Music Style Heavy Metal

Musical Influences Alice in chains, Tool, Sevendust...

Artist History The very first idea of the band was in summer 2000 when Kalle and Sami thought it would be nice for a change to play something different than cover songs. The two were founding members of succesful Kissin’ Time which played classic Kiss covers. The original idea was to find right people in a right state of mind who could actually get along and write good music. Couple of months later Sami made a phone call to Jami who was asked if he was interested to join the band. Kalle, Sami and Jami were friends from the past and have played together in different groups so there wouldn’t be any surprises (thank god).At the moment all three guys were thinking...who could possibly be the right bass player for us??? It was Jami who suggested Robin Jansson (who was previously in the same band with Jami)...to be our bass player and soon after that band took it's first form in late year 2000 with Kalle, Jami, Sami and Robin. Clayskin was born. Sorry to say but changes took place after first year and Robin (lack of interest and frustrated) was replaced by Eerik, who took the bass playing duties. Eerik was the right choise and gave more air, rawness and depth to the bass lines. Couple of months later, rehearsing was done and we began recording our first CLAYSKIN demo 2002. Back then we had the songs but the direction was little lost...so we had to develop our new and heavier sound somehow. We knew we needed more backup vocals and more power to the guitar walls because we wanted to sound live as good as we possibly could .The solution dawned to us pretty quickly, we needed a a fifth member who could handle the guitar parts and backup vocals.Our main concern was, how can we find someone who can fit in??? We found our newest talent Veikko via internet, who froze our blood from the very first time we played together.Once again we made a good choise by our newest member who happened to be exactly what we were lookin for. Creativity multiplied with enthuasism gave us a new kick in the ass and even the older songs sounded better and more professional. Now the material is strong enough and we have some new songs and we can’t hardly wait to get out and play. At the moment CLAYSKIN is alive and kicking...

Group Members Sami Koskinen - vocals Jami Hämäläinen - guitar Veikko Wahlroos - guitar Eerik Rantapere - bass Kalle Saarinen - drums

Albums demo 2002

Location Turku, Turku - Finland

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