On September 11, 2018, Keenan announced via Twitter that production on the record was progressing and that vocals had been written, before suggesting a 2019 release. In January 2019, Keenan announced that he had completed recording his vocals for the album “months ago.” While Carey mentioned aiming for a mid-April…
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On February 11, 2019, Leatherwolf announced on their Facebook page that they had parted ways with lead vocalist and original member Michael Olivieri for reasons unknown. On August 1, 2019, the band officially introduced Keith Adamiak as their new lead vocalist, and announced the return of original guitarist Geoff Gayer…
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The band received a Grammy nomination for the song “Betrayer” at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019 for the Best Metal Performance , but lost to High on Fire ‘s “Electric Messiah”.
At the VOA — Heavy Rock Festival inside Lisbon’s Altice Arena that year, Toy surprised the crowd by joining Trivium live on stage to perform the metal version of “Coração Não Tem Idade (Vou Beijar)”.
In 2019, Shortino sang and played lead guitar for Carlos Cavazo ‘s Rough Riot, while Alford and Hager began auditioning musicians to complete the Rough Cutt lineup. During this time, they signed with David Adkins and Integrity Music Management. After hiring vocalist Steven St. James—whom Hager had previously played with…
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In 2019, Malmsteen released Blue Lightning , featuring blues rock songs – mainly covers – with Malmsteen’s virtuoso playing.
On September 5, 2019, Xbox released a launch trailer for the video game Gears 5 that included a version of Lee’s cover of Fleetwood Mac ‘s ” The Chain “. Initially a solo project by Lee, she then got approval to cover the song with the band and a full…
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In 2019, Heafy shared a heavy metal version of “Coração Não Tem Idade (Vou Beijar)” by the Portuguese pop singer Toy.
Pentagram resurfaced in January 2019, announcing the return of vocalist Bobby Liebling, with guitarist Matt Goldsborough in place of Victor Griffin. They embarked on their first US tour with Liebling since his arrest in the spring of 2019, and plans for a new album by the band were announced. Griffin…
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It was re-released in 2019, with new outer box art, remastered sound and a new, vinyl-specific version of the intro track “Skip It!” from World Coming Down (the original box set used the original CD version of the track).