Burning Shadows welcomes our new bassist Chris Dragonheart Dagenhart to the band! Chris has been a longtime friend of the band and has finally decided to take up arms and join us. Chris’s lightning-fast finger-style bass technique has not been used by any previous bassist in the band since 2003. As is tradition, we plan to relentlessly haze him, starting with posting this picture of him eating pizza.

While extremely well-versed in power/prog metal, his musical breadth does not end there. Chris masterminds a funeral doom project named Epistle, as well as an old-school death metal band called Ablation.

We thank Matt Ibach for his efforts alongside us onstage and raise our chalice to him. He will be continuing his work in the mighty October 31, among other projects. We hope he will join us onstage again in an Iron Maiden-style epic triple-guitar assault in the not-too-distant future.

Join us September 8th at Metal Quest at the Ottobar in Baltimore, MD to witness Chris’s first show with us and experience firsthand the destruction that he shall bring! Perhaps we will also be able to get a better picture of him there.