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.

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 had been writing. Kristian's friend Lauri Porra (bassist of Sinergy, Kotipelto, and Warmen) was hired after "sitting in" on a rehearsal.

The vocalist, Mersta, was hired after Kristian heard her karaoke singing AC/DC songs in a bar.

The first demo was recorded at Janne Wirman's studio in Helsinki.

Members

*Mertsa - Lead Vocals
*Kristian Ranta - Lead Guitars
*Jaska Raatikainen - Drums
*Lauri Porra - Bass
*Jaakko Teittinen - Guitars

Discography

*An untitled 3-track demo released through [http://www.gashousegarden.com/ their website.] (Offline)

External links

* [http://www.gashousegarden.com/ Official Gashouse Garden website] (Offline)
* [http://www.norther.net/ Official Norther website]
* [http://www.cobhc.com/ Official Children of Bodom website]
* [http://www.kotipelto.com/ Official Kotipelto website]
* [http://www.craydawn.com/ Official Craydawn website] (under construction)
* [http://www.centurymedia.net/bands/Warmen.htm Century Media Records bands page - Warman]
* [http://fym.hattu.net/soundit/keikat/2003/chinacat150602.php Very short article on China Cat] (on the YLE website in Finnish)
* [http://www.finpop.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=180 A 2004 Interview with Mertsa on Finpop.net] (in English)

Sources

The above information was found at the [http://www.gashousegarden.com/ Official Gashouse Garden website] (Offline), from a Google search, on [http://www.yle.fi/ YLE] , and on [http://www.finpop.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=180 Finpop.net.]