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YOUR COMPLETELY UNREADABLE LOGO FIX

The lads over at Metalsucks.net have supplied us with yet another mind-boggling band logo for you guys to take a guess at. Get this one right and you could score yourself a copy of Nightwish's newest, Made In Hong Kong. GO HERE to check out the contest now!

NIGHTWISH REVIEW & PHOTO GALLERY ON BRAVEWORDS.COM

Finland's two largest exports were fittingly together in New York City, NIGHTWISH at the Nokia. Despite NYC being Swine Flu central in the US, our intrepid musicians had no fears dealing with a throng of well-wishers pressing the flesh, hugging and the occasional cheek-to-cheek buss. "We're used to it," says singer Anette Olzon of annual flu bugs. "Every year there's a flu from Asia and we get a large influx (in Sweden).

Take a look at the photos HERE!

Read the entire review HERE!

METAL INJECTION NIGHTWISH TICKET GIVEAWAY

MetalInjection.net and Nightwish have teamed up to give away a pair of tickets to every show on the current "Made in Hong Kong" Tour! All you have to do is sign up for the Nightwish email list!

Take a look at the brand new FREE SHIT section and enter to win! CLICK HERE!

NIGHTWISH TOUR DATES!

Nightwish is performing at a city near you! Take a look at the upcoming tour dates and secure your tickets before it's too late!

Don't forget to buy your copy of Nightwish's latest release "Made in Hong Kong (and various other places);" info is on their RoadrunnerRecords.com release page. CLICK HERE!

5/1/2009 Webster Theatre
31 Webster St.
Hartford, CT 06114 United States All Ages: NIGHTWISH Headline, Volbeat support .
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5/2/2009 Nokia Theatre
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036 United States All Ages: NIGHWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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5/3/2009 Crocodile Rock
520-524 Hamilton St.
Allentown, PA 18101 United States All Ages: NIGHTWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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5/5/2009 Sonar
407 E. Saratoga Street
Baltimore, MD 21202 United States All Ages: NIGHTWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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5/6/2009 Club Oasis
8114 Shobe Lane
Louisville, KY 40223 United States All Ages: NIGHWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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5/8/2009 Pop's
1403 Mississippi Ave
Sauget, IL 62201 United States All Ages: NIGHTWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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5/9/2009 Diamond Ballroom
8001 S. Eastern Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73149 United States All Ages: NIGHTWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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5/11/2009 Pavillion @ Concrete Street
717 Power St
Corpus Christi, TX 85201 United States All Ages: NIGHTWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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5/12/2009 Warehouse Live
813 St. Emanuel Street
Houston, TX 77003 United States All Ages: NIGHTWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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5/14/2009 The Masquerade
695 North Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA 30308 United States All Ages: NIGHTWISH Headline, Volbeat support.
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AMARANTH AVAILABLE FOR 24 HOURS... STARTING NOW!

From the new album "Made In Hong Kong (And various other places)," Nightwish and Roadrunner Records are proud to give away FREE, the compelling live track Amaranth until midnight tonight!

Head over to the special download page HERE to get the track!

Like what you hear? Purchase the entire album HERE!

NIGHTWISH MP3 DOWNLOAD THIS THURSDAY!

Thursday night at Midnight, Roadrunner Records is proud to bring you the live version of Amaranth off the new Nightwish album, "Made In Hong Kong (And Various Other Places)."

Pick up the new album in stores tomorrow, or get your free sample Thursday night!

COMING IN MARCH!

NIGHTWISH US TOUR DATES POSTED!

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have confirmed their two-week May 2009 U.S. tour. Danish metal rock 'n' rollers Volbeat are the support act for NIGHTWISH's final North American Dark Passion Play tour. Pre-sale tickets are available now at http://enterthevault.com

5/1/2009 Webster Theatre Hartford, CT
5/2/2009 Nokia Theatre New York, NY
5/3/2009 Crocodile Rock Allentown, PA
5/5/2009 Sonar Baltimore, MD
5/6/2009 Club Oasis Louisville, KY
5/8/2009 Pop's Sauget, IL
5/9/2009 Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, OK
5/11/2009 Pavilion @ Concrete Street Corpus Christi, TX
5/12/2009 Warehouse Live Houston, TX
5/14/2009 The Masquerade Atlanta, GA

SOMETHING'S UP ON THE ISLANDER VID PAGE

GO HERE to get in on an exclusive contest happening at the video page home of Nightwish's "The Islander". The contest is way easy and, yes, you can win some pretty cool free shit by participating. GO GO GO GO!

NEW SITE CHANGES!

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

NIGHTWISH GALLERY POSTED!

Denise Elfenbein took some great shots at the Nightwish show in Tempe, Arizona at The Marquee Theatre.

Click the pic to check 'em out!

WHAT WAS NIGHTWISH DOING ON FRIDAY?

This past Friday, August 29th, Nightwish played the first show of their final Dark Passion Play tour.

The concert was held at The Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA. Finnish friends Sonata Arctica were the openers for this ass-kicking gig, and I speak these words from experience, by the way.

Read a bit of Brave Word & Bloody Knuckles' pre-show "Hot Flashes" here.

Then check out pictures below!

