NIGHTWISH: 'The Islander' Single Details Revealed
March 24, 2008"The Islander", the new single from Finnish/Swedish symphonic metal band NIGHTWISH, will be released on May 21 and will include the following tracks:
01. The Islander
02. Escapist (instrumental version)
03. Meadows Of Heaven (orchestral version)
Additionally, it will include the videos for "The Islander" and "Bye Bye Beautiful".
Check out the "The Islander" single artwork at this location.
The video for "The Islander" was shot last autumn in Rovaniemi, Finland and was directed by Stobe Harju. The clip will premiere on April 14 at 7:00 p.m. (Finnish time) on MTV Finland's show "Spanking New".
NIGHTWISH will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests on Friday, April 4 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". Listen to the program live via the Internet between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. U.K. time at BBC.co.uk.
Warner Music Austria presented NIGHTWISH with gold-album awards for the band's latest CD, "Dark Passion Play", on February 28, 2008 prior to the group's sold-out concert in Vienna. The awards were handed out by Warner Music sales director Gnter Unter before an audience of 5,000 enthusiastic fans.
"Dark Passsion Play" has been certified quadruple-platium in Finland for sales in excess of 120,000 copies. The CD has also been certified platinum in Switzerland, and gold in Germany, Sweden and Poland.
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