Sirenia (band)

Sirenia
Sirenia
	Sirenia performing live at Norway Rock Festival in 2009
Background information
Origin	Stavanger, Norway
Genres	Gothic metal; Symphonic metal
Years active	2001 – present
Labels	Napalm Records; Nuclear Blast
Members	Morten Veland; Ailyn; Jonathan Perez; Jan Erik Soltvedt
Past member(s)	Henriette Bordvik; Kristian Gundersen; Monika Pedersen; Bjørnar Landa; Michael S. Krumins
Website	www.sirenia.no

Sirenia is a gothic metal band from Stavanger, Norway, founded in early 2001. Sirenia play a mix of gothic metal, symphonic metal, extreme metal and death metal sounds. The vocals are two male, one hard voice, from death metal, and a clean male singer. The female voice is used in moments with melody or chorus. The band uses melodic instrumentals, synthesizers, and distorted guitars with female vocals, and a choir, and violins, for the male voices. Lyrics spoke about human existence, emotion, and mental states.

The band has changed tree female voices, first Fabienne Gondamin for the recording of At Sixes and Sevens, then Henriette Bordvik with whom the band recorded two albums ("An Elixir For Existence" and plus one EP "Sirenian Shores", and thenMonika Pedersen for recording Nine Destinies and a Downfall in 2007.

The lyrics, are written by Morten Veland.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Members

Current members

Morten Veland - Programming, Growling, Clean Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards
Jonathan A. Perez - drums
Bjørnar Landa - Guitar
Ailyn - Female Vocals

Old members

Henriette Bordvik - Female Vocals (2002-2005)
Kristian Gundersen - Clean Vocals, Guitar (2001-2004)
Monika Pedersen - Female Vocals (2006-2007)

Session members

Fabienne Gondamin - Female Vocals (2001)
Jan Kenneth Barkved - Clean Vocals
Pete Johansen - Violin
Hans Henrik Varland - Keyboards
Anne Verdot - Violin
Roland Navratil - drums