We wish you a very merry Xmas !

And happy birthday to our beloved Tuomas :P !

- Nightwish will release a new MCD+DVD next March, called "Made In Hong-Kong (and various other places)". MCD was recorded during still continuing "Dark Passion Play World Tour". Release include also bonus-DVD with material from Israel to South-America, directed by Ville Lipiäinen. Tracklist of MCD will be published later :)

- According to Nuclear Blast Release Plan, "End Of An Era"-Blu-Ray's release is delayed again. New release date is March 27th, 2009.

- A DJ named "DJ Somy" released a "Amaranth" remixes single. You can listen to the songs and buy it by clicking here.

- Nightwish received "Radio Rock Finlandia" -award. Check the finnish language video + pictures from the event by clicking here.

- Nightwish's show in Paris next March 23rd, 2009, is now sold out !

- Don't forget to read the Nightmail with Emppu's answers !

ALIAS Production, tour promotor of Nightwish in France, has just announced it : Indica and Pain will be the guests for the shows in Paris next March !

- "Rethroned", Northern Kings' new album, will be out next November 19th. The tracklisting is as follows :
01. Training Montage (Vince DiCola (Rocky IV Soundtrack)) & Wanted Dead Or Alive (Bon Jovi)
02. Kiss From A Rose (Seal)
03. A View To Kill (Duran Duran)
04. Nothing Compares 2 U (Sinead O Connor)
05. My Way (Frank Sinatra)
06. Strangelove (Depeche Mode)
07. Take On Me (a-ha)
08. I Should Be So Lucky (Kylie Minogue)
09. Killer (Adamski feat. Seal)
10. Roisin Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend (Thin Lizzy)

You can listen to "Kiss From A Rose" on their Myspace page :
http://www.myspace.com/northernkings

The album-cover is available here.

- Nightwish were in Sao Paulo to meet the new F1 World Champion Hamilton ! A little picture is available.

- A new Slideshow video from the show of Nightwish in Colmar is available here. Many thanx to Juan Jimenez & Grégory Tran !

- A new Guitar tab (The Kinslayer) has been added to our tabs page. Thanks to Nicolas !

- The video for Pain's "Follow Me", featuring Anette, can be watched by clicking here !
- The video of Van Canto covering "Wishmaster" can be wactched by clicking here !
- The release of the "End Of An Era" Blu-Ray is once again delayed. New release date : February 27th, 2009.

"End Of An Era" Blu-Ray's release is delayed. It will be out on January, 30th 2009 ! :(

- Marco's Nightmail is available ! Click here to read it !

- Photos from Nightwish's show in Montréal are available by clicking here !

- the Moscow show is cancelled. The local promoter (JC-SOUND) was unable to fulfill every detail in the mutual Agreement for the show.

- Brother Firetribe, Emppu's side-project will be the supporting guests in the forthcoming Pain tour !

- New The Rasmus's album is out. A duet with Anette was planned but finally the song is not in the tracklisting, because it didn't fit with the album's concept. But the song will maybe be released in the next months as a B-side, in one of their next singles.

- Releases of "Special Deluxe Edition" (Europe) and "Special French Edition" (France only) of "Dark Passion Play" have been delayed to 17th and 20th of October.

- "Dark Passion Gallery"-book will be out next October 22th !

The 4 last shows in USA have been cancelled due to Anette's sudden severe illness. We don't have any more official info about this. We wish her a good recovery !

Van Canto, an "A Capella Metal" band, will cover "Wishmaster" in their forthcoming album called "Hero". You can hear a sample from this cover by clicking here !

"End Of An Era" will be released in Blu-Ray format on November 28th (Nuclear Blast) !

	Peter Tägtgren, leader of the band Pain, sent us a message (Thanks to Denis Goria) for the Nightwish fans in France : You can see a larger version of the picture by clicking in the picture beside.
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Another news : Nightwish changed their live setlist : the show now begins with "7 Days To The Wolves" instead of "Bye Bye Beautiful" !

The French Rap Artist Tunisiano used several parts from Ever Dream in his new single called "Je Porte Plainte". Spinefarm Records confirmed to us that he did it without any authorization of the band or of the label. Spinefarm has already contacted Tunisiano for him to pay his dues. A situation quite ironic when you hear the lyrics of the song...

> Watch the video of "Je Porte Plainte".

In other news, the "Special Deluxe Edition" of Dark Passion Play won't be released in France, cause it will be replaced by a "Special French Edition", which will be quite the same.

Nuclear Blast will release a new edition for "Dark Passion Play", entitled "Special Deluxe Edition". This limited edition will come in a box containing the album and the 2 singles from "Amaranth" (Part I & II). (Like the previous limited box of "Once/Nemo" or "Once/WIHAA")

This box will be released on October 4th.

Our contest "Tourbook 2008 - EBlastShop" is over ! The winners are :

01. Julie Landre (34 points) - photo
02. Eve Gallois (32 points) - photo
03. Elise Vannucci (23 points) - photo
04. Océane Volan (20 points) - photo
05. Hubert Giraud (18 points) - photo

06. Caroline Jamard (15 points) - photo
07. Sébastien Rominger (15 points) - photo
08. Valérie Drouet (13 points) - photo
09. Maud Harribey (10 points) - photo
10. Emilie Laville (8 points) - photo

Julie, Eve, Elise, Océane and Hubert win :
1 tourbook "Dark Passion Play" + some Gift vouchers for EblastShop

Caroline, Sébastien, Valérie, Maud and Emilie win :
some Gift vouchers for EblastShop

All the pictures sent are avaiable here !
Thank you everyone involved and see you soon for another great contest !

Anette's Nightmail is available ! Click here to read it !