Anette has revealed the news about her pregnancy in her blog. Nightwish band members are happy for her pregnancy. According to information on her blog, Anette is feeling extremely good and she has almost done half of the pregnancy, so we can expect a new member of Nightwish in early summer.

Since Anette will give birth in early summer and recording of new album begins in the autumn 2010, release of new album is not jeopardized, says manager Nightwish EWO Pohjola.

Congratulations to Anette from Nightwish Slovenia team.

It has been long since the last round of Nightmail, so Nightwish team have decided to finally break the silence. Since everything in the Nightwish camp is rather quiet at the moment, they will do things a bit different this year:

Instead of individual rounds of questions, you can ask questions to any member of the band, their crew or the management. The first Nightmail will be next month, more rounds to follow throughout the year. As always, the answers to your questions will be posted on the website in the following month.

Nightmail

Latest news for all Nightwish fans about upcomong Nightwish album:

• - Tuomas has finished 9 songs,
• - band mambers will meet for rehearsals, arranging songs and making a demo in summer 2010,
• - recording new album in studio will start in fall 2010,
• - album will be released earliest in fall 2011.

The plans are rough and it might be changed.

Season Of Mist's "The Islander" t-shirt is now also available from the Nightwish-Shop.

Nightwish-Shop.

We wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010!

Nightwish Slovenija team

Season Of Mist have designed an exclusive "The Islander" T-shirt which is available only in France and through their own e-shop. This officially approved shirt "The Islander" was designed by artist Jérôme Cross.
You can order T-shirt here.

Anette Olzon will join the Finnish rock band THE RASMUS on stage this Friday, November 20 at The Dome 52 in Graz, Austria to perform THE RASMUS new single, "October & April". The concert will be broadcast on Germany's RTL 2 station on November 27.

U.K.s Terrorizer magazine recently conducted an interview with NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen. A few excerpts from the chat follows below.

Last time around you went into the new album with so much up in the air, who would be the vocalist on it being the biggest hurdle you had to get over. Does it feel like a different process this time around? Are you happier about heading back to the writing desk?
Tuomas: Much much happier, so much more light at the end of the tunnel. I have a very clear vision of the next album already, which feels really weird but I have all the song titles. I know how many songs there are going to be. I have four songs done already even though it's still pretty preliminary, the whole album, but I have a good idea what it's going to be like and uh, it's still going to be metal but I thinks it's going to be a bit brighter than "Dark Passion Play".

Brighter - more pop songs? No more long epic symphonic compositions? They must be a sod to write.
Tuomas: No, they come much easier for me. I remember "Creek Mary's Blood", that's eight-and-a-half minutes, that came out in two hours. "The Poet And The Pendulum" in just a couple of days, same thing with "Ghost Love Score", they just come up naturally, I don't know. But then again a song like "Nemo", I couldn't get it together. I worked for months and months and it's only four minutes.

That's surprising!
Tuomas: I guess. You need, to make a song which is only four minutes and make it interesting and timeless, that's the ultimate challenge. And ballads, also I think ballads are the hardest thing to do because to make a really genuinely touching slow song, which is not cheesy, that is incredibly hard. I think "Walking In The Air" is a good example of a perfect ballad, that's beautiful, I think the best song ever written, by Howard Blake, and it's not a bit cheesy.

Well it is, a little bit. Actually it was suprising last night when you played it live – we'd not heard that for years.
Tuomas: That was Annette's choice, she really loves the song and she just asked is there anyway we could do "Walking In The Air" acoustically in Hartwall? and I thought that's a really good idea, lets give it a try. And we tried it out and it was the highlight of the show for me last night.

You can find a full interviw here.

Nightwish is showing respect for Finnish singer/songwriter veteran Jaakko Teppo by recording his song "Hilma ja Onni" in Finnish. Jaakko Teppo is well known in Finland of his humorous protest songs associated with the labor movement. 15 years ago a serious illness forced Jaakko Teppo to withdraw from the stages. Today many of the brightest stars in Finland are honoring Jaakko Teppo's legacy for Finnish music culture by recording his songs on tribute album "Pörsänmäen Sanomat". Nightwish's rendition of "Hilma ja Onni" is available on iTunes & CDON.COM and the album "Pörsänmäen Sanomat – Tribuutti Jaakko Tepolle" can be ordered through www.fanzone/jaakkoteppo.

The profit of the sales is directed to Jaakko Teppo. Thank you for your support!

Nightwish will release Lokikirja-box on November 11th 2009. It will contain all their albums and with a box comes a nice booklet with pictures and lyrics.

Lokikirja-box contains albums:

• - Angels Fall First
• - Oceanborn
• - Wishmaster
• - Over The Hills And Far Away
• - Century Child
• - Bless The Child - The Rarities
• - Once
• - Dark Passion Play

Nightwish will return with a new album in 2011.

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