Artist: NIGHTWISH
Album: "STORYTIME (10” VINYL)"

Year: 2011
Media type: LP

- Limited digipak & limited 10” vinyl (coloured) in gatefold! The first new song of the new Nightwish album! New album out early December [!]


Price: 28.00 лв. (BGN)

Cat. No.: WIZ00013423
Label: NUCLEAR BLAST
Genre: Symphonic/ Neo Classical Heavy Metal

”Simply overwhelming: NIGHTWISH set a virtuosic monument full of dark epical passion, opulent bombastic power and enchanting melancholic melodies that touches you so deeply inside - more than you could ever imagine! Pure NIGHTWISH and even more…”
SONIC SEDUCER (D)

”IMAGINAERUM is a fantastic, unbelievable journey through different kinds of music.”
MUSIC & BUISNESS (D)

”Bombastic stuff! It contains two absolute masterpieces, at least complex but catchy. It probably takes more than one listening to capture all its essence; but once it’s been captured, it rests inside the soul.”
METAL HAMMER (I)

”A truly magical rollercoaster-ride through all those emotions that make life worth living.”
METALIZED (DK)

”The most ambitious chapter in NIGHTWISHs career is just like a beautiful diamond with thousands of reflections: it mixes poetry, great symphonic atmospheres and a dep theatrical attitude, leading the listener through an amazing journey made of dreams and concrete life.“
ROCK HARD (I)

”Perfect Soundtrack for the movie to come!“
METAL MANIAC (I)

”Once again, Nightwish takes its fans by surprise!”
ROCK HARD (F)

"A majestic, magnificent musical adventure that cements Nightwish as the masters of their art.”
TERRORIZER (UK)

”Arguably the most ambitious goth metal album ever created…”
BIG CHEESE (UK)

”A bold and bombastic masterpiece of epic proportions.”
POWERPLAY (UK)

””Imaginaerum” is without doubt the most ambitious album that Nightwish has produced. Whether it's the best you will have to judge yourself….a great new Nightwish album which you will enjoy for a long time to come!”
ROCK TRIBUNE (B)

”The epic masterpiece!”
SCREAM (N)

Forever now. Welcome to “Imaginaerum”! “It all started during the spring of 2007 when we were finishing the mixings for “Dark Passion Play”, says Tuomas. “I remember vividly listening through the songs and thinking what would be the next chapter in NIGHTWISH’S chronicles? When I look back at our catalogue, I see the evolution of the band, how the stories and musical landscapes evolve from one album to the next one, to the next one, to this present moment. During that time I strongly felt we need the next chapter to be something no-one`s ever done before in music. Something so big, crossover, detailed, innovative and nuts that it would leave the band, and hopefully the people experiencing it, completely awestruck. Love it or hate it, but awestruck nonetheless”, does he point out uncompromising. “I realized we needed to add another dimension into the music, and release the album as a visual experience also.”

The original idea Tuomas had, was to film 13 short stories related to the songs, “and together they would form a complete story”, explains the Finnish composer. “13 music videos with a connecting storyline, in other words. And I wanted Mr. Stobe Harju to shoot them all. We were so impressed with his work with `The Islanderґ- music video that I never even thought of anyone else for the job. I presented him with my idea and he told me, I was totally insane, and that he would love the challenge. So we started to work on how to bring the idea to life.” It was Stobe`s idea to turn the 13 stories/ visions Tuomas had, into a more of a drama- film. “One that would have a clear plot, script, dialogue and real actors. And now, after three years of working with it, I see the result as a mixture of something never done before in music or cinema.” The movie is based on the album and its 13 tracks, “honoring the original ideas but having evolved radically from them. Still, it was important from the very beginning that the album would work as its own individual piece of art, as well. It is a thematic album about life itself, about imagination, love, goodness and beauty, with a touch of darkness and melancholy, which are strongly included in all of those things mentioned. ‘Imaginaerum’ is an audiovisual testament of what NIGHTWISH has always been about.”

The songs for the album were written during 2008-2010, majority of them after the “Dark Passion Play”-world tour ended in September 2009. “Ghost River” is the earliest song while “Song Of Myself” was the last one finished”, remembers Mister Holopainen clearly. “Marco provided the music for ‘The Crow, The Owl And The Dove’, all the other songs and all lyrics are written by me. It was an enormously fun challenge to write songs to a story and visual images, I already had in mind. It was like creating a soundtrack to a movie which didn`t exist. Our long-time engineer Tero ‘TeeCee’ Kinnunen and me then rented a house in Porkkala, Finland for two weeks in April 2010 to record a rehearsal tape for the other band members to listen to.” The summer of 2010 was reserved for band rehearsals and arrangement process. “For this we rented a summer camp called Rosko in my home town of Kitee”, tells Tuomas. “During those two months we raised the songs to a level everyone was happy about and recorded a demo. This enabled Mr. Pip Williams to start working on his orchestral and choral arrangements. For the next four months, he would be doing nothing but arranging those parts for `Imaginaerumґ. The drum recordings started in October 2010, followed by guitars and basses. In February 2011 we entered Angels Studios in London to record the orchestras, choirs and ethnic instruments. This was followed by the keyboard, piano, celtic instruments and vocal recordings in Petrax Studios, Finland.” The mixing process started in April under supervision of Mr. Mikko Karmila in Finnvox Studios, Helsinki, and the first version of the album was finished early in June. “We ended up mixing the album twice more, giving us the final and satisfactory mix in July. The final mastering, engineered by Mr. Mika Jussila took place in Finnvox on the 31st of August. A year of rehearsals and recordings, over two months of mixing and `Imaginaerumґwas finally ready. The audio part of it, at least.

The film shootings will happen during September. “The band will have but quite a small part in it, which was our request from the start. The production and the post work will take a long time, making April - May 2012 a possible premiere date for the movie, which can be categorized as “musical fantasy.” The first single "Storytime" will be released in November 2011. “The hybrid of the album and the movie will be something never created before. An adventure into a wondrous place we all know but have long since forgotten. We hope you`ll enjoy the ride!”

TRACKLIST 10”

Side A:
01. Storytime (album version)

Side B:
01. Storytime (radio edit)
02. Storytime (instrumental)

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