Gallery 1

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THE SOUND OF NIGHTWISH REBORN

As Finland's symphonic metal heroes Nightwish begin what will be the third and final US tour on their landmark Dark Passion Play album, they've helped us put together an album of B-sides and rare tracks entitled The Sound of Nightwish Reborn which not only contains album B-sides like "Escapist" and "While Your Lips Are Still Red" but also rare demo recordings from the days before Annette Olzen was chosen to front the band! With bassist and co-vocalist Marco handling vocals you can hear that despite a change in vocalists, Nightwish was still firing on all cylinders. In fact, they sounded like a band that probably had more to prove than ever. This is a must for any Nightwish fan and only available via iTunes and your regular fine online retailers. GO HERE to get it now.

WHO'S SEEING NIGHTWISH THIS TOUR?

Your favorite Finnish metallers NIGHTWISH kicked off a third U.S. tour in support of their new album, Dark Passion Play. It began this past Friday and will run through the end of September.

Check out this awesome live gallery by Jeremy Saffer taken at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts.

ATTENTION: LOS ANGELES NIGHTWISH FANS!

In celebration of Nightwish returning for their final US tour on Dark Passion Play , Live Nation is offering the following special:

For the Wiltern show in Los Angeles on Sept 13
Starting on Thursday August 28 and ending on Sunday August 31
All tickets for the show will be 10$

This special is limited to 500 tickets only
tickets will be available through Ticketmaster and Enterthevault.com.

NIGHTWISH INVADES THE U.S.

Finland's Nightwish will once again tour U.S. soil, hitting all major markets and cities along the way. The band will bring its massively popular yet refreshingly unique blend of progressive Euro metal, fueled by the siren-like vocals of Anette Olzon, to North American shores for the third and final trek in support of last year's Dark Passion Play, which has sold nearly 75,000 copies since its September 2007 release.

Coinciding with the tour, the band will also release a digital-only collection of demos and B-sides titled The Sound of Nightwish Reborn, available through all digital service providers, on September 2. This release, which clocks in at nearly 70 minutes of music, retains "must have" status for all Nightwish diehards, since it includes a bevy of exclusive material, such as demo versions of songs from the Dark Passion Play sessions that were recorded prior to Olzon joining the band and that feature Marco Tapani Hietala handling the vocals, as well as B-sides.

The track listing for The Sound of Nightwish Reborn is as follows. Songs marked with a (*) indicate pre-Olzon demo versions.

1.Eva (Demo version) - Demo session, pre-album*

2.Reach ("Amaranth" Demo) - Demo session, pre-album*

3.While Your Lips Are Still Red - B-side, pre-album

4.Escapist - B-side, Album session

5.The Poet and The Pendulum - Demo version, pre-album*

6.Bye Bye Beautiful (DJ Orkidea remix) - Album session

7.Meadows of Heaven" - Orchestral version, album session

8.Amaranth - Orchestral version, album session

9.The Escapist - Instrumental Version, album session

Tour dates are listed below, as well.

08/29/08 The Trocadero, Philadelphia

08/30/08 The Palladium, Worcester

09/1/08 Metropolis, Montreal

09/2/08 Docks Nightclub, Toronto

09/4/08 Agora Ballroom, Cleveland

09/5/08 Harpo's, Detroit

09/6/08 House of Blues, Chicago

09/9/08 Showbox SoDo, Seattle

09/10/08 Roseland Grill, Portland

09/12/08 The Fillmore, San Francisco

09/13/08 The Wiltern, Los Angeles

09/14/08 Marquee Theatre, Tempe

09/16/08 Palladium Ballroom, Dallas

09/17/08 La Zona Rosa, Austin

09/19/08 Meridian, Houston

09/20/08 House of Blues, New Orleans

09/21/08 Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg

09/23/08 Valarium, Knoxville

09/24/08 Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte

09/26/08 Rams Head Live, Baltimore

09/27/08 Nokia Theatre, New York

Nightwish are an international metal sensation, holding four times Platinum certification in their native Finland and a Gold certification in Germany. The band's female-fronted, epic yet goth metal forces people to stand up and take notice. The band has impressively moved 75,000 units of Dark Passion Play on the back of 11 sold-out U.S. shows, proving that Nightwish are the type of band that inspire fierce and dedicated loyalty. Prior to that, the band released Once in 2004 and enjoyed their first American tour, which was completely sold out.

COMPLETELY UNREADABLE BAND LOGO OF THE WEEK!

Alright kids its that time again. Here is the newest Completely Unreadable Band Logo for the week from the lads at Metalsucks.net. Three lucky winners get a copy of Nightwish's Dark Passion Play. CLICK HERE TO ENTER!

CHECK OUT NIGHTWISH'S "THE ISLANDER"

Check out "The Islander", the newest video from Nightwish, on the Roadrunner YouTube Channel!

You can Subscribe to the channel to stay in touch with the newest videos we've got on tap! Ten lucky subscribers will be the proud recipient of TEN FREE CDS! Head to the Roadrunner YouTube Channel and SUBSCRIBE NOW!

NIGHTWISH - NEW VIDEO POSTED

Up now is the video for Nightwish's latest single, "The Islander" from their latest album, Dark Passion Play. The clip was was shot last autumn in Rovaniemi, Finland and was directed by Stobe Harju.

Click here or below, it is this weeks feature on our video page!