"Music didn’t just change my life—it chose it."

For Shovelhed frontman and guitarist Silas, the obsession started in a childhood home soundtracked by the 1960s and 70s rock explosion. By age ten, he was a dedicated student of the airwaves, spending hours by a cassette deck with his fingers glued to the record button, capturing Casey Kasem’s weekly countdowns. A few years later, the ultimate ultimatum arrived: cut his hair to play football, or walk away. He chose the hair, walked off the field, and picked up a guitar. With Quiet Riot and Def Leppard launching metal into the mainstream, a lifelong career was officially born.

By 1989, Silas had formed his first band, navigating the local circuit until landing the frontmanships for Tombstone Shadow in 1994. Three intense years of writing, recording, and relentless gigging defined his signature, smoky power-vocal range. The band’s popularity exploded, leading to milestone sets at the legendary Viper Room in Los Angeles and the band's first endorsements with Electro-Voice and Snarling Dog.

But Silas was driven by a deep need to play as well as sing. Recognizing the band was already stacked with two virtuosic guitarists, he ventured out solo. He spent a year locks-in-a-room mastering the demanding craft of singing and playing lead simultaneously, writing a massive catalog of tracks. Stepping into the studio, he tracked 15 independent songs and launched them onto a revolutionary new digital frontier called MP3.com. As an unknown indie artist, the global community rallied behind his sound, driving his sales to just shy of a million downloads.

Armed with that momentum, Silas built a sonic machine in 1998: Soulshake. Evolving from a low-down blues and funk unit into a towering hard rock powerhouse, Soulshake became an international juggernaut. Powered by elite players and major management, the band locked down twenty corporate endorsements, hit giant billboards in New York City, and served as the house band for two of the world's largest rock radio stations. Silas found himself tearing up the stages of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Madison Square Garden, opening for over a hundred legendary icons—including KISS, Motörhead, Poison, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Joan Jett, and the David Letterman Band.

By 2012, after decades of high-velocity touring, Silas stepped off the road to recharge. In 2018, the pull of the amplifiers returned. Rebuilding his skills—proving that true rock-and-roll grit is very much like riding a bicycle—he began searching for the right brothers-in-arms to launch the next era. The result is an elite family of powerhouse musicians known to the world as Shovelhed.

The engines are revved, the amps are hot, and the pack is coming to your town. Welcome to the family.