Historia: The band was founded in the early 2009 when Pena had started to play guitar and told Juho to learn to play bass so they could form a death metal band called "Dominion Through Fire". Of course he wasnt serious, and it was the lamest name he could come up with. Nevertheless, Juho started taking bass lessons, and the talk about a band became more serious. The two idiots needed a second guitar player, and as Pena knew that Arttu too had just started playing they asked him to join, simply to keep the skill level of the band low :p So now the band had three members who couldnt really play at all, and they needed a drummer. At first, the idea was to take Jere Joenpolvi in, because he was the only person the guys knew who knew anything about playing drums AND possibly would want to play in their band... During the winter the name Northern Iron was chosen with a democratic poll, for which Arttu and Pena had come up with some names. A bit later when the first (crappy) song was about completely written it became clear that Jere wouldnt be able to provide interesting drum patterns as he didnt have drums himself and no place to practice in. At that point a decicion was made by the three others to change to a new drummer. The search wasnt long, since Pena´s little brother Petteri, who had said that he didnt want to join the band earlier, had reconsidered and wanted to join. Not much happened during the spring-midsummer, but then the band finally set up a "studio" in Pena and Petteri´s basement and started recording their first song, which was released in the beginning of September 09. Next year passed with the guys practicing and writing songs, and the first official EP, Bishopslayer, was released 31.7.2010. under the new name, Saivo.