Ion Vein
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Ion Vein is an American heavy metal
band from Chicago, Illinois
, formed in 1995.
Founded by guitarist, Chris Lotesto, from the ashes of what was once Latent Fury, Ion Vein has released two studio albums, appeared on several tribute
and compilation
albums, and is currently preparing to release their third album. The band has had a long working relationship with producer, Neil Kernon
, who produced/engineered/mixed their second album, Reigning Memories, and is currently working on their latest studio release as well.
While Ion Vein's first two albums have been described as more of a prog/power metal sound, the band really began refining its writing approach for the third album resulting in a more focused, in-your-face metal assault that many feel has elevated the band to a higher level.
Enter vocalist, Russ Klimczak, a high school friend of Lotesto's, and member of another popular southside Chicago band called Counter Attak. The two admired each other's work for quite some time and talked of joining forces several times during '95 as Counter Attak had broken up earlier that year. The start of 1996 saw Klimczak and Lotesto paired up for what would be the true beginning of Ion Vein as a band. Lotesto already had most of the songs written for what would become the debut album, Beyond Tomorrow, when he and Klimczak started working together, so when he answered an ad for a drummer in a local music paper in March, Scott Lang entered the fold and the three were off to find the remaining pieces of the puzzle.
A year long search briefly brought Klimczak's old band mates, guitarist John Malufka, and bassist, Brian Rossin, into the fold, at the start of 1997, to record the Promo Sampler 1997 limited release containing the songs "Reflections Unclear" and "The Bridge of Dawn". The timing wasn't right for Malufka and Rossin to remain in the band and so the search for a permanent bassist and second guitarist continued. Finally, in September, as luck would have it, the same paper that yielded Lang would once again bring Ion Vein another strong player in bassist, Brian Gordon. The band forged on for another month as a four piece when upon returning from vacation, Lotesto was surprised to see Malufka at rehearsal with all of his gear plugged in and ready to go. Klimczak was able to finally talk his childhood best friend, and high school mate of both he and Lotesto, into coming out of his self imposed hiatus to join Ion Vein full time. Ion Vein was officially "born," and rolling with a full head of steam, playing their first show together in November 1997.
A few offers from small record labels rolled in, but the band decided it was in their best interest to release Beyond Tomorrow on their label, Majesphere Records, to help generate enough buzz independently in hopes of landing a deal on a grander scale. The album was released in February 1999, and while getting a lot of positive press worldwide, it failed to attract a larger label that could help propel the band to the next level.
In the meantime, however, Ion Vein did attract the attention of Dwell Records, best known for their internationally distributed tribute albums, and songs were contributed to their Iron Maiden
, Ozzy, Dio
, King Diamond
, and Queensrÿche
tribute albums between 1998 and 2000, further garnering the band fans and critical acclaim around the world.
In March 2000, Gordon announced his departure and was replaced with Jonathon Quigley in July of that year. Quigley proved to be a strong writer and made an immediate impact during the writing sessions for the next album.
Other key moments during this period included opening for Armored Saint
, Flotsam and Jetsam
, Iced Earth
, Nevermore
, and Angra
; appearances at Chicago Powerfest
, and ProgPower USA
; and being named to the "Top 5 New Bands of 1998" and "Top 5 local albums 1999" in the Midwest Beat Magazine's reader's poll, and "Best Metal Band 1999" in Chicago's Suburban Nitelife Magazine reader's poll.
(Queensrÿche
, Judas Priest
, Nevermore
, Hall & Oates
, etc.), who agreed to produce, engineer, and mix the new album. The sessions for Reigning Memories began in July 2001 but were plagued by a variety of technical and scheduling problems that lead to drastic delays and frustration. During the sessions, the band parted with Quigley in November 2002 and Gordon was brought in the studio to redo all the bass tracks. The album was mixed in December, mastered in March, and released as a 'US only' limited release in May 2003 on Majesphere Records, as the band continued to shop for a larger label home.
