What is "chastain"

There have been several prominent current and historical figures named Chastain:

• Brandi Chastain (1968– ) was a player on the United States Women's National Soccer Team. She won a gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, and is well known for taking off her jersey on television after winning the 1999 Women's World Cup. She currently plays for the California Storm in the Women's Premier Soccer League.
• David T. Chastain is the head of Diginet Music
• Don Chastain played Dr. Tom "Tommy" Baldwin Dr. #2 on General Hospital. He also won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 1963 for his role in No Strings.
• Elijah W. Chastain represented Georgia in the United States Congress (1851–1855). He was a member of the Union Democrat Party.
• George Chastain was granted a patent relating to ATMs in 1973, along with Don Wetzel and Tom Barnes.
• James Garvin Chastain, Sr. was a cofounder of the National Baptist Convention of Mexico.
• Jessica Chastain is an American actress.
• Jonathan Chastain was a producer of the television series ER and produced the Channel 2 News in Houston, Texas ( NBC).
• Mark "The Maddog" Chastain is a Professional Wrestler in the now defunct " Violent Wrestling Federation".
• Nick Chastain is an American TV actor, appearing in the soap The Young and the Restless.
• Pierre Chastain (1659–1728) was a French Huguenot refugee who immigrated to Manakin, Virginia in 1700, becoming the patriarch of American Chastains.
• Ronald S. Chastain is a Brigadier General in the United States Army. He commands the U.S. 39th Infantry Brigade.

The word Chastain also appears elsewhere:

• Chastain is a heavy metal band
• Chastain Park is located in the Atlanta, Georgia area
• Misery Chastain is the protagonist of fictitious romance novels in Stephen King's book Misery
• Darryl Louise (DL) Chastain is a character in Thomas Pynchon's book Vineland.

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Chastain is a heavy metal project formed in 1984 by guitarist David T. Chastain and signed by Shrapnel Records.

The band was put together in 1984 by Mike Varney, president of Shrapnel for a David T. Chastain solo album. Varney had noticed the shred guitar ability of Chastain, member of the Cincinnati-based band CJSS and, at the same time, he wanted to create an output for the talent of young singer Leather Leone, formerly with the San Francisco band Rude Girl. The first band line-up included Leone, Chastain, CJSS bassist Mike Skimmerhorn and drummer Fred Coury, who would later play in Cinderella. In 1986, Chastain readily declared that "I could never work with these people on a full-time basis because they live all over the country (...). We just get together once a year, record an album and then go off and do our own things". In the case of Chastain, he wrote music for CJSS and his solo albums, as well as producing other artists and managing his own record label.

Their debut album Mystery of Illusion was released worldwide in 1985, followed by Ruler of the Wasteland (1986), both through Shrapnel, and The 7th of Never (1987) through David Chastain's own label Leviathan Records. Drummer Ken Mary ( Fifth Angel, TKO) replaced Coury from 1986 to 1988. The fourth album The Voice of the Cult was released in 1988. On 1990s For Those Who Dare, new virtuoso bass player David Harbour replaced Skimmerhorn and drummer John Luke Hebert replaced Mary, who went to play for Alice Cooper. Having put on hiatus CJSS to favour the more commercially successful Chastain, the band became also David T. Chastain main touring occupation, with a succession of world tours until 1991.

After some years of quiescence, when David T. Chastain dedicated his time to other solo projects, in 1995 appeared Sick Society and in 1997 In Dementia, which were recorded with a new cast: Kate French on vocals, Kevin Kekes on bass and former Trouble member Dennis Lesh on drums.

Until the appearance of the 2004 album, In an Outrage the band disappeared again. The line-up for this album, in addition to David Chastain and singer Kate French, saw also her husband, Larry Howe and Dave Starr (both ex- Vicious Rumors) on board.