Former NIGHTWISH Singer Announces Working Title Of New Solo CD

Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen has posted the following message on her web site:

"With renewed energy after some holidays I am 100 % working in the new album at the moment.

"I have now a very difficult task ahead: to decide only a bunch of songs that will make it to the final album. With so many excellent songs I have to choose from, it won't be so easy. Maybe we should consider doing a double album…

"As I already started to do last year, I am now making more demos to see how I feel with the songs and how the songs fit with me. Some of them make me chills already even though we are still very far away from the sound we are looking for the album!

"In May I will start recording some definitive vocals. All the people involved, producers, musicians, programmers and choir and orchestra arrangers are very excited and overloaded with things to do!

"We are all working without hurry, but at the same time, without breaks. Is amazing to see how the songs are coming alive in ways that I haven't experienced before.

"I wanted to contact you now to inform the working title of my album.

"I hope you'll find it nice and that it will help you to generate some images in your minds of what will come.

"It has a very deep and dear meaning to me that I will explain to you all a bit later.
As well, as soon as I have more information to give to you, I'll write it here in my web page.

"The album will be called: 'My Winter Storm'."

NIGHTWISH's final recording with Turunen, the "End of an Era" live DVD and CD, entered the German chart at a No. 3 and was certified gold in Finland the day after its release.

"End of an Era" contains recordings/footage of NIGHTWISH's final concert with Turunen, which took place on October 21, 2005 at the Hartwall arena in Helsinki, Finland. In addition to the live footage, the DVD includes a slideshow of pictures from the Hartwall show and a 55-minute documentary, "A Day Before Tomorrow", featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the band in the 15 days prior to the Hartwall show.

NIGHTWISH fired Turunen via an "open letter," which was given to the singer immediately following the Helsinki show. The group has since found a replacement vocalist and is currently working on the follow-up to 2004's "Once", tentatively due in September.