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Nightwish - Present Upcoming Album Details


Nightwish have completed the recording process for their 9th studio album and are proud to announce the title, artwork and track listing. Human. :II: Nature. will be released on 10th of April, 2020 via Nuclear Blast. The long-awaited record, following 2015's Endless Forms Most Beautiful, will be a double album containing 9 tracks on the main CD and one long track, divided into eight chapters on CD 2. The album pre-orders will start on February 7th.

Human. :II: Nature. was recorded from August to October 2019 at Röskö campsite, Petrax Studios and Troykington castle, as well as Finnvox Studios, by Tero Kinnunen, Mikko Karmila and Troy Donockley. The mixing was done by Mikko Karmila at Finnvox, with Tuomas Holopainen and Tero Kinnunen. Mastering was done by Mika Jussila at Finnvox.




Track listing:

Disc I:
01. Music
02. Noise
03. Shoemaker
04. Harvest
05. Pan
06. How's The Heart?
07. Procession
08. Tribal
09. Endlessness

Disc II:
01. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Vista
02. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Blue
03. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Green
04. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Moors
05. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Aurorae
06. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Quiet As The Snow
07. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Anthropocene (incl. "Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal")
08. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Ad Astra


Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Nightwish
Posted: 16.01.2020 by Abattoir


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16.01.2020 - 18:43
annodomini

So... from Disney to New age. Well played, Tuomas. About 30 years too late, but well played.

On a serious side, I don't care if it's heavy enough or not, but I just wish for Tuomas to regain his creative spirit. For me it can be non metal at all, but I just hope for a perfectly written compositions, as it used to be.
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16.01.2020 - 20:24
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
This is lame song tittles, seems all it might be wrong direction some weird, we need wait new single, but such CD2 I am so skeptic, I dont know, really I ahve bad feeling to this one
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16.01.2020 - 20:42
Azarath
Free as a.. Fish
Well, I am very much looking forward to this.
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17.01.2020 - 00:54
SoUnDs LiKe PoP

Very interesting. Their second album with Annette changed my mind about her as Nightwish's singer, maybe this album will do the same for Floor... great singer, but I just wasn't feeling her voice much on the last album.
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17.01.2020 - 09:30
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
The titles sound like some post-rock. Nothing against that, just it doesn't really fit to my image of Nightwish. At least for now, we'll see...
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My rest seems now calm and deep
Finally I got my dead man sleep


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17.01.2020 - 10:22
annodomini

Written by Ellrohir on 17.01.2020 at 09:30

The titles sound like some post-rock. Nothing against that, just it doesn't really fit to my image of Nightwish. At least for now, we'll see...

Shoemaker keeps me worried the most.
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17.01.2020 - 12:11
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Ellrohir on 17.01.2020 at 09:30

The titles sound like some post-rock. Nothing against that, just it doesn't really fit to my image of Nightwish. At least for now, we'll see...

You nailed it only 1th n last was killer to me
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17.01.2020 - 12:41
Daniell
_爱情_
Written by annodomini on 17.01.2020 at 10:22

Written by Ellrohir on 17.01.2020 at 09:30

The titles sound like some post-rock. Nothing against that, just it doesn't really fit to my image of Nightwish. At least for now, we'll see...

Shoemaker keeps me worried the most.

Would "Cobbler" be better?
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17.01.2020 - 13:05
JoHn Doe

^ It would be hilarious if the song Shoemaker would become a favorite among Nightwish fans.
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17.01.2020 - 16:34
aeonnumb

Atrocious song titles
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17.01.2020 - 18:04
Ball Fondlers

Could have done better. Like "Human Music", "cheesemaker" and "how's the heat?"
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18.01.2020 - 13:38
Litvin

Ohhh, eco friendly, non GMO and vegan album! will see... but realty doubt abut it

p.s
Once Tarja was kicked off (for a reason) only the Imaginaerum was worth listening.
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18.01.2020 - 14:46
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Litvin on 18.01.2020 at 13:38

Ohhh, eco friendly, non GMO and vegan album! will see... but realty doubt abut it

p.s
Once Tarja was kicked off (for a reason) only the Imaginaerum was worth listening.


who is vegan?
Latest album was killer same as opening
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18.01.2020 - 20:37
Azarath
Free as a.. Fish
So... a double album? Add the instrumental version; quadruple album. Throw on the orchestral version and we're up to 6 discs.

