An internationally renowned Finnish band have released a behind-the-scenes documentary about their upcoming music video, which was filmed in Tring.
Nightwish are a symphonic metal band from Kitee who have received critical acclaim across the globe. Their fifth album, Once, released in 2004, sold more than one million copies.
The music video for their latest song, Perfume of the Timeless, was released last month and shows a series of surreal and abstract shots of various creatures, insects and animals.
Now, in their documentary about the filming of the video, it has been revealed that many of these shots were filmed at none other than the Natural History Museum at Tring (NHMT).
In the documentary, senior curator at NHMT Joanne H. Cooper said: “It’s just been extraordinary. We do a lot of filming at the museum, but we don’t do creative filming and we’ve never done a music video. So, to be a part of that process has just been extraordinary. It’s been so much fun!”
The filming of the video involved members of the NHMT team using their taxidermy animals to create stop-frame animation sequences, with several other shots filmed in the Rothschild Library. Among the specimens included in the video are a marine iguana specimen and Darwin’s finches.
In the documentary, Joanne explains the importance of recognising the changing biodiversity of the world, and how this is a priority to both Nightwish and the museum.
Joanne continued: “Momentum is gaining out in the wider world, with the awareness of all the different environmental issues and biodiversity loss being a huge one that we monitor here because of the collections.
“The impact of getting that message out there in all these different ways – Nightwish has been so influential in that. It is a privilege to actually have a new way to work with the collection.”
To watch the documentary, search ‘Nightwish Yesterwynde Part 4’ on YouTube.
Photo Credit: Nightwish on YouTube
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