What Lies Beneath (Tarja album)

What Lies Beneath
Studio album by
Tarja
Released1 September 2010 (2010-09-01)
RecordedJanuary 2010, April 2010
Studio
GenreSymphonic metal[1]
Length55:23 / 73:00
Label
ProducerMarcelo Cabuli
Tarja chronology
The Seer EP
(2008) 		What Lies Beneath
(2010) 		Act I : Live in Rosario
(2012)
Singles from What Lies Beneath
  1. "Falling Awake"
    Released: 19 July 2010
  2. "I Feel Immortal"
    Released: 27 August 2010
  3. "Until My Last Breath"
    Released: 30 August 2010
  4. "Underneath"
    Released: 22 April 2011

What Lies Beneath is the third album by the Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, which was released on 1 September 2010 in Finland, on 3 September in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and on 14 September in Latin and North America.[2] It is the first of Tarja's albums in which she is credited for composition on every track.[2] The album was mixed at '62 Studios in Austin Texas by Tim Palmer.

In 2008, after the first leg of the Storm World Tour, Turunen took time to compose new songs.[3] She announced in her blog two songs that she had composed in her time off, "Wisdom of Wind" and "Enough", both later released on the My Winter Storm extended edition.[4] On January 25, Turunen announced on her blog the name of her follow-up to My Winter Storm and talked about the album, revealing titles and lyrics.[3] What Lies Beneath, which sold around 1,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release, landed at position 24 on the Billboard's Top Heatseekers, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists.[5] In Finland, it was at 6th position after two months on the official Finnish charts, also spending two months on the German Top 100, one and a half months on the Austrian Top 40, and a full month on the charts in Switzerland, Belgium and Greece,[6] ending 2010 at 13th position on Billboard's Top 100 of best-selling albums in Europe.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference storm was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "New Album "What Lies Beneath"". Universal Music Group. Archived from the original on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  3. ^ a b "New Album". Winter Storm Official Website. 5 January 2009. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  4. ^ "Tarja - My Winter Storm". Nuclear Blast. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Tarja Turunen To Perform With The 69 Eyes Singer On Finnish TV". Metal from Finland. 13 April 2011. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  6. ^ "Tarja- What Lies Beneath". αCharts.us. Retrieved 17 June 2011.