Ghostly Train

Sotiris Lagonikas is a self-taught musician born and raised in the city of Piraeus, Greece.
He grew up in the 70's and was lucky enough to have a big-bro at home, who taught him what Rock music was all about.
From then on, Grand Funk Railroad, Queen, Kansas, Foreigner, Styx, Toto, Kiss and many others of the like, became his tutors.
Sotiris spent so much time listening to their music and watching them live that in a couple of years, he was actually able to play their music on drums, bass and guitar.
It was a huge surprise the first time that Sotiris actually sat on drums at the age of 14 and played it, as if he had actually been taking lessons..
Few days later, he auditioned and was accepted for the drummer's position in a local band of the 80's called "Four Wheel Drive".
With 'Four Wheel Drive', Sotiris wrote a lot of rock music and we played constantly live.
In 1990, they released their first full-length album which received an extensive airplay leading to a small tour around Greece.

Back in the 1986, Sotiris met fellow musicians Chris Kissadjekian and Takis Kalatzis, who at the time were playing in a band called Mirage.
They had become very good friends and somewhere in 1992, at Kissadjekian's home, the three decided to form a heavy-blues-prog-rock trio.
The yet-unnamed band started jamming countless hours and a year later, Jane Sabanikou (ex-singer in a band called Beauty and the Beast), joined the trio and even gave it its name.
The name she came up with was What's The Buzz? after the omonymous song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Rock Opera "Jesus Christ Superstar".
"What's The Buzz?" recorded a number of demos and did many gigs all around Greece. With "What's The Buzz?" Sotiris had the privilege to support on stage bands like "Manfred Mann's Earth Band", "Spiritual Beggars", "Cathedral", "The Answer", "Whitesnake", etc.
In the year 2000, "What's The Buzz?" released their first self-titled album.

In 2009 Sotiris released his debut solo album, under the title "SL Theory - I", which he composed, performed, arranged and produced alone.
Now, Sotiris returns with his new album, "Progressively Dark", a heavy-prog record in a dark, haunted mood which shows a totally different side of the artist.