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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 2000's 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.
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]
In July 2018, Holopainen stated that he had written "80 or 90%" of the material for Nightwish's next album, which would consist of ten or eleven songs. He stated that the inspiration for the new album came from the completion of the 2018 self-titled debut album of Auri, a band he created with Donockley and Johanna Kurkela the previous year ...
The cover art of the single features a photograph taken by English artist Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, featuring a young woman helping an older woman wind wool. It was taken around the late 1800s in North Yorkshire, England. [4] Nightwish's cover art is an edit of this photograph, with vocalist Floor Jansen replacing the younger woman in the photo.
The album cost nearly €250,000 to make [2] (1,000,000 including the videos [3]), which made it Finland's most expensive recording ever until the release of Nightwish's next album, Dark Passion Play, which cost over €500,000 to produce. [4] As of 2013, Once had sold 2.3 million copies worldwide, becoming Nightwish's most successful album to ...
After the release of the album, Tuomas said that "all the flood gates opened" and he started to write new material for Nightwish. [6] [7] In July 2018 while the band was out on tour, Holopainen stated that he had written "80 or 90%" of the material for Nightwish's next album, which would consist of ten or eleven songs.
The cover art was done by Janne "Toxic Angel" Pitkänen, who had previously done the cover art to Nightwish's 2007 album Dark Passion Play, [62] as well as all single covers since "Eva" (2007). The cover art features the entrance to a desolate amusement park in winter night, with a giant full moon , parts of a roller coaster , and the title of ...
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.