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Sentiment is a newcomer band from the land of the 1000 lakes, Finland, playing a superb mixture of classic hard rock and in-your-face heavy metal tunes.
BIOGRAPHY:
Sentiment was formed in 1996, by Jami (drums) and Toni (guitar) Huovinen. At first the band started with a progressive angle, but soon changed their style into more straightforward melodic metal with a lot of hard rock influences.
The current line up was reached after countless member changes. Michael Henneken (ex-Silent Voices, vocals) joined forces with the Huovinen brothers (Jami - drums and Toni - guitars) in 2004 and it was then that they recorded the "Breaking the Chains"-promo disc.
They started to write new material and began searching for a new bass player and a keyboardist soon after. Kari Tornack (ex-Thunderstone, ex-Tunnelvision, ex-Mannerheim, keyboards) decided to join the band in the summer of 2007, after promising to handle live shows in 2005 for as long as Sentiment finds a permanent replacement for their previous keyboardist. Janne Laaksonen (Kilpi) took over the bass at the beginning of 2008.
Sentiment started the recordings of their first album, "From Here To Ever After", in December of 2005 after deciding to finance it themselves, due to the poor contracts offered by several record labels.
The band has opened shows to bands like Stratovarius, Kotipelto, Terasbetoni and Kilpi, and thanks to their connections to the Helsinki's metal scene, they managed to get Jens Johansson (Stratovarius, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, ex-David Lee Roth, ex-Dio) to contribute a solo to the album and the bands close friend Tero "Mc Spain" Kostermaa to record and to co-produce it. Also Timo Kotipelto, Pasi Rantanen, Jarkko Ahola, Sami Virtanen, Anssi Stenberg, Pasi Nykanen and Thomas Nystrand have contributed to build Sentiment's first album.
"From Here To Ever After" is not just a great album in the classic sense, but also a statement of a new major-player on the heavy metal / hard rock scene. From the in-your-face metal tunes like opener "The Dark Side" and "From Here To Ever After", over the neo-classical power metal songs such as "The Black Star", to the classic hard rock songs like "The Last Day" and the power-ballad "Mourning Light".
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Michael Henneken - vocals
Year Of Birth? - 1976
When Did You Start Playing? - I was 14 years old. We did a gig in school playing original music written by the guitar player of the band. It was kind of AC/DCiesh.
Why Did You Start Playing? - The thing is that I started playing drums and played for 7 years but always ended up singing in bands because there always was plenty of drummers but no singers. So at one point I just decided to do singing full time and gave up playing drums.
What Do You Like To Do On Your Freetime? - Free time? What's that? :-)
Favourite Bands? - I tend to listen to a lot of 70's and '80 stuff like Deep Purple, Rainbow, Dio- and Martin-era Sabbath, Whitesnake, Kansas and so forth. But there's some exceptions like Dream Theater, Symphony X, anything Jorn Lande does ...
Favourite Vocalists? - Loads ... Ronnie James is amazing ... Jeff Scott Soto is also very good. Jorn Lande and Russel Allen are also my all time favourites and of course David Coverdale. Oh and David Readman!
Describe Yourself In Three Words? - Passionate, forgetful and sometimes even tolerable ...
Where Do You See Yourself In 10 Years? - It's either a coffin or doing music. Hehehe ... Hope to make a living out of it someday.
Equipment You Use? - Shure microphones and personal monitoring.
Also check out - www.myspace.com/michaelhenneken
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Toni Huovinen - guitars
Year Of Birth? - 1982
When Did You Start Playing? - When I was nine or ten years old. Actually pretty much the same story as my brother has. We started at the same time ... only I picked up the best instrument :-)
Why Did You Start Playing? - Why everybody start playing? 'cause it´s the coolest thing on earth ... and of course Yngwie had something to do with that as well.
What Do You Like To Do On Your Freetime? - Watch movies, hang out with my friends and of course, play guitar.
Favourite Bands? - There are too many.. Children of Bodom, Stratovarius, Killswitch Engage, Whitesnake ... heavy metal!
