Victim of Ritual

2013 single by Tarja

"Victim of Ritual"

Single by Tarja
from the album  Colours In The Dark
Released| July 12, 2013[1]
Length| 5:54
Label| earMUSIC
Songwriter(s)| Tarja Turunen, Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom
Producer(s)| Tarja Turunen
Tarja singles chronology
| "Into the Sun"
(2013)  | "Victim of Ritual"
(2013)  | "500 Letters"
(2013)

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Music video
"Victim Of Ritual" on YouTube

"Victim of Ritual'" is the first single from Tarja Turunen's fourth studio album Colours In The Dark. The single was released on July 12, 2013[2] as a limited edition cd (3000 copies),[3] vinyl (1500 copies)[4] The song was inspired by the one-movement orchestral piece "Boléro", by Maurice Ravel.[5]

## Music video

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The video was shot in Berlin, Germany.[6] and was released on 10 July. A promo teaser on YouTube was released on 26 June.

### Synopsis

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The music video takes place in a huge factory in a bleak, dark world and focuses on three individuals working there. An oboist who is forced to play a single monotonous sequence, an artist who can only paint canvas completely black, and a young man who is an aspiring dancer, but is forced to stand still. As Tarja stalks the factory, she throws a different colour at each person, and this shows them a better side of life. The oboist plays more complex sequences, the artist paints colourful and abstract designs, and the dancer starts to dance more energetically. Throughout the course of the video, Tarja is seen being chased by four masked, hooded figures who try to steal her colours. They try to make the lightening world dark again by throwing black powder, and knock out Tarja, but the three people from the factory fight back with the colours Tarja gifted them. As they smear the powder on their faces, they are shown to be invincible to the hooded gang's black powder, and eventually defeat them. Later, all wearing white instead of black previously, the three workers comfort a comatose Tarja. As they rub colours onto her skin, she opens her eyes. The video ends with a glimpse of the brighter life the people now live.

## Track listing

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CD VersionNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Victim of Ritual"| Tarja Turunen, Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom| 5:54
2.| "Victim of Ritual (First Demo)"| Tarja Turunen, Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom| 4:44
3.| "I Walk Alone (Live Luna Park)"| Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom, Harry Sommerdahl| 4:05
4.| "Underneath (Live Luna Park)"| Tarja Turunen, Johnny Andrews| 5:33

Vinyl VersionNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Victim of Ritual"| Tarja Turunen, Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom| 5:54
2.| "Victim of Ritual (First Demo)"| Tarja Turunen, Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom| 4:44

Digital iTunes VersionNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Victim of Ritual"| Tarja Turunen, Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom| 5:54
2.| "Victim of Ritual (First Demo)"| Tarja Turunen, Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom| 4:44
3.| "I Walk Alone (Live Luna Park)"| Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom, Harry Sommerdahl| 4:05
4.| "Underneath (Live Luna Park)"| Tarja Turunen, Johnny Andrews| 5:33
5.| "Victim of Ritual (Music Video) [7]"| Tarja Turunen, Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom| 5:54

## References

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1. ^ "TARJA | Victim of ritual - Nuclear Blast". Archived from the original on 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
2. ^ "Victim of Ritual". ear-music.net. Archived from the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
3. ^ "TARJA | Victim of ritual - Nuclear Blast". Archived from the original on 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
4. ^ "TARJA | Victim of ritual - Nuclear Blast". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
5. ^ "TARJA TURUNEN: 'Victim of Ritual' Video Released". 10 July 2013.
6. ^ "Tarja - Boxset - from Spirits and Ghosts (Score for a dark Christmas) | ► order here".
7. ^ "Home". coloursinthedark.com.

## External links

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* Victim of Ritual  on www.tarja-coloursinthedark.com
* "Victim of Ritual" Official music video on YouTube
* Tarja on YouTube speaks about Victim of Ritual

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Tarja Turunen

Albums|

| Rock albums|

* My Winter Storm
* What Lies Beneath
* Colours in the Dark
* The Shadow Self
* In the Raw

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Classical and winter albums|

* Henkäys ikuisuudesta
* Ave Maria – En Plein Air
* From Spirits and Ghosts
* Dark Christmas

Live albums|

* Act I: Live in Rosario
* Beauty and the Beat
* Luna Park Ride
* Act II

Collaboration albums|

* In Concert – Live at Sibelius Hall

Compilation albums|

* Best of: Living the Dream

EPs|

* Yhden enkelin unelma
* The Seer
* Left in the Dark
* The Brightest Void

Singles|

* "Yhden enkelin unelma"
* "You Would Have Loved This"
* "I Walk Alone"
* "Die Alive"
* "Enough"
* "Falling Awake"
* "I Feel Immortal"
* "Until My Last Breath"
* "Underneath"
* "Into the Sun"
* "Victim of Ritual"
* "500 Letters"
* "Innocence"
* "Demons in You"
* "An Empty Dream"
* "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"
* "O Tannenbaum"
* "Feliz Navidad"
* "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
* "Eye of the Storm"

Songs|

* "Never Enough"

Related articles|

* Discography
* List of concert tours
* Nightwish
* Outlanders

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