Altti's parents didn't know what the hell they started when they bought him his first acoustic guitar, the allmighty Landola. Along with his greatest influences, Iron Maiden and Metallica, Altti survived his youth by playing guitar with those two bands and tried to behave as good as possible. Well he didn't know how to behave (and still doesn't) but somehow he learned something about a thing called Rock' n'  Roll.

 Then there was the time to form a band and there were too many guitarists and way too few bassists so Altti took the chance and was promoted to a bassist. And liking those low frequency notes, he still likes to hold on with that heavyweight-poor-man's-guitar and is trying to rock the world without thinking the consequences.

 Altti's first “serious” band was a melodic metal band called Celestial Sorrow. He played drums first but soon the bassist was needed. After four demos and some gigs the band split up due to lack of interest. Soon a new band was formed, a metal/hard rock band named Charisma, which is still active. Altti moved to Turku in 2004 and was somewhat frustrated because he had no serious band projects there. But finally in 2007, there were rumours at the town that Strikin' Case was lookin for a bass player. At first Altti was supposed to join the band as a session bassist for the “Basement Glory” recordings but things got that way that he became a fulltime member of the band. And the rest is history, let the world domination begin!

 

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