Editing Nightwish (section)

=== 2013–2018: Arrival of Floor Jansen and Troy Donockley with ''Endless Forms Most Beautiful'' ===
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In an interview with ''Metal Hammer'' in November 2012, Tuomas Holopainen stated that they already had a rehearsal place booked from July 2014 to September 2014, but before they began rehearsing the band members would be taking a break from Nightwish for several months.<ref name="Rehearsal place booked for July 2014, says Tuomas Holopainen">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubbc7ja-bjQ | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/Ubbc7ja-bjQ| archive-date=2021-10-30|title=Rehearsal place booked for July 2014, says Tuomas Holopainen | date=19 November 2012|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

On 9 October 2013, Nightwish announced [[Floor Jansen]] as the permanent replacement for Olzon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nightwish.com/en/news#2326 |title=Press release // October 9th 2013 |work=Nightwish.com |date=October 9, 2013 |access-date=October 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007214546/http://nightwish.com/en/news#2326 |archive-date=October 7, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Troy Donockley was also announced as a full-time member, making the band a [[sextet]] for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nightwish.com/en/news#2326 |title=The Official Website |work=Nightwish |date=February 7, 2014 |access-date=April 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031001744/http://nightwish.com/en/news#2326 |archive-date=October 31, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In a later interview, Tuomas said that Donockley's previous work with Nightwish had already made him "much a band member", so the band just "made it official".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lach|first1=Stef |title=Mainman Tuomas says songs on Endless Forms Most Beautiful didn't require Floor's operatic style|url=http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/news/2015-04-13/nightwish-didn-t-use-jansen-to-show-off-in-studio|website=[[Loudwire]]|publisher=TeamRock |access-date=April 30, 2015 |date=April 13, 2015}}</ref> According to the band's webpage, the band would enter the studio in 2014 to record its eighth full-length album for a 2015 release. At that time, the band had already announced that it would contain Nightwish's longest song to date.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nightwish.com/en/band/biography |title=Biography // November 15th 2013 |work=Nightwish.com |date=November 15, 2013 |access-date=November 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826160213/http://www.nightwish.com/en/band/biography |archive-date=August 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

At the end of November, the band released the live album ''[[Showtime, Storytime]]''. Despite the recording happening when they were only four members, it is the first Nightwish release to feature Jansen and to have her and Donockley credited as band members. The album also carries a documentary containing the behind-the-scenes of Jansen's first days in the band and the process of replacing Olzon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bravewords.com/news/214461 |title=NIGHTWISH Release Showtime, Storytime; New Video Trailer Streaming |work=Bravewords.com |access-date=April 4, 2014 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203195842/http://www.bravewords.com/news/214461 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/nightwish/posts/10153340500360068  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/14644790067/10153340500360068 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=Nightwish – Ms. Floor Jansen is a keeper. Also, we will... |work=Facebook |access-date=April 4, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=October 2019}}

In May 2014, Holopainen updated his official website, stating that he and producer Tero "TeeCee" Kinnunen had been recording 12 demos (and possibly three bonus tracks) for the new album in [[Hattula]], Finland.<ref name=12demos>{{cite web |title=Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen Records Demo Of 12 Songs For Next Album|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwishs-tuomas-holopainen-records-demo-of-12-songs-for-next-album/#XOdAxHmkpPBOcMwG.99| work=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |access-date=May 17, 2014 |date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> The band expected to start rehearsing in July in Eno, Finland, to complete recording by January 2015, and to release the album in spring of that year, "If everything goes as scheduled".<ref name=12demos/> Commenting on the music, Tuomas said:<ref name=12demos/>

{{blockquote|It's still too early to analyze the material more closely, but the album will once again explore all the ends of the spectrum, bringing the very best out of the newcomers Floor and Troy. And stealthily the album ended up having a theme running through it.}}

