Tuomas Seppälä is a Finnish guitarist, keyboardist, and composer, best known as a founding member and main composer of the Finnish

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Amberian Dawn Amberian Dawn is a Finnish symphonic power metal band, formed in 2006 by Tuomas Seppälä and Tommi Kuri. As of 2023, Amberian Dawn has released nine studio albums, four singles and twelve music videos. History Atheme One (2006–2008) Several ...

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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. 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

. Seppälä graduated at

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in 2000.

Discography

With Amberian Dawn

* ''

'' (2006) * '' River of Tuoni'' (2008) * '' The Clouds of Northland Thunder'' (2009) * '' End of Eden'' (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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