Band History

Here`s some details about Withering..
The Withering story began at Autumn 1999. Raimo (bass) and Henkka (drums) had an idea about a band, and they started looking for a guitarist to complete the line-up. A few candidates came up, and finally they found what they had been looking for.

Mika was a guitarist with several years of musical experience and fit tendency. When these three guys played together for first time, they all knew that this would be the new line-up for Withering.

Withering started rehearsing some cover songs from bands like Amorphis, Paradise Lost and Sentenced. When the band found its sound and balance between instruments and the time was right, Mika came up with own songs.

Some of the songs had been composed by him before he joined the band, but most of them were composed exclusively for Withering. The arrangements of the songs were made by the band together.

Withering recorded their first demo-cd "The signs of betrayal" on January 2001. After releasing of "the signs of betrayal" Mikko Mäkinen joined the band. Mika brought some great shit in a form of new songs to trains. They started immediately to work with those new songs, and after a year they thought that it was a time to go to the studio again.

They recorded their second demo in january of 2002 at Tico-tico Studios, and it was named: "Justification for unavoidable".

After the sessions the line-up changed. Due to lack of devotion, Mikko was forced to leave the band. Because of the military service of Henkka and Raimo there was a small pause in action, but now the band is rockin' again.

In spring 2003 Withering signed Ville for another guitarist and the band got its final form. They started working for the debut album.

The debut album "Gospel of Madness" was recorded in Tico Tico Studios in November-December 2003 and was released in March 2004.

After the mini-tour in spring 2004, Raimo Crazyhorse left the band. Replacing members Lasse and Juho joined the band in January 2005. They recorded few songs with the new line-up in summer 2005, but decided not to release the songs. The band also performed few gigs with this refreshed line-up. Unfortunately the band couldn't create the material comparable to the past days and chemistry was more or less questionable, so the band decided to part ways with Lasse and Ville in winter 2006.

With the new line-up, the band is more creative than ever. The year 2007 is the year of reborn for Withering. To be continued..