Greetings Ladies & Gentlemen, the name is Lord Deimos. I'm the lead guitarist/vocalist for my band Shadowbeast. Founded in the summer of '98 by Johnathan Ruiz and myself, the time seemed right bring forth the purest form of metal being how at that time "Nu-Metal" was all the craze. Being raised by a "metal-head" of a father, metal music has always been in my blood. Megadeth being blasted full blast since being only a child made me hungry to be a musician. Dave Mustaine being one of the best guitar players [with the help of Martin Friedman of course] gave me that drive to play thrash metal... and Johnathan knowing music and it's melodies from the likes of Dream Theater gave our band it's unique sound of melodic thrash metal so to speak. In other words, I'm the one that makes that band sound heavier while he is responsile for the melodic parts. With the help of our drummer Daniel Martinez, coming from musical influences from Pantera's Vinnie Paul and Fear Factory's Raymond Herrera, you can imagine the unique sound of metallic [almost robotic] drums work. The band has been through numerous band changes since then [bass players, guitarists, vocalists] which is somewhat of a good thing being how each one brought something new and fresh to the band. It wasn't until around the year of 2002 when the band began to feel more comfortable with the mixture of death metal, gothic metal, and melodic metal which gave the band it's unique sound. The ultimate line-up of John on lead guitar, Brenda on rhythm guitar, Kimberly on bass guitar, Daniel on drums and myself on vocals was then formed and it then it was clear that we have found our set of musicians we felt comfortable with. From then, it's when every weekend was something to look forward to... to bring forth true metal back to the people. Two whole years of bringing chaos and mayhem on the bars and clubs of El Paso, some being more demanding and wanting us playing at their parties and festivals. Being the best of the "underground" scene, ultimately things came to a sudden unexpected halt when Brenda decided to leave the band, dedicating her full time to being a mother for her child which was alright by us since being a parent is a 24/7 job. Shortly after, Daniel decided to go to California for "family issues" which made our bassist and keboardist leave as well feeling it being hopeless to continue without the talent we had leave the band. Leaving only myself and John, we have tried other attempts with other musicians but have "lost" that blood-lust for music as we had before. The lack of dedication and talented musicians have left us nothing to work with. The band has been since then, "put on hold" waiting for the time to strike back with full force and reclaim the title of "underground" metal-masters.
