Footage has surfaced of NIGHTWISH vocalist Floor Jansen performing METALLICA's "Nothing Else Matters" with the Marine Band Of The Royal Netherlands Navy — the Marinierskapel Der Koninklijke Marine.
The performance took place on July 2, 2026 at the opening concert of Sail Harlingen, staged in the Vluchthaven of Harlingen in the northern Netherlands, where Jansen appeared as guest vocalist across a set with the military orchestra. Her symphonic arrangement of the 1991 ballad has now been posted online.
It is a fitting pairing. Jansen has spent her entire career at the intersection of metal and orchestration, and a naval band is simply another set of horns and strings to negotiate.
The appearance comes as her solo career enters a new phase. In June she released the official lyric video — created by her husband, SABATON drummer Hannes Van Dahl — for the single "Run", issued via Revamp Music in collaboration with Warner Music. It is her first new solo material since her debut album "Paragon" arrived in March 2023, an album that leaned into pop-inflected songwriting and ballads.
"Run" pushes in the opposite direction, presenting a harder and darker side of her solo work. It was produced by Gordon Groothedde, who worked with Jansen on the final album by AFTER FOREVER, the band she fronted before joining NIGHTWISH. Lyrically it deals with liberation, self-empowerment and refusing to meet other people's expectations.
The solo focus has a straightforward explanation. In April 2023, NIGHTWISH announced they would not play live for the foreseeable future, and did not tour behind "Yesterwynde", released in September 2024 via Nuclear Blast.
Jansen joined her first band, symphonic metal pioneers AFTER FOREVER, at 16; the group released five albums between 2000 and 2007 before splitting in 2009. REVAMP followed with two albums, and she stepped in with NIGHTWISH on October 1, 2012 at Showbox Sodo in Seattle after the abrupt departure of Anette Olzon, becoming a permanent member in 2013. Her first NIGHTWISH album, 2015's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", hit Top 10s worldwide, as did 2020's "Human. :II: Nature."
Following "Paragon", a sold-out tour and close to 150 million streams across her solo catalogue, Jansen enters this chapter with nearly a million monthly Spotify listeners and main-stage appearances at Wacken Open Air, M'era Luna and Sweden Rock Festival behind her.
Source: blabbermouth.net