

The lead single, “Noise,” was inspired by the hit dystopian series Black Mirror.

The previous album took a side step away from the more made-up world into the real world and the magic of the real world in that sense.” “But that’s not really about fairy tales but about people. “It’s all pretty real-world apart from ‘Pan,’ ” she says. Jansen notes that the record is mostly concerned with the real world. While past Nightwish albums frequently offered lyrics focused on nature and fairytale themes, keyboardist-composer Tuomas Holopainen has spoken about how themes revolving around humanity - everything from empathy to imagination to technological interaction - unite the new album. 11 on Billboard’s Hard Rock Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, respectively, and has accumulated 246.3 million on-demand streams, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Media. (Those events are also postponed right now.) Jansen feels gratified that, despite Dutch media originally missing the boat on Nightwish’s music, her homeland now appreciates her vocal prowess and the diverse Finnish group that has turned her into a global name. The resultant media explosion led to her being booked at the Dutch festival Pinkpop and Nightwish for two nights at Amsterdam’s 17,000-seat Ziggo Dome, a huge achievement for the band. Watch a message from Jansen during self-quarantine below: Not that I needed to slow down, but it’s nice to create a contrast.” “This is something else, and it was nice for me to do something a bit easier. “It was supposed to be quite from Nightwish’s big productions,” Jansen tells Billboard. The shows let her focus on both softer and harder renditions of songs, including material from her previous metal bands After Forever and ReVamp.

Along with two Beste Zangers performance dates scheduled for late May, the final show - which was scheduled for the 6,000-seat AFAS Live in Amsterdam - has been postponed because of the coronavirus crisis. 1 hits in Holland, including a cover of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow,” and a soaring duet with Dutch opera singer-actor Henk Poort on “The Phantom of the Opera.”Īs a result of her newfound Dutch celebrity, Jansen booked 10 solo shows in Holland in February at 500- and 1,000-seat venues that quickly sold out. She tackled genres like Latin pop and reggaeton, and being chosen as the best singer on three different weeks led to the recorded performances being officially released. Jansen did Beste Zangers to change narrow-minded views about metal, and to show her dynamic range. The “best singer” had their song released as a single. On the program, a group of singers of varying notoriety went to Ibiza to learn various songs to perform each week. Hopefully we can use this as a reference to see where the band is as they record their ninth album.While Jansen and the symphonic metal band have flown below the radar of her Dutch homeland, her appearance on Dutch music show Beste Zangers ( Best Singers), which aired last August through October, turned that all around. But so far, everything is lining up just like it did for EFMB. EFMB came out on various dates around the world in late March 2015.
