NIGHTWISH Performs First 'Official' Concert With New
Singer
Finnish/Swedish symphonic metal band NIGHTWISH made its "official"
live debut with new singer Anette Olzon last night (Saturday,
October 6) in Tel Aviv, Israel. Fan-filmed footage from the concert
can be viewed below.
The group's U.S. tour kicks off on October 15 in West Springfield,
Virginia.
NIGHTWISH mainman Tuomas Holopainen told a Finnish TV station that
the band has just finished shooting the third video from its latest
CD, "Dark Passion Play". The clip for an as-yet-undisclosed song
was shot in Rovaniemi, Finland with director Tuomas "Stobe" Harju.
Ilkka Immonen of Lapland Studio Oy produced the video.
Commented Tuomas: "Initially we didn't intend to make a third
video, a follow-up to 'Amaranth' and 'Bye Bye Beautiful', but when
the city of Rovaniemi approached us and invited us to film it
there, we just just had to jump at the opportunity.
He continued, "Rovaniemi offered us the perfect location to shoot
the video. This kind of Lapp wilderness feeling really comes out in
this video a sort of Lapp wilderness combined with the surrealism
of Salvador Dali.
"I don't want to reveal the song that were doing the clip for yet,
but I can say that the video kinda goes hand in hand with the
lyrics of the song, for once."
NIGHTWISH shot two videos in Los Angeles this past summer with
Antti Jokinen, reportedly at a cost of 270,000 euros (approximately
$362,000). "We saved time and money by doing two videos in one
session," Tuomas Holopainen told the Finnish newspaper
Ilta-Sanomat.
Vids here.