Though they were widely ignored by both press and public during their original early-'90s existence, Akron, OH's Winter's Bane achieved an unexpected taste of cult fame some time after their demise, when their singer,
Tim "Ripper" Owens, was chosen to replace
Rob Halford in
Judas Priest. First formed in 1991 by guitarist
Lou St. Paul, Winter's Bane also included
Dennis Hayes on bass and
Terry Salem on drums at the time they recorded their debut album, Heart of a Killer, for Massacre Records in 1993. But though it was a carefully constructed conceptual work, marrying the band's passion for classic heavy metal with an obvious fixation on serial killers, the album fared poorly enough that
Owens soon decided to quit and focus his energies on a far more lucrative parallel gig with a
Judas Priest tribute band. What happened next --
Owens' unlikely selection by
Priest to replace long-gone singer
Rob Halford in 1997 -- was of course amazing enough to inspire a movie, though 2001's Rock Star, starring
Mark Wahlberg and
Jennifer Anniston, was only remotely accurate to the true story. But
Owens' good fortune was also motivation enough for
St. Paul (now singing himself) and
Hayes to re-form Winter's Bane and record a new album entitled
Girth, with new members
David Hayes (guitar) and
Todd Bertolette (drums). This quick cash-in attempt didn't convince many metalheads, however, and Winter's Bane broke up once again, presumably for good, shortly thereafter.
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