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Elements is a power metal band from Vantaa, Finland.  

It was founded by Jarmo Hyvärinen and Joni Juuti in 2001. The boys has known each other since childhood days and they already started playing in 1996, after founding Metallica. Till 2001 they mostly played Metallica-covers and Finnish Punk-Rock, until they found the melodic sound of Stratovarius and Iron Maiden and also gained the skills to compose.  

Drummer Ilpo Luoma joined the band in early 2002, after hearing Joni’s bands demo-tape in his school. Elements was then known as Chaos. For the next years, the band also had Johanna Salonen at vocals and Aki Madetoja playing bass. Both of them quitted the band in 2006 due to lack on passion for Elements.  

This is considered to be Elements'es first actual line-up, hence with this group Elements played its first live show in 2005 and also made its first proper studio produced demo, called “Fire” in the same year. Fire was only printed amount of 200 copies and later 100 copies more and today its very rare to find.  

After this, remaining members Jarmo, Joni and Ilpo had very dissapointing year with the band.
Breaking up was a close call and other things was going first to music, until autumn 2007 the boys decided to have one more go in the search of new vocalist and bass player.  
 
After 20 or so female candidates, Ida-Katharina Lindell was found and asked to join the band.
During the years, Elements had made several record-ready tracks and it was soon decided to start the recording of their debut album with self-production. Recording of the ”Northern Echoes” started in Hyvinkää, Finland at Rockstar Studio’s in May 2008. It was recorded and mixed by Arto Kantola, who is also the formal guitar teacher for both, Jarmo and Joni. It was mastered by Mika Jussila (Finnvox) and coverartwork was done by Jan “Örkki” Yrlund.  

In the Summer of 2008 Elements played two gigs and released it's first single called "One in the Dark" from the fourthcoming album. Short period of time, Ida’s brother, Simon Lindell was actual member of the band, but was soon forced to step aside due to broken wrist and lack of passion for Elements alike of music. Simon is still a good friend with the band and can be seen in the audience also. The bass player live replacement, Jani Seppänen, fitted the band perfectly and was asked to join the band in July 2008.  

In November 2008 Elements shot a music video for the song "One in the dark" and it was filmed at Sipoo and Vantaa. It was directed and edited by Sami Mäkelä.  

Debut album “Northern Echoes” was released 16th of February 2009 and it’s currently on-sale in Finland, Japan and United States.
In 17th of May 2009 Elements won Voice TV Finland’s music video contest and gain radio and TV popularity.  

After growing myspace popularity, the band has fans from all over the world, especially from: Japan, Center-Europe, South-America and United States.  

Currently the band is finishing a new single called "The Greatest Game". A music video is also in progress.

Elements is:  

Ida-Katharina Lindell, Vocals
Jarmo Hyvärinen, Guitar
Ilpo Luoma, Drums
Joni Juuti, Guitar
Jani Seppänen, Bass