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Northern Kings is a Melodic Metal supergroup of famous Finnish musicians, consisting of Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica) Marco Hietala (Nightwish, Tarot) J-P Leppäluoto (Charon) Jarkko Ahola (Teräsbetoni) Background singing by Aleksi Parviainen (Soulcage) The group is not an ordinary band, but a league of four vocalists, who are all frontmen of successful heavy metal bands. They wanted to create something special together and came up with an idea of arranging 80's classics to metal versions - sung by all the four together. The tracks from their current album, "Reborn", include legendary pieces such as "I Just Died In Your Arms...

In 1982 the Northern Cree Singers were founded by Steve Wood, and his brothers Randy and Earl Wood. The group originates from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation but is made up of members from the Treaty 6 area, most notably the Frog Lake Cree Nation, Onion Lake Cree Nation, Samson Cree Nation, Louis Bull Cree Nation, and the Poundmaker Cree Nation. Northern Cree currently have 37 albums out on market that are distributed world-wide by their record label, Canyon Records from Phoenix, AZ. They have garnered multi-Grammy nominations, multi-Juno nominations, and have been awarded multi-Native American Music Awards and Canadian...

Pikestaff were an austrian band, which played some kind of sarcasm emo combined with a very special style of indie-rock. They dissolved in the end of 2005. .

The Northern Pikes began their career in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in early 1984. Over the next two years, the band recorded and released the independent EPs 'The Northern Pikes' and 'Scene In North America' with producer and pal Mitch Barnett. Both were recorded and mixed at Studio West in Saskatoon. Sharing a taste for jangly, tuneful songs mixing alternative rock with power pop and indie music, the original lineup was spawned from the ashes of three local groups, 'The Idols', 'Doris Daye', and '17 Envelope', and consisted of Jay Semko, Merl Bryck, Bryan Potvin and Glen Hollingshead, who left the band...