(TeamRock Radio) Nightwish mainman Tuomas Holopainen says the band know exactly what they'll be doing for the next four years. They're planning to take 12 months off when they complete their current touring duties in support of eighth album Endless Forms Most Beautiful, released last year.

Holopainen had the following to say to Roppongi Rocks: "The last show is going to happen in October, then all of 2017 off - and back with a vengeance in 2018."

He created 2014 solo album Music Inspired By The Life And Times Of Scrooge during the band's last downtime. But on this occasion, he says, "I don't think I will be doing music. That's the idea of the break. I enjoy the idea of getting to be at home, doing the gardening, taking care of the horse, just being steady for a while." Read more here.

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