His unique and powerful 4 octave range was the final element the band needed to break out of Norway and into the world market.

Tell No Tales marked a slight change in sound from melodic Euro-metal to a more palatable hard rock style, with Le Tekrø and Harnell gaining a reputation as a talented duo.

The album was the best selling release in Norway and Sweden that year (outselling hugely popular artists like Michael Jackson and Def Leppard).

However, Atlantic did a poor job of promoting the album in the States (assuring that TNT would never find huge success in America) and also the rest of the world.

The Japan only EP Taste was issued April 2003 which included a TELL NO TALES outtake DESTINY as well still unreleased in most regions Magic Little Nightmare.

[8] Tony Harnell left the band in April 2006 for both personal and professional reasons,[9] although his final show was on 30 June, when TNT played the Polar Rock Festival in Storsteinnes, Norway.

[10] He was replaced by British hard rock singer Tony Mills (of UK act Shy, coincidentally supporting TNT for Harnell's farewell show).

The Live in Madrid CD + DVD package was released in Japan in August 2006 and elsewhere in the world in September, as produced by Darren Paltrowitz.

In Norway the album was released as an exclusive joint publishing deal between the Narvesen chain of convenience stores and TNT on 27 December.

[16] In an interview on the Norwegian radio show Stjerneklart in January 2011, Ronni Le Tekrø stated that it might be TNT's last album.

[22] TNT celebrated its 30th anniversary by playing one concert at the Clarion Hotel in Trondheim on 2 June 2012, where they performed with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra as well as both former vocalists, Dag Ingebrigtsen and Tony Harnell,[23] and one concert at Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo on 17 November 2012, where they performed with Ingebrigtsen and original bassist Steinar Eikum.

[27] In August 2013 Tony Mills announced that he had decided to leave TNT to pursue solo projects, stating, "For most of this year we have barely played [live] and have not written or recorded anything new.

"[28][29] In a personal statement published on his official website, Mills stated, "There are other contracts I need to fulfill and a different focus I have to maintain in the coming years.

When asked whether this would only be a one-off reunion, Harnell answered, "I've considered doing a show or two, but those are very imminent and have already been booked with Tony Mills as the vocalist.

[38] TNT officially revealed their new and fourth vocalist, Baol Bardot Bulsara, at their opening act gig for Scorpions at Oslo Spektrum on 22 November 2017.

The following day Rockheim announced that Ingebrigtsen would be inducted after all, together with Ronni Le Tekrø, Diesel Dahl, Morty Black, Tony Harnell, Victor Borge and Tony Mills,[44][45] all of which attended the ceremony with the exception of Mills, who was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in April 2019 and had become too ill to attend, but Rockheim was able to give him the award a week before the ceremony.

[46] On 8 November 2022 the band officially announced Harnell would return and would perform at the Tons Of Rock festival in Oslo, Norway on 22-25 June 2023.