Asked what NIGHTWISH have planned, Floor Jansen gave the shortest possible answer. "No, there's nothing planned," she told Thomas Vogel of Germany's Sonic Seducer in the magazine's August 2026 issue. "That is the thing with NIGHTWISH — we're on a temporary hold."
The stall goes back to 2023, when the band announced they would not tour behind their next album. Troy Donockley later explained the reasoning: the touring schedule the band had run for two decades had become unsustainable, burnout was a live risk, and family obligations had stopped bending around it. "Yesterwynde" duly arrived in September 2024 through Nuclear Blast — the band's tenth studio album, the follow-up to 2020's "Human. :II: Nature." — and no dates followed it.
Two years on, the phrase "temporary hold" is doing a lot of work. Jansen offered no timeline, no recording plans and no conditions under which the hold ends.
The one thing on the horizon is symbolic rather than scheduled. Donockley has suggested some form of live activity might happen in 2027 to mark the band's 30th anniversary, though nothing has been announced and Jansen's answer does not sound like a woman working around a booked calendar.
What is moving is her own work. "Hytress", her solo album, arrives January 15, 2027 via REVAMP Music / Warner Music, and a European and South American tour is booked behind it for the same year. The record was announced last week as a deliberately heavier proposition than her previous solo material, led by the single "Bring Me Silence" — a direction that reads rather differently in light of a main band that will not say when it is coming back.
None of this indicates a split. NIGHTWISH have paused before, most notably around vocalist changes, and the current arrangement was presented from the start as a rest rather than an ending. But the band have now gone years without playing live, and the person best placed to know what happens next says only that nothing is planned.
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