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Magic Forest (album)
''Magic Forest'' is the sixth studio album by Finnish power metal band Amberian Dawn. It is the first original album to feature lead vocalist Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen. Track listing Personnel Band members * Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen – vocals *Tuomas Seppälä Tuomas Seppälä is a Finnish guitarist, keyboardist, and composer, best known as a founding member and main composer of the Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. Biography Seppälä started playing piano at the age of five, and in ... – keyboards, guitar *Joonas Pykälä-Aho – drums *Emil "Emppu" Pohjalainen – guitars *Kimmo Korhonen – guitars Guest/session musicians *Jukka Hoffren - bass guitar *Jens Johansson - keyboard solo on track 2 *Markus Nieminen - vocals on track 8 *Peter James Goodman - vocals on track 11 References {{Authority control Amberian Dawn albums 2014 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberian Dawn
Amberian Dawn is a Finnish symphonic power metal band, formed in 2006 by Tuomas Seppälä and Tommi Kuri. Their fifth album '' Re-Evolution'' (a re-recorded compilation with a new singer) was released on KHY Suomen Musiikki & Encore Music in summer 2013. Their latest album ''Looking for You'' was released in January 2020, via Napalm Records. History Atheme One (2006–2008) Several of the members that would later form Amberian Dawn previously played in the group Virtuocity, and after Virtuocity's breakup, they formed a new band, based on keyboardist and guitarist Tuomas Seppälä's songwriting. The band was named Atheme One and had Peter James Goodman as their lead singer and lyricist. The band released a demo in 2006 featuring four songs, "Dreamchaser", "Velvet Roses", "Burning Touch" and "World of Insanity", three of which would later be remade into Amberian Dawn songs: an instrumental version of "Dreamchaser" appears as a bonus track on ''River of Tuoni'', "Velvet Roses" appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuomas Seppälä
Tuomas Seppälä is a Finnish guitarist, keyboardist, and composer, best known as a founding member and main composer of the Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. Biography Seppälä started playing piano at the age of five, and in his teen years he got interested in 1980s rock, pop and heavy metal, including Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen and ABBA. Seppälä joined the band Virtuocity as a keyboardist in the early 2000s (decade), and when the band disbanded in 2005 he formed a new band called Atheme One with Tommi Kuri and Peter James Goodman, led by his songwriting skills. In 2006, he and Tommi Kuri decided that they wanted to transform the band to include female vocals, but the same compositional style, and found the classical soprano Heidi Parviainen, with whom they formed what would be Amberian Dawn. Seppälä graduated at Helsinki University of Technology in 2000. Discography With Amberian Dawn * ''Amberian Dawn'' (2006) * ''Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Re-Evolution (album)
''Re-Evolution'' is the fifth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Amberian Dawn. This album contains re-recorded songs from their past four albums; ''River of Tuoni'' (2008), ''The Clouds of Northland Thunder'' (2009), ''End of Eden'' (2010), and '' Circus Black'' (2012), each of the tracks remastered with lyrics performed by the band's new vocalist, Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen. Background After the band parted ways with Parviainen in November, the band decided to find a new vocalist. They announced in December 2012 that their new vocalist would be Capri Virkkunen, a Finnish singer with 2 solo albums released to her name. Capri performs her vocals in a more traditional rock fashion, despite the fact that she is classically trained. To introduce the new vocalist, the band decided to release a compilation album of old songs but with the vocals re-recorded by Capri. Before the album's release, "Kokko - Eagle of Fire" was released as a single in May 2013, which was preceded by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innuendo (Amberian Dawn)
Innunedo is the seventh studio album by the Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. Track listing Personnel Band members *Jukka Hoffren – bass *Joonas Pykälä-Aho – drums *Emil Pohjalainen – guitar *Tuomas Seppälä – keyboards, guitar *Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen – vocals Crew *Jan "Örkki" Yrlund – artwork, layout, photography *Tuomas Seppälä – producer (vocals & guitars), music, recording *Emil Pohjalainen – producer (drums & guitars), recording *Jassi – producer (drums), recording *Mikko P. Mustonen – producer (vocals), co-producer, mixing (tracks: 5), recording *Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen – lyrics *Svante Forsbäck – mastering *Mikko Karmila – mixing (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 12) *Peero Lakanen – photography Companies, etc. *Napalm Records Napalm Records is an Austrian independent record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock. Originally, Napalm focused on black metal bands, such as Abigor and Summoning, and folk metal bands, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Metal
Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in contrast with the heaviness and dissonance prevalent, for example, in extreme metal. Power metal bands usually have anthem-like songs with fantasy-based subject matter and strong choruses, thus creating a theatrical, dramatic and emotionally "powerful" sound. "Riffs became labyrinthine, vocals scorched higher altitudes—and they even managed to crank out some more volume." The term was first used in the mid-1980s and refers to two different but related styles: * the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal; * a later, more widespread and popular style based in Europe "American metal such as Queensrÿche, Attacker, Jag Panzer, Iced Earth, Liege Lord, and Savatage; European bands such as H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capri Virkkunen
Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen later known as Päivi SeloPalatsi Teatteri: Päivi Selo (Capri) biography (born 28 February 1972), simply known as Capri, is a singer and vocal coach. She started as a pop singer in Finland and also member of a cover band. Starting 2012, she has become the vocalist metal singer of the Finnish symphonic power metal band replacing earlier band vocalist |
