NIGHTWISH, SONATA ARCTICA: New York City Show Added In September

The final show of NIGHTWISH's fall 2008 U.S. tour with support from SONATA ARCTICA will take place on September 27 at the Nokia Theater in New York City.

The schedule is now shaping up as follows:

Aug. 29 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
Aug. 30 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Sep. 04 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
Sep. 05 - Detroit, MI @ Harpos
Sep. 09 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
Sep. 10 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
Sep. 12 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
Sep. 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Sep. 14 - Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
Sep. 16 - Dallas, TX @ Palladium Ballroom
Sep. 17 - Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
Sep. 19 - Houston, TX @ The Meridian
Sep. 20 - New Orleans, LA @ House of BLues
Sep. 21 - St Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Landing
Sep. 23 - Knoxville, TN @ The Valarium
Sep. 24 - Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall
Sep. 26 - Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live!
Sep. 27 - New York, NY @ Nokia Theater

Tickets are on sale now exclusively through EnterTheVault.com until May 10, at which point they will be made available through all normal ticketing systems. Tickets for the New York City show will remain exclusive to EnterTheVault.com until May 24.

"The Islander", the new single from NIGHTWISH, will be released on May 21 and will include the following tracks:

01. The Islander
02. Escapist (instrumental version)
03. Meadows Of Heaven (orchestral version)

Additionally, it will include the videos for "The Islander" and "Bye Bye Beautiful".

Check out the "The Islander" single artwork at this location.

The video for "The Islander" was shot last autumn in Rovaniemi, Finland and was directed by Stobe Harju.

Fan-filmed video footage of NIGHTWISH performing the epic 14-minute song "The Poet And The Pendulum" on April 6, 2008 at Zenith in Paris, France can be viewed below.