TUNRIDA BAND PAGE
TUNRIDA
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CURRENT NAME
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Tunrida |
FORMER NAMES
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- |
ORIGIN
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Finland |
STATUS
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Active |
FORMED IN
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- |
LABEL
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Currently unsigned |
GENRE
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Black metal |
STYLE
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- |
LYRICAL THEME
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- |
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BAND ADDED
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2004-04-14, 00:00 |
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LAST UPDATE
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2004-04-14, 00:00 |
In the year 1996 the beast of Tunrida was turn loose by the
infamous B.Tott, Arrakis, Cinatas, Achernar and Seth. The members of
Tunrida had all been involved in some musical acts before Tunrida, but
this time it was going to be more serious and goal-oriented. In the end
of November 1996 the first steps were taken as Tunrida headed forwards
with a purpose to make their first studio demo. The demo was recorded in
an old house in the middle of the countryside, and it was named Eternal
Twilight. The response for the demo was surprisingly positive and with
it Tunrida reached some status in the Finnish underground, encouraging
the band to reach for more. All hell was about to break loose.
After few gigs and a couple of rehearsal tapes later which were never
really distributed, luckily, the band again went in the little cabin in
the countryside with a purpose of making their second demo tape
entitled Astral Majesty, respectively. The tape was released in September
1997. The demo consisted of three songs that together tell a story of a
soul seeking its master and is drawn to Satan. This piece of
uncompromising black art showed much improvement both in playing skills as well as
in composing skills. With Astral Majesty, Tunrida was offered a
recording deal from the German label Solistitium Records, and after a short
time of thinking Tunrida signed to SOL.
In February 1998, Tunrida went to ASTIA-studio to record their first
full lenght album, entitled Hierarchy. The album was released through SOL
in early 1999. The response this album has had in the underground media
has all in all been quite promising, and despite the poor production,
the album has many time been reviewed as interesting, original and
majestic. Hierarchy was the first and last album of Tunrida under the
un-succesful rip-off flag of Solistitium records.
In the year 1999 Tunrida headed towards the studio to record a
promotion CD for the record labels. Simply named 'Promo 1999' was sent to the
record labels with a purpose of recording deal. All the three songs were
recorded, mixed and mastered in hectic circumstances in as little time
as seven hours. Promo 1999 was released later as a split with a Finnish
metal band Siege, and Era 2001 also contains promo 1999 as a bonus.
In the end of 2001 Tunrida went in the studio to record their second
promotion CD. After no recording deals were present, the songs were
released as a demo CD by the Finnish UG label Dragonthrone Productions in
the autumn 2002. The demo CD was named Era 2001. In this release Tunrida
seemed to be heading to even more satanic and harsh direction, the
symphonic and melodic elements still being present. The demo CD was also
the first one with a new member L-Master in guitar.
In January 2003 the band headed towards the studio again to record two
songs for the split 7” Omenne with Finnish black metal act Azaghal. The
split was released by Norwegian Aftermath Music in October 2003, and it
has received fairly good reviews. The split was sold out in less than
two months.
With no recording deal at hand in the spring 2003, Tunrida still
decided to record their second full length album Imperial and handle the
financing themselves. The album was recorded in June again in the same
studio that was used to record ERA 2001 and Omenne 7”. This time the
recordings of the album took two weeks, and the result was astonishing. The
album was mixed and mastered in December at Mediaworks studio in
Finland. Currently Tunrida is searching a decent record company to release
Imperial. From the beginning of Tunrida the main purpose of the band has
been to make symphonic and rough satanic metal with style and it still
remains as the driving force of the band.

| Former members Add - Fetch |
| Unknown / none |