While strong reviews and press continued to pour in, the prospects for major indie record deal seemed to drift further and further away so the band decided to release the album worldwide via Majesphere in September 2003. Shortly thereafter, the band parted ways with drummer, Scott Lang, in October 2003 and replaced him with Chuck White (ex-Michael Angelo Batio
, Winterkill, Spirit Web) in December 2003. Additionally, Andy Bunk (ex-Braindance), who joined Ion Vein on bass in December 2002, announced his departure in November 2003, and guitarist, John Malufka, announced his retirement from being an active musician in February 2004. Gordon returned to the fold on bass as a full time member once again in September 2004 and the band continued as a four piece with Andy Parades (ex-Talamasca) temporarily filling in on second guitar when possible for live dates.
During this period of turmoil, however, Ion Vein was approached by a few overseas labels that took a very keen interest in how Reigning Memories was developing in the European market. After some very positive discussions, the band decided to sign with the UK's Now & Then Records
, whom, at the time, had a very good reputation in the industry, in May 2004 for a full scale release of Reigning Memories throughout the Europe and Far East
markets. Frustrations began to set in as Now & Then sat on the album for a full year before finally releasing it in April 2005 and communication with the label became quite difficult and eventually non-existent. The band released a statement in March 2006 proclaiming their official parting of ways with Now & Then and continued moving forward.
This period of turmoil and evolution was not quite finished yet, however, and to the surprise of many, the band announced the parting of ways with vocalist, Russ Klimczak, in May 2006, thus closing the first chapter of the Ion Vein story after a solid 10 year run.
Other key moments during this period included opening for Overkill
, King's X
, Metal Church
, Trouble
, Loudness
, Symphony X
, Sonata Arctica
, and Seven Witches
; appearance at the Brave Words, Bloody Knuckles fest in Cleveland, Ohio, and Louder, Harder, Faster fest in Allentown, Pennsylvania; and having Reigning Memories named in the "Top 10 Local Albums of 2003" (#7) by the Northwest Indiana Times, and reviewed by Greg Kot in the Chicago Tribune.
In late August 2007, Allen James joined the fold, and the band spent the rest of the year demoing and refining vocal tracks, before getting back in the studio with Kernon in December/January. Four tracks were mixed for shopping to labels, and Ion Vein finally returned to the stage in full form at Chicago Powerfest
2008, appearing once again, with Iced Earth
to a packed house. The band finished recording and mixing the album, and continued a very strong run of live dates in the Chicago-land area, but was forced to bring their new found momentum to a grinding halt at the end of 2009, parting ways with James, and Gordon, due to irreconcilable differences.
Ion Vein kicked off 2010 with a renewed energy, and as luck, or fate, would have it, Lotesto got an email at the beginning of February from, vocalist, Scott Featherstone (Enertia, ex-Attica USA), whom he had known, and been a big fan of since Ion Vein and Enertia first began playing shows together in early 2000. Lotesto promptly sent three tracks from Enertia's, Kernon produced, Force album, to White, and he immediately knew as well, that Featherstone was exactly what Ion Vein needed!
Upstate New York based, Featherstone, started recording vocal demos to the finished basic tracks in his home studio in March, and after making his way out to Chicago for their first live pre-production rehearsal in September, was ready to return in November to start tracking with Kernon.
As of early 2011, the band is very excited about the recordings and looking forward to finishing up the album so they can get back out on the road!
Former members
Heavy metal music
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band from Chicago, Illinois
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, formed in 1995.
Founded by guitarist, Chris Lotesto, from the ashes of what was once Latent Fury, Ion Vein has released two studio albums, appeared on several tribute
Tribute album
A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist.There...
and compilation
Compilation album
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albums, and is currently preparing to release their third album. The band has had a long working relationship with producer, Neil Kernon
Neil Kernon
Neil Kernon is a musician/record producer/mixer/recording engineer - from London, England.He has worked with a number of artists over the last 30 years, but may be best known for his work with Hall & Oates on three of their most important albums - 1980's Voices, 1981's Private Eyes, and 1982's H2O...
, who produced/engineered/mixed their second album, Reigning Memories, and is currently working on their latest studio release as well.
