At least 2 bands are known as Northwinds.

1) A Heavy/Power Metal band from Belmar, NJ, USA Members: Terrance Brown - Bass John Radcliffe - Drums Dave Stein - Guitars, Keyboards Steve 'The Rattler' Statland - Vocals One album released in 1990: Sleep With Evil

2) A Doom Metal band from Paris, France. Members: Thomas Batside - guitars Thomas Boivin - bass Vincent Niclas - vocals, guitars, bass Sylvain Auvé - vocals, drums Emmanuel Peyraud - keyboards

Four albums were released: Great God Pan (1998) Masters Of Magic (2001) Chimeres (2006) Winter (2012)