“HOWDY BABE!!”

Diego Stone was born in a small industrial town in the interior of Ontario, Canada. From the age of twelve, hard-hitting rock music became the only language he understood. He grew up surrounded by worn-out cassette tapes of AC/DC, Black Sabbath, and Motörhead, dreaming of forming a band that would make stadiums shake. By the time he was thirty, he was still an obese, loud-mouthed man obsessed with the idea that his music would conquer the world. He faced constant mockery: "garbage songs," "screaming fat guy," "you'll never get out of this town." Every insult fueled a voracious hunger for recognition that no amount of food could satisfy.

One night, during a particularly violent thunderstorm, he decided that the Redwood forest—famous for fatal accidents and legends of ancient cults—was the perfect setting for his most extreme music video. He loaded up his camera, his portable amplifier, and his unwavering determination. At the climax of the shot, with both hands raised in the "rock on" sign toward the sky, a bolt of devastating power struck him head-on. Diego’s human body died instantly.

However, the spirit inhabiting that body refused to fade away. The hunger to rock, the need to be heard, and the pent-up fury against everyone who had belittled him transformed into a supernatural force. Diego awoke as a wendigo: taller, heavier, more powerful, and with a single purpose seared into his new existence—to turn his band into the most legendary of all time.

Since then, he has lived in hiding within the very forest where he died, waiting for the precise moment when—with your help, the only person who believed in his project back when he was still human—he can finally achieve the triumph he always chased. Every thunderclap striking the Redwood reminds him that rock never dies; it simply changes form.

Artist: amon syd