What Lies Beneath Micro-Site

July 29, 2010 | Gallery, Media, Tarja | Leave a Comment »

You might remember that Tarja launched micro-websites for her previous albums and yesterday I got a newsletter from Tarja’s official site saying that a micro-website for Tarja’s new album is now online as well :)

What’s really great about the site (besides the layout) is that you can download a free mp3 of “Falling Awake” after you have registered ;)

Furthermore Tarja revealed the single covers for “I feel immortal” and “Until my last Breath” and a few new promo pictures:

What Lies Beneath artworks + RSS Feed

July 24, 2010 | Gallery, Site, Tarja | Leave a Comment »

During the past weeks quite a few “What Lies Beaneth” artworks have appeared on the internet. Time for me to add them to the gallery:

I noticed that many of you have added my site via RSS feed, even though I never really put a link on the site. That’s why I tried to catch up and finally added a RSS feed to my sidebar on the bottom right ;)

New diary entry by Tuomas

July 21, 2010 | Gallery, Media, Nightwish | Leave a Comment »

First we didn’t get any news at all and now we get so many news in just a few days. But I WILL NOT complain ^^

The 1st week is almost through and we`re off to a fantastic start. Jukka, Emppu and me have 5 songs rehearsed so far, Marco joined the camp last night after a couple of festival shows he did with Tarot. We`ll start putting the low ends into those songs later today and maybe try out tune #6.

The first song put together ended up having one of the best choruses we`ve ever had and a classic Nightwishy c-part of heavy guitars, a massive string riff and everything louder than anything and everybody playing with full force at the same time.
Trademark stuff.

Song # 2 is a twisted marriage of Van Halen, Pantera and madhouse vocals. And Quentin Tarantino – guitars in the bridge. We weren`t overly bananas over this one after the demo I made alone, but now it`s finally coming alive.

In between the distorted racket we sat down with Emppu to complete one acoustic piece. A nice journey back to the roots! Sounds like a Moomin Valley – Christmas carol.

Then another song back to the roots. Everyone`s surprise favorite at the moment. I dug up my inner Paradise Lost / My Dying Bride fanboy and this funeral march is the result.

Music for the last song rehearsed so far is written by Marco. A wonderfully catchy track with the chorus repeated 5 times.(!!) Must be some sort of a record for us. Nice acoustic themes and a d-part which doesn`t quite still fit in.
We`ll enter The Haunted Mansion tomorrow.

Will write more soon, all the best to everyone meanwhile!

Good times, Tuomas

TOP 5 / Week 2
1. New songs, old gang
2. Fishing
3. Prestige – The movie
4. Hidden Rock, Quilmes & Cap`n Morgan
5. Winning all-in with 7-2

Of course this diary entry is linked to some new pictures as well. You can find them in the Gallery:

But since videos are even better than pictures in desperate times like these, NW posted a new video from their summer camp on their official youtube channel:

Affiliates

July 21, 2010 | Site, Tarja | Leave a Comment »

Since I didn’t have much time to take care of the site during the past months, I missed to add some affiliates. I am really sorry that it took me so long to add you guys…BUT I finally did it ^^

I just added a new elite affiliate, which is a fansite for the band Versa Emerge and furthermore I added a slovenian fansite for Tarja Turunen.

If you have sent me an affiliation request and I haven’t answered, please send me a new request. I had some troubles with my mail account as well…I might have not read your mail. Furthermore I’d like to remind you that I don’t accept requests in the chatbox. Please fill out the form I put online just for this matter ;)

Listen to “Falling Awake” by Tarja

July 19, 2010 | Media, Tarja | C1mment »

Tarja’s first single “Falling Awake” of her upcoming album “What lies beneath” was released today. If you haven’t listened to the song yet, you can do so at Tarja’s official youtube channel:

Nightwish Summer Camp Diary 2010

July 18, 2010 | Gallery, Nightwish | Leave a Comment »

Shortly after I spoke in my last update about hardly getting any news from NW, they put a new studio/ summer camp diary online ^^
Now we’re finally able to get interesting (and not so interesting) news straight from the band and we’re also able to follow the album process. This is Tuomas first diary entry and what would it be without some pictures?? ;)

Almost exactly 4 years ago we gathered into an idyllic place in the small village of Sävi to rehearse and arrange what would later be called “Dark Passion Play”. It was such glorious and inspiring times that we decided to do something similar with the upcoming Nightwish album called ………..