On August 6, the band announced that founding member and drummer Jukka Nevalainen would not be part of the upcoming album due to his debilitating [[insomnia]].<ref name=jukkaleft>{{cite web |title=Nightwish Drummer Jukka Nevalainen Forced To Take Break From Band Due To Health Issues|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-drummer-jukka-nevalainen-forced-to-take-break-from-band-due-to-health-issues/|website=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |access-date=August 6, 2014 |date=August 6, 2014}}</ref> [[Kai Hahto]] ([[Wintersun]]) would be taking his place on the album<ref name=jukkaleft/> and the upcoming tour.<ref name=kaitour>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/wintersun/photos/a.10151063141622402/10153049520967402/?type=3 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/8120427401/10153049520967402 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=Wintersun|website=Facebook.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

[[File:20151121 Oberhausen Nightwish Nightwish 0082.jpg|thumb|right|Nightwish performing in Oberhausen, Germany, in November 2015]]
Evolutionary biologist and author [[Richard Dawkins]] was announced as a guest star on the album, with Holopainen stating that he had "been so enthusiastic about this kind of literature for the past few months, and will be for the upcoming months, that it's going to come out somehow."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nightwish.com/en/news#2490 |title=Latest News – Nightwish – The Official Website |work=Nightwish.com |access-date=December 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031001744/http://nightwish.com/en/news#2490 |archive-date=October 31, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwishs-next-album-to-feature-guest-appearance-by-atheist-writerleader-richard-dawkins/ |title=Nightwish's Next Album To Feature Guest Appearance By British Professor Richard Dawkins |work=Blabbermouth.net|date=October 16, 2014 }}</ref>

In November, the band filmed a music video for "[[Élan (song)|Élan]]", one of the tracks of the album.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-films-new-music-video/ |title=Nightwish Films New Music Video |work=Blabbermouth.net|date=November 22, 2014 }}</ref> On December 8, the band announced that it would be the first single from the album, which would be released on February 13, 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nightwish.com/en/news#2516 |title=Latest News – Nightwish – The Official Website |work=Nightwish.com |access-date=December 19, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219060105/http://www.nightwish.com/en/news/#2516 |archive-date=December 19, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The new album's cover art and its title, ''[[Endless Forms Most Beautiful (album)|Endless Forms Most Beautiful]]'', were revealed on 22 December, and the album was released on 27 March 2015, produced by Tero "TeeCee" Kinnunen.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nightwish To Release 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' Album In March|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-to-release-endless-forms-most-beautiful-album-in-march/#zhOvKcPD3rF0CByp.99|publisher=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|access-date=March 21, 2016|date=December 22, 2014}}</ref> The title for Endless Forms Most Beautiful was taken from the writings of English naturalist [[Charles Darwin]]. The album features the participation of [[Metro Voices|London's The Metro Voices]] choir group, London's Young Musicians Children's Choir, and the Orchestre De Grandeur, led by the esteemed orchestral arranger Pip Williams, who teaches music and music technology at the London College of Music. Professor [[Richard Dawkins]] not only narrates the introduction to the album's opener, "Shudder Before the Beautiful", but also the album's closer, "The Greatest Show on Earth", which takes its name from his 2009 book on evolution. To promote the album's release, the band went on the [[Endless Forms Most Beautiful World Tour]], which started on April 9, 2015, in New York City<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bowar |first1=Chad |title=Nightwish Reveal Dates for Spring 2015 North American Tour |url=https://loudwire.com/nightwish-spring-2015-north-american-tour/ |website=Loudwire |access-date=January 10, 2024 |language=en |date=September 23, 2014}}</ref> and concluded on October 9, 2016, in Saitama, Japan.

