Nightwish have unveiled a brand new music video for “The Day of…” — the second single from the Finnish band’s forthcoming tenth studio album Yesterwynde, out September twentieth.
The music’s apocalyptic themes distinction with a quite bouncy symphonic steel association and an effervescent vocal efficiency from Ground Jansen, who rattles off an inventory of recent, real-world fears. Falling proper in step with the lyrical idea is the 1984-esque video.
In accordance with keyboardist and chief songwriter Tuomas Holopainen, Yesterwynde took longer to make than any earlier Nightwish album and can arrive 4 years after 2020’s Hvman. :||: Natvre.
“The brand new album was intensively labored on for 3 and a half years,” Holopainen advised Blabbermouth. “My ambition and piety actually skyrocketed, and I simply couldn’t let go of the artistic course of — and didn’t need to. Alongside the best way, Yesterwynde grew to become each an exhilarating obsession and a comforting haven for me. All features of the making — compositions, lyrics, preparations, cowl artwork, movies, mixing and so forth — got extra consideration than ever earlier than.”
Through the hole between albums, the group misplaced its longtime bassist, and Jansen can be identified with breast most cancers earlier than present process a profitable operation to take away the tumor. She additionally just lately had her second baby, making a time crunch to file her vocals for the brand new LP.
“Ground’s second baby was born simply over a month in the past, and we hadn’t rehearsed collectively in any respect…” stated Holopainen. “So it was a little bit nerve-wracking to go to Ground’s dwelling studio for vocal recordings. Nicely, what occurred? We had booked 12 working days and after six days every thing was accomplished in type. Ground’s preparedness for the periods was one thing excessive.”
Sadly, Nightwish’s devoted fanbase gained’t be capable of catch them dwell for the foreseeable future. Again in July, Holopainen introduced that the band was taking an indefinite break from touring.
“The explanations are private,” he advised Steel Injection [via Nuclear Blast], “We’re not going to enter it, however it was one thing that needed to be carried out for this band to proceed. There’s no dangerous blood between the members, nothing like that. We simply must take a protracted breather.”
Yesterwynde is now obtainable to pre-order on CD and vinyl. Stream the video for “The Day of…” beneath.