Finnish symphonic metal titans Nightwish are about to close the gap between their latest release, 2015's Endless Forms Most Beautiful, and their next studio work. Early Thursday morning, the band announced on their Facebook page the name and make-up of what will be their ninth studio album, Human. :||: Nature. The disc will be their second with singer Floor Jansen, formerly of After Forever and ReVamp.
The record will be a double album, with the second disc being one full epic track split into eight parts. Such a record would be a first for Nightwish, though spanning, sweeping stories are nothing new for them, given their 2011 effort Imaginaerum.
The tracklisting reads as such:
Disc 1:
01. Music
02. Noise
03. Shoemaker
04. Harvest
05. Pan
06. How's The Heart?
07. Procession
08. Tribal
09. Endlessness
Disc 2:
01. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Vista
02. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Blue
03. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Green
04. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Moors
05. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Aurorae
06. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Quiet As The Snow
07. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Anthropocene (incl. "Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal")
08. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Ad Astra
Pre-orders will open up for the album on February 7th, with the album being released on Nuclear Blast Records on April 10th.
