Juri Franska
- vocals, bass -
Influenced by:
Vocals - I've always admired Ozzy as a singer and songwriter; maybe he was the one who got me started singing in the first place. Later I found great diversed singers like Mike Patton, Philip Anselmo, Sebastian Bach, Geoff Tate, Laney Staley, Maynard James Keenan, Mikael Åkerfeldt and Devin Townsend.
I have learned something from each of them, whether I have succeeded in adopting their techniques or not. I have also been inspired by great female singers like Janis Joplin, Skin, Sandra Nasic, Anouk and Jewel, to mention a few.
Bass - The whole thing started from guitar playing a long, long time ago.
Randy Rhoads was a huge influence on my guitar playing, and I have no such influential person with my bass playing.
After all, nowadays I play with Passion : )
Listens to:
Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice in Chains, Strapping Young Lad, Pantera, Down, Black Label Society, Faith No More, Queensrÿche, Tool...
...Hiski Salomaa, The Pogues...
A thought of heavy metal:
"Why is heavy metal being consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned? What’s become clear to me is that metal confronts what we rather ignore, it celebrates what we often deny, it indulges in what we fear most. And that’s why metal will always be a culture of outsiders."
- Sam Dunn -