Nuclear Blast will have plenty of possible Earbook versions this time.
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18.01.2020 - 22:01
Thyroid

They held listening session yesterday for media. Here's article from Inferno website:
https://www.inferno.fi/uutiset/nightwish-soitti-infernolle-tulevan-albuminsa-lue-ensitunnelmat/

Google translate to the rescue, since it's in finnish. I ended up really loving previous album, while i thought it left some room for improvement. But somehow live concerts opened my eyes for some songs, that i overlooked before. There is that extra "kick", hard to explain. I guess it's also possible that I have changed myself with my musical taste over the years. Things that felt important before (especially in metal music) don't matter to me that much anymore.

I feel like this band, and Tuomas, has matured a lot over the years, and they are definately going in right direction. Endless Forms Most Beautiful was just a first step, not perfect, but solid album anyway. Seems like now they are much more confident with this current line-up with Floor, Troy and Kai Hahto.
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19.01.2020 - 20:43
Azarath
Free as a.. Fish
Written by Thyroid on 18.01.2020 at 22:01

They held listening session yesterday for media. Here's article from Inferno website:
https://www.inferno.fi/uutiset/nightwish-soitti-infernolle-tulevan-albuminsa-lue-ensitunnelmat/

Thank you. Right, this definitely changes things. The main takeaways are:

-the first disc is a band record, without massive orchestras (still strings though)
-the second disc is a 35 minute (completely orchestral) instrumental work


Noise is the first single; classical singing by Floor on Shoemaker; heavier riffs from Emppu; Kai is unleashed, yadda yadda yadda...
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20.01.2020 - 12:50
Metren
Dreadrealm
Written by Litvin on 18.01.2020 at 13:38

Ohhh, eco friendly, non GMO and vegan album!


Tuomas has been hanging around scientists like Dawkins in recent years, if he's learnt anything at all, he can't be anti-GMO
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21.01.2020 - 06:35
Litvin

How you know that ? may be they made him even more vegan

p.s: Yeah there is something here 😱



UPDATE, and here 👇

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21.01.2020 - 06:51
Litvin

Written by Bad English on 18.01.2020 at 14:46
who is vegan?
Latest album was killer same as opening


Even the track list on this one sounds like a tracklist for freaking vegans, but will see...

So yeah the last album was composed professionally but in a very vegan way If you see what I mean. Not saying it was so bad at all; but I listen to it like a few times only and then forgot about it.

p.s
here is an example what I would never call vegan symphonic metal http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/album.php?album_id=95029&band_id=281&bandname=Sirenia the way Nighwish where like 2 decades ago.
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23.01.2020 - 04:05
Ruchesko

Why the tracklist freakout?

This is a man who wrote a compelling album about Donald Duck's uncle.
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23.01.2020 - 06:02
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Who names anything castle-like after some dumb city that got ransacked by a giant wooden horse
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23.01.2020 - 09:04
ScottyM

I must have missed the memo about how Nightwish has progressed in popularity to the point where it's now cool to shit on any and every detail about them, no matter how big or small. Makes me almost (*almost*) wish we could go back to the days where the only logical debate we could have was Anette vs. Tarja, where everyone on both sides had valid critiques and opinions.

I couldn't give a shit less about what the track list names are. If it wasn't for that, surely this entire comment section would be shitting on the album cover. If not that, it would be the second disc with countless references to Insomnium. If not that, it would be Tuomas' preference of boxers or briefs. I'm looking forward to this album very much, hope to see them again and do another meet and greet when they go touring for the album, and if Anette's second album (probably my favorite of theirs) is any indication of history repeating itself, hopefully this is Floor's masterpiece album as well. Let's just hope she makes it to album 3.
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23.01.2020 - 14:04
Ball Fondlers

Scotty definitely didn't get the memo

Tarja btw
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24.01.2020 - 21:50
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
Written by annodomini on 17.01.2020 at 10:22

Written by Ellrohir on 17.01.2020 at 09:30

The titles sound like some post-rock. Nothing against that, just it doesn't really fit to my image of Nightwish. At least for now, we'll see...

Shoemaker keeps me worried the most.

Imagine something like this, just with the lyrcis adjusted accordingly
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My rest seems now calm and deep
Finally I got my dead man sleep


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27.01.2020 - 17:58
Thyroid

More first impressions of the new album + Floor & Marko interview by Mape Ollila. Article is in english:
https://www.impe.fi/articles/1/2905
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04.02.2020 - 15:43
ScottyM

Sounds like we can expect a single for Noise to drop in three days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCXT64tlvQM
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07.02.2020 - 11:08
Litvin

Ammmm what to say.....music is good, really good, but still missing Tarja vocal, not bad overall amm actually good especially the second part



I can now definitely tell it is sounds like Nighwish, not like some Nighwish-like generic band like they did a couple of times like songs in Dark Passion Play and Endless Forms Most Beautiful.
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