Norther - Calling It Quits
Finnish extreme power metal act Norther calls it a day and puts down their instruments.
The band left the following statement: "We hereby announce after a long and careful consideration that we have decided to quit Norther.
During the last year it has become clear that we are not able to tour or do shows as much as we would want to, this being due to members complicated and time consuming life situations. We have been forced to find session members and turn down too many gig offers. We simply cannot act as an active and working band and it is clear that these issues are not solved in the future. This is everything but an easy decision for all of us, but all this have taken the band to the point that pulling the plug is the right thing to do. There is no drama, this is a mutual decision and we all remain as good friends. The last show of Norther will be on the 10th of August at Brutal Assault Festival 2012 (CZ).
However, most of us will continue in other bands: Jukka in Wintersun and Amberian Dawn, Aleksi in Medicated and ASXX, Daniel in Naildown, Heikki in Naildown, Tuoni and Amberian Dawn, and Kristian in his solo project.
Norther would like to thank especially our FANS, friends and partners for their support for the past 12 years. Also great hails goes to Tomi Luoma, our ex-members Toni Hallio and Petri Lindroos, and producer Anssi Kippo for their contribution. It has been one hell of a ride and together we shared truly unforgettable moments!!"
The band left the following statement: "We hereby announce after a long and careful consideration that we have decided to quit Norther.
During the last year it has become clear that we are not able to tour or do shows as much as we would want to, this being due to members complicated and time consuming life situations. We have been forced to find session members and turn down too many gig offers. We simply cannot act as an active and working band and it is clear that these issues are not solved in the future. This is everything but an easy decision for all of us, but all this have taken the band to the point that pulling the plug is the right thing to do. There is no drama, this is a mutual decision and we all remain as good friends. The last show of Norther will be on the 10th of August at Brutal Assault Festival 2012 (CZ).
However, most of us will continue in other bands: Jukka in Wintersun and Amberian Dawn, Aleksi in Medicated and ASXX, Daniel in Naildown, Heikki in Naildown, Tuoni and Amberian Dawn, and Kristian in his solo project.
Norther would like to thank especially our FANS, friends and partners for their support for the past 12 years. Also great hails goes to Tomi Luoma, our ex-members Toni Hallio and Petri Lindroos, and producer Anssi Kippo for their contribution. It has been one hell of a ride and together we shared truly unforgettable moments!!"
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Yes, good news
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9158  |
FINALLY! Actually I haven't even really heard them, so no big loss 
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Probably the best news in 2012  I was worried they'd come up with more shitty albums, but at least they had a bit of honor left
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| AngelofDeth Cyborg Raptor Posts: 1183  |
Good! first three albums were pretty decent but even then they were always B-grade Extreme Power. Best thing to come out of Norther was definitely Petri and the greatest moment was his full transition to Ensiferum lol. Sad but True.
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Written by [user id=20536] on 25.07.2012 at 00:26 Holy shit! hes the fuckn CEO, wow. In the US you could never land a job as a CEO if you were in a band like Norther. Thats just crazy
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| RavenKing Posts: 1941  |
Not a big loss for sure.
---- They shake your hand and they smile and they buy you a drink They say we'll be your friends we'll stick with you till the end But everybody's only looking out for themselves And you say who can you trust I'll tell you nobody
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
...and not a single fuck was given that day.
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| Sir Thrashalot Posts: 55  |
Norther was doomed the day Petri left the band. Shame because i used to love this band, but the last album was TERRIBLE ! in more ways than i can explain, so unfortunately, they got what was coming to them.
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| Until the End Posts: 143  |
They made some great metal back in the day. Unfortunately it didn't last.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62030  |
Good news for flower metal haters !!!! we won !!!
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| Urizen367 Posts: 1620  |
All the original members left before this "split" was announced. doesnt that somewhat imply, Norther has been split for sometime??
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| Litvin Posts: 364  |
The early Nother days was amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjEXb5hKRek But Nother was already dead when Petri Lindroos leave the band. So this news wasn't make me sad because true-real Nother was already dead long ago...
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| Jiri Posts: 710  |
Aw, everyone has already covered everything I was going to say! Poor Norther. Absolutely NO love. I will attach a sad smilie for them even though I also hated them 
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| strade Posts: 677  |
The world is now a slightly better place.
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Damn, no more Nickelback on Metal Storm. I guess we still have Baroness.
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Norther with Petri had better vocals than Bodom. I liked their older albums. What am I supposed to do if I like Bodom but have listened to all of their albums enough? Listen to a Bodom rip-off, duh. But yeah, meh on this one. It's so nice to see a Metalstorm consensus. Usually news like this polarizes people but not this time. -group hug-* *very very metal group hug 
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| Until the End Posts: 143 |
The early albums are as good as, if not better, than the early Bodom albums. What they both have in common is that quickly fell into the pit of shit not long after.
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| Dark Blood The Avenger Posts: 1435  |
Hmmm, I haven't heard their work in a few years now (since N), but I honestly thought they were doing good. I guess I was wrong.
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| swatata Posts: 59  |
After Petri left the band it was known to anyone that it would be a disaster.I hope they can continue working well with their other projects
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| metal2000 Posts: 146  |
WHAT, I can't believe it, I really liked this band, maybe in the future Petri will rejoin the band. who knows.
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| Janne Hugin Posts: 1721  |
This band is dead since Petri left them.. so this is not a big change
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