Vocalist Floor Jansen (NIGHTWISH, REVAMP) is featured in a new interview with Metal Exiles. An excerpt is available below:

Metal Exiles: It sounds like you get to really focus on ReVamp for the next four months or so and then it’s time to really shift focuses again back to Nightwish?

Floor: "I can focus on ReVamp until June and then July, August, September, is Nightwish recording, but of course I don’t need to be there for three months straight. So that gives me time to also do summer festivals with ReVamp so those months are a bit of both. And after that it’s Nightwish only."

Metal Exiles: Given that you are so busy right now with ReVamp, did that go hand-in-hand with Tuomas’ (keyboards/Nightwish) decision to have you not contribute creatively to the new Nightwish record?

Floor: "Well I mean, Tuomas is the Nightwish songwriter. Has been and always is. And sometimes in some parts Marco also writes, and probably that will happen again. I can imagine maybe later on my place becomes a little different but I don’t feel that I need to become a songwriter in Nightwish when there is someone as talented as Tuomas working on the stuff. So I’m 100% okay with singing what he writes and I can imagine that when we start rehearsing and recording these songs that there will be some space for my creative input. I mean, as soon as I start to sing it, something already happens. Even with songs that were already there and sang by the other singers I make it somewhat my own and that way I feel part of the creative process enough. I am someone who likes to write, but my ego is totally okay with Tuomas doing his magic."

Metal Exiles: And then you have your full creative outlet with ReVamp so it sounds like a pretty good situation.

Floor: "Yes, exactly! There are many ways to use that creative energy."

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Following is an excerpt from BraveWords' interview with Nightwish mainman Tuomas Holopainen back in October 2013 discussing Jansen:

Jansen has fronted Nightwish since October 2012 and has had a much easier job winning over the band's legion of fans than Olzon did. Take a cruise through the library of live footage on YouTube and you can watch her grow into the role of being front and center on the Nightwish stage.

"I have to agree. The first couple of weeks that we did with her were good and she was really impressive, especially with the time that she had to prepare. Looking at her now - and I only saw the Wacken Open Air footage for the first time only two weeks ago - I'm thinking 'Wow!' Watch the DVD and you can see that Floor owns the stage and the audience."

Asked if he remembers when the band came to the conclusion Jansen should be fronting Nightwish permanently....

"Yes I do. It was spring, about six months after Floor came in. We agreed that she was a lovely person and that she really could sing, but I was wondering if we really needed to be talking about all that stuff just yet because I was having such a good time on tour. It eventually got to the point where we said 'Why not?' It was after the Sauna Open Air Festival in Finland at the beginning of June, after the show in the hotel lobby, where we encouraged ourselves to go to Floor and ask her how she would feel about continuing with us in the future. She gave us an immediate 'Yes.' We didn't think it was going to be an 'of course' answer, though. We didn't take anything for granted, but she was really happy and really motivated. And right after that we asked Troy Donockley (uilleann pipes, low whistles, vocals) about joining the band as well. He said yes too, so it was a happy evening (laughs)."

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