TARJA TURUNEN Performs New Song, "Montanas De Silencio", Video Available

03.10.2009

Tarja performed the new song "Montanas de Silencio" live at the concert in Ludwigsburg, in the middle of the audience. Watch a video of the performance below.

The concert in Ludwigsburg was part of "Final Storm Tour", Tarja's last tour promoting her debut album, My Winter Storm. "Montanas de Silencio" has been only performed once, in the end of August, at the classical festival Soi Suvessa in Mantyharju, Finland.

Tarja Turunen has set "What Lies Beneath" as the working title of her new solo CD, tentatively due in early 2010. She says, "With [2007's] 'My Winter Storm', I chose the name of the album in the early stages and that helped me to create the concept for the album. With the new album, I decided to do it the same way, so I searched for an inspiring title and all the songs are one way or another related to it."

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Great show and great song.
I was there and it was fantastic.
For a fan it's a dream coming true if she plays a new song you didn't heard before.

Franziska wrote on 03.10.2009 at 18:13
Tarja looks and sounds awesome

She justs keeps getting better!

Phoenix wrote on 03.10.2009 at 18:44
well... she looks soo beautiful!! and her voice... wow... I just have a trouble: I can't understand every word she sings =( I can understand the final words but no the first ones... I'll be trying... I've been waiting for listening this song since august and now I can't understand!!!

eLiZa wrote on 03.10.2009 at 19:28
It is in Spanish? Too bad I can't understand Spanish very good :( But it sounds beautiful.

Ysabel wrote on 03.10.2009 at 19:53
OMG! that was so beautiful...
I'm so glad that she's not a Fartwish member anymore, because now she's expressing herself like never before, and that's amazing...
What Lies Beneath will be a great album, I just can feel it.

Who? wrote on 03.10.2009 at 21:00
This is incredibly beautiful, and I don't even understand spanish - well, I had a few lessons, but I still don't understand this. Might be better if I had the lyrics, I don't know. However, I love the song ;-)

Earwen wrote on 03.10.2009 at 23:19
La cancion es muy bonita, a mi me gusta mucho!

Pillar wrote on 04.10.2009 at 12:10
WTF ?
Two minutes of ' Ahhhh ' and you find that beautiful? XD
It's a poor song...
Listen to The poet and the pendulum, that, it's beautiful!
'Fartwish' haha so funny... Poor thing ;=)

Alice wrote on 04.10.2009 at 12:40
Alice, I heard the full song, not the "ah,ah" only:). That's why I liked it.
Sorry I've already listened to the song , where Tuomas whined about himself then killed himself with pathos.

And I think Popwish sounds better then Fartwish. Nice to see how you use Olzon's smiles, btw. Maybe rumours are right and it is Olzon herself roaming the net :)

Frantz wrote on 04.10.2009 at 13:11
I was at this gig and it was so great! It was an amazing surprise that she sang it! I liked it a lot!

Louise wrote on 04.10.2009 at 13:19
Alice, if you think the "aah" is shit, then you must hate the opera :) because this is so much like opera :)

Bassie wrote on 04.10.2009 at 14:47
Epic fan battle, lol XD

DeadAndGone wrote on 04.10.2009 at 14:49
Looks funny with the crowd around her but i don't like this kind of mood songs. I really hope this will not be the stuff the new album is made of.

Metalangel wrote on 04.10.2009 at 15:21
Oh Alice... I see that you're another TuomAss fan... XD

" 'Fartwish' haha so funny..."

Yeah, I know, I'm proud of my creation... XP

"Poor thing ;=) "

Anette? yes poor granny, she'll never be as good as Tarja... XD

Who? wrote on 04.10.2009 at 15:43
@Who, you are wrong, about PMS Nettie being not as good as Tarja :) PMS Nettie is better in advertising shopping and her PMS! In cheap PR that is! And about vocals and performance, well, yeah she will never be as good as many metal and rock female vocalists!

Korn wrote on 04.10.2009 at 16:16
Korn:

"she will never be as good as many metal and rock female vocalists!"

Sorry dude, but I have to disagree... Nettie will never be as good as ANY metal and rock singer, since she clearly can't sing at all...
But when it comes to entertain... well, she's very good I must say, I mean: her outfits, her statements, the way she screams in front of the audience while the band is playing... she's a pretty good humorist... XD
Plus: she looks like chucky, so she could be a movie star some day, who knows?

