The band is scheduled to perform at the Hell’s Heroes music festival in Houston in March 2026.
A memorial service in his honor was held on September 22, 2018, at the Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, Kansas.
On July 27, 2018, a week before the band was booked to perform at Wacken 2018, band founder Mark Shelton died in a German hospital the day after the band played in the Headbangers Open Air festival the previous night.
On May 26, 2017, the band released their first ever single, “In the Wake”. This was followed with the release of To Kill a King , Manilla Road’s final studio album.
A double CD reissue of the Mark of the Beast album (bundled with the 1979 demo Manilla Road Underground and After Midnight in-studio live performance) was released in 2016 by High Roller Records, this time under the correct original 1981 title Dreams of Eschaton . A final change was made…
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On September 22, 2012, a major record deal was signed with Golden Core, a subsidiary label of ZYX Music . Soon after, Mysterium , the band’s sixteenth studio album, was released on February 1, 2013. The 11-minute song serving as the album’s title track is a retelling of the last…
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With both Gates of Fire and Voyager receiving again praise in the metal community, the band put out their fifteenth studio album in 2011 titled Playground of the Damned . More changes were made to the band’s lineup, with Bryan Patrick returning but his brother Harvey leaving. Bassist Vince Goleman…
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A European tour took place in late 2011, where Manilla Road was invited to perform at the Hammer of Doom VII festival in Germany. After the festival, Andreas “Neudi” Neuderth started his role as the band’s new drummer as Christner became unable to tour anymore with the band. A long-time…
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The success the re-emerging band was enjoying however was not enough to prevent yet another round of lineup changes, with drummer Scott Peters and bassist Mark Anderson both leaving and getting replaced by Cory Christner at the drums and Harvey Patrick returning to the fold at the bass. Under this…
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The next studio album, Spiral Castle , was released in 2002 and received a similar positive reaction. From this album going forward (with the exception of Voyager ), co-singer Bryan Patrick began to be much more implicated in the singing of the songs, eventually more or less splitting the workload…
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