[[FIle:Nightwish à Genève (45850147611).jpg|thumb|left|Nightwish live at the [[SEG Geneva Arena]] in 2018]]
In July 2015, it was announced that [[Sonata Arctica]]'s vocalist [[Tony Kakko]] would replace Jukka Nevalainen as the band's special guest at [[Rock in Rio#Rock in Rio 6|the 2015 edition of Rock in Rio]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rock in Rio: Jukka Nevalainen cancela participação no show do Nightwish; Tony Kakko substitui|url=http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/musica/rock-in-rio-jukka-nevalainen-cancela-participacao-no-show-do-nightwish-tony-kakko-substitui-16868880|website=[[O Globo]]|publisher=[[Grupo Globo]] |access-date=July 22, 2015|language=pt |date=July 21, 2015}}</ref> In December 2015, Nightwish became the first Finnish band to headline a show at the [[Wembley Arena]], in London.<ref name="MHammer"/> The sold-out show featured guest performer Richard Dawkins, who spoke his parts on stage. The Tampere and London shows were filmed for a live album release known as ''[[Vehicle of Spirit (album)|Vehicle of Spirit]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Shutt|first1=Dan|title=Nightwish, Wembley Arena, gig review: Closing with The Greatest Show on Earth too much for sell-out audience to handle|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/live-music/live-reviews/nightwish-wembley-arena-gig-review-closing-with-the-greatest-show-on-earth-too-much-for-sell-out-a6781496.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/live-music/live-reviews/nightwish-wembley-arena-gig-review-closing-with-the-greatest-show-on-earth-too-much-for-sell-out-a6781496.html |archive-date=June 21, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|publisher=Independent Print Limited|access-date=January 3, 2016|date=December 21, 2015}}</ref>

On 20 August 2016, the band played a special 20th-anniversary show at Himos Areena in Finland. The show featured original bassist [[Sami Vänskä]] on the song "Stargazers" and drummer [[Jukka Nevalainen]] on the song "Last Ride of the Day".<ref>{{cite web|title=NIGHTWISH Perform With Original Bassist SAMI VÄNSKÄ At Himos Park Show, Video Available|url=http://bravewords.com/news/nightwish-perform-with-original-bassist-sami-vanska-at-himos-park-show-video-available|website=[[Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles]]|access-date=November 10, 2016|date=September 2, 2016}}</ref> The band took a break in 2017, during which Jansen was focusing on her first child. Holopainen said that the band would continue between the years of 2018 and 2020, with another album that would continue the themes explored in ''Endless Forms Most Beautiful''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Beebee|first1=Steve|title=Nightwish – The BIG Uber Rock Interview Exclusive|url=http://www.uberrock.co.uk/interviews/62-november-interviews/18703-nightwish-the-big-uber-rock-interview-exclusive.html|website=Uberrock.co.uk|access-date=November 10, 2016|date=November 5, 2016|archive-date=January 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103164444/http://www.uberrock.co.uk/interviews/62-november-interviews/18703-nightwish-the-big-uber-rock-interview-exclusive.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 9 June 2017, the band announced that 9 March 2018 would mark not only the debut of a nine-month world tour titled ''[[Decades: World Tour]]'', which had concluded in December that same year, but also the release of a new compilation album, titled ''[[Decades (Nightwish album)|Decades]]''. The tour featured "rarely heard material" and a special set for fans.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nightwish.com/en/news/2017/06/170906-decades |title=Announcing The "decades" World Tour 2018 |publisher=Nightwish.com |date=June 9, 2017 |access-date=June 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616121248/http://nightwish.com/en/news/2017/06/170906-decades |archive-date=June 16, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> During the Latin American leg of the tour, the Buenos Aires show was filmed for a live DVD known as ''[[Decades: Live in Buenos Aires]]'' which was released on December 6, 2019.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-sao-paulo-and-buenos-aires-concerts-to-be-filmed-for-upcoming-dvd/|title=NIGHTWISH: São Paulo And Buenos Aires Concerts To Be Filmed For Upcoming DVD|work=Blabbermouth |date=September 17, 2018 |access-date=September 18, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-to-release-decades-live-in-buenos-aires-in-december/|title=Nightwish To Release 'Decades: Live In Buenos Aires' In December|work=Blabbermouth|date=October 11, 2019|access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref>