-JP-lohRVRnj5vDIvqG_xEnes-_k5G Guadalajara - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaX-JP-lohRWQowFnRBRqgXm9oD9k7fgw

Can't say I really know them, but I did hear Hard Rock Hallelujah before. They managed to succeed where Nightwish failed -- winning the ESC! It's pretty crazy to think that this song won, in comparison 'Sleepwalker' was so mild! 😄

Tarja talks about her new song 'Eye Of The Storm' in the first of a series of retrospective videos that she's posting on YouTube.

Scary news from Floor. 😔 Wishing her the speediest recovery and no further bad news down the road. --- A letter to you, Life comes in waves, with ups and downs. I have had the joy of riding many highs, and I have shared these with you through social media and the many many shows worldwide throughout the many years of my career. But now a new wave hit me. Not a good one. I have breast cancer. It was diagnosed a little over 2 weeks ago and I will have surgery tomorrow to remove the tumor. My prognosis is very good!!! It seems to be a non-aggressive cancer, which seems to not have spread. I will keep my breast. And I will be cancer free after this surgery, plus a local radiation treatment that will take place three months after this surgery, hopefully. We will know more after the surgery to see if this positive prognosis stands. The word cancer is a shocker. All that you found important in life before this diagnosis changes radically within minutes. Now I just want to be healthy again. I want to see my daughter grow into a woman; I want to live! And the scariest part of this diagnosis is that I thought I was healthy! I didn’t feel the cancer, I didn’t know it was there until I, as a 40+ woman, went to a standard mammogram checkup. Something many countries offer, for free even for the lucky ones. Had I not gone there, the tumor would have gone undetected. In a year from now this could have grown much bigger. The thought of that makes me share this story with you. A mammogram is lifesaving! It’s uncomfortable and you might think that you won’t have something in your breasts anyway but GO! And for the men reading this: remind your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister to go and get checked. Even without the luxury I as a western woman experience with free mammogram checkups: GO! If I might inspire you to take good care of yourself, then something good will come out of this cancer diagnosis. If all goes as planned, I will be up and running in time for the European tour with Nightwish, that will start on the 20th of November! And I am optimistic since my prognosis is good! I promise to take good care of myself. I will be off the grid for a while to focus on myself. Thank you for reading this letter. https://www.facebook.com/floorjansen.singer/posts/pfbid0QCBMr9NgcrX4BS6BFxfnsjWDjorrUR3fKhTAgY2Ap3vyxwZkTmUAADMGPFJcoHyul

Lots of guests, but not Floor: https://www.facebook.com/ArjenLucassenOfficial/posts/pfbid03CNpkxgiXjELpVb6mcuER2uW2Jr6N8RbDbEV23Ks9gByYF59EW9nh3si5H3pTLLal Arjen: "I’m extremely happy with the singers that we managed to get for the 01011001 shows, what a cast! It’s always a big challenge to enlist all the singers for the live shows so far in advance, because so many of them are mega successful and therefore really busy. So... if your favourite singer isn’t there, PLEASE know that I did the best I could, but some simply aren’t available. Always to their own regret. I’m sure you agree that we have no less than 19 amazing singers here (apart from that hippie-dude), already proud of them!" Check our website for more information and news: https://www.ayreon.com/live Original 01011001 cast: Hansi Kursch (TBC) Tom Englund Daniel Gildenlow Jonas Renkse Anneke van Giersbergen Simone Simons Wudstik Marjan Welman Liselotte Hegt Maggy Luyten Phideaux Xavier Arjen Lucassen (yeah, sorry for that) Special guests: Damian Wilson Brittney Slayes Micheal Mills John Jaycee Cuijpers Backing vocals: Marcela Bovio Irene Jansen Jan Willem Ketelaers Band: Marcel Coenen - guitar Timo Somers - guitar Johan van Stratum - bass Joost van den Broek - keys Ed Warby - drums Ensemble: Ben Mathot - violin Jurriaan Westerveld - cello Jeroen Goossens - woodwinds

After knitting some merchandise for the crowdfunding of Eye Of Melian, this time Johanna sees big with the launch of the Auriwear brand! 👀 https://www.facebook.com/auriwearboutique AURIWEAR - Unique fantasy inspired knits and accessories handmade by Johanna Kurkela. Webshop opening November 11th 2022! Some posts from the brand's Facebook page: CHAPTER 1 - When I was little, my grandmother Kerttu taught me how to knit and read stories to me. Ever since then, I’ve found solace in both: knitting and fantasy. Now, looking back, I guess it was only a matter of time before those two dear worlds would amalgamate into Auriwear… CHAPTER 2 - The idea of Mary Poppins has always fascinated me. To fill a void and provide a thing still missing from the world, be it in the form of music, puzzles, or now, soon to be opening Auriwear boutique. I've always been tempted to choose the road less traveled by and find out where it leads. On and off, I've been knitting pretty much all my life. Mostly for my own amusement, but often also gifting friends and family with my creations. Still, it wasn't until my band Auri started taking form that the idea of fantasy inspired knits finally sparked, thanks to one approaching photo shoot and a videogame called Skyrim....

