Artist description 5 piece melodic, death metalband from springfield, virginia

Music Style Brutal, Melodic, Death Metal

Musical Influences Death, In Flames, Meshuggah, Slayer, At The Gates

Similar Artists In Flames,Meshuggah, Satyricon, Dissection, Death, Carcass, Dark Tranquillity, The Crown,Dimmu Borgir,At The Gates, Arch Enemy, cradle of filth, old man's child, Sinister, Cannibal Corpse, dark sead

Artist History Dark Haven started back in March of 1998. We've changed our name about 6 times, but we're keeping this one! It's hard to say what kind of metal we really are, we mix a lot of types of metal.... the most mixed in is death metal, black metal, hardcore and thrash metal. The idea to start a band was inseminated into our heads 3 years ago (1996), but we lacked talent and equipment. Ben had no drums, dennis had no guitar (he stole one eventually) and neither shaun nor dennis had effects proccesors....... Ben, shaun and dennis still needed a singer and a bassist.... after shaun and dennis got the proper equipment they quickly got together with a drummer by the name of Travis adams, he was a hell of a drummer, but he didnt really like metal..... Ben played bass, dennis sung and played guitar, and shaun played guitar. After only 3-5 practices ben, shaun and dennis quickly disbanded from travis. Despite the little time spent together we had a basic outline of our first song titled, "we know." We had to have been the biggest fans of metal there was but we had no idea what it took to write and perform heavy metal. Eventually dennis parted secretly away from ben and shaun to start a project with future singer pedro. It wasn't until february of '98 when shaun hooked up with bassist jeremy who also happened to have a drum set.... shaun told dennis, dennis said he had a singer and desecration was on its way...... now with a couple years of strenuous practice time (shaun and dennis practiced for 4 hours a day at the very least) We had a band with talent and with what it takes to be metal heads. Our home town, Springfield, Virginia, doesn't have the most prominent metal scene but enough metal heads to get a band to play a fucking wild-ass show (our first one):Our first show was at a local club called JAXX. We tore the place up except Pedro got tired and shitty after awhile and we weren't loud enough.... but other than that we got a great response. Our second show was at a private Catholic school, Bishop Ireton. We got asked to sell a bunch of people demos and to play again.... we can take care of playing.... but our current demo** has a really shitty recording **:We recorded a demo in July of '98, but we weren't happy with it. So we're coming out with a whole new album. Ron Vento is recording us, he's the master mind in his band, Aurora Borealis. Our second demo is called Void of Hope. We're putting it on to cd by the help of our artist Steven Juliano. He designed our cover and other artwork We disbanded from our singer, Pedro. We acquired a new singer by the name of Telly, but after doing the Sinister & Rotting Christ show with him, we both agreed he didn't fit. Searching for a new singer didn't take long when Alejandro came into view with us. He's everything we looked for in a singer and more. He will be featured in are up coming demo, "Eve of Tribulation."

Group Members Alejandro Rossales - vocals Shaun linefsky - rythm/effects guitars Dennis O'Donnell - lead/rythm guitars Jeremy Cassano - bass guitars Ben Scarbrough - drums/keyboards

Albums World Of Fools, Eve Of Tribulation

Additional Info Listen to The Wretched Son and Wrong Again First and download the "Hi-Fi" to get the real sound of the intensity

Location Springfield, virginia - USA

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