Gashouse Garden
Gashouse Garden was founded in
2003 by
Kristian Ranta of
Norther and
Jaska Raatikainen of
Children of Bodom. Jaska and Kristian had been thinking of forming a possible project band for some time. One weekend night, after some beers, the guys came up with the idea of
Gashouse Garden. The band was born and the guys began rehearsing.
Kristian began writing songs and the music began to find its identity. After some time, Jaska asked his old friend
Jaakko Teittinen from
Craydawn to join the band because a second guitarist was needed due to the nature of the songs. Kristian decided to invite his old friend
Lauri Porra of
Sinergy,
Kotipelto, and
Warmen to listen in on a Gashouse Garden rehearsal. After this, Lauri decide to join the band. Now the only thing missing was the singer...
On a winter night Kristian was in a local heavy metal bar, where they feature heavy karaoke and one girl was singing
AC/DC so loudly and well that it totally impressed the whole crowd, including Kristian. Kristian decided to ask if this girl (
Mertsa/
China Cat) wanted to join the band. Mertsa liked the material and subsequently joined the band. Then everyone was happy now that the line-up was completed.
Gashouse Garden decided to record a demo and this demo was soon recorded at
Janne Warman's studio in
Helsinki.
At the moment Gashouse Garden is looking for a record deal.
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Mertsa - Lead Vocals
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Kristian Ranta - Lead Guitars
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Jaska Raatikainen - Drums
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Lauri Porra - Bass
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Jaakko Teittinen - Guitars
*An untitled 3-track demo released through
their website.*
Official Gashouse Garden website*
Official Norther website*
Official Children of Bodom website*
Official Kotipelto website*
Official Craydawn website (under construction)
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Century Media Records bands page - Warman*
Very short article on China Cat (on the YLE website in Finnish)
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A 2004 Interview with Mertsa on Finpop.net (in English)
The above information was found at the
Official Gashouse Garden website, from a Google search, on
YLE, and on
Finpop.net.
