The hell? I was today years old when I found out about this news, and only stumbled upon it because I was searching to see if Silver Talon was working on a new album. That band got shit on when I mentioned them four years ago, but they're seriously the only band that captured the essence of Nevermore of the bands that were clearly inspired by them, and their vocalist Wyatt Howell also does a
decent job at emulation. Better than Joseph Michael, who simply has a higher range.
There's some wild speculation that Wyatt might be the new vocalist, but I kind of hope he isn't. I don't want another band I actually like to lose their vocalist, and not everyone is capable of playing in two different bands simultaneously. Hell, the last Sanctuary album was released over a decade ago, and now Joseph Michael is splitting duties between Sanctuary and Witherfall, and the latter has gone downhill in the process.
Seems like the only one that can do the type of majestic WD vox in 2025 - IS FROM THE BAND *RIOT CITY*, look it the band up they are power/speed on youtube.
Interested in your views on this bad or good???.
What? No. The vocalist for Riot City doesn't really sound like Warrel aside from the fact that both of them were greatly inspired by Halford. That's the extent of it. He sounds nothing at all like Warrel did in Nevermore.
Burn the Night and especially
Electric Elite are great albums (been listening since they were released), but it's not Nevermore and the vocalist doesn't really sound like Warrel at all other than some minor similarities to when he was in Sanctuary.
Ironically, the vocalist I was just speaking of that's from Witherfall sounds closer to the vocalist in Riot City, or even Daniel Heiman from Lost Horizon.
Also, I don't know if this guy auditioned or not, but he actually sounds better than the majority who uploaded their audition videos to Youtube.