Who? wrote on 04.10.2009 at 16:31
Amazing!

And for those who are insulting NW let me say:

Nightwish: Awsome
Tarja: Awsome
Anette: Crap

Ragnarök wrote on 04.10.2009 at 16:41
Ragnarök, may I add that NW with Anette became crappy, cause since as you say she is crap=>and she is voice and face of the band now=>it leads to the conclusion that band with crappy voice and crappy face also becomes crappy?

DeathCanDance wrote on 04.10.2009 at 17:03
Horrible. Tarja, stop stalkin´us internet users. When I check out some metal from finland I don`t wanna see some mediocre bandylegged Arnold Swarschtznegger lookalike. I wanna hear and see real metal. Like Anette Olzon. Her solo album´s gonna kick ass. She´s got some professional songwriters helping her out and it´s gonna be awesome. US number one hit is highly possible:

Wrathchild wrote on 04.10.2009 at 17:34
Wow. Love this song! I wanna see her live!

Quote from Ragnarök
And for those who are insulting NW let me say:

Nightwish: Awsome
Tarja: Awsome
Anette: Crap

You're so right. 'Cauze Nightwish' Eramaan viimeinen, Last of the wilds and Master Passion Greed are still GREAT!
The Islanders is awesome too, only at the end there's a very false noise through it (some of you maybe see it as a female voice).

The Bird wrote on 04.10.2009 at 18:33
I agree with you Ragnarök!

We love you, Tarja!

Miny wrote on 04.10.2009 at 22:08
I've been trying to understand the lyrics and all I could come up with is this:

Vuela tan alto
como puedas
----
----
siempre comienza
cuando estás solo
amor, temor
siente y encuentrate
la soledad/oscuridad

tu ira
y nadie más

If I get to understand it fully I'll post a translation, meanwhile it's just not worth it, since I'm missing a lot of the lyrics...

Manxita wrote on 05.10.2009 at 02:23
I should agree with
"2 minutes of aaaaahhhhh" comment.

A bit too much "aaahhhh" for me, indeed.

mermaid wrote on 05.10.2009 at 12:46
It is, after all, called Fountain of silence,
NOT

Fountain of Aaaaahhhhh....

mermaid wrote on 05.10.2009 at 12:47
@wrathchild

All i can say is

HAHHAHAHHAAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHHAHAHAH

PS.Actually YOU are stalking her HAHA!She didn't send this video to your browser.
Your compaints can go to yourself.And Tero :P

NO,now i think it again,only yourself.

"real metal singer" HAHAHAHHAHAHA you just made my day...
No,leave that.MY WEEK!!!

Legeon wrote on 05.10.2009 at 13:03
Sorry, not Fountain, BUT Mountain...

These Mondays will one day kill me....

mermaid wrote on 05.10.2009 at 13:06
@mermaid: Fountain of Aaahhh....
That made my day!

@others/various... bringing up again Anette on a non Anette / Nightwish news, heuh. Come on, at least flood the Nightwish news not the Tarja news or the Britney Spears news.
@who? : you dude rock! always impressed by the quality of name-plays you dig out of the deep dark edge of your mind. Impressive. You surely do this professionnally? Aren't you?

I don't comment this song cause I don't like it. For those who are fan, I feel happy. Tarja looks great on that, yet I preferre her singing Gethsemane.

OceanWithin wrote on 05.10.2009 at 13:43
Manxita:

"Fly so high
as you can
----
----
always begins
when you are alone
love, fear
feels and concentrate
Solitude / dark

your anger
and no one else "?

mermaid wrote on 05.10.2009 at 14:52
@Legeon: you take Wrathchild for granted? How desperate you are!
@Wrathchild: +1

OceanWithin wrote on 05.10.2009 at 15:25
@OceanWithin

So,you are the one complaining about people mentioning Anette here but you give a +1 to wrathchild's comment...

And at the same time you were lecturing us about being hypocrites...Hmmm...

So,your rules apply to Tarja and her fans,but not Anette.Ok.

ps.For granted?Where did you see that?I was actually laughing with what he said..But YOU took him for granted,since you approved and rewarded his comment.

the desparate here is you.Not having an argument and trying to twist other people's words,hoping to catch something.

