Vibeke Stene (born 17 August 1978) is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 singer. She is most often recognized as the former vocalist of the gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 band Tristania

Tristania (band)

Tristania is a band from Norway, formed in 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. Tristania's music is usually classified as symphonic gothic metal with doom/death metal influences , due to its strong ties with the goth metal's history...

. Stene met the members of Tristania during her first years in high school. She joined the band shortly before they started recording their self-titled demo. At first she was meant to be only an additional singer, but later on she joined the band permanently. On 27 February 2007, Stene left Tristania for personal reasons. She stated that the reason was she wanted to pursue a long-held dream of hers, which was to teach singing.

In spring 2007, around the same time Stene left Tristania, the Finnish Symphonic Metal

Symphonic metal

Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...

 band Nightwish

Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...

 were going to announce the name of their new female vocalist. Due to Stene's recent departure from Tristania, it was widely discussed in the musical circles whether Vibeke would be inducted into Nightwish to replace Tarja Turunen

Tarja Turunen

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....

. The rumor was quickly denied, however, when Stene said in an interview, "I am not the new singer in Nightwish."

In 2011, she was featured in the song, "Queen of Broken Hearts", by the electronic band, Plutho.

Discography

Tristania has recorded five full-length albums, one EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

, and one single with Stene as the lead female vocalist:

• Tristania (EP) (1997)
• Widow's Weeds
  Widow's Weeds (album)
  Widow's Weeds is the first full-length album by the Norwegian gothic metal band Tristania.-Track listing:All music by Tristania, all lyrics by Morten Veland# "Preludium..." – 1:09# "Evenfall" – 6:53# "Pale Enchantress" – 6:31# "December Elegy" – 7:31...
  
  (1998)
• Angina (single, 1999)
• Beyond the Veil
  Beyond the Veil (album)
  Beyond The Veil is the second full-length album by the Norwegian band Tristania. It is the last album to feature the band's former vocalist, guitarist and core songwriter, Morten Veland.-Track listing:...
  
  (1999)
• World of Glass (2001)
• Ashes
  Ashes (album)
  Ashes is the fourth full-length album by the Norwegian band Tristania. The album was released on January 24, 2005 and registers a change in the band's musical style, leaving out the choirs and initiating a heavier sound, with a focus on darker lyrics the pure vocals of Vibeke Stene...
  
  (2005)
• Illumination
  Illumination (Tristania album)
  Illumination is the fifth full-length album by the Norwegian band Tristania. It was released on January 22nd, 2007, and is the last album to feature Vibeke Stene on vocals, Rune Østerhus on bass, Svein Terje Solvang on guitars and Kenneth Olsson on drums...
  
  (2007)

Stene has also worked with Green Carnation

Green Carnation

Green Carnation is a band from Kristiansand, Norway formed in 1990 that has created songs from both the progressive rock and progressive metal genres. Some also describe their music as art rock...

 on their album Journey to the End of the Night

Journey To The End Of The Night (Album)

Journey to the End of the Night is the debut studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Green Carnation, released by The End Records on May 28, 2000...

(1999) and with Samael

Samael (band)

Samael is a industrial black metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland.-Biography:Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are an early 2nd Wave black metal band and an innovator for...

 on the song "Suspended Time" from the album Solar Soul

Solar Soul

-Credits:* Vorph - guitar and vocals* Xy - keyboards, drums and programming* Mas - bass* Makro - guitar...

(2007).

External links

• Official website of Tristania
• Official website of Vibeke Stene