Guitarist Jeff Loomis and drummer Van Williams are teasing the return of their longtime band NEVERMORE.
Earlier right this moment (Friday, December 27),Loomis and Williams each shared a one-minute video teaser containing varied NEVERMORE-related imagery and what look like the silhouettes of Loomis and Williams together with the textual content “Resurrecting The Dream”. The teaser ends with the NEVERMORE emblem together with the road “A New Chapter Rises” and the 12 months “2025”.
NEVERMORE successfully break up up in 2011 when Loomis and Williams introduced their departure from the band because 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 throughout the night time and couldn’t be revived.
In accordance with 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 Warfare Machine” solo album had been virtually accomplished and he had begun laying down his vocals shortly earlier than his demise.
In a 2019 interview with Steel 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 believe NEVERMORE had such a particular sound and it was merely due to all of the musicians that had 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. Quite a lot of good gamers. Steve Smyth, Curran Murphy. All these guys had been part of NEVERMORE prior to now. Truthfully, in my imaginative and prescient, it is vital that you just transfer on in your life. I actually wish to bear in mind the spirit and the perspective 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 one in all my greatest mates. Issues like that occur and it is a very unhappy state of affairs. It actually was. However we’ve got 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 one in all my greatest mates that I grew up being in a band with. [He was] top-of-the-line lyricists in steel, I imagine, that was ever on the market — a superb particular person. He was a troubled particular person too on the similar time; he had some points. We had many nice occasions collectively prior to now, and we had many dangerous occasions, however I might say that the great occasions outweighed the dangerous. And ultimately, we had been speaking nonetheless as mates, and we talked ultimately earlier than he handed away. We had been on good phrases. It is a very unhappy loss to the music group and he’ll be properly remembered as one of many nice vocalists of a steel period.”
Loomis added that Warrel had been “scuffling with ingesting and issues like this” for years earlier than he died. “I am not entering 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 believe that when you do one thing for such a very long time and also you make your mark within the music world, generally issues do have to return to an finish. And, sadly, with my state of affairs with NEVERMORE, after 18 years of being within the band, it marked type of an finish of an space. And for me personally, it was type of transferring on to a different chapter in my life. There was talks, like perhaps [in late 2016] about perhaps doing a reunion present, nevertheless it by no means occurred, after all. Clearly, now it is not 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”.