- Saved from Development Hell: Most of the album was written all the way back in 2008, while After Forever was on what was supposed to be a hiatus due to guitarist Sander Gommans suffering a burnout. Then AF broke up altogether, which scuttled the recording deal with their label. This led Floor Jansen to form ReVamp as her new full-time band, putting Northward on hold again. Then she went through a burnout herself in 2011, after which she was called in to replace Anette Olzon in Nightwish on very short notice (the band later released a documentary about it called Please Learn the Setlist in 48 Hours). Nightwish finally took a year off in 2017, during which Floor and her husband Hannes Van Dahl had a daughter and only then managed to block out time with Lofstad to record Northward. It finally came out ten years after it had originally been envisioned.
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