Band of the Week 47 Leverage
LEVERAGE (Jyväskylä/Helsinki, Finland) hits many of you right out of the bushes, but in a flashy way. Finnish Heavy Rock has long traditions and tough merits, but this type of old school melodic heavy rock with a shade of progressive flavour hasnt been heard from Finnish bands before. It all started with a heavy dose of Rainbow, but how did we get here, and where has LEVERAGE been hiding all these years? Songwriter-guitarist Tuomas Heikkinen has a few words on the subject:The story so far...As little kids, me and Lampinen used to sit in a pile of snow on the schoolyard reading comics, besides that I spent most of my free time at home sitting with my headphones on listening to Stargazer by Rainbow a hundred times over. Lampinen said he wanted to get to play the bass in Budok...
