After completing their ambitious orchestral-flavored Imaginaerum in 2011, keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish says the band's new material is back to basics, and for good reason!

So in an interview with Festivalblog.be, keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen was asked about how the band were planning to follow up their 2011 release Imaginaerum. Holopainen responded with:

I don't really know what we're going to do next. I have a gut feeling that it is going to be something a bit more simple, a bit back in time… a bit more like a band album, because we have kinda searched this orchestral, really varied spectrum to its maximum now; that's how I feel. But maybe, you never know how the mind works… But I have three new songs done already, it's again something a bit different.