Nightwish have announced their first album in five years with Human. :II: Nature. The follow-up to 2015’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful will be released on April 10th via Nuclear Blast. The record will be a double album as disc one will consist of nine tracks and the second disc will feature one long song divided into eight chapters. 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 Kinnue while the mastering was done by Mika Jussila at Finnvox. This marks their overall ninth full-length effort and second album featuring Floor Jansen on vocals who replaced Anette Olzon in 2012. Pre-orders for album number nine will start on February 7th.

Track List: 

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