NIGHTWISH: Footage From Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival Available

Professionally filmed video footage of NIGHTWISH's performance at this year's Wacken Open Air festival — which was held July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany — can be viewed below.

In other news, Live Nation and NIGHTWISH are offering a four-tickets-for-$99 special for the group's September 13 show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Right now and through September 12, you can purchase four general admission tickets for $99 via EnterTheVault.com and other outlets where tickets are sold. This special applies only to the Wiltern show and is valid only for general admission tickets.

NIGHTWISH will also release a digital-only collection of demos and B-sides titled "The Sound of Nightwish Reborn", available through all digital service providers, on September 2. This release, which clocks in at nearly 70 minutes of music, retains "must-have" status for all NIGHTWISH diehards, since it includes a bevy of exclusive material, such as demo versions of songs from the "Dark Passion Play" sessions that were recorded prior to singer Anette Olzon joining the band and that feature Marco Tapani Hietala handling the vocals, as well as B-sides.

The track listing for "The Sound of Nightwish Reborn" is as follows.

* "Eva" (demo version) - Demo session, pre-album +
* "Reach" ("Amaranth" demo) - Demo session, pre-album +
* "While Your Lips Are Still Red" - B-side, pre-album
* "Escapist" - B-side, Album session
* "The Poet and The Pendulum" - Demo version, pre-album +
* "Bye Bye Beautiful (DJ Orkidea remix)" - Album session
* "Meadows of Heaven" - Orchestral version, album session
* "Amaranth" - Orchestral version, album session
* "The Escapist" - Instrumental Version, album session

+ Pre-Olzon demo versions.

"Bye Bye Beautiful":
 

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