This articulo is not por me, I found it on metal underground.com por deathbringer.
Finland's NIGHTWISH have publicado the following message on the band's official website:
Dear Tarja,
It's time to choose whether the story of NIGHTWISH ends here o whether it will still continue an undetermined period of time. We've been working with this creation for 9 years and we are not ready to give up yet. Nightwish is a way of life, something to live for, and we're certain we can't let it go.
Equally certain is the fact that we cannot go on with tu and Marcelo any longer. During the last año something sad happened, which I've been going over in my head every single day, morning and night. Your attitude and behavior don't go with NIGHTWISH anymore. There are characteristics I would never have believed to see in my old dear friend. People who don't talk with each other for a año do not belong in the same band.
We are involved in an industry where the business-side of things is a necessary evil and something to worry about all the time. We are also a band which has always done música from the heart, because of friendship and the música itself. The mental satisfaction should always be más important than money! Nightwish is a band, it's an emotion.
To you, unfortunately, business, money, and things that have nothing to do with those emotions have become much más important. tu feel that tu have sacrificed yourself and your musical career for NIGHTWISH, rather than thinking what it has dado to you.
This attitude was clearly shown to me in the two things tu dicho to me in an airplane in Toronto: "I don't need NIGHTWISH anymore." and "Remember, Tuomas, that I could leave this band at any time, giving tu only one day's warning in advance". I can't simply write any más songs for tu to sing.
tu have dicho yourself that tu are merely a "guest musician" in Nightwish. Now that visit ends and we will continue NIGHTWISH with a new female vocalist.
We're sure this is an equally big relief to tu as it is for us. We have all been feeling bad long enough.
tu told us that no matter what, the siguiente Nightwish album will be your last one. However, the rest of us want to continue as long as the fuego burns. So there's no sense in doing that siguiente album with you, either.
The four of us have been going over this situation countless times and we have realized that this is the thing we want to do in life. It´s all we can do. In December 2004, in Germany, tu dicho that tu will never tour again for más than two weeks at a time. tu also dicho that we can forget about U.S. and Australia because the fees and the sizes of venues are too small.
In interviews I've mentioned that if Tarja leaves, that would be the end of the band. I understand that people will think this way. NIGHTWISH is, however, a scenery of my soul and I'm not ready to let go because of one person. A person who wants to focus her creativity to somewhere else, a person whose values don't match mine.
We were never bothered por the fact that tu didn't participate in writing/arranging songs, tu never in 9 years came to rehearse the songs with us before going to the studio. Not the fact that while on tour tu always wanted to fly, separately from us with your husband. Not the fact that tu are an undisputable front image of the band.
We accepted and felt ok about everything except greed, underestimating the fans, and breaking promises. It was agreed por the five of us that Nightwish would be the priority in everything that we do during 2004-2005. Still so many things were más important to you. The ultimate example being the already sold-out mostrar in Oslo, which tu wanted to cancelar because tu needed to rehearse for your solo concerts, meet frieds and go to the movies. Those were the words Marcelo used in an e-mail explaining the cancellation. This being just one example of so many. I couldn't think of a worse way of being selfish and dismissing our fans.
NIGHTWISH is a way of life and a job with many obligations. To each other and to the fans. With tu we can't take care of those duties anymore.
Deep within we don't know which one of tu drove us to this point. Somehow Marcelo has changed tu from the lovely girl tu were into a diva, who doesn't think o act the way she used to. tu are too sure of your irreplaceableness and status.
It's obvious that tu blame your stress and misery on us four. And tu think we don't respect o listen to you. Belive us; We have always had the uppermost respect towards tu as a wonderful vocalist and as a friend. And very often during the past couple of years the plans were made according to your decisions only. tu were always the only one who wanted más money from the shows.
This "compensation and más money from everything" –attitude is the fact that we are most disappointed of!
We wish that from now on tu will listen to your corazón instead of Marcelo. Cultural differences combined with greed, opportunism and amor is a dangerous combination. Do not wither yourself.
This decision is not something we are especially proud of but tu gave us no choice. The gap between us is too wide. And the decision is made por us four unanimously. We are beyond the point where things could be settled por talking.
All the best for your life and career,
Tuomas
Emppu Jukka Marco
Ps. This is an open letter for everybody."
The band recorded their "End Of An Era" live album yesterday evening in Hartwall-Arena, Helsinki.
Finland's NIGHTWISH have publicado the following message on the band's official website:
Dear Tarja,
It's time to choose whether the story of NIGHTWISH ends here o whether it will still continue an undetermined period of time. We've been working with this creation for 9 years and we are not ready to give up yet. Nightwish is a way of life, something to live for, and we're certain we can't let it go.
