Nightwish continue working on their new album which will feature the new members, singer Floor Jansen and Troy Donockley (uilleann pipes, low whistles, vocals). The band's mastermind Tuomas Holopainen recently posted an update about the progress of the new Nightwish album. So far, there are 12 new songs and some demo recordings. Their plan is to have the album ready in January next year.

Here is the update by Tuomas: "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 for the new Nightwish songs.

"It has come together beautifully and we 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 Holopainen recently released his first solo album The Life And Times Of Scrooge. Apart from that, he also wrote the music for "Lohtu" (with lyrics by Tuomas and Simo Jurek Reunamäki), created to help raise funds for the Finnish Live Aid 2017 project to build a new Children's Hospital.

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