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JEFF LOOMIS And VAN WILLIAMS Tease Return Of NEVERMORE: ‘A New Chapter Rises’


Guitarist Jeff Loomis and drummer Van Williams are teasing the return of their longtime band NEVERMORE.

Earlier at this time (Friday, December 27),Loomis and Williams each shared a one-minute video teaser containing varied NEVERMORE-related imagery and what seem like the silhouettes of Loomis and Williams together with the textual content “Resurrecting The Dream”. The teaser ends with the NEVERMORE brand together with the road “A New Chapter Rises” and the yr “2025”.

NEVERMORE successfully cut up up in 2011 when Loomis and Williams introduced their departure from the band on account of private variations with singer Warrel Dane and bassist Jim Sheppard. Warrel later described NEVERMORE in an interview as “the best band that alcohol ever ruined.”

Dane died in December 2017 in São Paulo, Brazil on the age of 56 whereas recording his posthumously launched solo studio album, “Shadow Work”. The musician reportedly had a coronary heart assault through the night time and couldn’t be revived.

In response to guitarist Johnny Moraes, who performed in Warrel‘s solo band, Dane had a historical past of dependancy and different well being points. “His well being was already very weak due to his diabetes and his issues with alcoholism,” he stated.

The instrumental components for Dane‘s follow-up to 2008’s “Praises To The Battle Machine” solo album have been nearly accomplished and he had begun laying down his vocals shortly earlier than his dying.

In a 2019 interview with Metallic Grasp Kingdom, Loomis was requested if there have been any plans to resurrect NEVERMORE with out Dane. Jeff responded: “It is a type of issues the place I feel NEVERMORE had such a particular sound and it was merely due to all of the musicians that have been in that on the time. Van, me, Warrel, Jim. We had quite a few completely different guitarists within the band all through the years. We had Chris Broderick, we had Tim Calvert, who sadly handed away. Numerous good gamers. Steve Smyth, Curran Murphy. All these guys have been part of NEVERMORE prior to now. Actually, in my imaginative and prescient, it is necessary that you simply transfer on in your life. I actually want to bear in mind the spirit and the angle that we had as a band with the music and simply transfer on from there. As a result of with out Warrel, it is simply not possible, in my thoughts. [He is] sadly missed. He was certainly one of my finest buddies. Issues like that occur and it is a very unhappy state of affairs. It actually was. However we have now the music to recollect all of it by.”

In 2018 interview with France’s Loud TV, Loomis said about Dane‘s passing: “It is a unhappy state of affairs with certainly one of my finest buddies that I grew up being in a band with. [He was] among the best lyricists in steel, I imagine, that was ever on the market — a superb particular person. He was a troubled particular person too on the identical time; he had some points. We had many nice occasions collectively prior to now, and we had many unhealthy occasions, however I might say that the great occasions outweighed the unhealthy. And in the long run, we have been speaking nonetheless as buddies, and we talked in the long run earlier than he handed away. We have been on good phrases. It is a very unhappy loss to the music neighborhood and he’ll be effectively remembered as one of many nice vocalists of a steel period.”

Loomis added that Warrel had been “scuffling with consuming and issues like this” for years earlier than he died. “I am not stepping into an excessive amount of element there,” he stated. “He had some troubles. I am gonna miss him loads. He was a fantastic good friend of mine and he was an exquisite human being.”

Requested if there was any discuss of a NEVERMORE reunion earlier than Warrel handed away, Jeff stated: “I feel that when you do one thing for such a very long time and also you make your mark within the music world, typically issues do have to come back to an finish. And, sadly, with my state of affairs with NEVERMORE, after 18 years of being within the band, it marked form of an finish of an space. And for me personally, it was form of shifting on to a different chapter in my life. There was talks, like possibly [in late 2016] about possibly doing a reunion present, however it by no means occurred, after all. Clearly, now it isn’t going to occur.”

Loomis “amicably” left ARCH ENEMY in December 2023 and was changed by Joey Concepcion.

Jeff, who was the principle songwriter in NEVERMORE, joined ARCH ENEMY in late 2014, however was not concerned within the writing for the latter act’s final two albums, 2017’s “Will To Energy” and 2022’s “Deceivers”.



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