Wow! Indonesia Enters Nightwish Concert Tour Point For 2023

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JAKARTA - Finnish symphonic metal troop, Nightwish postponed their Asia tour which was originally scheduled to be held this year to next year. The COVID-10 pandemic is still the main cause.

The good news, unexpectedly, they added Indonesia to their tour dates. To be precise, for January 17, 2023 at Istora Senayan, Jakarta.

"In a few days we will actually be standing on stage again in Asia. Unfortunately, as you have guessed, it has to be postponed until 2023," Nightwish wrote on social media on Sunday evening Indonesian time.

"The good news, we added dates in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia!" further information.

Nightwish released their ninth studio album, Human. :II: Nature. in April 2020 via Nuclear Blast. It is a double album containing nine tracks on the main CD and one full length track, divided into eight chapters, on the second CD.

Currently, Nightwish fronts Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards, piano, synthesizers), Emppu Vuorinen (guitar), Troy Donockley (uilleann pipes, tin whistle, low whistle, guitars, bouzouki, bodhrán), Kai Hahto (drums, percussion), and Floor Jansen (vocals).

Jansen herself made her live debut as vocalist for Nightwish on October 1, 2012 at the Sodo Showbox in Seattle, Washington following the sudden departure of the band's lead singer, Anette Olzon.

Jansen officially joined Nightwish in 2013 and made his recording debut with the group on the 2015 album Endless Forms Most Beautiful.

In his solo concert at AFAS Live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on September 3 last year, Jansen performed the classic Nightwish song, Ever Dream. The show marked the end of Jansen's Dutch tour after being postponed three times. Tickets, sold out

Last summer, Jansen said in an appearance on the podcast "Breaking Absolutes With Peter Orullian" that he had been working on a solo album since shortly before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"It really sparked my own creativity that I haven't used in years," he says.

Jansen also discussed the prospect of making a solo album during a 2020 interview with Metal Hammer magazine. At that time, he said he wanted to make work outside of rock and metal music.

"I wanted to make an album that was a little different — not because I was bored, but because if you're already in one of the biggest bands in your own genre, and you have someone like Tuomas Holopainen as a songwriter, I don't really see that I'm going to do that. add anything else by making another metal album of his own," he explains.

Earlier in 2020, Jansen talked about a possible musical direction for his solo album during an Instagram Live chat. He revealed, the material that will reside in the album will be very much different from Nightwish.

"I couldn't imagine it was going to be a rock or metal album - because I've played rock, and with metal I've done a lot. And I'm already in one of the best bands, I think, that will be on that album, according to In my opinion, according to my taste," said Jansen.

"I don't mean to stop working with Nightwish, but to make something that can coexist," he concluded.