While Ion Vein's first two albums have been described as more of a prog/power metal sound, the band really began refining its writing approach for the third album resulting in a more focused, in-your-face metal assault that many feel has elevated the band to a higher level.
Early years (1995–1998)
Originally formed in 1989, as Latent Fury, by guitarist Chris Lotesto, the band released a self titled three song demo in 1991, dubbed “legendary” by many European fans, before lineup changes resulted in that era coming to an end along with the necessity of a name change in 1994. Lotesto, along with remaining Latent Fury members, John Ashe, Dan Charatin, and Mike Holewinski, pressed on as Ion Vein, a name Ashe came up with to describe what the effect the band wanted their music to have on fans, for most of 1995 before various circumstances led Lotesto to re-group and re-form the band under the same moniker at the end of that year.Enter vocalist, Russ Klimczak, a high school friend of Lotesto's, and member of another popular southside Chicago band called Counter Attak. The two admired each other's work for quite some time and talked of joining forces several times during '95 as Counter Attak had broken up earlier that year. The start of 1996 saw Klimczak and Lotesto paired up for what would be the true beginning of Ion Vein as a band. Lotesto already had most of the songs written for what would become the debut album, Beyond Tomorrow, when he and Klimczak started working together, so when he answered an ad for a drummer in a local music paper in March, Scott Lang entered the fold and the three were off to find the remaining pieces of the puzzle.
A year long search briefly brought Klimczak's old band mates, guitarist John Malufka, and bassist, Brian Rossin, into the fold, at the start of 1997, to record the Promo Sampler 1997 limited release containing the songs "Reflections Unclear" and "The Bridge of Dawn". The timing wasn't right for Malufka and Rossin to remain in the band and so the search for a permanent bassist and second guitarist continued. Finally, in September, as luck would have it, the same paper that yielded Lang would once again bring Ion Vein another strong player in bassist, Brian Gordon. The band forged on for another month as a four piece when upon returning from vacation, Lotesto was surprised to see Malufka at rehearsal with all of his gear plugged in and ready to go. Klimczak was able to finally talk his childhood best friend, and high school mate of both he and Lotesto, into coming out of his self imposed hiatus to join Ion Vein full time. Ion Vein was officially "born," and rolling with a full head of steam, playing their first show together in November 1997.
Beyond Tomorrow (1998-2002)
After hitting the Chicago club circuit in November, the band honed its skills on stage before the recording of Beyond Tomorrow was to begin in the summer of 1998. The band caught a break and were asked to perform at Powermad, an up and coming underground prog/power metal festival in Baltimore, Maryland, in August 1998, where they walked in completely unknown, and walked out with a very strong buzz in the metal underground after "blowing the roof off the place" as many in attendance proclaimed. The experience at Powermad was quite an eye-opener and the band realized that their debut album needed to be stronger than it currently was, so they decided to take it to another studio to remix and remaster it before releasing it.A few offers from small record labels rolled in, but the band decided it was in their best interest to release Beyond Tomorrow on their label, Majesphere Records, to help generate enough buzz independently in hopes of landing a deal on a grander scale. The album was released in February 1999, and while getting a lot of positive press worldwide, it failed to attract a larger label that could help propel the band to the next level.
In the meantime, however, Ion Vein did attract the attention of Dwell Records, best known for their internationally distributed tribute albums, and songs were contributed to their Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
, Ozzy, Dio
Dio (band)
Dio was an American heavy metal band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Formed in 1982 and led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, after he left Black Sabbath with intentions to form a new band with fellow former Black Sabbath member, drummer Vinny Appice. Naming the band Dio made sense from a commercial...
, King Diamond
King Diamond
Kim Bendix Petersen , better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Grammy Award nominated Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his extensive vocal range, in particular his usage of falsetto. He is the lead vocalist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond...
, and Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche
thumb|250px|right|Queensrÿche's classic line-up performing at the [[Sauna Open Air Metal Festival]] 2011 in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]. Left to right: bass Eddie Jackson, lead vocals Geoff Tate, drums Scott Rockenfield and guitars Michael Wilton....
tribute albums between 1998 and 2000, further garnering the band fans and critical acclaim around the world.
