Hietala expliquait récemment que c'est surtout l'aspect business et management qui l'a fait quitter Nightwish, et sans doute aussi parce qu'il était en dépression durant cette période (ce dernier point étant peut-être renforcé par le premier).
In a new interview with Brazil's Ibagenscast, former NIGHTWISH bassist/vocalist Marko Hietala was asked if he would consider taking part in a reunion of the band's classic lineup, either for a tour or fresh material. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Hmm, I would consider it. But I think that the organization there would have to be looked very carefully into it and some of it would have to be dismantled. Because the business side and how the people there work, they are one of the big reasons why I left."
He continued: "In all the bands that I've been [in], I found out that I'm probably the most kind of courageous person there is and therefore also I have the inner strength to be the most honest and most fair and the one who upholds the justice between the people and taking care of everyone most. And that is something that I saw, the last years, were lacking. So, these kind of things would have to be taken care of. But I mean, [NIGHTWISH] was a big part of my life and I always, always backed up the music that we did because I love to do music that is versatile and ambitious with a lot of all kinds of atmospheres of all the world, from sensitive and soft into the big and pounding metal and all that. So, musically, I have no regrets at all. I'm happy and proud to have been a part of it. But, yeah, the organizational situation and the attitudes and who talks to whom and about what, those are things that I would totally dismantle and make into a transparent situation."
Concernant l'éviction de Tarja, il était le tout dernier arrivé dans Nightwish quand elle a été virée, les tensions étaient déjà présentes entre Tarja et les autres, on peut donc penser que Hietala les a suivis afin de préserver sa propre place dans un groupe qui commençait à avoir beaucoup de succès. C'est en tout cas ce qu'il sous-entend ci-dessous, et il n'est probablement pas à l'aise sur le sujet. J'en déduis surtout qu'il regrette d'avoir perdu une amie à ce moment-là. Pas facile comme choix.
Je peux comprendre qu'avec le temps il souhaite renouer des liens avec elle pour cicatriser tout cela, a fortiori pour quelqu'un qui sort (?) tout juste de dépression, en tout cas ça irait dans le sens du côté assez humain et sensible du bonhomme.
In a new interview with El Planeta Del Rock, Marko "Marco" Hietala, who is currently on the road in South America as part of the "Living The Dream – The Hits Tour 2024" with his former NIGHTWISH bandmate Tarja Turunen, was asked if there is any chance of the two musicians launching a new project together. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I won't close that option off. We haven't talked about it, putting up a group together or anything like that. But at the moment, it seems that we've got a different kind of connection than it was [in the] past. Because then the camps were really divided already when I stepped into [NIGHTWISH]. And it was hard to find the truth of things, because a lot of it was like a managerial turf war where we got told certain things by one side and told certain things by the other side and lots of confusion — blah, blah, blah — and in the end, yeah, what we already realized a few years back when we were all together there doing the Christmas shows in Finland that after all the hassle has died and the noise has died and everything, you still find out that you lost a friend. And that was the main [reason] why we are basically doing this together again."
