A Rapcore-nu metal band called Junkyard Prophet. The group features Rene Benton on guitar and vocals; founder Bradlee Dean on drums; and Massey “Mass Dogg” Campos on vocals and bass. Benton, the band’s most recent addition and a former U.S. Marine, commutes to the band’s headquarters in a strip mall outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota from his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he continues to work as a gig guitarist for artists ranging from Chubby Checker to Fishbone.Campos, a former welder, began playing when he was five. The son of a Pentecostal evangelist, the Mexican American bassist previously played norteño and cumbia music at his father’s religious revivals. Dean, a 6’5” and heavily tattooed survivor of multiple drug overdoses and stints in jail, broke into music in hair metal and thrash metal bands in the 1980s. Following his conversion to evangelical Christianity, he has aimed Junkyard Prophet’s music ministry toward aiding youths overcoming “trials and tribulations, persecutions, and afflictions…” Dean’s wife, Stephanie Dean, a former commercial actress, joins the band for sexual abstinence-themed songs.