The Finnish Fireworks Championships were held this week, and the company Pyroman enlisted some special help for their entry – they asked Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish to supply the music which their explosives would be synched to! So as you watch this six-minute clip, you’ll hear a custom edit of the score to Imaginaerum. (They ultimately came in second.) Enjoy!
Nightwish are on the road in North America right now, supporting Imaginaerum – find a show near you!
And if you’re coming to the New York show on Saturday, September 15, be on the lookout for a guy in a Roadrunner Records T-shirt – I’ll have two copies of the limited edition Trials of Imaginaerum 10″ to give away to the first two people who find me inside the venue!
Finnish symphonic rockers NIGHTWISH have checked in with the following update:
“Less than 175 tickets are left for for New York City on September 15th (buy your tickets now as this will sell out by the weekend) and under 200 tickets in Columbus on September 21st, Denver on September 28th and Seattle on October 1st.
Enterthevault.com is running fan appreciation specials in Montreal for September 19th, where you can buy $25 tickets this week only with a $2.99 service charge. Chicago for the same $20 promotion from last week, with the $4.99 service charge… and the rest of the tour, all tickets carry the $4.99 service charge.”
Nightwish kick off their Imaginaerum North American Tour 2012 today (September 12th) with openers KAMELOT. Dates for the tour are as follows:
September
12 – Center Stage – Atlanta, GA
13 – Center Stage – Atlanta, GA – SOLD OUT –
16 – Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA
17 – The Palladium – Worcester, MA
19 – CEPSUM University of Montreal – Montreal QC
20 – Sound Academy – Toronto, ON
21 – Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH
23 – Royal Oak Music Theatre – Royal Oak, MI
24 – Congress Theater – Chicago, IL
25 – Pop’s – Sauget, IL
27 – Beaumont Club – Kansas City, MO
28 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
29 – The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
October
1 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
2 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
3 – The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
5 – The Grove – Anaheim, CA
6 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
7 – The Marquee – Tempe, AZ
9 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK
10 – Emo’s – Austin, TX
11 – House Of Blues – New Orleans, LA
13 – Revolution – Ft Lauderdale, FL
14 – House of Blues Lake Buena Vista – Lake Buena Vista, FL
The soundtrack for the new Nightwish movie Imaginaerum – entitled Imaginaerum by Nightwish: The Score – will be released on November 9th. Check out audio samples below:
The Score is currently available for pre-order via the official Nightwish shop, found here. It will be available via Amazon.com soon.
Nightwish’s upcoming Imaginaerum fantasy film based on the Nightwish album of the same name and it’s 13 songs will see general release in theatres in Finland on November 23rd. New still photos from the film can be viewed at this location. Check out two below:
Finnish symphonic rockers NIGHTWISH have checked in with the following update:
“Atlanta’s second show (September 13th) is sold out! Many others expected to sell out soon (first Atlanta show, NYC, Columbus…). Also, for Chicago on Sept 24th, there is a special promotion to run on Enterthevault.com that will sell 100 General Admission tickets for only $20. This is to our fans only and designed to get the less financially fortunate a chance at tickets for the biggest venue on the tour. Still running is the $4.99 service charge for all tickets, on sale now.”
Nightwish will be hitting the road on September 12th on the Imaginaerum North American Tour 2012 with openers KAMELOT. Dates for the tour are as follows:
September
12 – Center Stage – Atlanta, GA
13 – Center Stage – Atlanta, GA – SOLD OUT –
16 – Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA
17 – The Palladium – Worcester, MA
19 – CEPSUM University of Montreal – Montreal QC
20 – Sound Academy – Toronto, ON
21 – Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH
23 – Royal Oak Music Theatre – Royal Oak, MI
24 – Congress Theater – Chicago, IL
25 – Pop’s – Sauget, IL
27 – Beaumont Club – Kansas City, MO
28 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
29 – The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
October
1 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
2 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
3 – The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
5 – The Grove – Anaheim, CA
6 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
7 – The Marquee – Tempe, AZ
9 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK
10 – Emo’s – Austin, TX
11 – House Of Blues – New Orleans, LA
13 – Revolution – Ft Lauderdale, FL
14 – House of Blues Lake Buena Vista – Lake Buena Vista, FL
The soundtrack for the new Nightwish movie Imaginaerum – entitled Imaginaerum by Nightwish: The Score – will be released on November 9th. Check out audio samples below:
The Score is currently available for pre-order via the official Nightwish shop, found here. It will be available via Amazon.com soon.
NIGHTWISH‘s long-awaited “Imaginaerum” film — based on the band’s album of the same name — will be released theatrically in Finland on November 23.
The movie will have its premiere on November 10 at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland, where the audience will be treated to both a full-scale NIGHTWISH concert and the first-ever public screening of the movie.
Eagerly anticipated around the world, “Imaginaerum” creates a musical fantasy world in the vein of David Lynch, Neil Gaiman, and Cirque du Soleil. The movie is an innovative mixture of story-telling and music, an extraordinary tale of the power of imagination… and what’s ultimately important in life.
Shot and post-produced in Canada, the movie was directed by Stobe Harju and produced by Solar Films, and features appearances by all NIGHTWISH members. The screenplay is based on a wild vision that Tuomas Holopainen, the mastermind of the band, devised after the album “Dark Passion Play” came out in 2007.
