Tuomas Holopainen, the main songwriter for Nightwish and also the Keyboard player for the band is in the works of a new album. He is writing this album based on the Disney comic book “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.” The comic tells the story of the wealthy, Scottish, anthropomorphic duck. The keyboardist announced on the website that, “There will be a total of 10 songs, with running time between 55-60 minutes. Six of them will feature vocals, both male and female. It’s quite difficult to categorize the genre of the album, but to my ears, it’s somewhere between film music, folk and classical, echoing distantly the works of Vaughan Williams, Enya, Mike Oldfield and Michael Nyman. Loaded with keys, piano, orchestra, Metro Voices and ethnic percussion, it will also feature acoustic guitars, banjo and some human voices.” It will be a combination of many different instruments all paying homage to a duck. I’m not really sure if this is a lapse of judgement, however it seems that the man really believes in the project. “This is a book about life itself. What an unfathomable privilege it is, what are the things that truly matter during our existence. It’s about the immense beauty of the world and its possibilities seen through the eyes of a very relentless, honest and complex character. It’s about love and family, gain and loss, darkness and rebirth.” Alright buddy, I don’t know if this fits into the lack of creative movement or this is a serious project that he has wanted to do since childhood… but, we’l see what the outcome is. The other band members have not spoken about the conceptual design of their new album. I can’t wait to here what fans are saying. There is no release date set on the album, yet the band is to begin recording it as soon as this August. Everyone brush up on your ducktails.