ROY KHAN Is Open To Doing One thing With KAMELOT Once more: ‘We have Been Speaking About It’

In a brand new interview with PowerOfMetal.cl, former KAMELOT singer Roy Khan spoke concerning the latest announcement that he’ll take the stage on July 5, 2025 at Tokio Marine Corridor in São Paulo, Brazil for a one-night-only efficiency celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the band’s “The Black Halo” album. Requested why now could be the fitting time for him to rejoice this LP, Roy stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Properly, such as you stated, it is 20 years in the past because it got here out. And ‘The Black Halo’ is undoubtedly probably the most necessary album in my catalog. So I simply felt that it was instead to do some kind of celebration in reference to the twentieth anniversary. And that is what we’re doing in São Paulo on the fifth of July.”

Requested what he thinks made “The Black Halo” such a “timeless” report, Roy stated: “I feel it was in a vital section of the band’s growth, each as a gaggle and because the members individually. The time was proper. There have been some new collaborations there that befell. It was the primary report we recorded with SPV, so we had a superb price range and we may do no matter we needed. We may strive our stuff and tear issues down in studio, construct them up once more. We had the funds to do issues correctly. And I feel the lyrics hit some kind of nerve that I feel lots of people can relate to. However most of all, I feel it is a bunch of those that occurred to align with one another and managed to make one thing that’s actually larger than the sum of all of them. And ‘The Black Halo’ has positively stood the check of time. I imply, the album is a basic within the style.”

Concerning his present relationship together with his former bandmates in KAMELOT, Roy stated: “Thomas [Youngblood, KAMELOT founder] and I, we discuss on the telephone from time to time. We type of need to, ‘trigger we nonetheless have enterprise collectively that we have to take care of. I additionally discuss to Casey [Grillo, former KAMELOT drummer] from time to time. I imply, I talked to him a few weeks in the past when he was in Norway with QUEENSRŸCHE. So, yeah, we be in contact.”

Requested if he has ever talked to Thomas about the opportunity of reuniting with KAMELOT for a particular live performance or something like that, Roy stated: “We have been speaking about it, however there’s a variety of issues that must fall in place for one thing like that to occur. KAMELOT with the present lineup, they should have time for Thomas to do one thing totally different. I’ve my schedule. However as a place to begin, each Thomas and I are open to doing one thing in some unspecified time in the future, I feel. However who’s gonna do what? The place is it gonna occur? When? Funds. Who’s gonna do what? So many issues must be taken care of. The logistics are… yeah. However we’ll see.”

Initially launched in 2005, “The Black Halo” stays a landmark in steel historical past, that includes iconic tracks like “March Of Mephisto”, “The Haunting (Someplace In Time)” and “When The Lights Are Down”.

Including to the joy, “The Black Halo (twentieth Anniversary Version)” has simply been made accessible in an array of particular codecs, together with a limited-edition wood field set that includes splattered vinyl, a collector’s chalice, a hoop, a pendant in a velvet bag, a 20-page booklet, and an unique autographed card. Different variants embody deluxe marbled vinyl, a slipmat and a digipak CD version. This must-have collector’s version was launched through Napalm Data on March 14, 2025 — precisely 20 years after its unique debut.

Khan can also be featured as a particular visitor on “Right here Be Dragons”, the most recent album from Tobias Sammet‘s AVANTASIA. His highly effective vocals grace a grand and emotional energy ballad, marking one other thrilling chapter in his return to the scene. Sammet himself praised Khan‘s contribution, calling the tune “probably the most transferring and emotional, but largest ballads I’ve ever achieved.”

In the summertime of 2023, Roy stated that plenty of issues contributed to his determination to depart KAMELOT practically a decade and a half in the past.

The now-55-year-old Norwegian singer introduced his exit from KAMELOT in April 2011 after taking a number of months off to get well from a “burnout.”

After his departure from KAMELOT, Khan, who’s a religious Christian, joined a church within the coastal city of Moss, Norway.

In an interview with Justin Younger of Monsters, Insanity And Magic, Roy — whose full title is Roy Sætre Khantatat — was requested what led to his cut up with KAMELOT. He responded: “Every part. An excessive amount of journey. An excessive amount of work. I had my first youngsters. I obtained married and I used to be just about falling into each pit there was. And this entire character that I used to be creating was very totally different from the person who I used to be and needed to be at residence. And people two characters pulled farther and farther from one another and that entire factor simply tore me aside. I wasn’t actually current after I was at residence both. I might come again from a six-week tour and simply take my footwear off and sit proper down on the PC and work on one thing, and it was not good. And I obtained mentally sick. That summer season of 2010, I had a interval of 5, six weeks the place I actually didn’t sleep. Perhaps, I imply somewhat bit, in fact, however there have been so many nights that I didn’t sleep in any respect. I simply wandered round the home and worrying about all the pieces and nothing.”

