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Sirenia is a gothic metal band from Stavanger, Norway which incorporates a mixture of gothic metal and symphonic metal, as well as extreme metal and death metal elements. The vocals consist of death grunts, angelic female vocals and a clean male singer. The lyrics, written by Morten Veland, tell a loose conceptual story that began at Widow's Weeds, while he was still a member of Tristania.
The band uses melodic instrumentals, synthesizers, and distorted guitars with female vocals, male death vocals, clean male vocals, a choir and violins.
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Sirenia is a gothic metal band from Stavanger, Norway which incorporates a mixture of gothic metal and symphonic metal, as well as extreme metal and death metal elements. The vocals consist of death grunts, angelic female vocals and a clean male singer. The lyrics, written by Morten Veland, tell a loose conceptual story that began at Widow's Weeds, while he was still a member of Tristania.
The band uses melodic instrumentals, synthesizers, and distorted guitars with female vocals, male death vocals, clean male vocals, a choir and violins. The lyrics are concerned with human existence, emotion, and mental states.
Background
Sirenia came together in early 2001, when Morten parted ways with his former band Tristania due to musical disagreements and personal differences. The band failed to find a suitable singer prior to recording in France, so they conducted auditions and found Fabienne Gondamin for the recording of At Sixes and Sevens. After recording one album with Sirenia ("At Sixes and Sevens"), Fabienne Gondamin was replaced by Henriette Bordvik with whom the band recorded two albums ("An Elixir For Existence" and an EP "Sirenian Shores").
On November 2005 Henriette Bordvik left the band for personal reasons.
Recently, they released a third album - "Nine Destinies and a Downfall". The album features new singer, Monika Pedersen from Denmark, who joined the band in April 2006. Bjørnar Landa (from Artifact) joined the band during the recording of "Nine Destinies and a Downfall".
The former vocalist, guitar player, main songwriter and text composer of Tristania, Morten Veland, laid the foundation for a new contribution to the gothic metal community several years ago. Those contributions were brought along when he formed Sirenia.
On November 5, 2007, Monika Pedersen quit the band due to musical disagreements. Her departure caused Sirenia to pull out of a planned European tour with Therion.
On April 9th, 2008, Sirenia announced Spanish X Factor contestant Ailyn as their new female vocalist.
On May 19th, 2008, it was announced that Bjørnar Landa left the band in order to have more time for his family and studies. He will be replaced by Michael S. Krumins.
On June 12th, 2008, Sirenia announced that for the first time in their career, they had decided to work with a bassplayer for their live shows. The session bass player will be Kristian Olav Torp.
Sirenia started recording the new album in July. It was recorded in Sound Suite Studios, France and Stargoth Studios, Norway. The mixing and mastering took place in Antfarm Studios, Denmark with Tue Madsen.
The new album, called "The 13th Floor", was completed on September and the release date is set to the 23rd of January 2009. The album features guest appearances by Jan Kenneth Barkved.
The first single, "The Path To Decay", was released on December 26th 2008 as a digital download.
Discography
Albums
EPs
Singles & Promo Singles
Music videos
Members
Current members
With:
- Kristian Olav Torp - Bass (live)
Former members
Session members
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