Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist

About Me

"So I told him about my pain,
And the life I've been through,
He just smiled and the laughter came.
Then I told him that I love you, and the Devil cried -
-- Black Sabbath w/ Ronny James Dio
"The way to musicians heart is through his/her ego"- --J Russo,
I'm a heavy metal vocalist formally of National Recording artists Herod ( LifeForce Records ), currently fronting Buffalo New York's Darkling , And recently dabbled in acting. I love Heavy Metal Music and performing live is my passion. I grew up on Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensryche, Dio and several other Masters of Metal. I've been singing since I was 15 years old. I am classically and operatically trained. I've recorded with several local bands in my home town of Buffalo New York. When I'm not performing or recording I run a small web hosting company hostdog.net and I've been a leading web developer for several successful online websites. I consider myself very fortunate. If you're into Metal as much as I am sign me up to be your friend!
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight,
LifeForce Records

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/9/2005
Band Website: jasonrusso.name
Band Members: Ehh. he he. They said members. Leave me a message:

Influences: metallica, kiss, megadeth, black sabbath, led zeppelin, anthrax, judas priest, iron maiden, motley crue, overkill, slayer, testament, venom, voivod, ozzy, ratt, dokken, stryper, iced earth, in flames, obituary, king diamond, pantera, guns and roses, hammerfall, sepultura, soulfly, suicidal tendencies, opeth, wasp, biohazard, hatebreed, symphony x, diamondhead, mercyful fate, at the gates, the haunted, deicide, morbid angel, malevolent creation, cannibal corpse, dio, queensryche, corosion of conformity, agnostic front, leeway, cro-mags, danzig, the misfits, samhain, def leppard, twisted sister, fight, halford, dream theater, god forbid, disfear, blaze, machine head, fear factory, slipknot, system of a down, cradle of filth, type o negative, life of agony, carcass, clutch, black label society, helmet, van halen, pride and glory, pearl jam, alice in chains, the police, primus, bon jovi, helloween, overkill, carnivore, both worlds, vision of disorder, madball, suffication, saxon, ac/dc, motorhead, brides of destruction, la guns, nevermore, arch enemy, rainbow, elf, pink floyd, savatage, probot, celtic frost, stormtroopers of death(sod), mod, yngwie malmsteen, steve vai, joe satriani, great white, accept, krokus, tool, kreator, manowar, quiet riot, whitesnake, shadows fall, skid row
Sounds Like: Iron Maiden, Judas Preist, Metallica, Megadeth, fear factory, nevermore, iced earth, anthrax, shadows fall, killswitch engage, black sabbath, ozzy, kiss, slayer, testament
Record Label: Lifeforce Records (Herod)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Plans

It's been quite a while since I've written a blog and I have a major case of insomnia tonight. Well, I should say this morning because it's 4:30 and I hear the birds chirping outside my window. I just...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:40:00 PST

Endorsement for 2008

I bet you thought I was going to talk about Politics!? Hell No! But if I were going to vote for president I'd go with the person who doesn't lie. So I guess I won't be voting anytime soon. O.k. to th...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST

There can only be one.

As some of you may or may not now. Aside from my alustrious career as a heavy metal vocalist. I also dabble a touch in search engine optimization or (SEO). Meaning, I try to get myself ranked high in ...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:02:00 PST

Enough with ADS!!

Are you kidding me? So I'm answering some emails and in the corner of my eye what do I see? An anti-smoking ad. Yea, smoking is bad, I agree. So is drinking. So is eating fast food, so is taking ster...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:57:00 PST

Movie Premiere

2007 Great Lakes Film Festival, Movie Premiere If you're going to be in the Erie PA area this weekend I'll be at the Premiere of Killer Wolf Films movie "Fist of the Vampire" with Erotic Film A...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:59:00 PST

Taking A Crack at acting

Update: 6-13-07 Found out more details on the movie last night and wanted to give you another quickie update. Appearing in the film will be WCW/WWE superstar Brian "The Blue Meanie" Heffron www.myspac...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:18:00 PST

Recording Tommorow

Tommorow we go into the Watchman Studios to Record a 4 song EP with 3 new songs + 1 older never recorded Darkling Track. Tracks will include: Metal RebornImpressions of LiesInfernoDarkworld The demo s...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:25:00 PST

my crucifixion

I was crucified tonight. I was crucified by my band Darkling. It would seem that they don't really know or understand that the things I've done for this band were not solely for my benefit but for the...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:08:00 PST

Queensryche Song

It's been a long 2 days. Went in the studio yestarday to record the Queensryche cover "take hold of the flame." It came out really well and I'm very pleased with how it turned out. However, I'll leave...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Wed, 02 May 2007 12:01:00 PST

Spammers

I've been getting bombarded with spam on myspace lately with everything to free ringtones, to erection pills, coupons, and all kinds of bullshit. It seems they've found a way to make the emails c...
Posted by Jason Russo Heavy Metal Vocalist on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:41:00 PST