In March 2000, Gordon announced his departure and was replaced with Jonathon Quigley in July of that year. Quigley proved to be a strong writer and made an immediate impact during the writing sessions for the next album.
Other key moments during this period included opening for Armored Saint
Armored Saint
-Early career:Armored Saint was formed in 1982 by brothers Phil Sandoval and Gonzo Sandoval , and guitarist David Prichard, while attending South Pasadena High School. Next to join were singer John Bush also a South Pasadena High School Alumni and bassist Joey Vera...
, Flotsam and Jetsam
Flotsam and Jetsam (band)
Flotsam and Jetsam is a thrash metal band that formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1982.-1981-1986: The beginning:The band's original name was "Paradox" founded by Drummer Kelly David-Smith and two other guitarists, until 1982 when bassist Jason Newsted joined. Jason had come to Phoenix with his band...
, Iced Earth
Iced Earth
Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band from Tampa, Florida. Originally formed under the name "Purgatory" in 1984, Iced Earth has released a total of ten studio albums, one live album, three EP's, two compilations and boxsets...
, Nevermore
Nevermore
Nevermore is an American heavy metal band from Seattle, Washington. Formed in 1991, they are known to incorporate elements from styles such as thrash, power, progressive, and neo-classical metal into their songs, and also makes use of acoustic guitars and a wide range of vocal styles.-Early years...
, and Angra
Angra (band)
Angra is a Brazilian metal band from São Paulo, Brazil known for its symphonic interludes, highly technical instrumental playing and Brazilian regional elements.- Biography :...
; appearances at Chicago Powerfest
Chicago Powerfest
Chicago Powerfest is a heavy metal festival held annually in Illinois since 2000. The 2008 edition took place on May 1-3 at The Pearl Room in Mokena.-May 7 :*Korpiklaani*Eluveitie*Moonsorrow*Primordial*Blackguard*Swashbuckle...
, and ProgPower USA
ProgPower USA
ProgPower USA is a progressive and power metal festival held annually in the United States since 2001. Its twelfth edition will be held at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia on September 14 – September 17, 2011, with Sanctuary and Therion as headliners....
; and being named to the "Top 5 New Bands of 1998" and "Top 5 local albums 1999" in the Midwest Beat Magazine's reader's poll, and "Best Metal Band 1999" in Chicago's Suburban Nitelife Magazine reader's poll.
Reigning Memories (2002-2006)
Realizing their sophomore album had to be something really special, Lotesto contacted Grammy winning producer, Neil KernonNeil Kernon
Neil Kernon is a musician/record producer/mixer/recording engineer - from London, England.He has worked with a number of artists over the last 30 years, but may be best known for his work with Hall & Oates on three of their most important albums - 1980's Voices, 1981's Private Eyes, and 1982's H2O...
(Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche
thumb|250px|right|Queensrÿche's classic line-up performing at the [[Sauna Open Air Metal Festival]] 2011 in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]. Left to right: bass Eddie Jackson, lead vocals Geoff Tate, drums Scott Rockenfield and guitars Michael Wilton....
, Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...
, Nevermore
Nevermore
Nevermore is an American heavy metal band from Seattle, Washington. Formed in 1991, they are known to incorporate elements from styles such as thrash, power, progressive, and neo-classical metal into their songs, and also makes use of acoustic guitars and a wide range of vocal styles.-Early years...
, Hall & Oates
Hall & Oates
Hall & Oates are an American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates. They achieved their greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Both sing and play instruments. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul."...
, etc.), who agreed to produce, engineer, and mix the new album. The sessions for Reigning Memories began in July 2001 but were plagued by a variety of technical and scheduling problems that lead to drastic delays and frustration. During the sessions, the band parted with Quigley in November 2002 and Gordon was brought in the studio to redo all the bass tracks. The album was mixed in December, mastered in March, and released as a 'US only' limited release in May 2003 on Majesphere Records, as the band continued to shop for a larger label home.
