Destination

Compilation appearances: - "Looking for Me" on Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrel (Independent, October 2002) - "Layin' Train Track" on Ride the Train! Volume Five (NBT Records, September 2004) - "Raging Heart" on Cleveland Metal '99: Limited Edition Concert Sampler (CD, WJCU 88.7 FM / WRUW 91.1 FM / WOBC 91.5 FM, given free to attendees of the Cleveland Metal '99 Concert, April 17th 1999 at the Odeon Concert Club) Destination has always used their genre right after their band name, briefly as "Original Heavy Metal" before the vast majority of their career describing themselves as "Original Raw Metal", and recently "Original Raw Music", although their genre hasnt changed and they still play a mix of Heavy Metal/Groove Metal/Thrash Metal/Hard Rock. Sometimes the band name is listed as "Destination: ORM". The band donates 100% of proceeds from CD sales to Akron Children's Hospital (Welty Expressive Therapy Center). Mikey Smolen and Tim Greene started the band in May 1994, and have been constants in Destination's lineup. Although they have had other members throughout the years and played live as both a 4-piece and a 3-piece, since 1998 studio recordings were always recorded by just Mikey and Tim, except for a guest appearance by Roy Gerstenberg of Mystik , playing lead guitar on "Looking For Me" (2011). The bands mascot, the pink flamingo that appears on all of their CD covers, is named Dinky, and was originally not a drawing but a large inflatable that was pictured with the members in many of the bands early promo photos. One of these band photos was published in Scene Entertainment Weekly (Cleveland-based magazine) for the announcement of release party concert for the "Unknown" CD, and it listed Dinky among the band member names in the photo.