About
me
Hello, and many thanks for your interest.
I was born in Munich, Germany, and my parents originate from Turkey.
I first started to make music with my first self-built "electric
guitar" at the age of 14.
I set up my first band at 16 as a bassist. After being in several
other bands and playing in clubs in and around Munich for 6 years,
I met Herman Frank of ACCEPT / VICTORY / PANZER, who asked me to
join his new band called MOON'DOC.
I quit my job and moved to Hanover in 1995.
My work with him gave me my first real taste of being a professional
musician.
After two recordings, singer Chris Bay decided to start his own band
FREEDOM CALL with Daniel Zimmermann of GAMMA RAY on the drums, it
was in
1998.
The first FREEDOM CALL line-up consisted of myself, Chris Bay, Daniel
Zimmermann and Sascha Gerstner (now in HELLOWEEN).
FREEDOM CALL toured Europe many times with bands such as SAXON, ANGRA,
EDGUY, HAMMERFALL, BLIND GUARDIAN and appeared at countless festivals,
but in 2005 I quit FREEDOM CALL to pursue my own career.
I had my own visions of the kind of music I wanted to play.
I started to write songs for my own band POWERWORLD.
I signed a worldwide record deal for POWERWORLD with AOR/Heaven in
2008 for the first album.
At this time I started to give bass and guitar lessons, recorded
several albums and carried out a wide
range of other jobs in the
studio. I played on many albums for other artists and recorded, mixed
and engineered many recordings in my Edentone-studio
in Southern Germany.
In 2009, it was a friday afternoon, I got a phonecall from another
record company from Germany. It was SPV/Steamhammer. In the end I
signed a new worldwide record-deal for POWERWORLD for the next albums.
After
the
release of the second album "Human Parasite" in 2010, the
band went on an europeantour with German guitarhero Axel-Rudi-Pell.
But unfortunately
singer Andrew
McDermott
died in that year and I had to put everything on ice.
POWERWORLD released a third album called "Cybersteria" in
2013 on SPV/Steamhammer with Michael Bormann on vocals.
After helping out many bands in my area,
playing tours and carrying out
a multitude
of other
live
jobs I re-joined my old band FREEDOM CALL in 2013.
I played in FREEDOM CALL till August 2018 and quit due to personal
reasons again.
In early 2019 I started to play shows with the German Dark-Metal
Band LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE and joined the band as a permanent
menber
in November for the european-tour with The69Eyes.
My current bands are:
LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE and my solo project what is named erSin.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need a bass player for
studio work or touring.
Thanks
for your interest.
Yours
Ilker
Ersin