Damien Storm first got interested in music at the age of thirteen, when he started playing the guitar. What got him started was seeing Ace Frehley of KISS with his cherry sunburst Les Paul, that to this day Ace still plays. Damien was fascinated with Ace. He even talked his parents into getting him that same guitar as Ace, down to the same color. To this day, Damien still plays Gibson Les Paul's, exclusively. He uses several Les Paul Customs, but does use his original cherry sunburst deluxe for a few tracks.

Birdman It all started when Damien began taking lessons at a local music store. It was in some small crowded back room with store clerks coming in and out. After this, he took some lessons in his last couple of years from his high school music teacher. As the years passed, he kept learning and tried to play in a couple different bands, but things would never work out. After being frustrated with playing music, he gave it up and went to college, studying in the business field. After not touching a guitar for four years or so, he finally pulled it out from under the bed where it had been hibernating for years. He began playing some old favorites such as various Alice Cooper, vintage KISS, and Black Sabbath songs. The next day he found himself playing it again. About a week or so later, he wrote a little riff and this got him back in the mood to start playing again. He began looking in music stores and finally bought a cassette format four track recorder. At last that riff had a home and finally turned into an actual song. Damien came up with a concept of creating a solo act and decided to center all his songs around horror concepts. He calls his songs horror anthems. This was achieved with the use of sound effects such as howling wind, footsteps, screams, ghosts speaking, creaking doors, a baby transforming into a monster, wolves, and whatever else he could conjure up.

Damien's influences include - KISS, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Ted Nugent, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Cheap Trick, and horror movies. Damien's favorite horror movies are the old black and white classics that Universal Studios put out in the 1930's,as well as the Halloween series. A current musical influence, which should be named, is King Diamond. Even though he is influenced by the above acts, his music sounds nothing like any of these.

In 1990, Damien recorded an experimental recording entitled "House Atop The Hill." This enabled him to get a feel for the recording aspect of music, and was done with the same exact four track cassette recorder that was mentioned above. "House Atop the Hill" consisted of nine songs. Damien did the four original tracks on these songs on a four track recorder, and then took that to a bigger studio where he added numerous tracks. The sound effects first originated on this project. Because the guitars and vocals were done first and the drums after that, will explain why this project had such a loose yet original feel.

After that Damien moved on to another project called "Ghost Town," a thirteen song release that came out in late1993.It has the same type of concepts with horror themes, but more organized. The songs also has more fullness to them. This project took a lot longer to put together. It had a lot of extra tracks, and would turn out to be the first full CD that Damien completed. Also, this was the start of the concept recording by Damien Storm. Every song would be linked together, and the overall CD would have one consistent theme throughout. It is here where Damien would introduce a character named "Jonny Stane," who would be a sort of victim that would have to deal with the horror of Damien Storm.

Damien Storm first got interested in music at the age of thirteen, when he started playing the guitar. What got him started was seeing Ace Frehley of KISS with his cherry sunburst Les Paul, that to this day Ace still plays. Damien was fascinated with Ace. He even talked his parents into getting him that same guitar as Ace, down to the same color. To this day, Damien still plays Gibson Les Paul's, exclusively. He uses several Les Paul Customs, but does use his original cherry sunburst deluxe for a few tracks.

Birdman It all started when Damien began taking lessons at a local music store. It was in some small crowded back room with store clerks coming in and out. After this, he took some lessons in his last couple of years from his high school music teacher. As the years passed, he kept learning and tried to play in a couple different bands, but things would never work out. After being frustrated with playing music, he gave it up and went to college,... View more

Track Listing

	Track Title
1.	The Unveiled Arrival
2.	Ghost Town
3.	The Gate
4.	Witch Of The Night Tyme
5.	Hangman's Fate
6.	Wedge Of Light
7.	Spider Inside The Closet
8.	Eerie Halways
9.	The Attic
10.	Changelings-Tiny Skeletons
11.	Realms Destiny
12.	Rockcastle Inn
13.	Departing Evil After Thought

More Info

Release Year	1993
Label	Mystic Guardian
Sounds Like	Alice Cooper,KISS,Ted Nugent,Cheap Trick,Iron Maiden,Judas Priest,Billy Squier,Black Sabbath,Queen,and Horror Movies
Produced By	Damien Storm
Genre	Metal
Location	New Orleans, LA, USA

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