Equally certain is the fact that we cannot go on with tu and Marcelo any longer. During the last año something sad happened, which I've been going over in my head every single day, morning and night. Your attitude and behavior don't go with NIGHTWISH anymore. There are characteristics I would never have believed to see in my old dear friend. People who don't talk with each other for a año do not belong in the same band.
We are involved in an industry where the business-side of things is a necessary evil and something to worry about all the time. We are also a band which has always done música from the heart, because of friendship and the música itself. The mental satisfaction should always be más important than money! Nightwish is a band, it's an emotion.
To you, unfortunately, business, money, and things that have nothing to do with those emotions have become much más important. tu feel that tu have sacrificed yourself and your musical career for NIGHTWISH, rather than thinking what it has dado to you.
This attitude was clearly shown to me in the two things tu dicho to me in an airplane in Toronto: "I don't need NIGHTWISH anymore." and "Remember, Tuomas, that I could leave this band at any time, giving tu only one day's warning in advance". I can't simply write any más songs for tu to sing.
tu have dicho yourself that tu are merely a "guest musician" in Nightwish. Now that visit ends and we will continue NIGHTWISH with a new female vocalist.
We're sure this is an equally big relief to tu as it is for us. We have all been feeling bad long enough.
tu told us that no matter what, the siguiente Nightwish album will be your last one. However, the rest of us want to continue as long as the fuego burns. So there's no sense in doing that siguiente album with you, either.
The four of us have been going over this situation countless times and we have realized that this is the thing we want to do in life. It´s all we can do. In December 2004, in Germany, tu dicho that tu will never tour again for más than two weeks at a time. tu also dicho that we can forget about U.S. and Australia because the fees and the sizes of venues are too small.
In interviews I've mentioned that if Tarja leaves, that would be the end of the band. I understand that people will think this way. NIGHTWISH is, however, a scenery of my soul and I'm not ready to let go because of one person. A person who wants to focus her creativity to somewhere else, a person whose values don't match mine.
We were never bothered por the fact that tu didn't participate in writing/arranging songs, tu never in 9 years came to rehearse the songs with us before going to the studio. Not the fact that while on tour tu always wanted to fly, separately from us with your husband. Not the fact that tu are an undisputable front image of the band.
We accepted and felt ok about everything except greed, underestimating the fans, and breaking promises. It was agreed por the five of us that Nightwish would be the priority in everything that we do during 2004-2005. Still so many things were más important to you. The ultimate example being the already sold-out mostrar in Oslo, which tu wanted to cancelar because tu needed to rehearse for your solo concerts, meet frieds and go to the movies. Those were the words Marcelo used in an e-mail explaining the cancellation. This being just one example of so many. I couldn't think of a worse way of being selfish and dismissing our fans.
NIGHTWISH is a way of life and a job with many obligations. To each other and to the fans. With tu we can't take care of those duties anymore.
Deep within we don't know which one of tu drove us to this point. Somehow Marcelo has changed tu from the lovely girl tu were into a diva, who doesn't think o act the way she used to. tu are too sure of your irreplaceableness and status.
It's obvious that tu blame your stress and misery on us four. And tu think we don't respect o listen to you. Belive us; We have always had the uppermost respect towards tu as a wonderful vocalist and as a friend. And very often during the past couple of years the plans were made according to your decisions only. tu were always the only one who wanted más money from the shows.
This "compensation and más money from everything" –attitude is the fact that we are most disappointed of!
We wish that from now on tu will listen to your corazón instead of Marcelo. Cultural differences combined with greed, opportunism and amor is a dangerous combination. Do not wither yourself.
This decision is not something we are especially proud of but tu gave us no choice. The gap between us is too wide. And the decision is made por us four unanimously. We are beyond the point where things could be settled por talking.
All the best for your life and career,
Tuomas
Emppu Jukka Marco
Ps. This is an open letter for everybody."
The band recorded their "End Of An Era" live album yesterday evening in Hartwall-Arena, Helsinki.
Epica wrote on their official facebook page:
"This fall we will host our first ever festival, Epic Metal Fest.
It will take place on the 22nd November at "Klokgebouw" in the Netherlands. It will see EPICA headline and joined por some killer befriended bands: Eluveitie, Fear Factory Moonspellofficialband, Delain, Periphery and más bands to be announced.
Tickets and early bird bundles are available from; link
más bands to be announced soon."
Well done Epica. Well done.
Also the band wrote on their official Instagram page:
"#Honoured! Today we received the #Buma Rocks export award for the Dutch band with the most success abroad. #epica #epicalive "
Congratulations!