Brooks Raven

About Brooks Raven

HAILING FROM BALTIMORE, MD. BROOKS RAVEN STARTED SINGING AT THE AGE OF 10 YEARS OLD, WHILE IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. HE WAS THE SOLO TENOR/SOPRANO VOCALIST IN HIS CHOIR CLASS, WHICH PERFORMED VARIOUS SHOWS AND EVENTS, AND CONTESTS AT SCHOOL. AT AGE 18, HE FORMED THE BAND SKITZO PLAYING HARD ROCK COVER SONGS, AND PLAYING LOCAL CLUBS SUCH AS HAMMERJACKS, THE NETWORK, AND PAINTERS MILL, AMONG OTHER VENUES! TOO MANY TO NAME. HE THEN MOVED TO CLEVELAND, OH. WHERE HE FRONTED THE ORIGINAL ROCK BAND AVANT GUARD. THIER STYLE WAS MORE THEATER TYPE ROCK ALONG THE LINES OF KING DIAMOND, QUEENSRYCHE AND DREAM THEATER. THEN AFTER MOVING TO FLORIDA, BROOKS, CO-FOUNDED THE BAND METALBOLIC. HE TOURED LOCALY AROUND FLORIDA FOR A WHILE UNTIL HIS SON WAS BORN THEN RETURNED TO BE A FATHER. SINCE THEN BROOKS HAS BEEN IN HOLLYWOOD , WHERE HE WAS THE FRONTMAN FOR THE GUNSLINGERS. THEY HAVE SINCE PARTED WAYS AND BROOKS CO-FOUNDED A PRO PROJECT ALIEN SUICIDE WITH GARY MAC(SUNNY SIDE-UP RECORDS HOLLYWOOD, CA.)and JB FRANK(KINGDOM COME,BASS PLAYER). THIS IN TURN HAS SPROUTED INTO OTHER SEPERATE PROJECTS ALIEN SUICIDE,SKITZOPHRENIC SKY(BOTH JB FRANKS PROJECTS, AND THEN BOTH JB FRANK, AND BROOKS THEN JOINED (expired link). Ahmad Masboudi(GUITARS/VOCALS/SONGWRITER, AND JACKIE BURTON(DRUMS) (#1 FINALIST IN THE GUITAR CENTER'S "ONSTAGE WITH SLASH COMPETITION) ~WITH BROOKS RAVEN @ THE HELM (expired link). OPENED FOR NATIONAL TOURING ACTS SUCH AS FASTER PUSSYCAT, DOKKEN, AND STEPHEN PEARCY(RATT), AND MANY MORE.
BROOKS HAS AQUIRED A SPONSOR, ROCK AND ROLL GANGSTAR APPAREL ((expired link)). BROOKS' STAGE PERFORMANCE, AND THE WAY HE WORKS THE CAMERA, IS REMINICIENT OF DAVID LEE ROTH, AND THE MELODIC LYRICS AND VOCAL RANGE CAN MAKE YOU THINK OF PAUL ROGERS OF BAD COMPANY, IAN ASBURY OF (THE CULT), AND THE SCREECHING HOWL OF AXL ROSE, OR IAN GILLAN WILL SEND CHILLS UP YOUR SPINE.