Legeon wrote on 05.10.2009 at 15:52
Legeon: your neural interconnction is a hell of a disaster, must be the sun: Well, if you are not noticing that Wrathchild is "making jokes", I can't help.
I wrote +1 since I like such kind of humor - not to ack the content of his message.

OceanWithin wrote on 05.10.2009 at 16:49
OceanWithin:

First of all: I already know that I rock, that's quite obvious.
And no, I just bash TuomAss and his little "almost metal" band because I like to make fun out of them,but I don't get payed for it... XD

Who? wrote on 05.10.2009 at 17:30
Her voice is really beautiful but I do agree with the "aahahhhh" thing.

And then, don't like the song that much... But it's nice to hear new things from her and I notice that her voice is stronger and deeper... amazing

Can't wait "what lies beneath"

Devy wrote on 05.10.2009 at 20:33
@OceanWithin

"such kind of humor "

The kind that insults Tarja for the sake of Anette just to provoke people here,since there's no smarter way for him to atract attention.

Again,you were saying something about...hypocricy?

Legeon wrote on 05.10.2009 at 21:08
"Fly so high
as you can
----
----
always begins
when you are alone
love, fear
feels and concentrate
Solitude / dark

your anger
and no one else "?

I would say:

Fly as high
as you can
-----------
-----------
always begins
when you're alone
love, fear
feel and find yourself
the darkness (or loneliness, I can't hear exactly)

Your anger
and no one else

So yes, you were pretty close ;)
How many languages can you actually speak? I'm jealous!
I hope she'll play the song again so maybe we can hear the missing parts and correct the doubtful ones...

Manxita wrote on 06.10.2009 at 05:03
me encanta, la cancion es bellisima ;) gracias por cantar en español tarja <3

valeria wrote on 06.10.2009 at 05:59
@Legeon: tell me about it, it's greek!

OceanWithin wrote on 06.10.2009 at 09:49
Wrathchild said:
"I wanna hear and see real metal. Like Anette Olzon. Her solo album´s gonna kick ass. She´s got some professional songwriters helping her out and it´s gonna be awesome. US number one hit is highly possible:"
________________________________
could we all, please, remember this? I am quite sure we will come back to those wise Wrathchild´s words...

Actually, Wrathchild, what is YOUR position on this PMS matter? I think that it is quite unexpected that NW´s singer has this need to discuss her hormones so openly....
Do you think we could expect Maestro discuss his hemorrhoidss in time to come...?

mermaid wrote on 06.10.2009 at 10:09
Mermaid,
I prefere discussing about penis size like you do on the forum.

OceanWithin wrote on 06.10.2009 at 13:15
"I wanna hear and see real metal. Like Anette Olzon. Her solo album´s gonna kick ass. She´s got some professional songwriters helping her out and it´s gonna be awesome. US number one hit is highly possible:"

Anette Olzon is as metal as Britney Spears :)) Pop charts, here she comes!

Sunny wrote on 06.10.2009 at 16:30
Actually it is Princess who has Finnish nickname "Arska", it was given to her by the NW members. "Arska" means "Angry" and mostly men are called that, not women:) And also, surprise, Arnold Schwarzenegger is called "Arska" in Finland. So, as you see, it is PMS Nettie who has such a big connection with Arnold Schwarzenegger :)

Truth wrote on 06.10.2009 at 18:34
@Manxita

I could understand the same phrases you wrote. I did heard something else, yet it hasn't got any sense to me in Spanish:

Vuela tan alto
como puedas
.............debajo
nadie esta libras (?)
Siempre comienza
cuando estas solo
amor, temor
siente y encuentrate
la soledad.

tu ira y nadie mas.

I don't know...her lyrics are quite poetic but this doesn't make sense. ;) A better quality recording would be useful.

Demen wrote on 06.10.2009 at 18:49
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek4zIsG0J_I

Better audio quality.

And on one of the last verses the word is solitude/loneliness.
I'm pretty sure darkness is not the word.
I think I heard something like "cae debajo" on the third verse, I'm not sure though.

Demen wrote on 06.10.2009 at 19:07
@OceanWithin

Still no argument huh?...Poor kid.

btw,how is it Greek?Actually Greeks are known for telling people exactly what they think,positive or negative.

