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The new issue of Metal Hammer features Nightwish on the cover, as they gear up to release new album Yesterwynde. Inside the magazine, Floor and Tuomas reveal the full story behind the epic record ...

Something Whispered Follow Me tiptoes to a conclusion via some earth-moving note-making from Floor Jansen, affirming once again ... are lost. Nightwish won’t be touring their new album, Yesterwynde.

Here are 60 awful metal album covers. Whether it's cheesy '80s drawings or some very recent works by prominent bands, selecting album art always comes with inherent risk. Art is subjective ...

One album cover has been selected from each year, dating back to 1949, which is represented by Alex Steinweiss’s design for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 – created as an alternative to the plain sleeves ...

Album covers are crucial in defining a musician's brand and visual identity. It is often the first thing fans see, giving ...

but Nightwish – and specifically Tuomas as their chief songwriter – have taken a different path. Rather than wallowing in trauma, Yesterwynde pushes back against it. The 12-track album covers ...

Under a photo of Burcovschi, the band wrote: The cover for our new album, Songs For A Nervous Planet, was envisioned in collaboration with artist Vitalie Burcovschi, also known as @surrealistly.

Being neither a huge nor tiny Nightwish fan, I do not closely follow the career of ... Ms. Turunen recently joined Living Colour on stage in Buenos Aires to perform a cover of Cream’s “Sunshine of ...

Regardless of how familiar it may seem to longtime fans, the band's 10 th studio album is undoubtedly another alluring journey into Nightwish's world. From start to finish, the LP invigoratingly ...

This, finally, is the ultimate expression of Nightwish, a magnum opus that delivers ... moving note-making from Floor Jansen, affirming once again that she is surely the finest living vocalist ...