The History of Serpenthia

2000
The band originally formed in Joensuu, Finland by Damriel(Guitars and vocals) and Khaon(Drums) in the spring 2000 and the music was in different form than today. They were inspired by Iron Maiden and called themselves Pharaoh. But after couple of months they got bored and the band was put in ice. It took about a half year before some new material were composed. This time the style was more darker than before but still there were only two members (Damriel on drums and vocals, Khaon everything else) and this project called Children of Apocalypse died soon.

2001
Then in the beginning of the year 2001 Khaon made new song and the band was put up again. They began to plan new songs and their style was found, inspired by Cradle of Filth. Band was called Sacred Realm. Then it was changed to Black Orchid, then to SoulSorrow and then back to Sacred Realm. At that same year they got a new member, Radek, who first played keyboards. In the fall another member made his first appearance. Carnath was included into the band. He was also playing keyboards so Radek began to play drums because Damriel didn't have the influence of playing drums. The name of the band weren't good enough so they had to find a new one. After few weeks Khaon, Carnath and Damriel were planning the name. From few alternatives Serpenthia sounded best, so they decided to take it.

2002
Early that year Adunachor joined the band as a bass player. They recorded their first song "Maidens' monody" at Pielisjoki's school under guidance of Jukka "Juki" Lehikoinen. On that autumn Mortum joined Serpenthia as a supporting guitarist. Late year 2002 Serpenthia began to plan a full-length-three-song demo. And Radek changed his name to Tregal for some reasons not that important.

2003
The demo titled "Debris of Sanctity" was supposed to see the daylight on spring but because of financial problems the recording had to cancel. However, Serpenthia played their first gig that very spring and the gig was recorded and released as a live demo, entitled "Thy Divinity." During summer Khaon composed new songs and since then these songs have been on a setlist. Songs were called "In Times of Morbidity", "Reflexion of Insanity" and "Where Angels Cry" . Later on that autumn Khaon made four songs and Carnath one and Serpenthia played two gigs. Because of these new songs an idea for a new demo rouse and Serpenthia began to plan a demo, which would be recorded and released on spring or early summer 2004.

2004
Serpenthia began to record demo titled "Of Descent and Betrayal" with the guidance of Vellu "Ogre" Kuronen in March. In march a gig at Scream and in april a gig in Niinivaara High. Mortum ended his career in Serpenthia. Some new material was composed during spring. A well-deserved summer holiday passed recording and mixing demo. Morgarath joined the band to fill the gap Mortum's departure had left and demo "Of Descent..." was released in september. Serpenthia played one gig at scream during the autumn. And the rest the year went by writing new material for forthcoming demo.

2005
Serpenthia played again at Scream on february. March begun the recordings for the new demo which was named "ReAnimated Absurdity". It took the whole year to record and mix the album. Serpenthia played at NuVa-Rock in Ylämylly in August. Because of Tregal's injury later that year the band was forced to cancel two gigs.

2006
Serpenthia played once again at Scream on January. The demo "ReAnimated Absurdity" was released on April and received mainly positive response from media and fans. During September Serpenthia did a minitour called Pyro Tour-06 with Heresia and Brownies in North Karelia. At the time band begun to plan their third demo which would be recorded on spring 2007. November the band faced a major disaster. Long-time members Carnath, Tregal and Adunachor decided to leave the band for personal reasons and musical indifferencies.

2007
After almost half year of silence Serpenthia started to show signs of life and entered Tiedepuisto in Joensuu to record a new demo with the kind assistance of their trusted friend Vellu "Ogre" Kuronen and supported by ex-drummer S. Ratilainen 12th of July. In two weeks the demo titled "Let There Be Silence..." started to have some flesh around it's bones in form of drums, bass, guitars and vocals. In August Serpenthia continued with the demo and started to lay down keyboard tracks and add effects. The rehearsing with the candidates to fill the gaps in the line-up started in September and one show was arranged in Kuopio.

2008
In the beginning of the year Khaon and Damriel recorded a couple of new songs in Khaon's "home studio". Serpenthia is planning to release some of these songs as an Internet Single...
Currently Serpenthia is rehearsing with the new line up (to be announced later...).