Unlike other nations.
Or Anette.Acting sweet and in the same time insulting countries,ignoring fans.Acting like she cares about NW,but she never talks about it in her blog.NEVER.

The only thing she doesn't lie about is her hate for metal.She never ceases to show it.

Legeon wrote on 06.10.2009 at 19:28
Come on, this is ridiculous! I came here to check the latest news regarding Finnish Metal and thought there has been something really special/important going on when I saw the number of comments on this thread. And most of the comments seem to be about Nightwish and not Tarja! Pls discuss matters in threads dedicated to the ARTIST/BAND in question. Some people here are interested in the actual NEWS, not your insider fights or whatever.

ClearMind wrote on 06.10.2009 at 22:00
ClearMind said:

"I came here to check the latest news regarding Finnish Metal and thought there has been something really special/important going on when I saw the number of comments on this thread. And most of the comments seem to be about Nightwish and not Tarja! "
____________________________

well, get used to it... We had Tarja on every NW thread... and we got used to it.

mermaid wrote on 07.10.2009 at 09:30
OceanWithin:

We did not discuss the lenght of penises yet, it was just table TT copied from somewhere...
and as a matter of fact boys had a need to measure their maestros. :-)))

Yet, you reminded me, if I will have some time on Friday, I will translate one article I found about that matter. Thanks for inspiration!... I almost forgot.

mermaid wrote on 07.10.2009 at 09:33
@Legeon
Thanks, last time I was referred to as "kid" with my 35 was by my father gnagna-ing around 2 weeks ago. It flatters me.
Tell me about the arguments you need, don't get your point.

Anette insulted countries? Wow..still referring to the old story about the Athens gig which has been overexplained by her and the band afterwards. But please, go on....

Legeon, I feel so much hate and stress in your words. If you want to "talk", please....you have my open ear! Let it flow.

One last word to you, I think if she really hated metal ( or at least has the same opinion towards it as Tarja ) she wouldn't surely date a tattoo'ed guy playing in a metal band himself. Maybe she would pick up a lawyer or a bank employee so please, honey Legeon, don't bore is with your personal appreciation of the things... :-)

@mermaid: can't put my ruler aside indeed :-)

OceanWithin wrote on 07.10.2009 at 11:55
I have to confess for one thing though where I fully comply with some comments: I did NEVER consider Nightwish as metal band. With or wothout Tarja... Metal is not what Nightwish did or does.

OceanWithin wrote on 07.10.2009 at 11:58
@OceanWithin(now i'm right)

"she wouldn't surely date a tattoo'ed guy playing in a metal band himself."

That's not a proof.I hate Greek music but i dated a guy liking it for 2 years.Our relationship had nothing to do with music.

But i'll agree with you on the part that they don't make metal music.
I always believed it was metal...When i listened only NW.
Now i have listened to more and harder bands,i can tell that they are a softer (and less talented) version of Therion.

Legeon wrote on 07.10.2009 at 12:24
Legeon said:

"I hate Greek music but i dated a guy liking it for 2 years."
________________________
Oooooppppsss, Legeon,

you hate Greek music AND you date a Greek boy??? Do not you want to think about that a bit?

What if OceanWithin is right? He might have a point, you know...?!

mermaid wrote on 07.10.2009 at 12:43
@mermaid

"you hate Greek music AND you date a Greek boy??? Do not you want to think about that a bit?"

Every Greek metal head will tell you that.
Hearing Anette is like seeing an opera in Milan Scala compared to Greek music.

I'm serious.

just some examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l9rVsQf5RE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1x4vN5G1Q

(except for some Greek metal bands,like Firewind,Septic Flesh and Rotting Christ).

So,it's not THAT big deal if i didn't like the kind of music he liked.

Legeon wrote on 07.10.2009 at 13:12
Legeon said:
"So,it's not THAT big deal if i didn't like the kind of music he liked."
_________________________________
no, off course it is not. I was reffering to a fact that HE DOES like it. Not to a fact that YOU do NOT. :-P

mermaid wrote on 07.10.2009 at 13:31
OceanWithin said:

"@mermaid: can't put my ruler aside indeed :-)"
__________________________________
It always make me laugh when I am imagining this... yet, boys would be boys... So, OceanWithin,

Now I certainly WILL remember to translate that stuff I almost forgot about.

