NEVERMORE Vocalist Warrel Dane

NEVERMORE Vocalist Warrel Dane - "I Will Not Replace Jeff Loomis
Until I Find The Perfect Guitar Player; It's Going To Be A Slow Process"




Greece's Rock Overdose recently conducted an exclusive 20 minute audio interview with the NEVERMORE / SANCTUARY frontman Warrel Dane. Go to this location to check it out.





Greg Hasbrouck from ProgPower USA recently conducted an exclusive
interview with Dane, which will be published in the ProgPower USA XII
program that is distributed to all fans at the festival. Here are a few
excerpts from the chat:


ProgPower USA: First of all, I want to ask you, how's Jim (Sheppard; bass) doing?


Dane: "He's been great. It's about a six month recovery period,
after you have major brain surgery... the kind that he had. It's only
been a little over three months now. He's doing well. Actually
recovering better than they expected him to. But still, it's a little
bit of a long road with something like that."



ProgPower USA: OK... what can you reveal about the new (Sanctuary)
disc? Are you targeting a release date yet? Are all the songs written?
Is it just a matter of tracking them? Where is everything as it stands
today?


Dane: "We're in the writing process. I can give you, maybe, a
little bit of an exclusive thing right now. I think the record is going
to be called, The Year The Sun Died. And there's a lot of stuff
playing into that, and you can read whatever you want to for right now
into it. God, that song is really good. We've been working really hard
on that. It's not going to sound like the old ones... it's 2011. It's
still gonna be that good I think, and there's gonna be high-pitched
screaming. I'm making sure of that. With Nevermore high-pitched
screaming was never really called for. You know, with Sanctuary… of
course it is."


ProgPower USA: So let's segue there. The obvious first question, is Nevermore done?


Dane: "No."


ProgPower USA: Definitely not? There will definitely be another Nevermore album?


Dane: "Oh yeah."


ProgPower USA: Perfect. And can you ever see yourself reconciling with Jeff and Van (Williams) or are those bridges burned?


Dane: "One bridge is burned, the other I'm still... It's like
getting a very painful divorce. If you want to repair the situation you
can, but there's one where I don't want to. I miss those guys. I think
they made bad decisions. I'm going to Emo if I keep talking about it."


ProgPower USA: Understood. Let me ask you this. At one point,
there were all these rumors about disharmony within the camp. And on the
(Nevermore) forum you made the comment, "... after so many years
together you become a family, of course we fucking fight, we make up..."
Was that you trying to keep the peace and keeping the alarmist element
from rearing its head?


Dane: "Kind of, yeah."


ProgPower USA: So, were you genuinely surprised when they quit or was that a long time coming?


Dane: "Yes... I was. I was extremely surprised and very, very upset
and still am. As I... uh, yeah... I don't want to get messy."


Read the entire interview here.





The reumited Sanctuary - featuring Nevermore's Warrel Dane and Jim
Sheppard - are confirmed for Progpower USA XII which is being held from
September 14th-17th at Center Stage in Atlanta, GA. The line-up
includes:


Friday, September 16th: SANCTUARY, IHSAHN, MOB RULES, ELDRITCH, VOYAGER, DARKWATER and CREATION'S END.


Saturday, September 17th: THERION, FORBIDDEN, LABYRINTH, RED CIRCUIT, WHILE HEAVEN WEPT and HAKEN.


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