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Merlin Alderslade

"I was just really, really ****ing tired." Nightwish singer Floor Jansen explains why making new album Yesterwynde was a challenging experience

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Nightwish frontwoman Floor Jansen has revealed how a challenging few years has meant that the experience of recording the band's imminent new album Yesterwynde was unlike any other in her career so far. Speaking exclusively to Metal Hammer in their latest issue, Jansen explains that between her well-documented battle with breast cancer and her pregnancy and the birth of her second child with Sabaton drummer Hannes Van Dahl, Floor was suffering was fatigue issues that meant she couldn't be as present for the album's recording sessions as in previous years.

“I was pregnant, and before that there was the cancer, and then I had my baby and I was just really, really fucking tired, so I wasn’t there like I had been in the past,” she says. “The connection to the album is much less than it was before, because we haven’t been spending as much crazy time together as we usually would. That doesn’t mean I don’t give a shit – quite the opposite – but I’m still growing into what it means, and what it means to me.”

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