Tjodalv: Drums
Cyrus: Guitars
Memnock: Bass
Athera: Vocals
Elvorn: Guitars
After Tjodalv left Dimmu Borgir in the middle of march 1999 he started to concentrate fully on Susperia together with Cyrus, which are old time friends. But before that, sometime in 1998 Tjodalv and Cyrus started to write and work on the music that we know today. This was the start on the band we today know as Susperia.
It all started to happen at the Wacken Open Air Festival in august 1999 when Athera meet Tjodalv when they where both traveling with Mayhem to help them out with their show. Tjodalv had brought with him some pre-production stuff of some music, and he told Athera he was looking for some musicians to get this band up and running. Athera had a band on a nonprofessional basis and he told Tjodalv that he was interested in listening to his stuff, so he borrowed the CD when he got home to Norway.
The music immediately caught Athera's attention as it was totally free of synthesizer's and was almost like pure extreme metal to the bone, and there was a special originality to it that made him listen to the CD`s 7 songs over and over again. Finally he called Tjodalv and told him he liked the music very much and was interested in trying something out. Tjodalv and Cyrus in addition to Athera as a vocalist, they also needed a bass player and a second guitar player, so Athera brought with him his long time bass playing friend (Memnock), and another friend to play the guitar (Elvorn), both of them was at that time playing in Atheras band.
Susperia met up for a rehearsal in September 99 and after the session they agreed that this could work out great! And they decided to aim for a demo within the end of the year, the demo was recorded in December 99 at Pitfire Studio outside Oslo, the demo was mixed and mastered by L.Argedick. Synth and piano on this recording was done by Mustis (Dimmu Borgir). The demo which contains 5 songs is called "Illusions of evil".
The demo was sent out to different record companies and the response was fucking enormous! Susperia received about 10 solid offers from mainly major companies and after reviewing it all, they decided to start working on the deal with Nuclear Blast. In early 2000 Susperia signed a 4 record deal with Nuclear Blast. Their debut and yet untitled 10 song album (1 bonus for the jap version) will be recorded in October 2000 and preliminary release date is set to March 2001.
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Susperia was first named Seven Sins, and the inspiration to that name came from the original seven death sins, greed, lust and so on. But due to copyright reasons they changed the band name to Susperia. 
Susperia are not a Satanic band but through their lyrics they tend to criticize and question the views and moral of Christianity. They do not believe in God, but they don`t believe in Satan either. They highly believe in their music and in their individual selves. 