Whole name: Juhana Tuomas Rantala
(Drummer 1994 - 1999)

Birthdate and place: 11.02.1974 Tampere, Finland
The origin of his nickname: He got a friend who has got a name Pekka. Pekka & Pätkä is very famous finnish characters in several comedymovies.
Tattoos: none
Before HIM: Slumgudgeon
After HIM: Mannerheim, Divine Decay, Spiha, Evil Beatles.

Born in Tampere, but he didn't live there quite long. Spent his childhood in Riihimäki and Rovaniemi, the youth gone in Lappeenranta. Pätkä organized the first rehearsalroom for HIM, that's located to Tapanila.
Taking Juska to the band was also the idea of Pätkä. The reasons that Pätkä left the band was his girlfriend who was pregnant then and Pätkä was very good friend of alcohol too. No one told that Pätkä was fired until he heard somewhere that HIM got another guy on drums and that made Pätkä very depressed, only magazine he could read was Futari (finnish soccermagazine) because there wasn't any pictures of Ville... He's not bitter of that nowadays...
Pätkä has two children and works in Semifinal-club by buing beer for thirsty customers. The Favouritedrink 'Saatanan voitto' (the victory of satan) was the idea of Mige and Pätkä. The edge of the glass sprinkled with lemon and then the glass dropped to sugar, then we fill the glass with Strohl or 'yhden tähden jaloviina'. That's better when strohl is strong, drink could be enjoyed burning or not and that must be done with one swallowing. Girls can drink it with straw.

Ville, Linde & Mige were looking for a drummer in HIM. Ville & Mige were in Tavastia and on the stage was Slumgudgeon and they noticed the style of Pätkä. The singer of Jimsonweed (Suho Superstar) knows both gangs and he gave Pätkä's phonenumber to Ville and HIM was ready. It was very hard for Ville to ring to Pätkä because they got only friends in their bands before. So Ville calls to Pätkä and soon Pätkä went to meet Ville. Ville played their demo and Pätkä decided to join the band.
In the summer 1995 they recorded demo included Stigmata Diaboli, The Phantom Gate and Wicked Game what was lately their breakthrough-hit.

HIM's first drummer
he left the band before "Razorblade Romance"