Anyway, our boys did not confirm diameter data yet. Though, there are no boys around at the moment... Seer is traveling, Phantom dissapeared like two weeks ago, Ravisk use to pop up when nobody is around...
So, we will see.

Well, what a pitty that Riddler is losing his wit lately... and anyway, there are not so many boys here.

mermaid wrote on 07.10.2009 at 13:56
OceanWithin:

"@mermaid: can't put my ruler aside indeed :-)"
_________________________________
well, I should admit that when I read those stuff, my eyes (no idea why) have been atracted to my ruler as well....

Strange.. is not it?

mermaid wrote on 07.10.2009 at 14:42
@mermaid

"I was reffering to a fact that HE DOES like it."

At the time,i was not interested in his vices :)

Legeon wrote on 07.10.2009 at 16:04
I would LOVE Anette to have one "aaaaaaaahhhhh" song on her new solo album. It would kick arse for sure. :-p

TheSeer wrote on 08.10.2009 at 16:33
Seer said:

"I would LOVE Anette to have one "aaaaaaaahhhhh" song on her new solo album. It would kick arse for sure. :-p "
____________________________
You mean together with
"hep, hep, hep" song,
"aaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeiiiiooooooouuuuuuuu" song and many other with striking lyrics?

mermaid wrote on 09.10.2009 at 10:59
OceanWithin: You are clearly clueless about metal, or music for that matter. Please go and educate yourself.

Black Sabbath -> Judas Priest -> Iron Maiden -> Manowar -> Helloween -> Stratovarius -> Nightwish.

Their music is, for the most part, typical European power metal (or melodic speed metal, which describes the music very well), with symphonic/operatic influences à la Therion.

As far as I know, Timo Kotipelto is classically trained just as Tarja is. Only difference is he can't sing QUITE as high, being a man. ;-)

Nightwish's music (excepting parts of AFF and also parts of Once and DPP) has actually always been very close to traditional heavy metal, much closer than the music of the extreme metal bands you may be thinking of when you hear "metal".

Of course, I agree that Therion make very similar music - strongly influenced by traditional heavy metal and power metal and 70s progressive rock with even more consistent classical/symphonic/opera influences and a less "commercial", more avant-garde approach to songwriting -, i. e., musically better. I think that Therion's music is quite close to German traditional heavy/power metal, actually, and their cover versions fit in with the picture.

Almagest wrote on 10.10.2009 at 19:41
In fact I wonder what mountains the song was inspired by. The only mountains that Tarja probably gets to see rather often in Spanish-speaking countries are the Andes. Perhaps it was seeing pictures of the Andean cóndor that inspired her?

Almagest wrote on 10.10.2009 at 23:00
Almagets said:

"In fact I wonder what mountains the song was inspired by. The only mountains that Tarja probably gets to see rather often in Spanish-speaking countries are the Andes. Perhaps it was seeing pictures of the Andean cóndor that inspired her?"
_________________________________-
Are Andes mountains of "Aaaaaaahhhhhhh"?

mermaid wrote on 13.10.2009 at 11:02
mermaid, I've never been there. But they are VERY high from what I've read. Enough to make you go "Aaaaah ..." just looking up to them, to say nothing of being actually in the mountains and having breathing problems because of the altitude. ;-)

Almagest wrote on 19.10.2009 at 22:30
Now she'll start doing soundtracks for latino-american soaps. The recipe of success: humming around the first melody that comes to your head, which is, by accident, made of a succession of major/minor seconds plus a sixth, which is practically the climax and the most fantastic damn moment of the song. The strike of genius.

Now this is what I call compositional talent. Next thing, she's gonna sing the C major scale and put it on chords. And of course 'fanbois' will love it and say it's better than Mozart itself.

Oh, and I found a title for the soap opera: "Diosa Tarja, la voz del universo". She would like it, and her husband could do the script.

Oh yay! wrote on 28.10.2009 at 20:37
Is this Maestro (or one of his "fanbois") being jealous that people don't appreciate his insanely complex and original melodies? First ripping off Hans Zimmer, then starting to recycle his own melodies ...

Almagest wrote on 04.11.2009 at 00:23

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