Damond Jiniya is an American vocalist and lyricist. He was born December 16, 1974 in Palm Springs California. His most notable work was fronting the prog metal band "Savatage

Savatage

Savatage is an American heavy metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida.-Early days :...

" (2000–2005). Damond also achieved international notoriety with his electro-metal band "Diet of Worms (band)

Diet of Worms (band)

Diet of Worms is a rock band that began as a side project between Juan 'Punchy' Gonzalez and Damond Jiniya . After a few demos had been circulated, there was enough demand for the duo to release an album independently...

" (1997–2004) He recorded with "Lover of Sin

Lover of Sin

Lover of Sin is an American Black metal/Deathrock band containing members from Christian Death , Diet of Worms member Juan "Punchy" Gonzalez, Tony Norman from Monstrosity & Morbid Angel, Howard Davis from Genitorturers, and guest vocals by Damond Jiniya of Savatage. The band released their...

" (Christian Death

Christian Death

Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979. The band was founded and fronted by Rozz Williams. Christian Death is most notable for their first album Only Theatre of Pain....

) in 2003. Damond has performed at legendary festivals such as "Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...

" DE "Graspop" NL "Gods of Metal

Gods of Metal

Gods of Metal is the biggest Italian metal festival, held annually since 1997. It takes place in early summer, usually on the first or second weekend of June...

" IT and the "Dracfest" UK. He
has been featured worldwide in publications such as NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

 (U.K), Metal Edge

Metal Edge

Metal Edge was a magazine covering heavy metal music published by Zenbu Media. It was founded in the summer of 1985, during the height of Glam metal's success.Both Metal Edge and its sister publication, Metal Maniacs, ceased operations in 2009....

 (U.S.A), Rock Hard (magazine)

Rock Hard (magazine)

Rock Hard is a heavy metal magazine originally released in Germany. It was founded in 1983 by Holger Stratmann and is dedicated to all styles of rock and heavy metal. The magazine has independent offspring with the same name in France, Greece, Italy and Spain....

 (DE), Metal Maniacs

Metal Maniacs

Metal Maniacs was a heavy metal magazine founded in 1989 by Mike G. and Katherine Ludwig of Metal Shop. It was focused largely on covering extreme metal, with emphasis on the black and death metal genres...

 (U.S.A) Aardshock (NL) and most recently Roadie and Crew (BRAZIL)

Early life

Damond was born in Palm Springs California Dec 16th,1974.He comes from a family of performers. His Grandmother, Mother, Sister and Neice all sing professionally. His mother was a country singer. He joined his Mother onstage at age 4 and became part of her show. Damond traveled the U.S.A. extensively with her throughout most of his childhood living in New Hampshire, Tennessee, Washington, Arizona, Nevada and Florida. He put his first band together at age 12 in Nashville TN.

Diet of Worms(1996-2004)

Damond founded Diet of Worms with guitarist, producer Juan "Punchy" Gonzalez in 1996. They recorded a demo entitled "Diet of Worms" The demo was well received by critics and fans alike. The duo quickly went on the road with acts such as Godhead (band)

Godhead (band)

Godhead, occasionally typeset as gODHEAD, is an American alternative rock/metal band from Washington, D.C.. They are most often credited with being the only band signed to musician Marilyn Manson's short-lived vanity label, Posthuman Records.-History:...

, Mortiis

Mortiis

Mortiis is a band from Notodden, Norway fronted by Håvard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. The name is a misspelling of the word 'mortis', which is the pronunciation used by the band. However, Mortiis started as the solo project of Ellefsen as a means to convey a story...

, Switchblade Symphony

Switchblade Symphony

Switchblade Symphony was a San Francisco, United States–based band which was formed in 1989 by composer Susan Wallace and vocalist Tina Root. They released their first album in 1995 on the Cleopatra Records label...

 and Christian Death

Christian Death

Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979. The band was founded and fronted by Rozz Williams. Christian Death is most notable for their first album Only Theatre of Pain....

 touring the U.S. Canada, Mexico and Europe (1997–2003) DOW became a trio in 1998 adding Christian Death drummer Steven "Divine" Wright. The band played their last show in Haarlem, NL in 2003. Diet of Worms disbanded in 2004 citing personal differences. DOW recorded 3 studio albums and 1 ep.

• "Diet of Worms"(1996)
• "To Thine Own Self"(1997)
• "the Aquarius"(1999)
• "Tantrumland"(2004)...

Savatage(2000-2005)

Damond joined Savatage in late 2000 after the departure of their former lead vocalist Zak Stevens. Damond traveled extensively with the band to support their 2001 release "Poets and Madmen" The band toured Europe, Brazil, and the U.S.A. There were immediate plans to record a follow up record. Savatage dis-banded in 2005 and the album was never recorded.

Various Projects(2005-2011)

After his departure from Savatage, Damond briefly took up acting. He starred in a low budget independent film called "Chasing the Tiger" with Jennifer Karnes. He released his fifth studio album called "the Neglected" in 2005. In 2006 Damond released "Starclone". In 2008 he released "Nebulas on Doomsday". It is rumored that he will be releasing his 8th recording "Dream the Snake" in 2012. Damond was recently featured on blabbermouth.com. and Roadie and Crew magazine (Brazil) 2011. He has worked as a successful vocal coach since 2001.

Discography

• Diet of Worms (1996)
• To Thine Own Self (1997)
• Aquarius (1999)
• Tantrumland (2004)
• the Neglected (2005)
• Starclone (2006)
• Nebulas on Doomsday (2008)

Compilations

• Black Sunshine 2 (Cleopatra Records
  Cleopatra Records
  Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label.- History :Founded in 1992 by Brian Perera, it specializes in gothic rock, hard rock, heavy metal and reissues of out-of-print music...
  
  )
• 1er. Festival Oscuro (Dilemma Records MX)

External links

• example.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savatage
• http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=159149
• http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Damond_Jiniya/25524
• http://www.metal-rules.com/interviews/SavatagePoets.htm
• http://www.metal-metropolis.com/savatage_damond_pictures.htm
• http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=24637
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Worms_(band)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZcKOhZ9PnU&feature=related
• http://www.bravewords.com/news/52456
• http://www.maxmetal.net/2011/06/damond-jiniya-ex-de-savatage-rompe-su-silencio/
• http://www.music-reviewer.com/10_01/savatage.htm
• http://www.resurrection.at/archivneu/inties/savatage_intie.htm
• http://www.dietofworms.com/neglected/index.html
• http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BLABBERMOUTH.NET/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=34416
• http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=12724
• http://www.speed-n-power.com/disk.php?did=10845
• http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damond_Jiniya
• http://www.savatage.com/bandinfo_new/members/damondjiniya.html
• http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/Blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=21055
• http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=9734
• http://en.inforapid.org/index.php5?search=Diet%20of%20Worms%20(band)