NIGHTWISH Announces New Album, ‘Human. :II: Nature.’

NIGHTWISH will release their ninth studio album, “Human. :II: Nature.” , on April 10 via Nuclear Blast. The long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” will be a double album containing nine tracks on the main CD and one long track, divided into eight chapters on CD 2.

“Human. :II: Nature.” was recorded from August to October 2019 at Röskö campsite, Petrax Studios and Troykington castle, as well as Finnvox Studios, by Tero Kinnunen, Mikko Karmila and Troy Donockley. The mixing was done by Mikko Karmila at Finnvox, with Tuomas Holopainen and Tero Kinnunen. Mastering was done by Mika Jussila at Finnvox.

The track listing will be as follows:
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

The album pre-order will start on February 7.

NIGHTWISH frontwoman Floor Jansen recently told FaceCulture that she was “very, very happy” with how the new disc turned out. “Already with the first notes, I was, like, ‘Oh, yeah. There we go,'” she said. “It’s as much NIGHTWISH thing you might expect from us as, ‘Wow! What’s this now? What’s happening?'”

She continued: “I can’t really say too much about it, because there are a couple of things that are the same, a couple of things that are different. But all I can say is I’m very happy with it and I’m very excited about it. And I think people that already knew NIGHTWISH will really enjoy this.”

NIGHTWISH’s new album will mark the band’s second full-length effort with the Dutch singer, who has been touring with the group since 2012.