Tarja

‘My Winter Storm’ is the second studio album from Tarja Turunen, a supreme singing sensation who fronted the symphonic power metal band Nightwish between the years of 1996 and 2005. It’s a stunning eighteen track piece of art; an incredibly well structured album and one that I’d highly recommend to all. If you like the music of Nightwish then chances are that you’ll absolutely love what you find here, it’s more of the same really (only this album from Tarja is far better than anything Nightwish has recorded and released for a long while).

The album storms into action with ‘I Walk Alone’, a four minute power piece with an exquisitely fine chorus to boot. The operatic singing voice of Tarja comes shining through here, this is the most prominent sound that can here be heard and the atmospheric instrumental backing provided here is absolutely stunning. With every passing track the sound created here just seems to get more and here the eighteen tracks of this album are highly impressive pieces of music.

‘My Winter Storm’ is a symphonic metal album of the highest order, the classical vocal sound of Tarja is stunning throughout the entirety of this release and every track here comes complete with a phenomenal instrumental opener. The music builds for roughly one minute with each and every track before the vocals of Tarja Turunen are thrown into the mix also, the album works incredibly well and every track present here stands out strongly as you listen to this fine solo release from Tarja.

Tarja even manages to fit an Alice Cooper cover in here in the form of ‘Poison’. I’ve always been a huge fan of ‘Poison’, Tarja certainly does the track proud here and puts a wonderful new spin on the classic Alice Cooper track. It’s not exactly as powerful as the original, it’s still quite interesting to hear Tarja Turunen’s take on the track however and her beautiful voice compliments the instrumental backing fantastically well here.

If you liked Nightwish when Tarja Turunen was the lead vocalist of the band then chances are that you will love what you find here with this ‘My Winter Storm’ release. Featured here are eighteen incredible tracks from the fine Finnish singer, the fact that this album achieved gold status in Finland on the very day of its release speaks for itself I feel; it’s such an exceptional album from the hugely talented Tarja Turunen. The album has now achieved platinum status in Finland and gold status in Russia also, it’s a fine second album from Tarja Turunen as a solo artist and one that I personally would highly recommend investing in.

Label: Universal Music
Release Date: November 19th 2007

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