Sad news for Nightwish fans who planned to see the band’s final live performance before their indefinite hiatus from touring tonight at the Tons Of Rock festival 2023 in Norway’s capital Oslo: Said performance has been cancelled. The reason for the cancellation is said to be health issues of Nightwish frontwoman Floor Jansen who is heavily pregnant at the moment:

The cancellation means that Nightwish‘s performance in Vaasa in their home country Finland last Saturday (17 June 2023) already marked the band’s final live performance before their indefinite hiatus from touring.

The vacancy at the Tons Of Rock festival has already been filled by the Norwegian alternative rockers Madrugada:

Also the organisers of the Tons Of Rock festival express great joy and gratitude regarding the replacement:

Tuomas Holopainen reveals new information about “Yesterwynde”

Tuomas Holopainen, songwriter and keyboardist of the band Nightwish, revealed some new information about Nightwish’s upcoming album “Yesterwynde” in an interview with the German Radio Station Rock Antenne.

Tuomas Holopainen said that Nightwish wants to tell “a story which celebrates time, memories, humanity and mortality” (Tuomas Holopainen) with this new album. The new music will feature the topic evolution, which is a common topic in the music of this band in the last years. The songwriter finds it comforting to think that “we are part of an unbroken chain of human beings” (Tuomas Holopainen).

The name of the new Nightwish album “Yesterwynde” describes the feeling of the theme of the album, what Tuomas described in the words above. The name came to be as Tuomas watched a YouTube clip, which portrayed footage from the late 19th century, which had been coloured.

Nightwish’s typical sounds and familiar elements will still be in the new album – the instruments, the two vocalists, the three different choirs and the orchestra. The album however will feature also new elements, for example some 80ties vibes in some of the songs (track nr. 4 and nr. 7).

Tuomas Holopainen talked a lot about this new track, nr. 7, “The Children of ‘Ata”. The song is about six children that got stranded in the 1960ties on the uninhabited island Ata in the Southern Pacific and survived there alone for 15 months.