Soon they realized that they need a bassist so Toni began to play bass.
At first they learned to play something like 2 songs per week and soon they noticed, that they had practised about 25-30 Iron Maiden -covers and many Deep Purple, Rainbow, Hurriganes, ZZ-Top, Megadeth & Metallica songs too.
At the end of 1993 Jani "Jantte" Lehtonen joined in a band as a singer, but left shortly in 1994 because he wanted to be an actor.
In 1994 band's lineup changed a bit again, Juha changed drums to guitar( He had played guitar earlier) and new drummer Rami Savonen (nowadays in Samba Carioca) joined in the band. This year was a major turning point for the band, because
band's musical direction from the traditional straight up heavy metal changed into a progressive metal, thanks to Rami who once playedDream Theater's Images & Words -album to guys and after that they sold their souls to prog metal. ;)
In 1998 DR had some serious lineup changes, so there were only Toni & Juha left who started to search new members for the band.
In 1999 Distorted Reality found a new singer: Pete Hänninen, keyboard player: Tero "Eke" Eklund & new drummer: Sami "Silli" Siirtola (ex-Pyuria).
Guys began to feel like that this was the right lineup for the band.
In 2000 the band went into a band competition "Grand Pii 2000" in Turku and made into the finals. After the competition they did some gigs during the year and at the end of 2000 went into studio to record Counterclockwise -demo with four songs. The demo-cd was sent to record companies and also to Soundi -magazine's demo critique who gave citation for the Counterclockwise -demo.
In 2001 Tero moved in background because he had some other things to do, so band needed new keyboard player and Mariia Mustalammi joined into the band.
Following years bands lineup changed again, In 2003 Mariia left from the band and also Sami left from the band, and search for the new drummer began until we found the best there is.. Pasi Humalamäki joined in the band in 2004.
There were some changes in lineup again.. yeah im not kidding! Pete had some temporary singing tasks in Mondo Bizarro and couldn't spend time with us since he had lots of gigs compared to us.
So we needed singer too so this time it was really different our next singer was french girl Erica Simeone who lived back then in Finland so we had our first female vocalist.
In 2005 Pete came back, Erica left & Tero came back, we did some more gigs, composed new songs, rehearse harder etc.
Earlier this year Tero had some major issues in his personal life so he hadn't enough time for rehearsing or being part of the group so we decided that we need new keyboard player. At the end of the March we heard this one guy from the Sami and we contacted him if he would like to join our band to play keyboards. Soon Jussi Rimpinen joined in the band.
In september 2008,Pasi left from the band, because he had some personal issues etc. in his current life, so once again we're at the point of searching a new drummer, it's hard to fill the gap, since Pasi was the man,machine behind his drumset. It took couple of weeks and then suddenly our ex-drummer, Rami Savonen returned after all these years, He's been busy doing all the other things except music, so at the moment Rami's rehearsing A LOT! trying to get there, and we're quite happy of his current progress, of course this rehearsing takes time but we keep our thumbs up!
DR wants to thank bands with whom we have done gigs during the past years: Rewerend Bizarre, Human Temple, Dark Cirkus, Mondo Bizarro, Silent Voices, Loosing Me, Sistermanik & Black Hog
And last but not least BIG THANKS to Jussi "The Godfather" Rae.
See you in the Gigs!!!..