While strong reviews and press continued to pour in, the prospects for major indie record deal seemed to drift further and further away so the band decided to release the album worldwide via Majesphere in September 2003. Shortly thereafter, the band parted ways with drummer, Scott Lang, in October 2003 and replaced him with Chuck White (ex-Michael Angelo Batio
Michael Angelo Batio
Michael Angelo Batio also known as Mike Batio or MAB, is a guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois. His work has encompassed many genres, notably metal and its subgenres. Batio was voted the "No. 1 Shredder of All Time" by Guitar One Magazine in 2003...
, Winterkill, Spirit Web) in December 2003. Additionally, Andy Bunk (ex-Braindance), who joined Ion Vein on bass in December 2002, announced his departure in November 2003, and guitarist, John Malufka, announced his retirement from being an active musician in February 2004. Gordon returned to the fold on bass as a full time member once again in September 2004 and the band continued as a four piece with Andy Parades (ex-Talamasca) temporarily filling in on second guitar when possible for live dates.
During this period of turmoil, however, Ion Vein was approached by a few overseas labels that took a very keen interest in how Reigning Memories was developing in the European market. After some very positive discussions, the band decided to sign with the UK's Now & Then Records
Now & Then Records
Now & Then Records was a record label founded in 1992 by Mark Ashton, Bruce Mee and Peter Sims. The label based in Wigan, England released albums dealing with album-oriented rock, hard rock and melodic rock musical genres...
, whom, at the time, had a very good reputation in the industry, in May 2004 for a full scale release of Reigning Memories throughout the Europe and Far East
Far East
The Far East is an English term mostly describing East Asia and Southeast Asia, with South Asia sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.The term came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 19th century,...
markets. Frustrations began to set in as Now & Then sat on the album for a full year before finally releasing it in April 2005 and communication with the label became quite difficult and eventually non-existent. The band released a statement in March 2006 proclaiming their official parting of ways with Now & Then and continued moving forward.
This period of turmoil and evolution was not quite finished yet, however, and to the surprise of many, the band announced the parting of ways with vocalist, Russ Klimczak, in May 2006, thus closing the first chapter of the Ion Vein story after a solid 10 year run.
Other key moments during this period included opening for Overkill
Overkill (band)
Overkill is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. They have gone through many line-up changes, with singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni remaining from the original lineup. Along with Anthrax , the band is one of the most successful East Coast thrash metal...
, King's X
King's X
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, Metal Church
Metal Church
Metal Church was an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in Seattle, Washington as Shrapnel in 1980. Their first album was released in 1984, and the band's most recent work, This Present Wasteland, was released in 2008....
, Trouble
Trouble (band)
Trouble is an American doom metal band noted as one of the pioneers of their genre, alongside bands such as Candlemass and Saint Vitus. The band created a distinct style taking influences of the British heavy metal bands Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, and psychedelic rock of the 1970s...
, Loudness
Loudness (band)
is a Japan-based heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed to a major label in the United States, releasing twenty-three studio albums...
, Symphony X
Symphony X
Symphony X is an American progressive metal band from Middletown, New Jersey.Founded in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo, their albums The Divine Wings of Tragedy and V: The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community...
, Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica are a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1995. Their later works contain several elements typical of progressive metal.....
, and Seven Witches
Seven Witches
Seven Witches is an American heavy metal band from New Jersey. The band was founded in 1998 by Jack Frost and Bobby Lucas- History :Seven Witches released a Demo-CD in 1998, which gave them a record deal with Massacre Records....
; appearance at the Brave Words, Bloody Knuckles fest in Cleveland, Ohio, and Louder, Harder, Faster fest in Allentown, Pennsylvania; and having Reigning Memories named in the "Top 10 Local Albums of 2003" (#7) by the Northwest Indiana Times, and reviewed by Greg Kot in the Chicago Tribune.
