Dream Smashers INC

Biography

The Story begins in the early 2005:

Once upon a time there were two bands. The first was called In Silent Asylum, and it consisted of three young musicians.Whom were (in no particular order) Matias Autio, Luca Porru and Toni Berg. The other band, which didn't have a name yet, also consisted of three young musicians; Jan Nyman, Petri Jokisalo and Jani Kantanen. Both bands affected in eastern Helsinki, and when Jan and Petri kicked Kantanen out from their lineup they asked Matias to take his place.

At first Matias wanted to keep ISA as his primary project, but when he noticed that his cooperation with Jan and Petri worked out better, he decided to put an end to ISA so he could concentrate better on his new band. The band began training their own basic trash metal songs at the slums of Espoo, in a shabby old garage. At this point the band thought of joining the Ääni & Vimma (2005) band contest, but decided not to due to lack of training.

The trash metal songs they played at first soon changed into the compositions of Matias, which they started to train real hard. Originally Matias had made the songs on Cold Morning -demo for ISA, but as he played them for Jan and Petri the guys got really excited about them and began to play the songs of Matias. Accidentally Matias had become the head of the band. The band continued reahearsing, and Matias recorded a bunch of new songs at his home for the Last Note -demo (autumn 2005).

Soon after the band began to train in the Vuosaari Highschool, with their new basist, Niko Reinikainen. The first goal of the band was to play at the Vuosaari Hichscools "nightschool" (a kind of party for the students at night with live music, games, buffet and other sorts of entertainment). For this gig they persuaded a friend of theirs, Kalle Oittinen, to play guitar, due to lack of time and Matias' skills. They played for about a hundred people. After their first gig the band began rehearsing for the Ääni & Vimma (2006) band contest. At this point Kalle and Niko had already left the band.

And so the Ääni & Vimma was played with the following lineup:

Matias Autio - vocals and guitar

Jan Nyman - guitar

Petri Jokisalo - drums

Despite of a good performance the band wasn't allowed to continue to the semifinals, so they continued to rehears at the Vuosaari Highschool. Matias began to write new songs at a rapid pace, which formed the new demo Reflections of Truth, they also made a promotional version of the demo to be sent out to record companies. Pete left the band in the end of October due to lack of motivation, and was quickly replaced by Joonatan Juvonen.

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