Nightwish break up with bassist, guitarist, and backing vocalist Marko Hietala after almost 20 years in 2021. Now in a brand new interview with Ibagenscast, Hietala mentioned it wasn’t the music or his bandmates that prompted him to go his separate approach – all of it got here all the way down to the enterprise facet of the band.
“Hmm, I’d think about it. However I feel that the group there must be seemed very fastidiously into it and a few of it must be dismantled. As a result of the enterprise facet and the way the individuals there work, they’re one of many large the explanation why I left.”
Hietala elaborated, saying he has no regrets about his music in Nightwish and that lots of the stress arose from the enterprise portion of the band.
“In all of the bands that I have been [in], I came upon that I am most likely probably the most sort of brave individual there may be and due to this fact additionally I’ve the interior energy to be probably the most trustworthy and most truthful and the one who upholds the justice between the individuals and taking good care of everybody most. And that’s one thing that I noticed, the final years, had been missing. So, these sort of issues must be taken care of.
“However I imply, [Nightwish] was an enormous a part of my life and I all the time, all the time backed up the music that we did as a result of I like to do music that’s versatile and impressive with lots of all types of atmospheres of all of the world, from delicate and comfortable into the large and pounding steel and all that.
“So, musically, I’ve no regrets in any respect. I am pleased and proud to have been part of it. However, yeah, the organizational state of affairs and the attitudes and who talks to whom and about what, these are issues that I’d completely dismantle and make right into a clear state of affairs.”
Hietala has since teamed up along with his former Nightwish bandmate, vocalist Tarja Turunen, for a brand new single “Left On Mars”. Test it out under.
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