TARJAAnnounces New Studio Album ‘Frisson Noir’
The Heaviest Album of Her Career, To Be Released June 12 on earMUSIC
First Single ‘At Sea’ Out Now
Tarja unleashes her brand-new metal album “Frisson Noir” on June 12 via earMUSIC, the heaviest record of her career and a powerful statement of identity, strength and belonging. After years of exploring different musical landscapes, Tarja stands firmly where she belongs: in metal.
“Frisson Noir” reflects Tarja’s ongoing dialogue between cinematic orchestration, classical heritage, and the power and intensity of contemporary metal. The album moves between intimate piano passages, dramatic orchestral textures, and powerful guitar-driven moments.
At the center of the soundscape is Tarja’s distinctive voice, moving effortlessly between fragile emotional expression and operatic power. Around it, orchestral arrangements, choirs, and layered instrumentation create a cinematic world that constantly shifts between darkness and light, exploring deeply human themes such as fear, beauty, nostalgia, resilience, defiance, transformation, identity, disappearance, independence, trust, and perseverance.
Across 10 tracks, Tarja delivers intensity, emotion, and strength, joined by special guest Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth), Apocalyptica, Marko Hietala (ex-Nightwish), and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers). Mixed by GRAMMY-winning producer Neal Avron (Linkin Park, Skillet, Disturbed), the album blends a modern, hard-hitting sound with the dramatic and emotional elements that define Tarja’s unmistakable metal identity.
The album will be available in retail as CD Digipak, Black 2LP Gatefold and Ltd. Purple 2LP Gatefold. The first pressing of all formats is finished with high-quality copper foil and logo embossing. Further exclusive formats as signed editions and a strictly limited Collectors Box Set (incl. Black 2LP Gatefold (180g) with 24-page vinyl size booklet of illustrations, photographs, and lyrics, CD Digipak with 28-page booklet, Box Set exclusive 7″ vinyl single with “I Don’t Care (Tarja Solo Version)” and “I Don’t Care (Dani Mix)”, four Box Set exclusive animal print postcards, Box Set exclusive DIN A2 “Frisson Noir” poster, and a fine art print signed by Tarja) will be available in the official album store.
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Kicking off the album, the first single “At Sea” is out today. The song embodies the core idea behind “Frisson Noir” – the physical reaction that music can provoke, the shiver that runs through the body when sound, emotion, and performance align in a real moment. With “At Sea”, Tarja captures that moment, reminding listeners what happens when sound, emotion, and human performance collide. The track combines Tarja’s voice with live musicians, orchestral arrangements and choir performances recorded in Budapest with the Budapest Art Orchestra and Budapest Art Choir, conducted by Gyorgy Gulyas Nagy. The result is a heavy metal endeavor within a cinematic sonic landscape that mirrors the emotional journey of the song itself: the tension between fear and determination when facing the unknown.
TRACKLISTING
Frisson Noir
The Eternal Return
Leap Of Faith (feat. Marko Hietala)
At Sea (feat. Mervi Myllyoja & Niklas Pokki)
Blaze Forever
The Trace Outlives (feat. Sayo Komada)
Tango (feat. Apocalyptica)
Anemoia (feat. Julián Bedmar & Valter Freitas)
I Don’t Care (feat. Dani Filth)
Against The Odds (feat. Chad Smith)
The Frisson Noir Philosophy
The word frisson describes the moment when music sends a shiver through the body.
It is the instant when sound stops being just sound and becomes emotion, memory, and physical sensation.
Frisson Noir was created around this idea.
In an era where technology can generate songs instantly, the album celebrates the human element in music: real performances, breath, imperfection, uncontrolled emotion, and the unpredictable spark that turns a song into an experience.
Every song on the album was written, recorded, produced, and mixed with that intention. From the first note to the final orchestral swell, the music is designed to trigger that unmistakable sensation, the moment when sound becomes something you don’t just hear but feel: to give the listener chills.
Seven years after her last full studio release in the heavier spectrum, Tarja returns with renewed intensity and deeper poetry.
Frisson Noir is, without a shadow of a doubt, the heaviest record of Tarja’s career and a powerful statement of identity, strength, and belonging.
When the right combination of sound, performance, and emotion occurs, something extraordinary happens, and you feel the shiver.
