Sirenia (band)

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
 At Sixes and Sevens (2002)
 An Elixir for Existence (2004)
 Sirenian Shores (EP) (2004)
 Nine Destinies and a Downfall (2007)
 The 13th Floor (2009)

Singles
 My Mind's Eye
 The Other Side
 The Path To Decay
 Euphoria (song)
 The End of It All

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

Other websites
 Sirenia - official website
 Nuclear Blast - official website
 Official MySpace

Category:Gothic metal bands
Category:Norwegian heavy metal bands
Category:Stavanger