Norther

Norther
Genre(s)
Melodic Death Metal
Lyrical theme(s)
Love, Death, Night, Darkness, Sadness, Hate
Origin Formed in Current label Status
Finland (Espoo/Helsinki) 2000 Century Media Records Active
Current line-up
Aleksi Sihvonen - Vocals (2009-) (Imperanon, Medicated)
Kristian Ranta - Guitar, Clean Vocals (2000-) (Gashouse Garden)
Jukka Koskinen - Bass (2000-) (Wintersun, Cain's Offering)
Tuomas Planman - Keyboards (2000-)
Heikki Saari - Drums (2005-) (Naildown, Atheme One, Amberian Dawn, Force Majeure (Fin), Tuoni, Virtuocity)

Live members:
Daniel Freyberg - Guitar (2009-) (Naildown, Source of Demise)
Former/past member(s)
Vocals, Guitar:
Petri Lindroos (1996-2009) (Ensiferum)

Guitar:
Roni Korpas (1996-1999)

Bass:
Tuomas "Stubu" (1996-1997)
Sebastian "Knight" Ekroos (2000)

Drums:
Toni Hallio (1996-2005)

Keyboards:
Joakim Ekroos (2000)
Additional notes
Closely affilated with Children of Bodom. The band actually got their start when Alexander Kuoppala of Children of Bodom helped them get a record deal; Petri and Alexander have been long time friends so Norther got much help early in their career through Bodom.

Norther originally started as a death metal band under the name 'Requiem' in 1996, then changed their name to 'Decayed', and in 2000 to Norther.

Norther was featured in the movie "Vares 2 - Jäätynyt enkeli" [...]
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Discography


Warlord Demo, 2000
Released Single, 2002
Dreams of Endless War Full-length, 2002[5 reviews, average 84%]
Unleash Hell Single, 2003
Mirror of Madness Full-length, 2003[7 reviews, average 93%]
Spreading Death Single, 2004
Death Unlimited Full-length, 2004[5 reviews, average 87%]
Spreading Death DVD, 2004
Solution 7 EP, 2005[3 reviews, average 80%]
Scream Single, 2006[1 review, 70%]
Till Death Unites Us Full-length, 2006[5 reviews, average 78%]
No Way Back EP, 2007[2 reviews, average 88%]
N Full-length, 2008[6 reviews, average 63%]


Links

Official
Official Norther Site
Official MySpace

Labels
Norther @ Spinefarm Records
Norther @ Century Media
Spinefarm @ MySpace

Official merchandise
Norther Official Merchandise
Official Norther Webshop
Norther @ Razamataz
Record Shop X

Fan site
Unofficial Norther Website
French Fansite
Endless War
Italian FanSpace
Fan MySpace
Russian Fansite
Norther @ Wikipedia
Norther @ Metalseek

Tablatures
Norther @ Doomish.com
MySongBook
MetalTabs
ZoneMetal
Ultimate-Guitar
Norther @ 911Tabs
Norther tabs @ guitartab


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