Favourite Guitarists? - Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Romeo, John Petrucci, Timo Tolkki, Roope Latvala, Alexi Laiho, Zakk Wylde ...
Describe Yourself In Three Words? - xxx
Where Do You See Yourself In 10 Years? - xxx
Equipment You Use? - Jackson SL-2 U.S.A soloist.
- Jackson SL-3 soloist.
- Line 6 Vetta head.
- Marshall cabinets.
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Jami Huovinen - drums
Year Of Birth? - 1982
When Did You Start Playing? - at the age of 10.
Why did you start playing? - It´s cool to be a musician and I wanted to perform and play music to the people.
What Do You Like To Do On Your Freetime? - Watch movies, hang out with my friends, play drums .. All the things that every person likes to do.
Favourite Bands? - COB, Dio, Heed, Stratovarius, Rainbow, Deep purple… there are too many of them ...
Favourite Drummers? - Ian Paice, Virgil Donati, Kai Hahto, Scott Travis, Mirka Rantanen, Mike Mangini, Vinnie Paul ...
Describe Yourself In Three Words? - Fucking cool guy :)
Where Do You See Yourself In 10 Years? - I have no idea.. Somewhere on tour I guess :)
Equipment You Use? - Pearl Masterworks CarbonPly drums with four toms and two bass drums (2x22x18, 10x8, 12x9, 13x10 toms and 16x16 floor tom).
- Gibraltar drum rack and Pearl 1000 and 2000-ser. hardware. Pearl Eliminator pedals.
- Sonor S-class maple drums with five (5) toms and two (2) bass drums. Gibraltar and Pearl Hardware.
- Pearl Reference 1465 maple/birch snare, Sonor 14″x5″ maple snare.
- Ufip Bionic and Zildjian A-custom cymbals; 2xhi-hat, 4xsplash (2×8″, 10″,12″), 16″,2×17″,2×18″,19″ crashes, 18″ china, 21″ride.
- Hardcase cases for drums and cymbals, Gewa SPS case for hardware.
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Kari Tornack - keyboards
Year Of Birth? - xxx
When Did You Start Playing? - xxx
Why did you start playing? - xxx
What Do You Like To Do On Your Freetime? - xxx
Favourite Bands? - xxx
Favourite Keyboardists? - xxx
Describe Yourself In Three Words? - xxx
Where Do You See Yourself In 10 Years? - xxx
Equipment You Use? - xxx
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Janne Laaksonen - bass
Year Of Birth? - 1974
When Did You Start Playing? - At the age of 12.
Why did you start playing? - As a child I was a huge Kiss-fan, I wanted to be like them. I was very into the early 80's NWOBHM-bands and American hairbands like W.A.S.P. and Motley Crue. Spandex-heavy started it all ...
What Do You Like To Do On Your Freetime? - I have a family and old house what needs constant repairing, so no freetime problems really, but I'm quite active in several coverbands and I play badminton with my son.
Favourite Bands? - Kiss is still number one after all these years, but I've widened my musical view. Hairbands are still there, but so are The Beatles, Depeche Mode, ABBA, Sheryl Crow, Eagles, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, The Black Crowes, Amy Winehouse and many many others.
Favourite Bassists? - I´m not that into any instrumentalist, but I love Yngwie J. Malmsteen's guitar playing. I have had the priviledge to open two shows for him.
Describe Yourself In Three Words? - Loud, mostly stupid.
Where Do You See Yourself In 10 Years? - I can support me and my family with music, hopefully with Sentiment!
Equipment You Use? - I have four great basses I play depending on my mood or music, but my main bass is B.C. Rich Warlock wich I custom ordered over ten years ago. Others are Gibson Thunderbird, Sale Custom Guitars Warlock and Ampeg Dan Armstrong Plexi Bass.
- As amplifiers I have Ampeg SVT and other Ampeg tubeamps with Ampeg cabinets.
- When needed, I use Tech 21 Sans Amp distortion.
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