Tuomas Seppälä is a

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guitarist, keyboardist, and composer, best known as a founding member and main composer of the Finnish symphonic power metal band

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 sum ...

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

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, Ronnie James Dio,

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and

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. 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

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, with whom they formed what would be

. Seppälä graduated at

Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; fi, Teknillinen korkeakoulu; sv, Tekniska högskolan) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was founded in ...

in 2000.

Discography

With Amberian Dawn

* ''

'' (2006) * ''

River of Tuoni ''River of Tuoni'' is the debut full-length studio album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. The songs "River of Tuoni" and "My Only Star" from the album were the first Amberian Dawn tracks to have a music video recorded, in Ma ...

'' (2008) * ''

The Clouds of Northland Thunder ''The Clouds of Northland Thunder'' is the second full-length studio album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. It was released 13 May 2009. Its single, "He Sleeps in a Grove", was the third Amberian Dawn song to have a music vid ...

'' (2009) * ''

End of Eden ''End of Eden'' is the third studio album by Amberian Dawn, and the first released on Spinefarm Records, previous albums having been released on KHY Suomen Musiikki. The album was released on 20 October 2010, but was preceded by its online single ...

'' (2010) * '' Circus Black'' (2012) * '' Re-Evolution'' (2013) * '' Magic Forest'' (2014) * ''

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'' (2015) * ''Darkness of Eternity'' (2017) * ''Looking For You'' (2020)

With Conquest

The Harvest 2012

With Virtuocity

* Northern Twilight Symphony (2004)

References

External links

Amberian Dawn Official Website
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