Nightwish is releasing their new album Endless Forms Most Beautiful on March 27, 2015 in Europe and March 31, 2015 in the US via Nuclear Blast. The cover artwork for the CD was created by the band’s longtime collaborator Toxic Angel.

The Endless Forms Most Beautiful title came from Charles Darwin’s “The Origin Of Species” book, where he wrote:

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

Endless Forms Most Beautiful features eleven new songs and will be released in different formats:

* Standard CD
* Digibook (including instrumental CD)
* 2LP (vinyl in gatefold) in different colors
* Earbook (including instrumental and orchestral CD)
* Earbook (deluxe version including bonus vinyl)
* Download

A single called “Élan” will precede the full-length CD on February 13. The four-track single features the album version of the title cut, a radio edit and an alternate version of “Élan”, as well as the non-album bonus track “Sagan”.

“Élan” track listing:

CD:
01. Élan (album version)
02. Élan (radio edit)
03. Élan (alternate version)
04. Sagan (non-album bonus track)

Vinyl:
Side A:
01. Élan (album version)
02. Élan (radio edit)
Side B
01. Élan (alternate version)
02. Sagan (non-album bonus track)