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Tuomas Seppälä
Tuomas Seppälä is a Finns, Finnish guitarist, keyboardist, and composer, best known as a founding member and main composer of the Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. 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 Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen and ABBA. 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 Amberian Dawn. Seppälä graduated at Helsinki University of Technology in 2000. Discography With Amberian Dawn * ''Amberian Dawn (demo), Ambe ...
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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 of the members that would later form Amberian Dawn previously played in the group Virtuocity, and after Virtuocity's breakup, they formed a new band, based on keyboardist and guitarist Tuomas Seppälä's songwriting. The band was named Atheme One and had Peter James Goodman as their lead singer and lyricist. The band released a demo in 2006 featuring four songs, "Dreamchaser", "Velvet Roses", "Burning Touch" and "World of Insanity", three of which would later be remade into Amberian Dawn songs: an instrumental version of "Dreamchaser" appears as a bonus track on ''River of Tuoni'', "Velvet Roses" appears with lyrics by Heidi Parviainen as "Sons of Seven Stars" on ''The Clouds of Northland Thunder'' and "World of Insanity" appears with new ...
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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 May of 2008 and January 2009 respectively. The bonus track "Dreamchaser" is an instrumental version of a song by Atheme One, a band which featured founding Amberian Dawn members Tuomas Seppälä, Tommi Kuri, Heikki Saari and Tom Sagar. The song appeared on the band's demo, which had a limited release in 2006 and was later sold through Amberian Dawn's forum and Facebook group in December 2010.Amberian Dawn forum
All songs from this album are featured as downloadable content songs on the Rock Band Network.


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Innuendo (Amberian Dawn Album)
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 of the members that would later form Amberian Dawn previously played in the group Virtuocity, and after Virtuocity's breakup, they formed a new band, based on keyboardist and guitarist Tuomas Seppälä's songwriting. The band was named Atheme One and had Peter James Goodman as their lead singer and lyricist. The band released a demo in 2006 featuring four songs, "Dreamchaser", "Velvet Roses", "Burning Touch" and "World of Insanity", three of which would later be remade into Amberian Dawn songs: an instrumental version of "Dreamchaser" appears as a bonus track on ''River of Tuoni'', "Velvet Roses" appears with lyrics by Heidi Parviainen as "Sons of Seven Stars" on '' The Clouds of Northland Thunder'' and "World of Insanity" appears with new ...
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Magic Forest (album)
''Magic Forest'' is the sixth studio album by Finnish power metal band Amberian Dawn. It is the first original album to feature lead vocalist Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen. Track listing Personnel Band members * Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen – vocals *Tuomas Seppälä – keyboards, guitar *Joonas Pykälä-Aho – drums *Emil "Emppu" Pohjalainen – guitars *Kimmo Korhonen – guitars Guest/session musicians *Jukka Hoffren - bass guitar *Jens Johansson Jens Ola Johansson (born 2 November 1963 in Stockholm) is a Swedish keyboardist and pianist. Jens got famous in the early 80's when he and his brother Anders (drums) joined Yngwie Malmsteen's "Rising Force". Jens is the son of the Swedish Jazz ... - keyboard solo on track 2 *Markus Nieminen - vocals on track 8 *Peter James Goodman - vocals on track 11 References {{Authority control Amberian Dawn albums 2014 albums ...
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Re-Evolution (album)
''Re-Evolution'' is the fifth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Amberian Dawn. This album contains re-recorded songs from their past four albums; ''River of Tuoni'' (2008), '' The Clouds of Northland Thunder'' (2009), '' End of Eden'' (2010), and '' Circus Black'' (2012), each of the tracks remastered with lyrics performed by the band's new vocalist, Päivi "Capri" Virkkunen. Background After the band parted ways with Parviainen in November, the band decided to find a new vocalist. They announced in December 2012 that their new vocalist would be Capri Virkkunen, a Finnish singer with 2 solo albums released to her name. Capri performs her vocals in a more traditional rock fashion, despite the fact that she is classically trained. To introduce the new vocalist, the band decided to release a compilation album of old songs but with the vocals re-recorded by Capri. Before the album's release, "Kokko - Eagle of Fire" was released as a single in May 2013, which was preceded b ...
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Circus Black
''Circus Black'' is the fourth full-length album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. Stratovarius vocalist Timo Kotipelto provides lead vocals on "Cold Kiss" and keyboardist Jens Johansson (Stratovarius, Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force) contributed a keyboard solo on "Crimson Flower." The band commented on the album: "Circus Black is the most impressive AD album so far. Musically it represents the most sophisticated and most symphonic edge of AD-music. There’s more diversity on this album than never before. This is the first time we used a real choir and we gathered some really excellent professional opera singers together to be able to achieve the best sounding choir possible. This choir was conducted by Mikko P. Mustonen from Pathos Music. He also arranged the choir and orchestral parts. We managed once again to get some world-class guests on this album. So, the production is our biggest so far and the final polish on this album was given by Teropekka ...
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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 "Arctica" on 23 August. Background In November 2009, Amberian Dawn settled back in Finland after their '' The Clouds of Northland Thunder'' tour with Epica and Sons of Seasons. On 23 November the official website announced that main composer Tuomas Seppälä had many new songs finished for a third album, to be released in 2010, and that lyricist Heidi Parviainen had started writing the new lyrics. The recordings started in late 2009 with drums, and were finished within a half year. On 12 July 2010 Amberian Dawn officially announced that the next album would be called ''End of Eden'', and would be released on 20 October of that year. They also reported having signed with Spinefarm Records. The album title was thought up relatively late i ...
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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 video produced. A bonus track on Amberian Dawn's third album ''End of Eden'' shares its title with the album. " He Sleeps in a Grove", "Incubus", "Kokko – Eagle of Fire","Willow of Tears", "Shallow Waters", "Snowmaiden", "Saga", "Lionheart", "Lost Soul", "Sons of Seven Stars", and "Morning Star" are featured as downloadable songs on the Rock Band Network.Amberian Dawn – Five songs coming to Rock Band Network
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Amberian Dawn (demo)
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 of the members that would later form Amberian Dawn previously played in the group Virtuocity, and after Virtuocity's breakup, they formed a new band, based on keyboardist and guitarist Tuomas Seppälä's songwriting. The band was named Atheme One and had Peter James Goodman as their lead singer and lyricist. The band released a demo in 2006 featuring four songs, "Dreamchaser", "Velvet Roses", "Burning Touch" and "World of Insanity", three of which would later be remade into Amberian Dawn songs: an instrumental version of "Dreamchaser" appears as a bonus track on ''River of Tuoni'', "Velvet Roses" appears with lyrics by Heidi Parviainen as "Sons of Seven Stars" on ''The Clouds of Northland Thunder'' and "World of Insanity" appears with new ...
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