NIGHTWISH - First `Taste` Of New Album Streaming Online

This season's entrance song for the Kiteen Pallo sports team (Pesäpallo or Finnish baseball) is based on the main riff and chorus of track 11 on NIGHTWISH's upcoming album Imaginarium remixed by DJ Orkidea. The song snippet can be heard on YouTube:


Nightwish recently launched the first competition on their Facebook page facebook page. Click the link and don't miss your chance to win VIP tickets to the very first show of the Imaginarium World Tour at the Gibson Ampitheatre in Universal City, CA on January 21st, 2012.

According to Variety, Nightwish's musical Imaginarium, directed by Stobe Harju, about an old man on his deathbed who glimpses a childhood dream in which he refuses to grow old, and fights aging with his imagination, has received $575,000 toward its $3.7 million budget in the latest round of Finnish Film Foundation grants.

Nightwish's Imaginarium album is currently scheduled to be released early in 2012, followed by the movie after an indefinite time).



Mainman Tuomas Holopainen issued the following update recently from Helsinki's Finnvox Studios:

"This time, the landscape consists of 13 songs totalling 75 minutes. I think I'll probably be able to savour the end result only after a couple of months of mixing detox, but the encouraging comments by those near to me assure that it is a decent album. One person who heard Imaginarium called it 'the greatest adventure he ever heard with his two ears'."