Norther Genre(s) Melodic Death/Power Metal Lyrical theme(s) Love, Death, Night, Darkness, Sadness, Hate Origin Formed in Current label Status Finland (Espoo/Helsinki) 1996 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" [...] [read more] Buy their stuff Buy from The End Records Buy from BlackScaped Buy merchandise on Fearshop Search on Amazon.com    more... >> Amazon Canada Amazon France Amazon Germany Amazon UK Search on eBay   more... >> Search on Half.com eBay Canada eBay France eBay UK eBay Spain eBay Belgium eBay Netherlands eBay Italy eBay Australia Search on Gemm.com Submitted by On Hades August 22nd, 2002 Last modified by On Napero October 21st, 2009 Member options Update band data Add new data Report a mistake or additional information for this page

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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%]

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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

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