“I though of how we could take our expression that had already became pretty ambitious and grandiose to the next level, and that’s when I knew I wanted to tell a story, and to tell it with love and piety,” said Tuomas.
According to Holopainen, finishing the movie has been an eventful and challenging journey that has sometimes demanded superhuman dedication from the production crew.
“I want to already thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. Together we’ve managed to create something innovative, strange, and timeless,” Holopainen said.
The “Imaginaerum” screening at Hartwall Arena will be preceded by a show by the musicians NIGHTWISH themselves in what will be their last concert in Finland this year.
The official soundtrack of the movie, “Imaginaerum By Nightwish: The Score”, will be released on the day before the premiere — Friday, November 9. The album features 13 grandiose, unreleased re-interpretations of “Imaginaerum” tracks by Petri Alanko.
Several new photos from the “Imaginaerum” movie shoot can be found at this location.
“Imaginaerum” is one of the projects which received grants from the Finnish government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation. The movie, directed by Stobe Harju, about an old man on his deathbed who glimpses a childhood dream in which he refuses to grow old, and fights aging with his imagination, reportedly got $575,000 toward its $3.7 million budget.
During a September 2011 interview with Petri Silas of Finland’s Soundi magazine, NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen explained that all the filming for the “Imaginaerum” movie was done in Canada with mostly Canadian actors/actresses. Post-production took place in Canada and Finland. He aso revealed the names of the actors who have two of the main roles in the film: Marianne Farley and Quinn Lord.
Speaking to Loudwire, Holopainen stated about the plot of the “Imaginaerum” film, “Basically it’s about this old guy who used to be a composer and he’s really sick; he’s lying on his death bed in a hospital and he’s going through his life, through his dreams — that’s the basic storyline. It’s all about praising life and life’s beauty, imagination and all the strife and the bad stuff we have to face.
“[The storyline] came from the director; I just had the twelve ideas, the twelve visions. He basically wrote the script and storyline around those originally visions and the only one we had to leave out was the ‘Ghost River’ part, because we didn’t have the finance to realize that vision.”
Asked if the band appears in the film at all, Tuomas said, “A little bit, we are seen in two different scenes as a band, playing in the background. That’s something that I really emphasized to the director, ‘Please don’t put the band into the movie,’ because we want to do a believable story and we have no idea how to act. We are not actors so if your give us some lines and we tried to act, it would look goofy. He insisted to put us into the movie because it’s our brainchild, so we’re just playing in there as a band; it’s a good compromise.”
“Imaginaerum” film cast:
* Francis X. McCarthy
* Quinn Lord
* Marianne Farley
* Joanna Noyes
* Ilkka Villi
* Keyanna Fielding
* Ron Lea
* Victoria Jung
* Hélène Robitaille
* Stefan Demers
* Anette Olzon
* Marco Hietala
* Tuomas Holopainen
* Emppu Vuorinen
* Jukka Nevalainen
The “Imaginaerum” album was released in the U.S. on January 10 via Roadrunner Records.
New stills from Imaginaerum, the movie based on Nightwish‘s latest album, have been released; check them out below! The movie will be released in the band’s native Finland on November 23.
The movie was filmed in Canada, and finished in Finland, and its story explores the dreams of a dying man. Nightwish appear in it, but only briefly; as mainman Tuomas Holopainen explained in an interview with Loudwire.com, “[We] are seen in two different scenes as a band, playing in the background. That’s something that I really emphasized to the director, ‘Please don’t put the band into the movie,’ because we want to do a believable story and we have no idea how to act. We are not actors so if your give us some lines and we tried to act, it would look goofy. He insisted to put us into the movie because it’s our brainchild, so we’re just playing in there as a band; it’s a good compromise.” Nightwish tour dates in support of Imaginaerum the album begin in just about three weeks; find a show near you!
NIGHTWISH‘s long-awaited “Imaginaerum” film — based on the band’s album of the same name and its 13 songs — will be released theatrically in Finland on November 23.
“Imaginaerum” is one of the projects which recently received grants from the Finnish government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation. The movie, directed by Stobe Harju, about an old man on his deathbed who glimpses a childhood dream in which he refuses to grow old, and fights aging with his imagination, reportedly got $575,000 toward its $3.7 million budget.
During a September 2011 interview with Petri Silas of Finland’s Soundi magazine, NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen revealed that all the filming for the “Imaginaerum” movie was done in Canada with mostly Canadian actors/actresses. Post-production took place in Canada and Finland. He aso revealed the names of the actors who have two of the main roles in the film: Marianne Farley and Quinn Lord.
“Imaginaerum” film cast:
* Francis X. McCarthy
* Quinn Lord
* Marianne Farley
* Joanna Noyes
* Ilkka Villi
* Keyanna Fielding
* Ron Lea
* Victoria Jung
* Hélène Robitaille
* Stefan Demers
* Anette Olzon
* Marco Hietala
* Tuomas Holopainen
* Emppu Vuorinen
* Jukka Nevalainen
Several photos from the “Imaginaerum” movie shoot can be found at this location. A couple of the pictures are also available below.
The “Imaginaerum” album was released in the U.S. on January 10 via Roadrunner Records.
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