Honesty and originality keys to the music of Slave To The System

With Slave To The System set to unleash their self-titled debut effort featuring outstanding tracks like the dreamy rocker "Live This Life", the edgy title cut and the relentless album opener and first single "Stigmata" in a matter of days, Damon Johnson, the group's vocalist sounds off about sounding like himself.

"My whole life, the Southern influence has been inescapable. It has been frustrating for me at times to be in situations where people really don't want that to be pronounced. Even in Brother Cane, I was working with a producer and he was saying to the guys in the band ‘Well, let's not sound too Southern' and I'm like, ‘I don't give a fuck what we sound like, we've just gotta sound like ourselves.' the singer stated. "I can't escape the music that was such a huge influence on me growing up, while most other kids were really immersed in Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, I was listening to more straight-up, blues-based rock. Even old classic blues and Southern music and gospel, I've just been around it my whole life. To have chosen Rock N' Roll as my genre of choice, I think it gives me a kind of unique slant to have those other influences."

The group, comprised of both Johnson and Roman Glick of Brother Cane, Scott Rockenfield and Kelly Gray of Queensryche and Scott Heard will issue their twelve track debut on February 21st on the Spitfire imprint.