Welcome to the new official ARMADA homepage. Armada, and all those
involved, were a huge part of John Heald and very near and dear to his
heart. This site was built and designed by John as a labor of love and
monument to a great band. I have preserved 99% of John's original work
here and, aside from moving the site to a new server for both performance
and financial reasons, the little changes I've done behind the scenes
simply involved re-sizing original pictures for improved speed of page
loading. We lost John in September 2004 and yet he lives on in the hearts
of each and everyone of us whose lives he touched.
I hope you are
looking down and smiling!!! Will Heald / May 2008
Dave
Dawdy
Doug Oxford, Jeff Sipe, Ed Englerth
John
Heald, Randy Carlson
ED Englerth, Jeff
Sipe
Randy Carlson, Jeff Sipe
Dave Dawdy, Rick Ledesma, John Heald, Randy Carlson
Live shot taken in 1986 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids,
Michigan
Welcome
to the official ARMADA homepage. Armada is a Christian melodic metal/hard rock
band based in Michigan, although the band's members are presently
living and working in other states. We still perform together whenever we can. After much prayer,
we have decided to reissue our most popular and successful album,"Frontine", in 2004.
The project has been placed in the very capable hands of our friends at Retroactive Records. The CD
will include bonus tracks and complete liner notes. We look forward to a long fruitful partnership
with Retroactive, allowing our music new opportunities for ministry.
Due to this planned release of Frontline, we will no longer offer CD-R copies of this title
through this website. However, all of the other titles mentioned here will still be made available.
As soon as a release date for Frontline has been decided, we'll let you know about it here!
For
information and track listings for specific Armada recordings, click on the
covers listed below.
To check
out the lyrics and project history of the "Anthology-Hope of Glory" CD
released in 1998, click on the cover above.
ARMADA
can also be found on the following compilation CD's
For additional questions or ordering information write to us at
info@deallen.com
Click
here for more photos of Armada and other bands that
preceded it in our musical family tree.
Website maintained by Stage One Enterprises
Los Angeles, CA.
!!!CHECK THIS OUT!!! DeAllen, one of the current projects John plays for,
are very popular in Europe, especially !!!GERMANY!!! Germany's number one rock station (...over
the air in Munich, reaching the rest of mankind over the internet) asked those individuals,
wearing decision making hats with the band, if we would allow them to place one of our
songs on their latest compilation CD. We said yes, of course. Now "Vol:5" is available
through the station's website, along with their previous releases. We found ourselves
in great company. Other bands on this CD are Renegade, Statetrooper, Ken Tamplin, Fatal
Attraction and Nordica. Their are 15 tracks, and this CD was released and distributes by the Point
Music record lable. If you'd like check into this further, listen to some of the tracks and/or
order this release click on the CD cover below!
To
check out the other recent & current projects individual band
members are involved with, both past and present, click on the the
logos that appear below.
Information regarding John's new band, Ariel, and their debut CD is coming soon
Ariel features Ariel McDonnell - Tim Dolbear - Brian Ruedy - John Heald - Will Heald
The
project reunites John & Ariel with Tim Dolbear, who has done a fair
share of recording with DeAllen as producer & recording engineer
This time, along with his usual duties, Tim takes center stage as lead
guitarist. The band's sound is rounded out by keyboardist, Brian,
Ruedy and the rhythm section combination of drummer, John Heald, and
bassist Will Heald. Ariel is slightly different but it still rocks
hard!
The CD will not disappoint fans who know our musical roots. Look for
this CD in late fall 2004.
that features Billy DeAllyn (Bass Guitar- John Kevin Leary (Lead Vocal, Lead Guitar) (Drums, Vocals)- John Heald
This CD is Billy's first solo project, and the release was held up due to DeAllen's problems with their former record company
The project has a much rawer and less polished feel, (ie: Velvet Revolver, Guns & Roses etc.) and really rocks hard!
Many future projects are either set in stone, or are in the planning stages for the remainder of 2004 & 2005
