“Endless Forms Most Beautiful” is the upcoming eighth album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish. It is due to be released on March 27, 2015 in the EU, on March 30 in the UK and on March 31 in the USA.
It’s the first album of the band with new singer Floor Jansen, as well as the first to feature Troy Donockley, who played uillean pipes and various other instruments on “Dark Passion Play” and “Imaginaerum“, as a full-time member.
It is also their first album without drummer Jukka Nevalainen, who had to take a temporary break from the band due to suffering of strong insomnia, leading him to step away from both the album and its subsequent tour.
The first single from the album, titled “Élan“, was released along the pre-order of the album on iTunes on February 13, 2015.
The deluxe edition of the album includes all the instrumentals of the standard edition.