| Antony Hämäläinen | |
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| Birth name | Antony Hämäläinen |
| Born | August 28, 1980 |
| Origin | Finland |
| Genres | Death metal, black metal, melodic death metal, deathgrind, thrash metal |
| Occupations | Musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, Bass, Drums |
| Years active | 1992 - Present |
| Labels | Lifeforce, Century Media, Prosthetic Records |
| Associated acts | Nightrage Disarmonia Mundi Landmine Marathon Nervosia |
| Website | http://www.nightrage.com/ |
Antony Hämäläinen (born August 28, 1980, in Hämeenlinna, Finland), is a Finnish musician and composer living in the United States.
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In the early 1990s, he started playing bass, drums, and singing for multiple bands based both in the USA and Finland. His first notable position was providing vocals for the Arizona melodic death band Slaves For Scores, which disbanded in late 2005. He then helped the start of another Arizona band Burn Your Halo. The band had much attention coming mostly from Japan and Europe. In September 2007, Hämäläinen joined the Gothenburg based Melodic Death Metal band Nightrage as their permanent vocalist. He occasionally provides guest vocals for bands ranging in all genres of extreme metal.
On February 27, 2011, it was announced via Blabbermouth.Net that Antony has started a death/black metal side project along side Jake Green (Vehemence) and Jonathan Chunglo (Red Tear Memory, Darkend Dreams) called Nervosia. The band has set Apathy's Throne as the title for its first EP.[1]
He is very into sports, and has a passion for European Football and American Football.
Antony is known to be a very big fan of Niklas Sundin's (Dark Tranquillity) art work. He has five art pieces tattooed on his left fore arm.[2]
He speaks fluent English and Finnish, and understands Swedish, Greek, and French.
The Washington Post reported on him in an article about Bristol Palin who currently lives in the city of Maricopa along with Hämäläinen. "If true, Palin will totally outshine Maricopa's other celebrity resident: Antony Hämäläinen: lead singer of melodic death metal band Nightrage. Though he definitely wins the "most umlauts in my last name" game.".[3]