''The Brightest Void'' is the third EP by Finnish

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Tarja Turunen Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer, best known as the former lead vocalist of Nightwish. She is a soprano with a three and a half o ...

. It serves as a prequel to the main album

The Shadow Self ''The Shadow Self'' is the sixth studio album released by Finnish vocalist Tarja Turunen. The record was released on 5 August 2016. The record produced two singles. Background The songwriting started just after the release of '' Colours in th ...

. It was released on the 3 June 2016 and contains 9 tracks.

Background

This album came to Tarja as an idea for a big surprise and gift to her fans containing material recorded but not being included on the main album. She explained: "During the long process of recording the songs for my new studio album ‘The Shadow Self’, I realised that there were so many tracks... ...for just one album. So this time I decided to keep nothing for myself and to share all my favourite new songs with you, the fans, who have shown such passionate and constant support." On 14 April 2016, earMUSIC released a trailer for the video, "No Bitter End". The whole video was released on 20 April. On 27 May 2016, Tarja announced the full-length album was available for streaming on Apple Music.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

- vocals * Julian Barrett * Peter Barrett *

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* Luis Conte * Mike Coolen - drums * Guillermo De Medio * Sharon den Adel - vocals on track 9 * Jim Dooley * Stefan Helleblad - guitars on track 9 * Bart Hendrickson *

Ruud Jolie Ruud Jolie (born Rudolf Adrianus Jolie on 19 April 1976 in Tilburg, Netherlands) is the lead guitarist of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation. Early life Ruud is an only child. Growing up, he first initiated himself to music by playing t ...

- guitars on track 9 * Izumi Kawakatsu * Christian Kretschmar *

Max Lilja Max Lilja (born 27 October 1975) is a Finnish cello player. He is best known as a founding member of the Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica, a band he left in 2001 to join the Finnish thrash metal band Hevein. Beginning in 2007, Lilja has ...

- cello *

Michael Monroe Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm (born 17 June 1962), better known by his stage name Michael Monroe, is a Finnish rock musician who rose to fame as the vocalist for the glam punk band Hanoi Rocks, and has served as the frontman for all-star sid ...

- vocals on track 2
Mervi Myllyoja
- violin * Atli Örvarsson *

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- Mixing * Nico Polo * Fernando Scarcella * Alex Scholpp - guitar *

Chad Smith Chad Gaylord Smith (born October 25, 1961) is an American musician who has been the drummer of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the h ...

- drums on track 3 *

Martijn Spierenburg Martijn Spierenburg (born 30 January 1975) is a composer and arranger. He is also keyboard player for the Dutch symphonic rock band Within Temptation. In 2018, it was announced that he would be the composer for the musical "Nieuw Amsterdam", which ...

- keyboards on track 9 * Torsten Stenzel *

Mike Terrana Mike Terrana (born January 21, 1960) is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer. His first professional work was in 1984 with the MCA band Hanover Fist from Toronto, Canada, after which he recorded and toured with other bands, playing m ...

- drums * Toni Turunen - vocals on track 3 * Jeroen van Veen - bass guitar on track 9 * Mel Wesson *

Robert Westerholt Robert Westerholt (born 2 January 1975) is a Dutch musician, known as the guitarist and co-founder of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation. He also writes music for the band along with his partner and band vocalist Sharon den Adel. He us ...

- guitars on track 9 * Doug Wimbish * Anders Wollbeck

Charts

References

External links

Tarja-theshadowself.com

Tarjaturunen.com
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