Imaginaerum

Imaginaerum
Studio album by Nightwish
Released	30 November 2011 (2011-11-30)
Recorded	October 2010–April 2011
Genre	Symphonic power metal, Symphonic gothic metal, Folk Metal, Orchestral
Length	74:55
Label	Nuclear Blast, Roadrunner Records
Producer	Tuomas Holopainen, Tero Kinnunen & Mikko Karmila
Nightwish chronology
Dark Passion Play (2007) Imaginaerum Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
Singles from Imaginaerum
"Storytime" Released: 9 Nov 2011 "The Crow, the Owl and the Dove" Released: 29 Feb 2012

Imaginaerum is the seventh album by the Finnish symphonic metal group Nightwish. It is their second album with Swedish vocalist Anette Olzon. A movie of the same name was released in 2012. The movie has songs from the album in it. The album was No.1 in Finland.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Taikatalvi" (Intro)	Tuomas Holopainen	2:35
2.	"Storytime" (first single)	Holopainen	5:22
3.	"Ghost River"	Holopainen	5:28
4.	"Slow, Love, Slow"	Holopainen	5:51
5.	"I Want My Tears Back"	Holopainen	5:08
6.	"Scaretale"	Holopainen	7:32
7.	"Arabesque" (instrumental)	Holopainen	2:57
8.	"Turn Loose the Mermaids"	Holopainen,	4:20
9.	"Rest Calm"	Holopainen	7:02
10.	"The Crow, the Owl and the Dove" (second single)	Holopainen, Marco Hietala	4:10
11.	"Last Ride of the Day"	Holopainen	4:33
12.	"Song of Myself"	Holopainen	13:38
13.	"Imaginaerum" (instrumental)	Holopainen, Pip Williams	6:18

Personnel

• Anette Olzon – vocals
• Tuomas Holopainen – keyboards, piano
• Emppu Vuorinen – guitars
• Marco Hietala – bass, vocals (on track 1, 3–6, 9-12)
• Jukka Nevalainen – drums, percussion
• Troy Donockley – uilleann pipes (on track 5 and 13), tin whistle (on track 1, 8 and 10), vocals (on track 10 and 12)
• Dermot Crehan – hardanger fiddle
• Dirk Campbell – sorna
• Guy Barker – solo trumpet
• Paul Clarvis and Stephen Henderson – ethnic percussion
• Pekka Kuusisto – violin
• Kai Hahto – percussion