NIGHTWISH - New Live Dates Confirmed

Finland's NIGHTWISH check in with a brief update:

"The festival season is taking shape! Check the Live section for the latest concerts and festival appearances added for this summer."

Nightwish's complete live itinerary can be found at this location.



A previous update from Nightwish states: "In addition to BATTLE BEAST, Nightwish will also be supported by EKLIPSE on the Imaginaerum Europe Tour, which is set to kick off in April. Note that the first show of the tour in Göteborg, Sweden, will feature only Battle Beast as support act."

Another recent message from Nightwish states: "The success for our new record, Imaginaerum, continues. The sixth gold award comes from Poland. We're proud and very happy about this amazing result and thank all you fans in Poland for the support!"

After Imaginaerum reached Gold status in Germany, Greece and Finland (multi platinum), the album was also certified Gold in Switzerland and Slovakia. Imaginaerum has now sold more than 1,000,000 albums in Germany.

In the US, Imaginaerum charted at #27 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, 2007's Dark Passion Play, landed at #84.



The new, second single from the album will be the rocking track, 'The Crow, The Owl And The Dove', which will be released on March 2nd. Along with the title song, you will also get a previously unreleased song, 'The Heart Asks Pleasure First' (theme from movie The Piano). You will find the song in two different versions, including an instrumental.

'The Crow, The Owl And The Dove' is featured in three versions: radio-edit, album version and instrumental.

You can order the single on CD, or as a vinyl in clear or blue colour, here.

Do you want to listen to 'The Crow, The Owl And The Dove' plus the hit single 'Storytime' in their entirety while reading the according lyrics? Check out Nightwish’s whole discography, biography, tour dates, news, info on the new album Imaginaerum and be able to purchase any album or merch directly on your smartphone.

All you have to do is bookmark this link on the home screen of your smartphone and you’ll be able to access it over and over again like a usual mobile app. And the best of all, it’s for free! It works also with "normal" browser.

In live news, Nightwish's next show is March 2nd in Joensuu, Finland with support from POISONBLACK. The band's complete tour itinerary can be accessed at this location.