Idea (Untitled Project)

Intro or song idea

Moody Rock Idea (Acoustic)

Before You (Merged Working Tracks)

Music (Working track)

Surrender Mix

The Real Mix

The War Within

Dethrone

Derrin’s musical journey began on October 13, 1983 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Growing up surrounded by music he took to it at an early age. He left the country for Newport News, VA at the age of 2, but spent summers at his grandparent’s home in Yanceyville, NC.

In middle school he joined the band and quickly mastered every brass instrument before moving to saxophone, an instrument he also excelled at, earning him the 1st chair position in Hampton, Va’s All City Jazz band. It was during this time that he received his first guitar.

Initially Derrin struggled with the instrument and eventually stepped away from it for a while. After hearing Johnny Lang’s “Lie To Me” he became determined to learn. Picking the strings back up, Derrin quickly began to develop his blues chops which are still evident in his current work.

One fateful day while scanning the radio he came across a song that changed his life. The song… Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”. It was then that Derrin realized his calling. He eventually traded in his Telecaster for an Ibanez, and his Suzuki amp for a Marshall stack and was off to the races.

Derrin became a founding member of Hampton-based metal band Sarin. The band played numerous shows, and developed local popularity earning the opening slots for bands such as: Static X, Otep, and 2 Cent. After the band disbanded Derrin formed Into Ashes with friends of the band Lane Brown, and Michael Gergets, as well as his long-time friend Tony Reid.  

During a brief hiatus from Into Ashes, Derrin began a side project with Into Ashes bassist Lucas Arcangelo, and singer-songwriter Kimberly Hawks called VeraSpell.  The hard rock female fronted band was short lived, and Derrin resumed work with IA.  After a few successful shows opening for national acts such as Adrenaline Mob, and Fates Warning Derrin and Into Ashes went on an indefinite hiatus.  

In 2014 while in the midst of contemplating a move to Nashville to work with former VeraSpell lead vocalist Kimberly Hawks on her debut country album, Derrin was approached by former VeraSpell backing vocalist Laura Rice to join the rockin' new country band TypeCast.  After much deliberation Derrin decided to join TypeCast. 

The past year has been an extremely busy one for TypeCast.  With their debut single "Blame It On the Fireball" creating quite a buzz, Derrin and TypeCast are gearing up to begin recording their debut album come early 2016.

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Derrin Foster