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Somehow, leading Norway's Tristania to the top of the goth metal heap wasn't enough for vocalist/guitarist Morten Veland, who unilaterally seceded from the union in the year 2000 to found a brand-spanking-new though similar-sounding band named Sirenia. Picking up pretty much where he'd left off stylistically, Veland hand-picked compatriots Kristian Gundersen (clean vocals, guitar), Hans Henrik Varland (keyboards), and French singer Fabienne Gondamin to quickly perform on the following year's At Sixes and Sevens debut. He and Gundersen then found a more permanent support staff in vocalist Henriette Bordvik and drummer Jonathan Perez to work on their 2003 follow-up, An Elixir for Existence. An EP, Sirenian Shores arrived in 2005, followed by the full-length Nine Destinies and a Downfall in 2007. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, Rovi
I've been trying to start a symphonic metal band like this for years. I don't get it? What's up U.S.A. I live in the Philly area had hod no response WTF?
Why can't the good ole USA come even close to making music like this? I don't know of anything like this I'm proud to call goth here. We just don't have it. Why not? Why?
hharrington525
@sirmatticus8 exactly! All awesome metal is european! We americans need to buck up!
Sirenia una de las mas grandes de la musica gotica. Me gustan todos sus temas.
krudd3
This came up on a shuffled mix of songs, under Steampunk. Beautiful...thanks, Pandora.
magical_clarinet
I must say, I am a huge fan of Evanescence and recently went looking for new bands to listen to. This one came up on my list and I love it. The vocals are amazing and the instrumentation is beautiful. I now have the pleasure of discovering new music. Thank you thank you thank you!
Ive only really heard stuff from Nine Destinies album because thats all pandora chooses to play even with 6 full albums on here... But either way its some of my favorite metal.
American metal is failing miserably. I know, how? By personal experience as an American. The only metal I like is European, you guys have something there that Americans don't. Either way, I want to bring it here. Who wants to start a symphonic metal band??
Dominatus is right. Anyway, Sirenia was one of my favorite bands for a while, but my tastes started changing a bit. Really good band and I really like their earlier work. I haven't heard anything of the Enigma of Life, so I'll just wait until I can get to it. Great band all around, but, like I said, I just started listening to them again. Lately, I've found In Tenebris to be more of my cuppa tea.
@Shihan: That's true to a certain extent. Dio was technically traditional metal but his fantasy based lyrics laid a foundation for Power Metal. However, the first bands to be called Power Metal were German. Helloween, Gamma Ray, Iron Savior. Then when it was sort of dying out, Blind Guardian came along. Again, from Germany.
mmesko6
I am American and for the most part our music suck. The only exceptions are Dream Theater, Kamelot and Symphony X. Euro rules the Prog world.
pacianv
Good sound on this band. I am surprised it took this long, but glad I heard them.
@LLM: Rule #79 of the 101 Rules of Power Metal - If you are U.S. American, you probably aren't actually a power metal band. Sing about tanks, or something.
They joke, but I can rattle off enough Power Metal bands off the top of my head who hail from Europe that I would quickly exhaust my supply of fingers and toes and need to start cutting off other people's appendages to keep count; meanwhile I can name every American Power Metal band I know of on one hand, and still have spare fingers.
@Jonathan: Right, which is why if one is not talking about the US of A, there are handy prefaces like "South" or "Central" to use. If someone says "There are no good (insert word here) in America", it's implicit that they mean the United States and not "the Americas".
What I can't figure out is why you think that I needed to be told any of that (especially considering I specified I was talking about the country and not the bloody continent)?
@Yoho: There's plenty of American Power Metal out there but nobody bothers looking for it. Kamelot rules. Also, had heard much the same about The Enigma of Life already which means I should enjoy the hell out of it.
nintendoguyjt
@Matthew Yoho: America is a general term describing a portion of a continent generally meant as the United States of America, which is actually a country.
@Joseph: Kamelot is essentially the exception to a rule, in that they're a Power Metal band from America, a country with maybe two of those (that anyone has heard of, and they are one of them), and unsurprisingly enough the overwhelming bulk of their fan base is over in Europe where Power Metal is still in vogue.
For anyone wondering if The Enigma Of Life is any good, I can answer that question with another question: Did you like The 13th Floor? If yes, then it's pretty much a given that you'll like their latest album as it is very much along those same lines, just longer (first Sirenia album with more than 9 tracks).
If no, well then sucks to be you I guess - I'm certainly happy with it!
That is hardly fair, the band Kamelot if I remember correctly is from Florida (Pensacola?) and they are as good as any you care to mention.
Pax et Bonum
maxhammer2005
03-25-2011 Why are Northern European metal bands so dam good? Why is USA 'in the goddam dark?' Music here is at such a weird interval!! Got dam good USA musicians, I know them personally- looking- looking-lost here!! I'll tell them Northern Europe is at a Renessaince! ! Dam obviously.
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Seig Heil?
They joke, but I can rattle off enough Power Metal bands off the top of my head who hail from Europe that I would quickly exhaust my supply of fingers and toes and need to start cutting off other people's appendages to keep count; meanwhile I can name every American Power Metal band I know of on one hand, and still have spare fingers.
What I can't figure out is why you think that I needed to be told any of that (especially considering I specified I was talking about the country and not the bloody continent)?
Also their vocalist (Roy Khan) is Norwegian.
If no, well then sucks to be you I guess - I'm certainly happy with it!
Pax et Bonum
Why are Northern European metal bands so dam good? Why is USA 'in the goddam dark?' Music here is at such a weird interval!! Got dam good USA musicians, I know them personally- looking- looking-lost here!! I'll tell them Northern Europe is at a Renessaince! ! Dam obviously.