iltasanomat 06.2007

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Nightwish has made the most expensive album in Finnish music history. They didn't save anything doing Dark Passion Play released in September.

- Making the album cost 500 000 euros. We made not one compromise because of money. We didn't hold anything back, and so nothing was left to bother us later. We did everything the best we could, confesses the Nightwish-boss Tuomas Holopainen

- This album was two times as expensive as the previous one. Once cost 230 000 euros.

The most of the money ended up in the Abbey Roads studios, just like when making Once, where the new album was recorded with the symphony orchestra. They didn't save money making the videos either. The band returned from Los Angeles a couple of days ago where Antti Jokinen directed the videos for Nightwish's two new singles.

- The videos were alltoghether 270 000 euros. We saved money, time and trouble when we made two videos at the same time, justifies Tuomas.

The new album has cost almost 800 000 euros including the marketing costs, but Tuomas is not terrified.

- I'm not scared. We've made the best we can at the moment. Nothing was left to bother us when making the album, so this will have to do.