Artist: NIGHTWISH
Album: ELAN VINYL (10” LP)

Release date: 2015
Media type: LP

We are proud to present here the first single of the new NIGHTWISH album.

“Oh, while I live to be the ruler of life, Not a slave
To meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior
to me will ever take command of me.”
- Walt Whitman

Keyboarder and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen stated:
“This beautiful quote from my hero Uncle Walt was the starting point for writing ‘Élan’. The underlying theme of the song is nothing less than the meaning of life, which can be something different for all of us. It´s important to surrender yourself to the occasional ‘free fall’ and not to fear the path less travelled by. ‘Élan’ is a wonderful teaser for the fulllength album, giving out a little taste, but revealing very little of the actual Journey of Grandeur to come…”


Side A:

01. Élan
02. Sagan (non-album bonus track)

Side B:

01. Élan (alternate version)
02. Élan (radio edit)