"I am now 37 years old and have played in bands since 86.

The synthesizers haven't been my instrument so long time yet. At first I played guitar in a band called Syndicate in years 87-89. That group was very typical Metallica-like speed metal group that made two demos. That group didn't make any record, but was very popular in our home city called Pori and we made some gigs during 88-89. After this I played bass guitar, guitar, vocals, keyboards etc. in a group called Funcunt. As with this band we made two well-sold demos "Minutewelli" (sold about 500 pcs.) and "Coldeäccol" (sold over 1000 pcs.) during years 90-92 .



We changed our name to simple F and made one vinyl split LP (called "Pronimo") with Bewitched from Chile (released by Warmaster rec. from Kolumbia, sold out). The band's music was very orginal package from influences of everything, maybe sometimes too orginal. F made also one selfinanced cd-longplay called "I-III" in 94 and split up in 95. In the same time I played guitar in a doom metal band called Sceptical Schizo. that group made two ep's during years 92-93 (the first was selfinanced , sold about 700 pcs., sold out and second one was released by Wounded Love rec., sold out).



Again we changed our name to Lavra in year 94 and made one cd-longplay called "Bluenothing" (released by Demonosound in year 95). The band's music style was also very orginal mix up from prog to gothic influences mixed with our doom metal background. We split up in 96. In year 93 I started to play keyboards in As Divine Grace (we did two well selling cds "Lumo" and "Supremature" for Avantgarde music, Italy) and left it in Autumn 2000 same time concentrating 100%:ly doing music only for Sorb-I-tol.