Aleksi Sihvonen is the current vocalist for the Finnish band Medicated. He replaced

Norther Norther was a Finnish melodic death metal band from Espoo formed in 1996 and broke up in 2012. History Norther formed under the name Requiem (Lindroos, Korpas, Hallio) in 1996 after various early stage band formations. The band's debut effort w ...

's vocalist

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in 2009, until the group disbanded in 2012. He was also the former guitarist and vocalist of Imperanon.

Personal information

*Date of Birth: 2 April 1984 *From:

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, Finland *Instrument: Vocals, Guitar (stopped playing 2006) *Influences:

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Björn "Speed" Strid Bjorn (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or less oft ...

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. *Started Playing: Piano in 1991, guitar in 1997, death vocals in 2000 and started to clean sing from 2007.

Discography

With Norther

*''Frozen Angel'' (His audition song, available for download on the Norther website) *''Break Myself Away'' – released as online single on 29 April 2010 *'' Circle Regenerated'' –

's sixth album, released 2011.

With Medicated

*''Magnum for Amen (2008 EP)'' *''Ways to Make You Fall (2010 EP)''

Imperanon

*''Until The End (2002 Demo)'' *''Imperanon (2003 Demo)'' *''Stained (2004 Album)'' *''Demo 2006 (2006 Demo)''

Guest appearances

Aleksi features on Scottish metal band ''Hellbound'' 's first EP, along with

Heikki Saari Heikki Saari (alias "Mörkö", "kermis" or "kmn") (born on 8 September 1984 and originating from Veteli, Finland) is the current drummer for Whorion and Finntroll. He is also the live drummer for Tuoni and former drummer of Norther and Amberian ...

. He features on the songs ''Misanthropy'' and ''Drug Thirsty Reptile''. He also features on Serbian melodic death metal band ''Sangre Eterna'' 's album Asphyxia on the song ''The Masquerade''. In 2012, Aleksi performed vocals on Canadian band Chariots of the Gods' song ''Unbound'' off their album and single entitled ''Tides of War''.

Sources

All of the information in this article was compiled from information on th
Official Norther website
th
Official Norther Forum
and th
EndlessWar member information page

External links

Official Medicated WebsiteOfficial Medicated Facebook pageOfficial Norther websiteOfficial Norther MySpace -profileEndlessWar, an extensive fansiteAleksi's official MySpaceNORTHER – the Finnish Breeze fansiteArchived
2009-10-25)
Russian Norther FansiteAleksi at Metal From Finland
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