Stoutchild is a Turkish power metal band.They had begun under a different name when Emre, Erkin and Mustafa came together at the end of 2001. They had some genre changes till 2003. In early 2003, the band started to compose and arrange their own songs, being inspired by classical music and North European power metal bands that they used to listen. This went on about 2 years.They beginned to look for a vocalist but the search, took about 1 year, returned no results. This matter was solved within the band and Erkin got the responsibility of vocals.when recording time came, there were no bass and keyboard player.In 2006 Taner on keyboards and Yavuz on bass joined the band. In July 2nd , band recorded their first demo album ''Spreading Fire'' at Izmir Studio Negatif ( Ant Balci ). At this time Stoutchild working on new songs and records. ( Taner Özel and Yavuz Cingöz have left the band.)