Despite their death metal beginnings, the Finnish band Charon play goth rock-influenced metal nowadays, and rely on a combination of melody and atmosphere to deliver their own melancholic brand of music. Formed in 1992, it took them five years to secure a record deal with Emanzipation Productions. Charon proceded to release their debut album "Sorrowburn" in 1998. Its follow-up "Tearstained" was released by Danish label Diehard Records in 2000. After touring with the legendary band Sentenced in Spring 2000, they signed to Spinefarm Records, Finland's premier heavy metal label. Death metal is a type of heavy metal music (with prominent thrash metal influences) that emerged in the United States (especially Florida and California), Europe (especially the United Kingdom and Sweden) and Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... This article is about notable bands within the goth scene. ... It has been suggested that Metal music be merged into this article or section. ... The band Sentenced Sentenced is a heavy metal band formed in 1989, in the town of Muhos, Finland. ... Spinefarm Records is the recording label responsible for bands such as Children of Bodom, Dark Tranquility, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Finntroll, For My Pain, Impaled Nazarene, Nightwish, Norther, Sentenced, Sinergy, Sonata Arctica, Tarot, Throne of Chaos, Thy Serpent and Warmen. ... It has been suggested that Metal music be merged into this article or section. ...

Charon hired the services of the acclaimed Mikko Karmila to mix their third album "Downhearted" eventually released in 2002. It's lead-up single "Little Angel" proved to be a major commercial success for the band, charting at #5 on the Finnish singles chart in December 2001. On its release, "Downhearted" charted at #3 on the Finnish album chart. After touring with two of Europe's most popular symphonic metal bands Nightwish and After Forever, in 2002, Charon scored two more chart successes in their homeland with their 2003 singles "In Trust of No One" (#1) and "Religious/Delicious" (#8). Both of these songs feature on Charon's album "The Dying Daylights", which was released in autumn 2003 and managed a #16 position on the Finnish album chart. After its release, guitarist Jasse von Hast left the band. A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-15, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... After Forever in 2005 After Forever is a gothic metal band from the Netherlands, which relies on the use of both soprano vocals and death grunts. ...

Members

• Juha-Pekka "JP" Leppaluoto - Vocals
• Pasi Sipila - Guitar
• Lauri Tuohimaa - Guitar
• Antti Karihtala - Drums
• Teemu Hautamaki - Bass

Former Members

• Jasse von Hast - Guitar

Discography

• Sorrowburn (1998)
• Tearstained (2000)
• Downhearted (2001)
• The Dying Daylights (2003)
• Songs For The Sinners (2005)

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See also

Related genres:

• gothic metal
• hard rock
• heavy metal

Similar bands: Gothic metal (also called Goth metal) is a crossover between heavy metal music and gothic music itself; although the term metal is debated by those who say it is mainly gothic music. ... Hard rock is a form of rock and roll music which finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock. ... It has been suggested that Metal music be merged into this article or section. ...

• Amorphis
• Entwine
• HIM_(band)
• Lullacry
• Moonspell
• Poisonblack
• Sentenced
• To/Die/For

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