New album and future (2006-present)
With the basic tracks for their third album complete by late summer 2006, Ion Vein was now faced with the arduous task of finding a new vocalist that not only could compliment the more focused, in-your-face heaviness of the new album, but elevate the band beyond anything they had achieved up to this point. The band pressed on for 18 months, holding countless auditions, and regular weekly rehearsals, with only the belief in the strength of the new material to help them carry them onward.In late August 2007, Allen James joined the fold, and the band spent the rest of the year demoing and refining vocal tracks, before getting back in the studio with Kernon in December/January. Four tracks were mixed for shopping to labels, and Ion Vein finally returned to the stage in full form at Chicago Powerfest
Chicago Powerfest
Chicago Powerfest is a heavy metal festival held annually in Illinois since 2000. The 2008 edition took place on May 1-3 at The Pearl Room in Mokena.-May 7 :*Korpiklaani*Eluveitie*Moonsorrow*Primordial*Blackguard*Swashbuckle...
2008, appearing once again, with Iced Earth
Iced Earth
Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band from Tampa, Florida. Originally formed under the name "Purgatory" in 1984, Iced Earth has released a total of ten studio albums, one live album, three EP's, two compilations and boxsets...
to a packed house. The band finished recording and mixing the album, and continued a very strong run of live dates in the Chicago-land area, but was forced to bring their new found momentum to a grinding halt at the end of 2009, parting ways with James, and Gordon, due to irreconcilable differences.
Ion Vein kicked off 2010 with a renewed energy, and as luck, or fate, would have it, Lotesto got an email at the beginning of February from, vocalist, Scott Featherstone (Enertia, ex-Attica USA), whom he had known, and been a big fan of since Ion Vein and Enertia first began playing shows together in early 2000. Lotesto promptly sent three tracks from Enertia's, Kernon produced, Force album, to White, and he immediately knew as well, that Featherstone was exactly what Ion Vein needed!
Upstate New York based, Featherstone, started recording vocal demos to the finished basic tracks in his home studio in March, and after making his way out to Chicago for their first live pre-production rehearsal in September, was ready to return in November to start tracking with Kernon.
As of early 2011, the band is very excited about the recordings and looking forward to finishing up the album so they can get back out on the road!
Band Members
Current members- Chris Lotesto – guitar, backing vocals(1995–present)
- Chuck White – drums, percussion (2003–present)
- Scott Featherstone – lead vocals (2010–present)
Former members
- Dan Charatin – guitar, vocals(1995)
- John Ashe – drums, percussion, vocals (1995)
- Mike Holewinski – bass (1995)
- Russ Klimczak – lead vocals (1996–2006)
- Scott Lang – drums, percussion (1996–2003)
- John Malufka – guitar (1997–2004)
- Brian Rossin – bass(1997)
- Brian Gordon – bass, backing vocals(1997–2000, 2004–2009)
- Jonathon Quigley – bass, backing vocals(2000–2001)
- Andrew Bunk – bass, backing vocals(2002–2003)
- Allen James – lead vocals (2007–2009)
Studio Albums
- Beyond Tomorrow (1999, Majesphere Records)
- Reigning Memories (2003, Majesphere Records; 2005, Now & Then Records UK)
Tributes & Compilations
- Powermad Sampler 1998 - Track: Beyond Tomorrow (1998, Global Connections Records)
- A Call To Irons 2: Tribute to Iron Maiden - Track: Killers (1998, Dwell Records)
- Awaken the Demon: Tribute to Dio - Track: Don't Talk to Strangers (1999, Dwell Records)
- Powermad Sampler 1999 - Track: Bridge of Dawn (1999, Global Connections Records)
- Powerquest: The Awakening - Track: Fading Shadows (1999, KMI Records)
- Land of the Wizard: Tribute to Ozzy - Track: Mr. Crowley (2000, Dwell Records)
- Church of the Devil: Tribute to King Diamond - Track: Victimized (2000, Dwell Records)
- Rebellion: Tribute to Queensryche - Track: Take Hold of the Flame (2001, Dwell Records)
- A Call to Irons 1&2 – A tribute to Iron Maiden Volumes 1 & 2 - Track: Killers (2002, Dwell Records)
- ProgPower USA IV Showcase Sampler - Track: Faith and Majesty (2003, Metal Ages Media)
- Madmen of Ozzy – A tribute to Ozzy Osbourne - Track: Mr. Crowley (2007, Crimson Mask Records)