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Biography

TACERE is a new Finnish diverse melodic metal band with both female and male vocalists. From huge dramatic episodes to touching melodies and catchy choruses, TACERE has found a way to combine the best parts from different metal sub-genres, combining them together into a new unique and original melodic metal sound. The band has been compared to other metal acts such as Therion, Nightwish, Dream Theater, Within Temptation and Sonata Arctica to name a few, but it is very clear that this band follows it’s own distinctive path.

TACERE’s front man Karri Knuuttila originally created TACERE as his solo project, but very soon it became clear that to achieve his visions Karri needed a full band around him. He started gathering people to join the band and the first official line-up was formed in the very end of 2002 featuring only male vocals for the first couple of years. But in the spring of 2003 the very talented and beautiful female singer Helena Haaparanta joined the band completing Karri’s long time dream of creating a band with unlimited possibilities to create very unique songs and atmospheres. Now after several demos, a plethora of live gigs and a record deal, TACERE's long awaited debut album "Beautiful Darkness" will finally be released in February 2007. This heavily orchestrated grand piece of metal that took several hundreds of audio tracks and months after months of recording is produced by the band's front man Karri Knuuttila together with producer guru Anssi Kippo who is probably most known for his groundbreaking work with the band Children of Bodom.

At this very exciting moment of time a new generation of Finnish music is being created, and for the first time in history bands from this tiny, cold and dark northern nation are born straight into the global music market, and TACERE is a strong part of this movement. Following the path of pioneers such as HIM, The Rasmus, Nightwish and the recent Eurovision song contest winner Lordi, who brought Finnish music into the attention of the rest of the world, it has been very clear since the beginning that the goal of TACERE is to reach the ears of music listeners all around the world. The band has already received fans around the globe, radio play in over 10 countries and deals for releasing music of TACERE in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia and the CIS-states. Not to mention the recently received licensing deal offers for US release and several companies interested in releasing the band’s debut album in the whole of Europe. And these are only the first small steps on TACERE’s path to join the Finnish musical success stories’ hall of fame.

Line-Up
Helena Haaparanta - Vocals
Karri Knuuttila - Vocals/Guitar
Jarno "Jake" Vanhanen - Drums
Janne Salminen - Keyboards
Pekka Pyrhönen - Bass
Seppo "Sepi" Nummela - Guitar