Nightwish News

[tapir]

Finnish female-fronted metallers NIGHTWISH will release a two-CD collection, entitled "Highest Hopes - The Best Of Nightwish", in the fall. The complete track listing for the set is as follows:

01. Wish I Had an Angel
02. Stargazers
03. The Kinslayer
04. Ever Dream
05. Elvenpath
06. Bless the Child
07. Nemo
08. Sleeping Sun
09. Dead to the World
10. Over the Hills and Far Away
11. Deep Silent Complete
12. Sacrament of Wilderness
13. Walking In the Air
14. Wishmaster
15. Dead Boy's Poem
16. High Hopes – Live

On July 25, NIGHTWISH will release "The Siren" as the third single from "Once", with several bonus tracks. For more information, click here.

NIGHTWISH have a number of festival appearances lined up during the coming months. A complete list of currently confirmed tour dates can be found at this location.


Nuclear Blast Records has revealed the details of the new NIGHTWISH single, "The Siren", due on July 25 as a five-track CD with a running time of more than 20 minutes. The complete track listing for the single is as follows:

01. The Siren (edited version) (3:46)
02. The Siren (album version) (4:45)
03. The Siren (live version) (4:47)
04. Symphony of Destruction (live version of MEGADETH classic) (4:19)
05. Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan (live version) (3:52)

"The Siren" was mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finland. The cover artwork can be seen at Nightwish.com.

NIGHTWISH have a number of festival appearances lined up during the coming months. A complete list of currently confirmed tour dates can be found at this location.

As previously reported, NIGHTWISH's "End of Innocence" DVD has been certified gold in Germany for sales in excess of 25,000 copies. The DVD, which entered the official German DVD chart at position No. 2 upon its release in late 2003, consists of 13 tracks of music, including promo videos and various self-recorded live tracks, and about 60 minutes of behind-the-scenes material. The documentary portion has a total running time of 135 minutes and contains footage from over 50 hours of raw NIGHTWISH video tapes, including clips from the first NIGHTWISH concert ever.

[Subtuppel]

LOL
allmählich drehen die aber auch am Rad, wer braucht denn sowas wenn er die anderen alben hat? Aber man geht wohl zu recht davon aus das irgendwelche knallsäcke von fans sich den schrott kaufen weil nightwish draufsteht, obwohl sowas ähnliches (tales from the elvenpath oderso?! ) erst vor nem halben jahr auf den markt geschissen wurde

na ja, mir kanns egal sein, ich hör mir das eh nicht an, aber ärgern tut mich sowas trotzdem immer!

[Grobi]

Aha, danke für die Info.

[lux et tenebrae]

Ich habe genügend von Nightwish, ich werd's mir nicht kaufen. B)

[Wishmaster]

Ich habe sämtliche Alben, auch zwei Singles, aber die neue Single brauche ich wirklich nicht, auch die neue Best of Cd brauche ich nicht. Das Best of stelle ich mir lieber selbst zusammen.

[Deathgrind]

Nightwish sind Pop, ungothisch und Teenie-Scheiße. Jawollja.

Außerdem sind sie gay, nicht tr00 und nicht grim und nicht necro.

[Wishmaster]

:hae2:
Davon habe ich jetzt nur die Hälfte verstanden.

[lux et tenebrae]

Er meint, die sind nicht gothic genug, nach dem offiziellen Gothic-Regelwerk, §2 Abs. 2

[Niggels]

Oder er hat sie mit Within Temptation verwechselt.

[Subtuppel]

Oder er hat sie mit Within Temptation verwechselt.

