User:Destroyah666

My name is Oszkár Knapp. I'm a singer/songwriter in the bands Wrong Side Of The Wall, and Grizzly. My ex-bands are: Insane and Redneck Zömbiez. I am also a graphics designer and illustrator. And for 3 years, I've been working as a bartender, and bar mixer at Budapest ruin pubs, such as Fogas Ház, Instant, and R33.

My father worked as a printing specialist and graphic designer. We had a small printing "factory" in our basement. My mother was an acrobat, dancer, and painter.

I started doing vocals 15 years ago, in 1999, when I was on vacation with some great friends (including Gábor Érsek), drinking a lot of booze, shouting some Sepultura and Korn lyrics on a football field, and they came up with the idea of me joining their already existing metal band. Well, before I could do that, they split up, but we immediately started to form a new band. That became Insane. I was sixteen then.

Since then, music, playing, touring, recording, and rehearsing became the cohesive power, that keeps me still functioning, that keeps me whole. I lost my mother at age 12, I have no brothers or sisters, and my relationship with my dad was - sigh - well, not the best, (sadly later - in 2013 - he died as well). Making music, doing this metal stuff, living the rock'n'roll was the perfect escape from reality, from the everyday frustration and depression. It became my life, my profession, my posession. And in no time, we gathered a huge amount of fans in Budapest, mostly consisting of our classmates, schoolmates, and teenagers at our age. We made some awesome shows, had some great parties, suddenly I wasn't "that fat kid from the back of class", but the freakin' rock star. But that is just Budapest, so we needed more. We realized that if we wanted to reach more people, to build a strong fanbase, the best way to do it, is playing as much as we can.

So we toured with the biggest hungarian rock/metal bands (FreshFabrik, Tankcsapda, Depresszió and Subscribe for example), and after a few years, we decided touring outside Hungary as well. We travelled thousands of kilometers, and when I was 21, i already have been in 28 countries of Europe. It was just freaking awesome to travel from country to country, peeking into other cultures, After eight years of active touring, and recording 3 full length albums, in 2008 our paths with the Insane guys separated, due to some personal conflicts, probably because we were still really young, and we spent far more time together than normal friends in our age. It was a sad period, but I needed to quit, because I was really desperate, and I thought I needed the change, to spend some time in the "real world", to get a job, etc. Well, no, Sir. That wasn't my way.

So, after a half year of doing nothing, just sitting in a glass cage, working in a mall, selling notebooks, until one of my old friends Péter Csobánczi (who was playing bass in a great nu-metal band called Bones) called me. He asked me to join the band, 'cos they had no vocalist for 4 years, and for some reason he liked my voice. When I listened to the instrumental songs, I was completely amazed. It was not nu-metal anymore, it was something far more unique, and freshening. We came up with a new name, instead of the totally cliche 'Bones', and so, Wrong Side Of The Wall was born.

A really active and creative time came then for me, I extended my boundaries, started to create much much more melodic vocals ('cos before that, I mostly just screamed and growled), and in a half year, we made more than 20 songs. I quitted my crappy job at the mall, and focused only on music again, while doing some graphic designs for fellow bands, just to have some extra money I can spend on my own band (I did graphic desings, since I was 12, helping out my Dad), but mostly just for fun. At that time, I had a really great vocal teacher, Hajnal Magyar. I have to mention her, becouse she made me able to do what I do in an amazingly higher level. She is a really good teacher and mentor, Of course I'm not perfect, or anything, but her help was a huge step forward in my so-called career.

In 2009, we recorded and released our full-length self-titled album, and it's still one of my favourite material ever made. It even became "album of the year" by some local online metal fanzines. We made a pretty crazy music video for the song "Purity Itself", I think it is something you really want to check out. Almost all of our friends, and lots of fellow musicians were invited to the set, which was nothing else, then a big party, with gallons of booze and all kinds of stuff, you know. We ended up kicked out from the bar we were shooting the video at, but luckily the material was authentic enough, to make the party video of the year, that's for sure.

To promote the album, we started touring again, with some really awesome old and new friends (Subscribe, Road, and Plastic Bitch). Well, should I say, the tour of my life? Probably. But you know what that means: parties, afterparties, after-afterparties, lots of booze, and all kinds of stuff, we were completely wasted almost all the time. That was the time when I met Tibor Rácz (Pucu), the drummer of Plastic Bitch, who became my really good friend, and not to mention he later helped me to get a job at Fogas Ház as a bartender.


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