“I thought the music industry was a circus but it’s nothing compared to the movie industry”: how Nightwish channelled their inner Tim Burton to make the fantastical Imaginaerum movie

Nightwish on the set of the Imaginaerium movie.

Never a band to do things by halves, Nightwish followed 2011’s epic Imaginaerum album with a Tim Burton-inspired movie of the same name a year later. In 2012, as the band geared up to release the film, keyboard player Tuomas Holopainen revealed he he brought his cinematic vision to the screen.

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