The band combines elements from different metal subgenres and has both male and female vocals - both clean and raspy (and growls). Tacere signed a recording contract with Suomen metalli musiikki (a sublabel of KHY Suomen musiikki Oy) at the very end of 2005. In June 2006 they released first single "I Devour", which was followed with EP "A Voice in the dark". This EP was postponed and released with same name as minialbum (release date: 1. November 2006). And finally in February 2007 was released their first and debut album "Beautiful Darkness".
*Karri Knuutila (aka Karri de Monét) - Vocals, Guitars, Programming
*Helena Haaparanta - Female Vocals
*Jarno "Jake" Vanhanen - Drums
*Janne Salminen - Synth
*Pekka Pyrhönen - Live bass
The new female singer of Tacere is "Taiya R." from the city of Tampere, Finland. She was selected after a long application process lasting for over 6 months. Tacere also hired a new keyboard player, "Veli-Matti Kananen", who is best known for playing with bands such as Poisonblack and Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Phantasm
Tacere Lyrics
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at night, she hears distant cries.
She is just a child but still she knows
The girl in the mirror is not herself
Just a phantasm of death to become
These deep delusions are too grave for a child to bear
Thus all this trauma haunts her for life until the end.
She sees atrocious things,
at night, she perceives the fear in their minds.
She is just a child, but still she knows when it's time
The little boy running in the fields is not real
Just a burning soul of a soon dead one
These deep delusions are too grave for a child to bear
Thus all this trauma haunts her for life until the end.
These deep delusions are too grave for a child to bear
Thus all this trauma haunts her for life until the end.
Now she finally sees herself in the mirror: beauty lost.
The answer to mystery of her life, is now clear
death… death… death… death…
The lyrics of Tacere's "Phantasm" offer a haunting depiction of a child who experiences deep delusions and traumas that follow her all the way through her life. In the verses, the lyrics embody the perceptions of this child, who feels a cold breeze and hears distant cries at night, and sees atrocious things, including the little boy running in the field who is not real but instead is the burning soul of a soon-to-be-dead child. The girl in the mirror is not herself but instead a phantasm of death that she will eventually become.
The chorus affirms that these deep delusions are too much to bear for a child, and so they haunt her for life until the end. The final lines of the song suggest that the answer to the mystery of this child's life is now clear, and it is death. The overall effect of these lyrics is to create a chilling and dark image of childhood trauma, and the way that such experiences can shape a person's entire life.
Line by Line Meaning
She feels a chilly gust of wind,
She perceives a cold breeze that chills her bones, indicating the arrival of something ominous and unsettling.
At night, she hears far-off cries.
She hears distant, heart-wrenching cries in the quietness of the night, which cannot be ignored and instill fear within her heart.
She is just a child but still she knows
Despite being a mere child, she understands the gravity of the situation and senses that something is awfully wrong.
The girl in the mirror is not herself
The image in the mirror doesn't correspond to what she perceives as her true self; it's an abstract, lifeless vision of death and decay.
Just a phantasm of death to become
The lifeless vision she sees is a foreboding of her future, foreshadowing the darkness that is to come.
She sees atrocious things,
She beholds hideous or repulsive scenes and finds it hard to escape their impact on her young mind.
At night, she perceives the fear in their minds.
She senses the horror and apprehension prevalent in the minds of those around her during her nocturnal visions.
She is just a child, but still she knows when it's time
She might be young, but she can sense when something evil and threatening is about to happen.
The little boy running in the fields is not real
The innocent boy she sees frolicking in the fields is nothing more than a soul destined to meet its untimely demise.
Just a burning soul of a soon dead one
The boy she sees is alive, but very soon his soul will be swallowed by the furnace of death.
These deep delusions are too grave for a child to bear
The darkness that surrounds her, the horror and grief she feels, is too much for a young child to endure and carry.
Thus all this trauma haunts her for life until the end.
The girl cannot shake the tragedies that have befallen her; her sorrow and burden grow with her and persist for her entire existence.
These deep delusions are too grave for a child to bear
The macabre delusions that plague her young mind are too much to bear at such a tender age.
Thus all this trauma haunts her for life until the end.
The traumas she has experienced haunt her for the rest of her life, until the very end.
Now she finally sees herself in the mirror: beauty lost.
The realisation that she can't be the person she once was anymore, that innocence and joy are lost forever. The mirror shows her what she has become.
The answer to mystery of her life, is now clear
The ultimate purpose to her tragedy has become clear to her. She knows that it was all leading towards death all along.
death... death... death... death...
The inexorable truth that she couldn't escape - not in her delusions or her reality - the looming shadow of death that she could feel but never escape.
Contributed by Olivia M. Suggest a correction in the comments below.