Question: Which of Mana's favorite drummers played in the band Deep Purple?

Context articles: Deep Purple (album)
Mana (rock musician)
Ian Paice
Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple
Deep Purple European Tour
The Deep Purple Singles A's and B's
The Best of Deep Purple: Live in Europe
The Very Best of Deep Purple
List of Deep Purple band members
Shades of Deep Purple Tour

Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, is the third studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom.
 Its release was preceded by the single "Emmaretta" and by a long tour in the UK, whose dates were interspersed between the album's recording sessions.
Antto Nikolai Tuomainen (born 26 December 1979) is a Finnish drummer, bassist, singer, guitarist and record producer.
 He is best known by his stage name Mana and is the current drummer of the Finnish metal band Lordi.
 Mana uses Tama drums and his own Balbex signature sticks.
 He is a fan of Kiss, Ian Paice, Cozy Powell and Vinny Appice.
 He has produced songs and albums for various Finnish bands.
Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the English rock band Deep Purple.
 He is the only member to appear on every album the band has released.
Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple is a compilation album by the British hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1980 on LP.
 It features the original hits of Deep Purple before their 1984 reunion.
 Aided by a TV advertising campaign it would become Purple's third UK No. 1 album.
 In 1984 this compilation additionally was published on CD.
The Deep Purple European Tour was a year-long successful concert tour by British hard rock band Deep Purple, lasting from July 1969 until June 1970.
 The band played mostly United Kingdom shows, also covering Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium.
 It was the first tour to feature the classic Deep Purple line-up: Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.
 It is considered to be the pre-tour for the "In Rock" album, as the band mostly played songs from the upcoming album.
The Deep Purple Singles A's & B's is a compilation album of singles released by the British hard rock band Deep Purple.
 It was released on vinyl in October 1978.
 An updated version of the album was issued on CD in 1993 and contains the complete collection of Deep Purple's UK singles, recorded and released from 1968 to 1976 by the Mk I, II, III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple.
The Best of Deep Purple: Live in Europe is a 2003 album by English rock band Deep Purple.
 It contains several re-released and unreleased live Deep Purple songs from the Mark II, III and VII lineups.
The Very Best of Deep Purple is a single disc compilation album by the British hard rock band Deep Purple.
 It was released in 2000 by Rhino Records/Warner Bros.
 Records.
 It features tracks by the Mk.
 I, Mk.
 II and Mk.
 III line-ups of Deep Purple.
Deep Purple are an English hard rock band from Hertford, Hertfordshire.
 Originally known as Roundabout, the group formed in March 1968 featuring vocalist Rod Evans, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, bassist Nick Simper, drummer Ian Paice and keyboardist Jon Lord.
 This first lineup of the band, known as Mark I, released three albums within the space of a year – "Shades of Deep Purple", "The Book of Taliesyn" and "Deep Purple" – before Evans and Simper were fired from the band at the request of Blackmore and Lord.
 Mark II of Deep Purple saw Ian Gillan and Roger Glover replace Evans and Simper, respectively, in the summer of 1969.
 This lineup of the band has since been identified as their most successful, with their next four albums reaching the top four of the UK Albums Chart, including number-one albums "Fireball" and "Machine Head".
The Shades of Deep Purple Tour was a short tour by British hard rock band Deep Purple to support their debut album "Shades of Deep Purple".
 The tour lasted over one month and included only eight dates (7 in the United Kingdom and 1 in Switzerland).
 It was the band's first United Kingdom tour.