When the reunion teaser for Nevermore dropped on December 27, 2024, quite a lot of us weren’t positive whether or not to hit replay or simply sit in silence. A one-minute clip, all shadowed figures and acquainted imagery, closed on the phrases “Resurrecting The Dream”, adopted by “A New Chapter Rises” and the yr “2025”. For a band whose id is so tied to the voice and presence of Warrel Dane, the message felt each a promise and a problem.
In a brand new chat with Sefo of VegaTrem, guitarist Jeff Loomis pulled again the curtain on what this new period of Nevermore really means, and he didn’t dodge the query that’s been gnawing at followers since that teaser went dwell: can you actually convey again a band when its defining singer is gone?
“It was one thing that I have been speaking with to Van Williams for, I might say, three years, about reforming Nevermore. The entire topic comes up, is it correct to [reform the band] when a singer passes away?, or no matter,” he continued (by way of Blabbermouth), referencing the December 2017 loss of life of founding Nevermore vocalist Warrel Dane.
“I feel it’s. I feel that there have been some issues that have been left unsaid, and I feel we had extra issues to say musically. It is unlucky that Warrel Dane handed away — he was certainly one of my greatest associates — however I actually, truthfully consider that Van and I and the remainder of the brand new band [will do the music justice], and we’re scheduling reveals already for 2026.”
However, who else is a part of the band at this level, you is likely to be questioning. Properly, the remainder of the gamers are being saved underneath wraps. Loomis is aware of precisely how on-line metallic discourse works in 2025, and he’s pre-empting the dogpile.
“We’re withholding the names of the members of the brand new Nevermore, just because there’s quite a lot of on-line criticism these days about pointing fingers about, ‘Oh, you need to have gotten that individual or that individual,'” he defined. “We’re simply gonna wait till the primary present and have an announcement earlier than that, most likely someday in, I might say, March. And we’ll announce the brand new members. They’re all extraordinarily gifted. They know the Nevermore materials and are large followers of the fabric. We picked people who find themselves glorious musicians. We actually frolicked [looking for the right people]. And we went by about seven hundred submissions, and it took a very long time [to check everybody out].”
“And this began principally a couple of yr in the past. So Van and I began searching for new musicians a couple of yr in the past. And since then, we have completed a lot. There are new reveals which can be being scheduled. We now have all these festivals which can be arising for ’26, and I am additionally engaged on writing a brand new album proper now for Nevermore. So quite a lot of thrilling stuff is arising for 2026. We’re simply so excited to get again on the market and play these songs once more that folks wanna hear from our earlier albums, and a few new stuff, and simply type of a brand new course,” Loomis added.
And… what is going to this new model of Nevermore sound like? Loomis isn’t pretending they’re about to reinvent themselves as a distinct type of band. He’s leaning proper into what drew most of us within the first place: “It is gonna be a heavy album. It is gonna have all of the Nevermore qualities you’d anticipate, with a heavy side. However yeah, we’re simply actually excited.”
The approaching query right here is whether or not that weight shifts with out Warrel Dane on the mic. On that entrance, Loomis didn’t shrink back from how shut the brand new singer’s supply involves the unique.
“With everyone’s enter within the band, it is gonna be actually cool. The musicians are completely unbelievable and are in a position to play all of the stuff completely, and the singer’s in a position to sing virtually precisely like Warrel. However he is received a loss of life metallic voice, he is received completely different [ways] he can use his voice, and we wanna make the most of that. So, it is gonna be cool. However we’ll see what occurs.”
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