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Norther

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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.

1	Frozen Angel full track	1,265
2	Death Unlimited full track	817
3	Down full track	681
4	My Antichrist full track	651
5	Blackhearted	613
6	To Hell full track	582
7	Mirror of Madness	575
8	Omen full track	560
9	If You Go full track	556
10	Deep Inside full track	552
11	We Rock	533
12	Betrayed	520
13	Nothing full track	516
14	Midnight Walker	508
15	Unleash Hell	505

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ObituaryOfDeath wrote:
1 hour ago

dreams of endless war deserves more praising.

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The_WindWaker wrote:
11 hours ago

Oh, come on, Released is only on #31? This is one of their greatest songs ever!

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Samoth_88 wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Immensi.

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decayingrose wrote:
Monday morning

I soooo need to see Norther live. If I had a passport, I'd go see them in Canada.

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nazlyyy wrote:
Sunday evening

it shouldn't had surprised me that it's the top track since it's been released 3 times and has a video. And i agree, it's not which is why it surprised me.

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umosay wrote:
Sunday afternoon

lol, how so? I just answered your query :P Doesn't exactly mean it's their best song

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nazlyyy wrote:
Sunday morning

touche!

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EnemyTerrority wrote:
Sunday morning

The Best Norther albums are Mirror of Madness and Death Unlimited. Because they are fuckin' hard, fuckin' fast and more fuckin' old school melodic death than others !

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umosay wrote:
Sunday morning

It has a video and it's been released 3 times... not too difficult to fatham

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nazlyyy wrote:
Saturday evening

hahaha FUCK, Frozen Angel is so high up in the charts. wtf

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Jokks wrote:
Saturday evening

Norther <3

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Linkinka_ wrote:
Friday afternoon

Death Unlimited is the great album:)

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PARIS-DANGER wrote:
7 days ago

FROZEN ANGEL <33

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Fettie wrote:
8 days ago

Betrayed...Awesome. The hole CD ''mirror of Madness'' is fucking great.

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Viktori_Frances wrote:
8 days ago

anaal nathrakh THE BEST!!!!!

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AA-d00d wrote:
8 days ago

think again

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dominic508 wrote:
8 days ago

I don't like you :) lol Nice band, midnight walker is one of the best song ive ever heard Imo

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TheLollipopKing wrote:
8 days ago

i dont like this band :)

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Hawkinsism wrote:
9 days ago

great instrumentals, im just not rly into the vocals =/ 1 recomendation down 6 pages to go XD

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umosay wrote:
9 days ago

btw, the correct tag is Saviour - at least it says so in the booklet...

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Events

Aug 30 Loud From The South Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, Netherlands
22 shouts | 47 attendees
Sep 20 Norther Le National, Montreal, Canada
4 shouts | 10 attendees
Sep 22 Norther Impérial de Québec, Quebec, Canada
1 shout | 7 attendees