Wie, was, waren das nicht die gleichen Leute

[Deathgrind]

101 rules of Black metal

1. Don't be gay.
2. Be "true".
3. All people who aren’t "true" are gay.
4. Be grim.
5. Be necro.
6. Be simultaneously grim and necro if at all possible.
7. Break things while being grim and necro.
8. Don't have fun at concerts. Stand around with arms crossed.
9. Repeat all above while denouncing organized religion in any form.
10. Never ever, EVER under ANY circumstances...
11. ...Listen to Peccatum.
12. When someone asks you if you enjoy the music of Mayhem, point out that you only enjoy the music of "the true" Mayhem. Maniac is gay.
13. Don't play with fuzzy things, excepting that by "play" you mean "burn".
14. Don't be Dani Filth.
15. Never, ever, under any circumstances utter the phrase "Kenny G slams, man."
16. Don't be Dani Filth.
17. When your mom tells you to take out the garbage tell her that you're too metal to remove refuse.
18. Run for it!
19. Sodomize a virgin whore.
20. Sodomize anything that is not male. (Fuzzy things look out!)
21. Make sure your album goes out of print about 3 years after its release... so it becomes 'cult'.
22. When in doubt, say "True Norwiegian Black Metal!"
23. If that doesn't work, blast beats can fill any silence.
24. Turn any cross you find upside-down.
25. Nipple twisting is not a blackmetal activity..
26. Write a cult, underground, grim and necro zine. Feature only interviews with bands no one has heard of, even "true" blackmetallers.
27. Never ever, EVER, EVER be open-minded.
28. Never write songs less than 15 minutes long and containing less than 15 adjectives in the title.
29. a) paint face. B) go in woods. c) act like troll.
30. Don't be Mortiis (or Dani Filth).
31. Don't wear white shoes after Labor Day.
32. Don't make jokes only your mom would get.
33. Don't make jokes.
34. When in doubt, scowl with eyes downturned.
35. Don't eat Marshmellow Peeps.
36. To producers of black metal albums: remember...no low end! If it doesn't hurt to listen to, it can't be "true".
37. Make sure that no less than half of the musicians on your album are "session" members.
38. When in concert, always growl names of songs so that they are imperceptible. This will ensure that anyone who doesn't have your "cult" LP won't get it.
39. Never play live.
40. When getting ready to go to a show, completely forget that the other people there are not going to the show to look at you.
41. Use barbed wire whenever possible. (Note: this assists in being both "necro" and "grim".)
42. When asked by a non true BMer what BM is, say something like, "BM is the raw essence of pure black evil in man", in any case, make sure that by the conversations end, the other person still has no idea what black metal is.
43. Drive one of your band members to suicide, and claim he died because of the "mainstream" "infecting" the "scene".
44. Reform with "old members" and release an album intended to produce commercial success.
45. When it flops say that you meant it to fail cause anything less wouldn't be "true".
46. Have a side project. Ensure that all other members of your band also have side projects.
47. Fill out the other slots in your other member's side projects as "session" musicians.
48. Record everything in the same studio with the same producer/instruments/equipment/etc.
49. Make sure your album cover never consists of more than three colors (color options allowed: grey, black, white).
50. Publicly state that your band is "non-religious", then use the word "Satan" over 400 times on your one-song thirty-minute album.
51. Never stuff your shoes to make them appear puffy and avoid the wearing of backwards baseball caps if at all possible. Red ones in particular.
52. Insist that music should never progress and that it should still sound the same way it did 9 friggin years ago.
53. Never say "friggin".
54. Never finish anything you start.
55. The word "Hail" is the only appropriate greeting whenever greeting someone "true".
56. If feeling especially true on a given occasion, try "Infernal Hails".
57. All logos must include illegible writing and at least one inverted cross and/or pentagram. This is non-negotiable.
58. When referring to sex with a Metal Chick use only the terminology "sticking my clouded frost-spire into her gates of attrition".
59. Design complex logo for your grim black metal band on binder paper in the middle of math class.
60. Accept every interview you're offered...then pretend that you really don't enjoy being interviewed.
61. Thoroughly enjoy Star Trek: The Next Generation.
62. Wait... scratch that last one. (See rule 1)
