“Between vampires and Bedouin tents Nightwish started recording the new album!” so says their drummer Jukka Nevalainen on the band’s official website.
As always, NW fans can find the details in band’s pictures,  just go to see at: http://www.nightwish.com/

It’s very nice to see how they transformed a home in professional recording studio, and to see the fireplace and a bunch of wood for it, just behind the mixer, it’s really cool! This is Nightwish, who knows how to entertain and have fun at work.

Jukka Nevalainen commented: “After spending an intensive summer camp on Finnish countryside and putting a final touch to the demo, we started recording the drums for our next album. We gathered together yesterday and set up the drums and all the recording devices. Today was mostly spent just perfecting the sounds. Just like with our last album we got some back-up from Mr. Kai Hahto (Swallow The Sun & Wintersun), who is known to be able to conjure godly sounds by tuning the drums. The legendary duet of Mikko Karmila and TeeCee Kinnunen are taking care of the engineering again. Tonight ended with a complete take of the first song, so the recording session has now officially started! Jihaa!”

Source: http://www.nightwish.com