Tacere

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Pekka – bass
Karri – vocals & guitar
Jake – drums
Veli-Matti – keyboards
Taiya – vocals

Tacere originally started as the solo project of front man Karri Knuuttila in the early 2000s.
A real band line-up and the name TACERE first appeared in 2002/2003, but the band was still
lead by just male vocals. After hiring Helena Haaparanta as the female singer in 2004 Tacere
got it's first stable line-up. The band put out a plethora of demos until in 2005 they were picked
up by a Finnish record label "Suomen Musiikki Oy / SM-Records" - a company ran by Kari
Hynninen a well known music mogul who has discovered and worked with talents such as
Apocalyptica and Amorphis in the metal scene, and several Finnish platinum artist on the pop
scene.

The band released it's first mini-CD "A Voice in the dark" in November 2006 reaching a top-10
chart position in Finland. Followed by nearly half a year of recording and a lot of other work
the band then finally released their debut album "Beautiful Darkness" in Scandinavia March
2007. Later during the same year releases followed for example in Russia, the CIS-states, Japan
and Thailand. The album was produced together by Karri Knuuttila and producer guru Anssi
Kippo (Children of Bodom etc.) and it received a great response from both the fans and critics.
In Japan the album got an especially good response and achieved remarkable sales to be a
debut album of an unknown metal band. Later on the band parted ways with the record label
"Suomen Musiikki" in early 2008. After this the band's manager was also discharged and later
in the spring the singer Helena Haaparanta quit the band. A show in the famous
"On The Rocks" club in Helsinki 3th March 2008 remained as the last performance of the band
with the debut album line-up.

A long and hard search process to find a new singer followed shortly. A huge amount of
people applied for the singer position from all around the world, and it took almost half a year
of reading and listening through applications, meeting people and seeing auditions, but Tacere
finally found their new perfect singer, a beautiful Finnish girl called Taiya. She is an extremely
talented singer, but also a highly experienced performer and the perfect person on the
chemistry level for the band. After finding the new singer the band also hired a new keyboard
player "Veli-Matti Kananen" (Poisonblack, Eternal Tears of Sorrow) and the band was finally
complete.

Now Tacere is stronger than ever and ready to take things far. The band has a real dream
line-up, fantastic new song material and more enthusiasm and energy than ever before. The
recordings for a follow up for the debut "Beautiful Darkness", a yet untitled 2nd album, start
in February of 2009 and Tacere is currently looking for partners to release the album with.

Deep Tears of Tragedy

I love Helena's voice, but the new singer is not my piece of cake. Also they got some good songs, not all are good.

I haven't heard the new singer yet. Honestly she looks like a trashy verison of punk (No insults meant) and past moments have taught me that her singing probably won't be any better.