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Helsinki, Finland (1996 – present)
Norther is a metal band from Helsinki, Finland. The band began in early 1996 under the name of Requiem, and was assembled by guitarist Petri Lindroos and drummer Toni Hallio accompanied by two other musicians. In the beginning, the band suffered from the lack of a proper rehearsal place, but in late 1997, guitarist Alexander Kuoppala (ex-Children of Bodom) found a suitable place for them to practice at Lepakko; around this time the band decided to change their name from Requiem to Decayed. Their luck was short-lived, however, as their new rehearsal place was soon to be demolished. The musicians who played with Lindroos and Hallio soon lost their motivation and quit Requiem.
After a few months, the band managed to find another rehearsal place, and began looking for members to complete their line-up. After quite a few auditions, they were unable to find musicians that they deemed fit to play with them, and thus went on a hiatus, which lasted until the beginning of 2000, when they met guitarist Kristian Ranta. The band became active once more, and with the help of two brothers who were friends of Lindroos - Sebastian and Joakim Ekroos - the band recorded their first demo, for the first time using the name Norther. A promising demo led to them signing a deal with Spinefarm Records.
Due to internal problems, the Ekroos brothers quit the band; this lead Norther into finding its first stable formation when bassist Jukka Koskinen and keyboardist Tuomas Planman were incorporated into the band.
After a few months, the band managed to find another rehearsal place, and began looking for members to complete their line-up. After quite a few auditions, they were unable to find musicians that they deemed fit to play with them, and thus went on a hiatus, which lasted until the beginning of 2000, when they met guitarist Kristian Ranta. The band became active once more, and with the help of two brothers who were friends of Lindroos - Sebastian and Joakim Ekroos - the band recorded their first demo, for the first time using the name Norther. A promising demo led to them signing a deal with Spinefarm Records.
Due to internal problems, the Ekroos brothers quit the band; this lead Norther into finding its first stable formation when bassist Jukka Koskinen and keyboardist Tuomas Planman were incorporated into the band.
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Shoutbox
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mikebrew150 wrote:
Is it just me or is this music really good for one or two songs and then it gets boring?
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screts wrote:
the new singer is awesome :)
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PariClemente wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Pg_CqKMyA Petri or not, musically Norther is sounding top notch in this video. The sound quality is great! This is only from a few weeks ago. Aleksi is not Petri but he sounds pretty damn close here. Hell yea!
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InfernoBorealis wrote:
Aleksi with Norther is great! We still get to have some awesome Ensiferum albums and experience a new Norther - which with Imperanon combined is swweeeettt! :D
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MatumBaiark wrote:
@BlackHawkSaber, well they just got a new vocalist and they're making a new album, so...
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GeneraLink wrote:
lets see how the new album is ... i really dont like the new version of frozen angel, but lets i give him a chance ... lets be that fair ;) !
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BlackHawkSaber wrote:
Are these guys still active? Spinefarm has them listed under their non-active bands in their links page...
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ValseOfDeath wrote:
Most of the ppl in here who want Pete back to Norther and/or Jari back to Ensiferum act like little stupid kids. Get over it, assholes. I can't hear it anymore >_<
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umosay wrote:
What if they don't want to be?
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PontusMS wrote:
Petri should be in Norther and Jari should be in Ensiferum!
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the_flame_ wrote:
not a bad show last night in Kiev, the sound was near perfect, they played flawlessly... BUT they must do something with their performance on stage. They act like a million other bands on stage, to the point that it gets boring.
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MatumBaiark wrote:
Don't know what everyone's bitching about, they got a pretty good new vocalist. Atleast they didn't do what Amoral did.
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umosay wrote:
Get over it! Yeah, it's a new band, combination of Norther + Imperanon... l'm sorry but that is a fucking killer combination. Petri was great, but Kride always wrote more and all the Norther guys are talented writers. This new album is going to be fresh. Petri may also write his own material as he doesn't do much in Ensiferum, so we could see a band from him in the future.. of some kind. I also like Aleksi's cleans, listen to his test: http://www.myspace.com/aleksisihvonen
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dsastre wrote:
Norther without Petri is not Norther.
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Sir__Javid wrote:
new singer sucks... [3]
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hvitmann wrote:
First 3 albums are quite nice.
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SC10n wrote:
There is no Norther anymore. They should disband when Petri left or at least change bands name.
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MaidenSlayer wrote:
meh
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cosmoretro wrote:
Listen Medicated, he is a good singer. Too bad he joined a bad band.
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CVince9 wrote:
realy no judges can be made on the new singer yet... i mean If ur watching a tv show with a actor for years and all of a sudden his job gets done by someone else u dont care what they do they are not exactly like the old one
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Events
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Nov
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Norther
Точка, Москва, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Nov
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KORPIKLAANI & NORTHER
Progresja, Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
711 shouts
| 248 attendees
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Dec
1
Norther
R-Club (ex-Юла) ул.Сурганова, 26, Minsk, Belarus
44 shouts
| 43 attendees
News
FMA Finnish Metal Awards 2009; Cast your vote for NORTHER
4 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/norther
Once a year an annual metal music expo event called Finnish Metal Expo is held at Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki Finland. Every year there is a possibility for metal fans to cast their vote for the band they. …
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