News: New Cover For The New Album!
The name of the new album will be:
"Till Death Unites Us"
The album will released on the 25th of January 2006 in Finland.
Info about other countries will be posted as soon as confirmed.
The tracklist, in no particular order, is :
scream
Throwing my life away
the end of our lives
evil ladies
drowning
die
everything
alone in the end
norther
omen
fuck you
wasted years
The new single will be named "Scream"
The band begun in early 1996 under the name of Requiem, and was assembled by guitarist Petri Lindroos and drummer Toni Hallio, who were 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. 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 couple of 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 an 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 Ranta - Sebastian and Joakim Ekroos - the band recorded their first demo, using for the first time the name Norther. The promising demo led them into receiving a deal with Spinefarm Records.
Due to internal problems, the Ekroos brothers quit the band, but that lead Norther into finding its first stable formation when bassist Jukka Koskinen and keyboardist Tuomas Planman were incorporated into the band.
The album Dreams of Endless War was then recorded. Norther received positive criticism by the specialized press and began playing gigs in the Helsinki area.
