Thy Serpent

Thy Serpent started as Sami Tenetz’s one-man project back in 1993. During these first years Sami made two demos, "Frozen Memory" in 1994 and "Into Everlasting Fire" in 1995.

With the help of the second demo, Thy Serpent was signed to the Finnish record company Spinefarm Records. After the deal was signed, Sami began to find suitable musicians to fulfill the lineup. For the recordings of their first album, the lineup consisted of Sami Tenetz (guitar), Luopio (bass), Azhemin (synth & vocals) and Agathon (drums). "Forests of Witchery" was then recorded during the summer of 1996 at Tico-Tico Studios.

During the same studio session, the band also did some re-recordings of old demo songs, which were later released as the "Lords of Twilight" MCD in 1997.

A year after "Lords of Twilight" was released, Thy Serpent decided once again to use the Tico-Tico Studio to record a new album, later named as "Christcrusher". At that time, Luopio wasn’t a part of Thy Serpent anymore due to his decision to end his involvement with the metal-scene in the end of 1997, so Azhemin had to take the bass guitar for himself..

After "Christcrusher", Thy Serpent made a small tour in Finland with Barathrum, and those eight gigs remain as the only live appearances until this day, and whether there’s going to be more or not, only time will tell…

A while after those gigs Thy Serpent decided to take in some fresh air. The drummer was changed, and a second guitarist was taken in. The new guys also have other projects going on: the new drummer Teemu Laitinen also plays in the melodic death metal band Throne of Chaos, and guitarist Tomi Ullgren is also taking place in Rapture.

In the spring of 2000 Thy Serpent went into a new studio with the new lineup and recorded a new MCD simply called "Death". This time the studio was Studio Walltone in Savonlinna. Changing the studio proved to be a very wise choice, judging by the great amount of new dimensions that the music took in...

From left to right:

Tomi Ullgren (guitar)
Tomi joined Thy Serpent in 1999. He played guitar with Impaled Nazarene on their tour in 2000,2002. He is also the main songwriter and guitarist of Rapture and he founded the band Shape of Despair together with Jarno Salomaa in 1995.
He also used to play in Raven and The Mist and the Morning Dew.
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Azhemin (bass, synth, vocals)
Real name: Miika Niemelä
Azhemin joined Thy Serpent in 1995. He joined Soulgrind in 2001. He have done some guest vocals for Shape Of Despair. He also plays in Nomicon
He`s also used to play in Wanderer, Flows In Depths and Wintermoon.
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Sami Tenetz (guitar)
Sami started Thy Serpent in 1992 as a one-mans project. He is also the head of Spikefarm Records.---
Teemu Laitinen aka Snake Laitinen (drums)
Teemu joined Thy Serpent in 1999 and he also plays in Bride Adorned and Divercia, while he used to play in Tuonela and Throne Of Chaos.

Forests of Witchery (1996)

1. Flowers of witchery abloom 6:13
2. Of darkness and light 4:55
3. A traveller of unknown plains 9:43
4. Only dust moves... 7:12
5. Like a funeral veil of melancholy 11:28
6. Wine from tears 8:48

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Thy Serpent - Christcrusher

1. Chambers of the starwatcher 5:39
2. Curtain of treachery 4:17
3. Thou bades nothingness 5:12
4. So free are the wolves 6:45
5. Circle of pain 5:17
6. Christcrusher 3:18
7. Crystalmoors 5:15 8. Calm blinking 5:21

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Thy Serpent - Death

1.	Deathbearer	04:22
2.	Wounds of Death	07:18
3.	Sleep In Oblivion	05:31
4.	Parasites	05:09

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