So again we are here in the deepest countryside of Finland beginning to create a follower for DPP. It`s just us guys for now, Anette will join the camp a bit later. We arrived yesterday and the reunion was celebrated with some water-skiing, bbq and Quilmes. I foresee the same trinity taking place more or less on a daily basis.

We just got the equipment and PA set up with the help of our legendary engineer / co-producer TeeCee Kinnunen and probably will start working with the songs in a couple of days. This campsite is so amazing we`ll let that sauna of a rehearsal room wait in silence for a while, and just concentrate on chilling out and catching up. And raising the official NW camp – flag high into the pole.

I have 12 songs completed now, but am still working with some lyrics. It`s been an immensely fruitful songwriting process, as well as very consuming and ponderous. But I feel more satisfied with the stuff than ever before. Don`t know if it`s a good sign or bad.
To me the album sounds like a rollercoaster ride in a theme park designed by Neil Gaiman, Tim Burton and Salvador Dali. That`s the best way I can put it at this point.

Like before, we will record a demo once the songs are arranged, to listen to and to perfect the material, and to give to Mr. Pip Williams so he can start with the orchestration process. The actual enter-the-studio-date is set for October 15th.
Again, the London orchestra and choir will be there, as well as Mr. Troy Donockley playing a slightly bigger part this time. And loads of new elements `n twists we haven`t tried before!

So things are finally rolling. We`ll keep you posted in written, as well as in visual form. Stay tuned for updates.
And thanks for sharing the journey once again!

You can find pictures from our summer-camp gallery -page!

Yours, Tuomas

TOP 5 / Week 28

1. Water sports
2. Dimebag Darrell biography
3. Alice In Wonderland dvd
4. Ihmebantu dvd
5. Amorphis: Tales From The Thousand Lakes

You can follow the summer camp diary on the official WN website or on their official facebook account.

New Nightwish album

July 14, 2010 | Nightwish | Leave a Comment »

Well, in desperate times like these when we harldy get any news from the band…I think this is worth a post

Talking about Nightwish… I managed to organize a luxurious villa from Porkkala for Tuomas Holopainen and Tero Kinnunen to rent for recording demos of the next Nightwish album. I suspected their session to be exhausting so I also decided to help these musicians by feeding them one evening with self made four course dinner. At the same time I had the possibility to hear some achievements of these demo recordings and feel the good vibrations of some new tracks. I can hardly wait…

Mika Jussila posted this on his website. You can also find a pic of Tuomas and Tero there ;)

New Tarja promo pictures

June 19, 2010 | Gallery, Site, Tarja | Leave a Comment »

Sorry for being absent for such a long time, but I was extremely busy with uni and work. Unfortunately that won’t change within the next four weeks :(
But I just noticed that new Tarja promos have been uploaded to her website. And to keep this site at least a bit updated, I added those promo pictures to my gallery:

In four weeks I will be done with my exams for this semester and then I will start bringing this site back on track, meaning that I will add recent pictures (Miskolc), interviews and what ever has been happening ;)

Tarja at “Wetten dass…?” + New Affiliate

March 28, 2010 | Media, Site, Tarja | Leave a Comment »

Sorry for not updating in such a long time, but I am really busy at work. But this time I’ve got quite a nice update. Many of you have probably already seen it, but Tarja was performing the song “The good die young” together with The Scorpions yesterday at the very popular german TV show “Wetten, dass…?”. It was a lovely appearance and you can watch high quality videos of the performance and a 25min (!) long interview with Tarja and The Scorpions on the website of ZDF:

Interview with Tarja and Scorpions

“The good die young” live

Furthermore you can find two pictures of the show in the gallery ;)

I also got a new affiliate, which I wanted to add for some time now. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it earlier. Please make sure to visit Tarja is such a diva, which is a blog based on a really great concept :)

Congrats to Anette!

March 3, 2010 | Nightwish | Leave a Comment »

From Anette’s blog:

Last autumn in the middle of my demo recordings of my solo album, I started to feel very, very tired and also nauseated. I took a pregnancy test and guess if me and my bf was really surprised to see that I had gotten pregnant. Since I had decided to not have any more children than my son, it was totally not planned, but after the very first shock, it felt really, really good;=)