Mad About Rock

Tuomas Holopainen's 3-track demo earned him his first record deal with his freshly founded band NIGHTWISH back in 1996. 20 years later, with over 2,000 shows played and more than 8 million records sold - NIGHTWISH are the biggest European symphonic metal band. Reason enough for Nuclear Blast to celebrate this huge anniversary by releasing a 2CD compilation titled Decades, on March 9th, 2018. The band have released their first trailer, in which mastermind Tuomas Holopainen talks about the songs that made the cut for Decades. Watch the clip here and below: https://youtu.be/CeWMrytEH7I Tuomas comments: "Actually, for me personally, it's not a 'best of' because I think the more correct term would be 'the most essential ones' [...] If a person who has never heard of NIGHTWISH before would like to get an idea of what this band is about and has been about for the past 20 years, he would get the perfect picture on 'Decades'! That was like my ph...

Photo credit: Konsta Lemettinen Heart Tide has released a visualizer for a brand new track ''Medicate''. Arguably showing a glimpse of the heavier side, this is the tenth single released and the last this year. Speaking about the song: ''Medicate is absolutely the most ambitious thing I've ever written'' Samu Hietainen explains. ''I knew it was going the be the last song released so I wanted to make it feel like the last song on the record. A great build-up and lots of valleys and peaks. Production-wise I spent the most time on it. Obviously when a song is six minutes long, there are so much details you can work on and obsess over. In the end I do feel extremely satisfied with what the song became. I think it's massive.'' Medicate and the other nine singles released so far will be on Heart Tide's first ''mixtape'' called Vulnerable, which will come out on December 1st. Pre-orders will be available o...