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LURKING FEAR:

CRAIG DALRYMPLE: VOCALS, INSANITY, SONGWRITING

DAN ROSS: GUITAR, VOCALS, SONGWRITING, ART

TIM AYNARDI: DRUMS, BASS GUITAR

"Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows that a frightful fiend, Doth close behind him tread." Excerpt from epic poem "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was featured in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and serves as the spoken word introduction to Lurking Fear instrumental track "Born In Fear." "LURKING FEAR: ARE THESE THE SCARIEST MEN IN AMERICA?" Band photo caption from 1987 studio tape lyric book. Lurking Fear, a loud scream of terror piercing the dark night air. An undead horror punk/death rock/hardcore/folk/goth/metal/experimental 1980s psychedelic garage band from Missouri of all places! "The Lurking Fear", a dark, terrifying short story by legendary horror author H.P. Lovecraft that inspired the name of the band. BEWARE: PREPARE TO BE SCARED! Once you let Lurking Fear into your mind we will haunt you for a long time, perhaps into the afterlife and for all eternity. As a band we may already be dead but like ghosts, vampires and brain-eating punk rock zombies, we keep coming back from the grave and the nightmare never ends...Lurking Fear will live on as nocturnal spirits and haunting memories when our skulls lie buried six feet under...So turn off the lights, turn up our songs up REALLY LOUD and HAVE A BEER WITH LURKING FEAR! And now a message from our founder, Daniel Ross, Lurking Fear guitarist/ songwriter/vocalist/artist about the "primal origins" of Lurking Fear: "Lurking Fear was born in a house where strangers wandered through the back yard late at night and terrible things happened on the street out front on a regular basis. Cops, dogs, crooks, shelters for bums, runaways and beaten wives... that was our neighborhood. The house itself was cheep and riddled with problems such as the ever-present mold growing on everything in the basement. I left an amp down there for three days and it was covered in a sheen of green-white powder. Floorboards in the bathroom rotted to the point where mushrooms would spawn around the bathtub basin from our frightening basement below. This is where I first read H. P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House, about a moldy vampiric presence that sucked the life from all who lived within the rotten house's confines. It was the inspiration for Lurking Fear's flagship song 'Something In the Basement.' Our house was a practice space for several bands and all of us who lived there were in bands. I played electric violin in First Bank of Christ, Tim played bass in Three Legged Dog. In our spare time we got together to talk about Lovecraft and other eldritch things such as our freaky neighborhood and also about music. We thought it was a good idea to start a Lovecraftian punk band, seeing as how we shared many common interests and of course were constantly inspired by our own horrifying basement." Craig Dalrymple, Lurking Fear lead vocalist and songwriter: "We were ahead of our time. Undead unlegendary, ultra obscure, Midwestern horror punk/hardcore/metal/folk/goth/garage band Lurking Fear was born in the autumn of 1985 in Columbia, Missouri, years before there were other groups with the Lurking Fear name. October, 1985: I walked over to my friend Dan Ross's decaying, old house on my lunch break from work and he showed me a bunch of his scary drawings and paintings of monsters that he said were inspired by horror author H.P. Lovecraft. As much as I admired Dan's art, it gave me the creeps! Then Dan played a few strangely haunting original songs with similar themes and I was so impressed that I told him, "Man, you oughta get a band together!" Dan replied, "The only problem is that I have a voice like Kermit the Frog." Little did I know at the time that Dan would take my advice and run with it through the haunted houses and cemetaries of his imagination and that somehow I would be involved in this weird project... A few weeks later I walked into Ernie's, a diner from the 1940s, and saw my friend Dan with his roommate and mutual friend, Tim Aynardi, then the bass player/back up vocalist of a new local punk/hard rock band Three Legged Dog. Dan asked me, "We formed a band: Tim plays drums and I play guitar. Do you wanna be our singer?" "Uh, sure. Yeah, why not?" was my response. "Great! Our first gig is five days from now. We've got a bunch of songs for you to learn," Dan said as he handed me several sheets of paper with his handwritten, original song lyrics. "How am I gonna learn all these songs in five days?" Dan: "We're gonna play at a KOPN [Columbia, MO community radio station] live radio broadcast, a birthday party for [KOPN disc jockey] Bad Guy." Tim: "Don't worry. You don't need to memorize the words. Just read the lyrics. Since it'll be on the radio, nobody'll know." Craig: "OK. When do we start?" Of course, our first gig was noisy, chaotic, crazy, wild, adrenaline-fueled, and intense. In other words, even though we were nervous and didn't much time at all to learn the songs and practice, we had a blast, kicked ass, and blew the audience away! The rest of the ghost story is undead rock history... (To be continued?)