Endorama
Endorama is the ninth studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator released in 1999 by Drakkar Records.
The gothic metal influences were the most prominent on this release, and Lacrimosa frontman Tilo Wolff provided guest vocals on the title song.
This is the last Kreator album to feature Tommy Vetterli, who was replaced by current guitarist Sami Yli- Sirniö shortly before the recording of their next album" Violent Revolution".
Kreator
Kreator( pronounced" creator") is a German thrash metal band from Essen, formed in 1982.
Their current lineup consists of lead vocalist, lead and rhythm guitarist Mille Petrozza, drummer Jürgen" Ventor" Reil, lead guitarist Sami Yli- Sirniö, and bassist Frédéric Leclercq.
The band's lineup has changed multiple times over its- year career, most noticeably with their bassists and lead guitarists.
Petrozza and Reil are the only two original members left in Kreator, though the latter had one hiatus from the band, from 1994 to 1996.
Kreator's musical style is similar to that of their compatriots Destruction, Sodom and Tankard, which is usually more complex and, since" Violent Revolution"( 2001), more melodic.
Along with those three bands, Kreator has been referred to as one of the" Big Four" of Teutonic thrash metal, and they are often credited with helping pioneer death metal and black metal by containing several elements of what was to become those genres.
The band's style has changed several times over the years, from a Venom- inspired speed metal sound, later moving into thrash metal, and including a period of transitioning from thrash to industrial metal and gothic metal throughout the 1990s.
In the early 2000s, Kreator returned to their classic thrash sound, which has continued to the present.
To date, Kreator has released fourteen studio albums, two EPs, two live albums and three compilation albums.
They gained a large underground fanbase in the international thrash metal community, with their second studio album" Pleasure to Kill"( 1986) regarded as an influential album of the genre.
Many of their subsequent albums – including" Terrible Certainty"( 1987)," Extreme Aggression"( 1989) and" Coma of Souls"( 1990) – were also highly acclaimed.
Despite being an influential band, as well as one of the first European thrash metal acts to sign to a major label( signing to Epic Records in 1988), Kreator would not achieve mainstream popularity until later albums, including their thirteenth studio album" Phantom Antichrist"( 2012) and its follow- up" Gods of Violence"( 2017), both of which peaked at higher chart positions in many countries, with the latter reaching number one on the German charts.
The band has achieved worldwide sales of over ten million units for combined sales of all their albums, making them one of the best- selling German thrash metal bands of all time.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Torger Nergård
Torger Nergård, also spelled Nergaard( born 12 December 1974 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo.
Sami Yli-Sirniö
Sami Yli- Sirniö( born April 10, 1972) is a Finnish musician.
He is currently the lead guitarist of Finnish metal band Waltari, and German metal band Kreator.
He spent part of his life in Germany and thus has strong ties with the German metal scene.
German" Rock Hard" magazine featured him in 2007 as" forgotten guitar hero".
Mathias Soggemoen
Mathias Soggemoen
( 5 October 1847 – 1929) was a Norwegian railway worker, mountain climbing pioneer and guide.
Mathias Johnsen Soggemoen was born the oldest of seven siblings in Rauma in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.
In 1875, he married Ingeborg Olsdatter Sogge Brekken and settled at the village of Veblungsnes.
They were the parents of nine children.
Later in life, Mathias and Ingeborg Soggemoen emigrated to America with several of their children.
Soggemoen is known for a number of first ascents of Norwegian mountains.
Among his first ascents are Store Austanbotntind( 1883, with Carl Hall), Store Styggedalstinden( 1883, with Hall), Midtre Skagastølstind( 1884, with Hall), Hjelledalstind( 1884, with Hall), Storebjørn( 1884, with Hall), and Sentraltind( 1885, with Hall and Torger S. Sulheim).
He also climbed Romsdalshornet in 1881.
In 1886 Soggemoen and Hall made the first known ascent of Saksi( 2,189 m.a.s.l.).
Violent Revolution
Violent Revolution is the tenth studio album by the German thrash metal band Kreator.
It was released on September 25, 2001.
After almost a decade of musical experimentation with their metal sound( starting with" Renewal"), with this album the band returned to their 1980s thrash metal style, although it does make use of Gothenburg metal elements.
" Violent Revolution" is also the first Kreator album to feature lead guitarist Sami Yli- Sirniö.
Petri Hiltunen
Petri Hiltunen( born 13 October 1967) is a Finnish cartoonist and illustrator.
Hiltunen has produced work in a variety of genres, but is most notable for his fantasy and horror work.
He has won the prestigious Puupäähattu award in 2002, which is regarded as the highest honour for Finnish comic artists.
He is also a well- known figure in Finnish science fiction fandom and a regular panelist and guest of honour at conventions, such as Finncon.
His own comic albums include the horror/ fantasy tale" Laulu yön lapsistaSong of the children of the night"), exploring the vampire folklore of 1562 Russia during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, and a graphic novel version of" Macbeth".
The fantasy world of Jaconia, created for his" Praedor" comics, has been adapted into a role- playing game of the same name.
His work has also been featured in the science fiction magazine" Tähtivaeltaja", the Finnish" Conan" magazine and twice in the war comics magazine" Korkeajännitys": a western story and one story set in the Finnish War.
His drawing style is quite detailed, particularly with his characters, and features heavy lines.
Hiltunen is best known in the Finnish popular consciousness from his much lighter, humorous newspaper comic strip" Väinämöisen paluu The Return of Väinämöinen"), published in many major newspapers and as comic books.
In it, the Eternal Sage of" Kalevala" ends his self- imposed exile to find that he might have been gone for too long.
He must try to adjust to modern Finland( e.g. finding out that these newfangled" potatoes" are now considered a traditional food) as modern Finland must try to adjust to him( e.g. a group of neo-nazis coming to greet him and introducing themselves as indigenous
Finns; they are nonplussed when he starts apologizing and it turns out he thought they were Sami.)
As the culture shock gradually faded, the strip became a more character- based comedy but eventually faded in turn.
Marianne Rørvik
Marianne Rørvik (born August 2, 1983) is a Norwegian curler.
She is the skip of the Norwegian national women's team.
Rørvik has played in nine straight (1997–2005) World Junior Curling Championships, winning gold in 2004 playing third for Linn Githmark.
In 2002, she was added as an alternate player on the Dordi Nordby rink.
In 2005, she played second for the team, which included a trip to the 2006 Winter Olympics and a fourth-place finish.
In 2006, she was promoted as the team's third, and finally with the retirement of Nordby in 2008, she got to skip the national team.
Rørvik is in a relationship with fellow curler Torger Nergård and Mother of two children Karine (b. 2010) & Thale (b. 2013).
Thomas Løvold
Thomas Løvold( born 27 January 1981) is a Norwegian curler.
At Junior level, Løvold competed as skip and won gold medals at the 2002 and 2003 World Junior Curling Championships" B" tournaments.
He has gained worldwide attention for having played as the alternate for Team Thomas Ulsrud at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and played third for Team Torger Nergård at the 2010 World Curling Championship in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy, winning the silver medal at both tournaments.
Thomas Løvold also skips his own team on World Curling Tour events.
His most successful tournament was the 2009 Lucerne Curling Trophy where his team made it to the semi-finals but lost to Team Ralph Stöckli of Switzerland.

Question: Were Sami Yli-Sirniö and Torger Nergård of the same nationality?
Answer: no