Man, after reading that statement again. This is not a good thing for the Music Industry.
Marco, is actually revealing a lot of stuff that happens within the Music Business that we as fans are not privy to know and see. These are the things I have been talking about within the Music Industry, that I feel, Fans do not know anything about and really should know this stuff.
His first paragraph talks about how he Is Burned out and just tired of all the Bullshit within the Music Industry. The Streaming Giants, like Spotify, are demanding Musicians, and Record Companies, to deliver a product, just to save their business ass, while their Supplier's workers get shafted with the wages. Also, he even says this about the artists, and also about Promoters, squeezing all they can even from things the bands use to make money, like an interest of merch percentage, and then give that money to those people in the middle east, I think this has to do with European promoters, and those promoters in the middle east.
I am thinking also, being as big as they are in their hometown, we in the states, do not realize how big and famous some of these musicians actually are. Marco, was big enough to participate in the Masked Singer. That alone, shows a lot, in that Marco, and guarantee Nightwish, have those big name Promoters at their feet. In a way, I would relate them to Metallica here, or the Pop Stars we see on The Masked Singer.
I am sure, Marco has witnessed and heard things, that made it even more easier for him to just say..."Screw this, I am not tolerating this anymore. I'm getting older, 55, in fact, and I had my fun, but Screw You guys...I'm going home."
Again, most of us Fans, do not understand what really goes on behind the scenes of being A Touring and Active Musician in the Music Business. It's why some artists whom are really, really talented, don't make it big, because they know and understand exactly what goes on within that Machine.