Petri Lindroos (born 10 January 1980 in

Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...

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 B ...

) is a melodic death/folk metal guitarist and vocalist. He is currently the lead vocalist in

Ensiferum Ensiferum (Latin: , n adj., meaning "sword bearing") is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "melodic folk metal." History Formation, demos and ''Ensiferum'' (1995−2002) ''Ensiferum'' was founde ...

. Previously, he was a founding member and lead vocalist for

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 ...

Biography

At 14 years old, Petri (also known as "Pete") began to play the guitar. In 1996 he founded the

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavines ...

band

with drummer

Toni Hallio Toni Hallio is the former drummer for and one of the founding members of melodic death metal band Norther. He left the band in October 2005 to pursue other interests. However, he still recorded the drums for Norther's ''Till Death Unites Us'' ins ...

. In 2004, he joined the

folk metal Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for exampl ...

Viking metal Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age. Viking metal is quite diverse as a musical style, to the point where some consider it more a cr ...

band Ensiferum as lead vocalist and continued to perform and record with Norther until 3 March 2009, when Norther's official website announced his departure from the band to focus more on his duties with Ensiferum. Petri said later in an interview that he did not want to quit the band, and on the contrary, the band members forced him to. In 2008, Lindroos fell sick and was subsequently unable to perform on the planned Russian tour. For the duration of the tour, bass player Sami Hinkka took over Lindroos' vocals while ex-bassist Jukka-Pekka Miettinen filled in as a sessional guitarist.

Discography

With Norther

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'' (2000) - Demo *'' Released'' (2002) - CD Single *''

Dreams of Endless War ''Dreams of Endless War'' is the debut album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Norther. It was released on 18 July 2002 by Spinefarm Records. The songs; "Victorious One" and "Endless War" are demo songs from ''Warlord'', while the song "War ...

'' (2002) - CD *'' Unleash Hell'' (2003) - CD Single *'' Mirror of Madness'' (2003) - CD *'' Spreading Death'' (2004) - CD/DVD Single *'' Death Unlimited'' (2004) - CD *''Solution 7'' EP (2005) - Mini CD *''

Scream Scream may refer to: *Screaming, a loud vocalization Amusement rides * Scream (Heide Park), a gyro drop tower in Soltau, Germany * Scream! (ride), a tower ride at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Six Flags New England * Scream! (roller coaster), at ...

'' (2006) - CD Single *''

Till Death Unites Us ''Till Death Unites Us'' is the fourth full-length studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Norther. It was released on 25 January 2006 through Spinefarm Records. The album has no cover song, while most other Norther releases inclu ...

'' (2006) - CD *'' No Way Back'' (2007) - EP *'' N (2008)

With Ensiferum

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Dragonheads ''Dragonheads'' is an EP by Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum. It was released on 15 February 2006 by Spinefarm Records. It is the first Ensiferum release featuring the then recently hired members Petri Lindroos, Sami Hinkka and Janne Parviain ...

'' (2006) EP *"

One More Magic Potion "One More Magic Potion" is the second single by Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum. The song comes from their third album, '' Victory Songs''. It was released on 7 February 2007 by Spinefarm Spinefarm Records is a Finnish independent record labe ...

" (2007) CD Single *'' Victory Songs'' (2007) CD *'' From Afar'' (2009) CD *''

Unsung Heroes ''Unsung Heroes'', also known as ''Unknown Heroes'' or more literally as ''Nameless Heroes'', is a North Korean war drama mini-series about a spy in Seoul during the Korean War. Over twenty hours long, it was filmed and released in multiple part ...

'' (2012) CD *'' One Man Army'' (2015) CD *'' Two Paths'' (2017) CD *'' Thalassic'' (2020) CD

References

External links

Official Private Android App from Petri LindroosLast Functional Wayback Machine Cache of Official Norther website NORTHER - the Finnish Breeze fansite -Official Ensiferum website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindroos, Petri 1980 births Living people Finnish heavy metal musicians Finnish heavy metal guitarists Finnish heavy metal singers People from Espoo 21st-century Finnish singers 21st-century guitarists Ensiferum members Norther members