It was one of the weirdest and most unreal experiences of my life. Anyone who’s ever had a computer’s hard drive die on them knows the feeling. You hear an ominous rattling sound when you go to turn on your computer, followed not by your operating system, but by your BIOS screen. Your computer doesn’t […]
For legal reasons I can’t name the A&R rep or the label he worked for, but let’s just say there was a time – years ago when all we had was a demo of our album “The Unheard Warning” – when I was emailing with a guy from one of the biggest record labels in […]
A lot has happened in ten years. Our music has played on the radio in the UK, Germany and Japan; we were offered a record deal by one of the biggest labels in metal – which we actually refused – and now, after discovering the magic of advertising, quite a few people worldwide have referred to […]
Recently, we decided to make covers of some of the songs we’ve always loved. We had so much fun doing this, trying to capture the magic of the originals to the best of our ability, that we wanted to share this with our amazing listeners. Hopefully this wasn’t too ambitious – Nightwish songs aren’t exactly […]
The lyric, “Autumn without color, snow without footprints,” was the foundation of what might be the saddest song I’ve written, “Gravetender.” Adrienne legitimately cried a little bit while singing it – you can actually hear her voice break a little on the chorus line “longing to dream, there at least I have remembrance” – and […]
