SMN is proud to present Nightwish streaming live (for free!) this Friday, October 19 on SMNnews.com.

The show, marking the North American debut of new frontwoman Anette Olzon, kicks off at 6pm EST, and will be an exclusive 30 minute in-store electric performance.

Nightwish's new studio album was released earlier this year through Nuclear Blast in Europe and Roadrunner Records in the US.

YeboTV.com, gateway to the world of new internet music, will be providing the stream. During the broadcast, you can chat live with other fans, upload personal videos, and even create your own private profile page. Stay tuned!

Source:	smnnews.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

Finnish symphonic metal legends Nightwish, who will release their brandnew album "Dark Passion Play" this Friday, have announced the following tourdates:

Nightwish - European Passion Play 2008
Presented by: PRO7, Metal Hammer, Orkus & Wom

Feb. 19 - Visla Hall Krakow Poland
Feb. 20 - Lucerna Music Hall Prague Czech Republic
Feb. 21 - Arena Berlin Germany
Feb. 23 - Arena Leipzig Germany
Feb. 24 - Schleyerhalle Stuttgart Germany
Feb. 25 - Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt Germany
Feb. 27 - Jako Arena Bamberg Germany
Feb. 28 - Gasometer A-Wien Austria
Feb. 29 - Hallenstadion CH-Zürich Switzerland
Mar. 02 - Palalido I-Milan Italy
Mar. 04 - Tivoli Hall Ljublana Slovenia
Mar. 05 - Petofi Hall Budapest Hungary
Mar. 17 - Colour Line Arena Hamburg Germany
Mar. 18 - AWD Hall Hannover Germany
Mar. 19 - Westfalenhalle 2 Dortmund Germany
Mar. 21 - HMH Music Hall Amsterdam Netherlands
Mar. 22 - Den Atelier Luxembourg Luxembourg
Mar. 23 - AB Brussels Belgium
Mar. 25 - Astoria London UK
Mar. 29 - Carling Academy Birmingham UK
Mar. 30 - Carling Academy Newcastle UK
Mar. 31 - ABC1 Glasgow UK
Apr. 02 - Mandela Hall Belfast UK
Apr. 03 - Vicar Street Dublin Ireland
Apr. 04 - Academy1 Manchester UK
Apr. 06 - Zenith Paris France
Apr. 07 - Zenith Strasbourg France
Apr. 10 - Halle Tony Garnier Lyon France
Apr. 11 - Dome Marseille France
Apr. 12 - Zenith Toulouse France
Apr. 14 - Razzmatazz 1 Barcelona Spain
Apr. 15 - Santana 27 Bilbao Spain
Apr. 16 - La Riviera Madrid Spain
Apr. 18 - Coliseum Porto Portugal
Apr. 19 - Coliseum Lisbon Portugal

Ticket pre-sale starts on September 28th at 10.00 am CET on http://www.eventim.de.
The tickets will be available from October 3rd at all other pre-sale shops!"

Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Nightwish
Event:	Nightwish: European Passion Play Tour

Nightwish have confirmed a tour of the U.K. and Ireland in 2008 in support for their forthcoming album "Dark Passion Play". These will be the first shows in the U.K. with new singer Anette Olzon.

The dates are as follows:

Mar. 25 - Astoria - London, England
Mar. 29 - Carling Academy - Birmingham, England
Mar. 30 - Carling Academy - Newcastle, England
Mar. 31 - ABC1 - Glasgow, Scotland
Apr. 02 - Mandela Hall - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Apr. 03 - Vicar Street - Dublin, Ireland
Apr. 04 - Academy 2 - Manchester, England

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish
Event:	Nightwish: European Passion Play Tour

The newest Nightwish video "Amarath" has been played on the MTV Finland and it is now online. It is the first appearence of the band after the replacing of soprano singer Tarja Turunen with Anette Olzon. Amaranth is the release single of the new album Dark Passion Play and it has been directed by Antti Jokinen (Korn, Stratovarius).

To watch the "Amarath" video, click here.

Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Nightwish

The new Nightwish-CD "Dark Passion Play" is on pre-sale now! There are CD-, 2CD Digipak and 2LP-picture vinyl versions available. In addition to these, there's also a special, exclusive webshop version that includes Dark Passion Play 2CD (Digipak)-album and Dark Passion Play -TS or -girlieshirt. These shirts are exclusive and available only in Nightwish-Shop and MoreMusic.fi, you can't buy them anywhere else!

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

The following message was posted on Nightwish's official website:

"The video of the track "While Your Lips Are Still Red", written by Tuomas as the main theme track for the upcoming Finnish feature film "Lieska", is now available on YouTube from the link below. The track features Marco on vocals, Tuomas on keys and Jukka on drums. Though "While Your Lips Are Still Red" is not exactly a Nightwish-track, it will be included as a bonus track on Nightwish's forthcoming "Amaranth" CD-single.

The movie "Lieska!", directed and written by renown Finnish movie director Markku Pölönen, premiers in Finland during September 2007. Watch the video here."

The single "Amaranth" will precede the album on August 24 (Nuclear Blast) and August 22 (Spinefarm/Universal). The album "Dark Passion Play" will be released on September 28 via Nuclear Blast Records (most of Europe), September 26 via Spinefarm Records/Universal (Finland) and September 28 via Roadrunner Records (USA).

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

Nightwish's upcoming album will be called "Dark Passion Play". It will be released by Nuclear Blast on September 28th, by Spinefarm Records / Universal on September 26th and by Roadrunner Records on September 28th.

The tracklist reads as follows:

1. The Poet And The Pendulum
2. Bye Bye Beautiful
3. Amaranth
4. Cadence Of Her Last Breath
5. Master Passion Greed
6. Eva
7. Sahara
8. Whoever Brings The Night
9. For The Heart I Once Had
10. The Islander
11. Last Of The Wilds
12. 7 Days To The Wolves
13. Meadows Of Heaven

You can take a look at the cover artwork here.

Even before that date, on August 24th (Nuclear Blast) and on August 22nd (Spinefarm/Universal), the single "Amaranth" will be released. It will come in different versions, their tracklists will be announced later.

To see the cover artwork, click here.

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Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

The new Nightwish single EVA is currently under investigation by finnish Teosto.

The chorus of the song is claimed to be very much similar to a song "Whirlpool" by Jukka Reinvuo, a relatively unknown finnish artist. In fact the chorus sounds so similar that it is accused of being plagiarized.

Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish denies the accusations saying that he has just heard about this today and that he has never heard neither the song nor the artist. Tuomas Holopainen would be interested of hearing the song before saying anything else about the matter.

All the profits from the EVA single will be given to charity. Finnish salesprofits are sent to two familyhomes in Kitee: Perhekoti Viliina and Perhekoti Tiaisen Pesä.

Source:	metalfromfinland.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

In addition to the "Eva" sample, you can now listen to three more samples from the upcoming Nightwish album here:
http://www.nightwish.com/en/files/audio

Nightwish's new single "Eva" is available at Nuclear Blast Musicshop. All European income of this single will be donated to the children charity foundation "Die Arche". You can buy the song here.

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

... Anette Olzon! In case this name doesn't tell you anything, here are a few facts about her:

Birthday: 21 June 1971
Country: Sweden

Musical background:
Was raised in a musical family and been singing since childhood. After she turned 13, she started competing in several talent shows. She joined her first real band when she was 17, it was a cover band and all the other musicians were older. After playing cover songs, she joined a band called Alyson Avenue, first just as a studio singer, later as their leading lady. They've released 2 albums since 2000.

At the age of 21, she played the leading role in a rock opera/musical called "Gränsland" in Helsingborg. After that she got in to the Balettakademien in Gothenburg. In addition to the already mentioned, she's been in several other bands over the years, sung in choirs, done studio work for various projects and even occasionally been a wedding singer. Recently she sang a duet with Michael Bormann (ex-Jaded Heart-singer) on his album "Conspiracy".