63. Never divulge to any outsiders the Exact Day of the Divine Arrival of the Massive Hoof. Instead, inform them that they should be ready to suck the Dark Lord's greasy @#%$ at any time.
64. Use the phrase "suck the dark lord's greasy @#%$" whenever possible.
65. If you ever find that you have somehow become a member of Hecate Enthroned, be sure to piece together a music video of scrap footage of yourself walking around in the woods at night looking evil. Only, instead of being night make sure it's the middle of the @#%$ day, and instead of looking evil, look dorky instead. (See also: rule 1)
666. Own hundreds of black metal albums, demos and bootlegs. Listen to approximately 8 of them regularly.
67. Humping a ceramic Virgin Mary in front of your uncle's house is not "pimping it" (unless you tell her you're done then blow in her face like a shotgun when she turns around).
68. Refrain from using keyboard smilies when communicating via the Internet. Single acceptable smily: -(
69. Why isn't the word "Northern" in your album title yet!? Get to it! Amatuers...
70. Spelling things correctly is neither grim nor necro.
71. Norsk Arysk Blak Metal! Rahhh!!
72. No matter where you're from, pretend you're from Norway and therefore 'true'.
73. Don't be Dani Filth. (I think that's clear)
74. All pets you own now will henceforth be known as "Crucifier". Any pets you own in the future will also be known as "Crucifier".
75. True black metaller: "Many of our dark hymns are influenced by the mighty Tolkien... You have not read the works of Tolkien!? Nerd. Wait a minute... It appears I am the nerdy one after all!"
76. @#%$, I'm talking to myself again.
77. Norsk Arysk Blak Metal! Rahhh!!
78. That's better, on with the interview!
80. Create inverted crosses in all possible instances. Suggested tools: Drum sticks, twigs, pool cues, pencils, etc. (See also "clouded frost spire")
81. Profess publicly that you are a Satanist and add that you are in touch with Norway's ancient Pagan past. Pretend that somehow those two facts make sense in conjunction.
82. Stick your dick in the mashed potatoes.
83. Don't make Beastie Boys references.
84. Don't make references.
85. Satanus. Huh huh huhuhuhuh.
86. Huhuhuhuhuhuhuh.
87. If possible, design the title of your album so that it consists of three completely unrelated words. Dimmu Borgir are the master of this (i.e. Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, Spiritual Black Dimensions, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, Godless Savage Garden) but you may also want to refer to Immortal's "Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism".
88. As we all know, women have no place in the homoerotic world of black metal, but if your girl friend still won't stop bugging you about wanting to be involved in your band, give her a lame spoken word part or something.
89. Never form a band containing you, your wife and/or girlfriend, and some gay looking guy. (See also: rule 11)
90. Go to bed when your mom tells you to.
91. If it's rare, it must be good. Order it immediately.
92. I will not add that as it is not metal enough.
93. Are you metal enough to be reading this?
94. Own every Darkthrone release. Listen to exactly none of them.
95. Own cult-as-@#%$ shirts of bands you not only own no releases of, but also haven't even heard.
96. Use the phrase "cult-as-@#%$" whenever possible.
97. Attempt to randomly throw the word "@#%$" during random segments of your songs. (Kindly refer to Attilla's work on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.)
98. In order to make your recording more incomprehensible and therefore more "cult", be sure to either select a singer who has only a tenuous grasp on the language to be sung. (Acceptable languages: Norwegian, Latin, Orcish.)
99. I'll tell you what your album lay out needs...Some titties.
100. And you know what else? How long since you acted like a troll? Pick up that makeup and fight, soldier!
101. You mean to tell me you read this whole thing when you could've have been prancing about in the forest with an axe? For shame! For shaaaaame!!

[Deathgrind]

Er meint, die sind nicht gothic genug, nach dem offiziellen Gothic-Regelwerk, §2 Abs. 2

Wie? Nightwish sind Gothic? Habe ich was verpasst? Ich dachte Schmuse-Metal?!?

[Wishmaster]

Ah... jetzt verstehe ich es schon besser was du meintest.
Trotzdem bin ich nicht ganz deiner Meinung, aber da darf ja auch jeder seine eigene haben.

[lux et tenebrae]

Er meint, die sind nicht gothic genug, nach dem offiziellen Gothic-Regelwerk, §2 Abs. 2

Wie? Nightwish sind Gothic? Habe ich was verpasst? Ich dachte Schmuse-Metal?!?

Ja, so könnte man es auch nennen.