Requested if he grew to become non secular after his exit from KAMELOT, Roy stated: “Non secular? Is determined by what you imply by non secular, the way you outline that. However I’ve all the time been occupied with huge questions and in addition religious issues. I imply, these type of issues have all the time fascinated me. However there have been some actually bizarre issues that occurred to me in reference to me being at my lowest low ever in 2010. I imply, clearly, I used to be actually mentally ailing at that time, however we skilled issues. I imply, I skilled issues that different folks skilled along with me, and the timing of issues have been actually awkward. No matter that was, it positively made me utterly change my thoughts on the entire difficulty, is there one thing on the market that we will not see that impacts us? I am constructive about that. And I nonetheless have to take a seat down and pinch myself within the arm and simply remind myself that the issues that occurred occurred. I imply, a few of these issues folks absolutely will say are coincidence. Some will say that I simply imagined it. Some folks will say that — some folks will not even imagine. However for me, it was very, very clear. And, there isn’t any doubt in my thoughts. That does not imply that that utterly modified my life. I imply, it did, however it’s not like I used to be an entire new being hastily. I nonetheless have issues that I battle with. It isn’t such as you go from being an conceited, sinful bastard to being an angel. It is a course of. However all these issues, having these issues in thoughts for me is unquestionably progressively altering me in my strategy to different folks, life generally after which how I have a look at the time that I’ve left on this planet.”

Three years in the past, Roy instructed Chaoszine about his cut up with KAMELOT: “I am actually, actually extraordinarily grateful that KAMELOT was capable of proceed with out me, ‘trigger I had no intention to harm the band. It was a really private determination to give up the band and I merely needed to. And I am simply glad that all the pieces turned out in the long run to be… They managed to go on with out me, and I am simply very grateful for that, actually.”

Khan, who reformed his pre-KAMELOT band CONCEPTION seven years in the past and launched an EP, 2018’s “My Darkish Symphony”, and a full-length album, 2020’s “State Of Deception”, beforehand mirrored on the circumstances that led to him ending his lengthy working relationship with KAMELOT throughout an look in 2021 on the “Breaking Absolutes With Peter Orullian” podcast. Roy stated: “That entire factor was a cocktail of a number of issues that simply occurred to climax at that time. As you all, KAMELOT was getting an increasing number of fashionable, so I used to be away months yearly — like half the 12 months at the least I used to be gone. I used to be having a household, and that proper there was beginning to tear me aside. After which I used to be dwelling my life not very wholesome — let’s put it that manner — and I did a variety of silly stuff again then that… I knew in my coronary heart that it was happening the drain.”

He continued: “I bear in mind each evening after I sang [the KAMELOT song] ‘Karma’, I might really feel that this shit is gonna knock me on the again of the top in some unspecified time in the future. If it is gonna tomorrow, [if] it is gonna be two years from now, I do not know, however the best way I stay my life, that is not gonna work — it isn’t sustainable. After which it occurred. I knew for therefore a few years, truly, that this was gonna not work out, after which, hastily, it occurred. I broke down. I had a full summer season the place I barely slept — like six to eight weeks the place I did not sleep an entire lot of hours throughout these six to eight weeks, and I used to be going actually utterly loopy. And in reference to that, a variety of stuff occurred.”

In line with Khan, leaving KAMELOT after a 13-year run weighed closely on him on the time.

“Quitting KAMELOT was the very best determination that I’ve ever made, and by that I do not imply that… KAMELOT was a unbelievable factor in my life, and Thomas and the opposite guys — it had nothing to do with them; it was all me and the best way I lived my life, and I simply could not take it any longer,” he defined. “And I used to be additionally overworked — I labored on a regular basis. Even after I was residence. The very first thing I might do after I obtained again house is I might kick my footwear off within the hallway and I would just sit proper down on the pc and begin working. I used to be actually not a superb husband and I used to be not a superb father. Numerous issues weren’t good about me at that time.

“Quitting KAMELOT at that time, it was straightforward however it was laborious,” he elaborated. “It was straightforward as a result of I did not actually have a alternative. I used to be actually wrecked. And on the similar time, it was laborious as a result of I might been working to get to that time my entire life, mainly — 20 years, at the least — and eventually I used to be there. After which I threw the towel in and stated, ‘Hey, guys, I am not coming in for the following tour.’ ‘Okay. Properly, what’s unsuitable?’ ‘Properly, truly, I am not coming again in any respect.’ And clearly, all people… My mother was, like, ‘Are you kidding me? Are you critical?’ Then the blokes within the band, they thought that it was gonna move. However I knew in my coronary heart that summer season [of 2010], already in August, I knew that that is it.”

KAMELOT formally introduced Tommy Karevik as its new lead singer in June 2012. The Florida-based band has recorded 4 albums thus far with the Swedish vocalist: 2012’s “Silverthorn”, 2015’s “Haven”, 2018’s “The Shadow Idea” and 2023’s “The Awakening”.

Requested if he has listened to any of KAMELOT‘s latest materials with Karevik, Roy instructed Italy’s SpazioRock again in 2018: “Sure I’ve. I actually like a few of their new stuff. Sounds classical KAMELOT in my ears, and Tommy is a superb singer.”