Read the entire fact file
Interview
Video greeting

Promotional photos: 1 | 2
Promotional band photos: 1 | 2

'Eva', the first single from the new album, should be released tomorrow. Listen to a short sample

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

According to Nightiwsh's news section, the first single from the band's forthcoming studio album "Eva", will be featured on the the Finnish radio station YLex on the day of release (May 30th) beginning at 7:00am local Finnish time (GMT + 2 hours).

UPDATED on May 23, thanks to Etaín:

You can now listen to a short sample of the new Nightwish song "Eva" by clicking here.

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Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

Nightwish reveals the cover artwork for their new single "Eva", to be released in all major music download stores on May 30th. This will be the first chance to hear the band's new singer, who will be introduced to the public on the same day on this website (http://www.nightwish.com/). As previously reported, this single will only be available on the internet and all profit will go to charity.

Click here to take a closer look!

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

As posted on the official website:

"Somebody in Greece is making promotion for a Nightwish-show next June. There is even a poster of that "concert". That concert is a hoax, so don't buy tickets for that show! English translation from that poster goes:

"NIGHTWISH launch their world tour, beginning with Greece, and will proudly present their brand new "mystery" singer SONTRA...
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 - Lycabettus Theatre - Doors open at 19:30 - Show starts at 21:30 - Ticket Price: 40 Euros"

So once again: All that text is so called bullshit."

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

[News report derived from the original Blabbermouth report]

Norwegian ex-Tristania singer Vibeke Stene has shot down reports that she has joined Nightwish as the replacement for Tarja Turunen.

Yesterday, Blabbermouth.net(!) published the rumors that Stene accepted the job as new vocalist for the Finnish symphonic metal band, after the misinterpretation and misunderstanding of an article in Finland's biggest tabloid, Ilta-Sanomat (you can find that article here).

However, according to Stene, "That is not true. I would not want to sing for Nightwish," she told the Norwegian newspaper VG.

Stene believes that it might not be a coincidence that the rumors have surfaced around the time of the release of the new Tristania album.

According to Vibeke, Tristania's record label asked her a year ago if it was OK for them to put out the rumor that she was going to take over the singer slot in Nightwish. This was in order to generate interest in Tristania, which Stene quit three weeks ago "due to personal reasons."

However, "I said no," says Stene.

The only public information about the new vocalist that has come out of the Nightwish camp so far has been offered by the group's manager, Ewo Pohjola (a.k.a. Ewo Rytkönen) of King Foo Entertainment. "She is getting along very well with the guys," he said. "She is very talented, clever and sweet."

Source:

roadrunnerrecords.com

The following message was posted on the Paradise Lost website:

"In support of their forthcoming album release "In Requiem" on Century Media, the godfathers of Gothic Metal, Paradise Lost announce a special guest slot supporting Nightwish on their autumn tour. The tour will be only the band's third visit to the US, after previously supporting Morbid Angel and Opeth.
Paradise Lost's 11th album, "In Requiem", was produced by Rhys Fulber and mixed by Mike Frazer, and marks a return to their heavy trademark sound."

Nick Holmes comments: "We can't wait to get to the US on a great tour, and try and make an impact after years of focusing on Europe."

Here's the schedule:

10/15 Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
10/16 Philadelphia, PA @ the Trocadero
10/18 New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre
10/20 Worcester, MA @ Palladium
10/21 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
10/23 Toronto, ON @ The Docks
10/24 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
10/26 Detroit, MI @ Harpos Concert Theatre
10/27 Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
10/28 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
10/31 Seattle, WA @ Showbox
11/1 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
11/2 San Francisco, CA @ Slims
11/4 Los Angeles, CA @ House Of Blues
11/6 Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues
11/7 Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
11/8 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
11/10 San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
11/11 Dallas, TX @ The Palladium Ballroom
11/12 Houston, TX @ Meridian
11/14 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
11/15 Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues
11/17 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade

Source:	paradiselost.co.uk
Band profile:	Paradise Lost
Event:	Nightwish + Paradise Lost: North American Tour