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Nightwish's most recent studio album, Yesterwynde, came out on September 20, 2024. [ 3 ] As of 2024, Nightwish is Finland's most successful music act having sold around 10 million albums and singles worldwide, [ 4 ] including about 900,000 in Finland, [ 5 ] over 1 million in Germany [ 6 ] and over 500,000 in the U.S. [ 7 ]
Walking in the Air: The Greatest Ballads is the sixth compilation album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released in 2011. It contains the "greatest ballads" from the first four albums, two of which are covers. [1] [2] The cover art was created by Andreas Marschall.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful was primarily inspired by the work of naturalist Charles Darwin. According to songwriter Tuomas Holopainen, the album's title is drawn from the last paragraph of Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species which included the words "endless forms most beautiful" to describe evolution from one common ancestor to all living organisms: [8] [9]
Oceanborn is the second studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was released in Finland by Spinefarm Records on 7 December 1998 [7] and in the spring of 1999 worldwide. [8] It was released by Drakkar Entertainment in the rest of Europe, and by Toy's Factory in Japan. It is their first album with bassist Sami Vänskä.
Yesterwynde is the tenth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 20 September 2024 by Nuclear Blast.This marks their first studio album since Wishmaster that does not feature Marko Hietala, following his departure from the band in January 2021, and the first album to feature Jukka Koskinen as the new bassist.
On 11 March 2020, "Ad Astra", the last track of the album's second disc, was released in a video that revealed Nightwish's new partnership with World Land Trust. [ 28 ] Nightwish stated on 22 January 2020 that they became the "first band ever to be given permission" to do a photo shoot in the "legendary Cathedral that is the Natural History ...
Angels Fall First is the debut studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, originally released by Spinefarm Records on 30 September 1997 as a 500-copy limited edition. [5] This edition is highly sought after by collectors and in 2012 a copy was sold for $1137.23 on eBay. [6]
Wishmaster is the third studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was released on 8 May 2000 through Spinefarm Records in Finland. The album was released in the rest of Europe by Drakkar Entertainment on 29 May, and in Japan by Toy's Factory on 19 July. In the US, it was released by Century Media on 6 February 2001. [5]