What  happens when you collide some of the biggest Heavy Metal musicians to  shout the truth to the world? You start a NEW band called RED LAMB. Dan Spitz, formerly of Anthrax, and Dave Mustaine of Megadeth,  who together have sold records approaching 50 million copies, are  telling the story of what it's like for a family to live with  identical/mirror image twins with Autism. Dan Spitz and his wife, Candi,  have identical twins with Autism and are vocal advocates about the  cause and taking the power of music to now help educate awareness on a  global level as never before. 
The music video for  the song "Puzzle Box" is a song with lyrics co-written by Mustaine and  Spitz and with all music by Spitz is gaining a foothold in the music  community rather swiftly and taking a stance in the usual Heavy Metal  fashion of pulling no punches. In addition to these two legendary  musicians of The Big 4, they have recruited Grammy winner Chris Vrenna  of Marilyn Manson as well as famed Grammy nominated producer Johnny K to mix the song. 
Dan Spitz was one of the co-founders of the legendary band Anthrax, a band now included in the Big 4 (Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer), who single-handedly changed the face of Heavy Metal music by breaking down many barriers once never allowed. Anthrax first  mixed hip-hop and Heavy Metal with the legendary collaboration on their  track, "Bring the Noise", as well as the first Heavy Metal/Hip Hop  world tour featuring Public Enemy and Anthrax. Now Spitz  has returned to music after his hiatus in Switzerland, to become a  master watchmaker of the world's most complicated mechanical  wristwatches, to once again pave NEW ground for a great cause. 
Candi Spitz devotes all of her free to time to the largest Autism non-profit, Autism Speaks www.autismspeaks.org. She can be seen on every billboard, print ad, newscast and radio ad. Candi and RED LAMB have recruited Austism Speaks co-founders Bob and Suzanne Wright to be in the video for  ‘Puzzle Box’. Bob Wright was the CEO and Chairman for NBC Universal for  more than 20 years, who also has a grandson with Autism. The extensive  filming of ‘Puzzle Box’ was done over a three month period and includes  footage from the “Walk Now for Autism Speaks” in Palm Beach, Florida  where thousands were filmed for the video. Other notable people in the  video include WPTV Channel 5 anchor Mike Williams and television and  film actors who open the video. 
Dan  Spitz says, “It's time for someone in music to wake the world up to  Autism. We have Holly Robinson Peete in film, we have vocal people in  NASCAR and of course Dan Marino and others in sports. Now it's time for  someone who lives it to speak the truth to the people in true Metal  fashion. I come from a time when the lyrics of a song represented truth  that can certainly change the world. Now it's time to let people know we  are in epidemic form with Autism, as 1 in every 88th child born (1 in  every 54th boy) will be diagnosed in the spectrum. I feel that if we  don’t do something now about this the Autism epidemic, more will people  will suffer the consequences. Autism is on your block now.”
The band RED LAMB is  a self-funded band with no outside support, working on the principle of  releasing music on their own via iTunes/Amazon through Tunecore  distribution.
Related links:
Official Site Of Autism Speaks
Red Lamb on Facebook
Red Lamb on Twitter
Official Site of Dan Spitz
 

 
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