Sluize : rhyhtm guitar
Born in Belgium in 1971.
Sluize started playing guitar , or better started terrorizing his surroundings, on a cheap Daytone guitar somewhere around 1986 trying to play like his heavy metal hero’s (James Hetfield, Adrian Smith, Fast Eddie Clarke, KK Downing, …).
In the beginning of the 90’s Sluize joined a band called Kama Sutra with some highschool friends and had some local success, playing clubs and a few supports in bigger venues like “De Vooruit” in Ghent. Kama Sutra played more rock orientated stuff and mainly own material with a few covers (Ramones, Neil Young and even a rock version of the Mamma’s and the pappa’s classic California Dreaming). After a few years the band splitted because of musical differences. Sluize and the bass player wanted to play more heavy stuff, so he quit the band and knew from than on that his heart was in metal and that this was the only thing he loved to play.
In the 90’s he attempted to start up a few hard rock / heavy metal bands, but none of them really succeeded until he went to an audition for a band that later was named Baremouth. Baremouth was and still is a classic hard rock cover band that had Mario (smb) on lead guitar in the early days. They cover songs from all the great hard rock bands of the 80’s (Iron Maiden, Twisted Sister, Saxon, Judas Priest, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Metallica, …).
It was the same Mario (who by that time had left Baremouth and had joined Wizzard) that told him that Wizz would like to concentrate on his singing rather than to sing and play rhythm guitar at the same time. So Sluize came to audition in 2010 and got the job.