Phantom Of The Opera was voted as the best performance of all 15 seasons of Beste Zangers by the Dutch viewers. https://www.avrotros.nl/beste-zangers/gemist/detail/beste-nummer-van-vijftien-seizoenen-beste-zangers/

The other song Floor sings on the new Avantasia creation has now been released: Kill The Pain Away.

Tarja announced today the release of a best-of album, and of a new song. But today is also significant because it's 'Open Letter Day', the very day 17 years ago when Tarja was shown the door after the legendary Hartwall show. More on that here. “Best of: Living The Dream” and new song “Eye Of The Storm” available today http://tarjaturunen.com/best-of-living-the-dream-and-new-song-eye-of-the-storm-available-today/ Tarja has chosen this moment in her life to release her first-ever “Best Of: Living The Dream”. Looking back on 15 extremely successful years of the Finnish singer’s solo career, the Best Of contains not only Tarja’s most well-known tracks, many of them newly remastered at “Sterling Sound”, and personal favorites from all six studio albums – ‘My Winter Storm’, ‘What Lies Beneath’, ‘Colours in the Dark’, ‘The Brightest Void’, ‘The Shadow Self’ and ‘In the Raw’ – but also the never-before-heard song “Eye Of The Storm”. “After all these years, I still really can’t believe it’s time for me to release a proper Best Of album,” Tarja says. “So many beautiful moments, unbelievable. It has been a dream to put together this collection. And I really hope that you will enjoy this as much as I did while making it.” The compilation hand-picked by Tarja herself, will be released on December 2nd, 2022 on earMUSIC in a wide variety of formats. Each featuring exclusive rarities and/or the previously unreleased 2 hour “Circus Life” concert, eagerly awaited by fans, as well as upgraded versions of Tarja’s music videos. Rounded out by high-quality artwork, deluxe liner notes and many formats to choose from, this collection is a delight for casual fans as well as superfans. Today also marks the release of Tarja’s previously unreleased single “Eye Of The Storm”. The brand-new song unites Tarja ́s trademark sound to a powerful, emotional anthem: “It was the right time to finally release this song. It has a very deep feeling of closure in it. It’s been influenced by two very important countries in my life, Finland and Argentina. It’s an internal battle inside of me. Because at that time in life, I was really searching for my place in this world, where I belong as a person, as an individual,” Tarja explains. “Best Of: Living The Dream” will be released on 1CD Jewelcase, Ltd. 2CD+Blu-ray Mediabook, 2LP (Gatefold, 180g, black), Ltd. Coloured 2LP (Gatefold, 180g, crystal clear), Ltd. Box Set and on Digital. The standard version of the CD and both vinyls contain 16 tracks (including the brand-new single) as well as deluxe liner notes. The strictly limited Mediabook holds 13 further tracks and the previously unreleased, 2 hours live show “Circus Life”. The strictly limited box set contains an additional 19 tracks selection of Tarja’s projects including Outlanders, 4 Picture Disc, 6 art prints, 2 posters and a fine art print signed by Tarja! Contents / Tracklist: Eye Of The Storm (brand new song) I Walk Alone (Single Version) Die Alive (Alternative Version) Enough Falling Awake feat. Jason Hook Until My Last Breath (Single Version) I Feel Immortal (Radio Remix) Victim Of A Ritual 500 Letters Never Enough Innocene (Radio Edit) Demons In You feat. Alissa White-Gluz Diva Dead Promises feat. Björn “Speed” Strid Tears In Rain You And I (Band Version)

Different day, same show! Santiago 2022-10-19: Music/Noise Planet Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oP-FkGN0lU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chSonSDtPY8 Tribal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S51sbf2iJwY Élan Storytime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsqkygQxKEE She Is My Sin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4-Hg8ip7qE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz6doHk0ock Sleeping Sun 7 Days to the Wolves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ80SZ9o_iI Dark Chest of Wonders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uwtGs3p6Tk I Want My Tears Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVvkIMyfRzE Ever Dream Nemo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e3ZtiH1gwk How's the Heart? (Acoustic) Shoemaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udjIEpQ2nEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd19EvG-dmk Last Ride of the Day Ghost Love Score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6XtSkBpxI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4PHk8hq0iM The Greatest Show on Earth Ad Astra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsBbL4QQXQ8 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaX-JP-lohRVDMr3zE4Yt2IiLbv-lcHEl

Adding some links to your setlist, and the playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaX-JP-lohRWf7RZYNzaesCglWm6Nhzx6