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Founding Bassist of Nevermore Jim Sheppard Blasts Reunion Plans – Claims Jeff Loomis and Van Williams Have Not Consulted Him

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As we previously announced, legendary Progressive Metal band Nevermore will forge a comeback in 2025 with classic lineup members Guitarist Jeff Loomis (ex-Arch Enemy) and drummer Van Williams. However, now another co-founder of the band, bassist Jim Sheppard, has blasted the reunion and claims he has not contacted at all about participating. In a now deleted statement from Jim’s wife, Priscilia (and shared by Metal Injection), Jim blasts the Nevermore reunion as “completely disrespectful.” Priscilia also states that she and Jim are waiting on clarification about the project “and will proceed from there.”  

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Nevermore Shares a Teaser Video – Will Reunite in 2025 with Jeff Loomis and Van Williams

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Legendary Progressive Metal band Nevermore will forge a comeback in 2025 with classic lineup members Guitarist Jeff Loomis (ex-Arch Enemy) and drummer Van Williams. Loomis and Williams both shared a one-minute video teaser with Nevermore -imagery and the text “Resurrecting The Dream.” The teaser ends with the Nevermore logo along with the line “A New Chapter Rises” and the year “2025.” Nevermore disbanded in 2011 and vocalist Warrel Dane died in 2017. Continue reading →


Metal Allegiance (David Ellefson, Mark Menghi, Alex Skolnick, Mike Portnoy) Book Their Annual Los Angeles Area Show Around NAMM

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Metal Allegiance is entering their second decade together, and unlike most other metal supergroups or collaborations, Metal Allegiance continues stronger – and heavier – than ever. Beginning as a celebration of heavy metal, Metal Allegiance is powered by the almost tribal bond shared between the extreme music community’s most revered trailblazers, armed with a list of contributors onstage (and off) that read like a Wikipedia entry on the genre itself –whose “core 4” is comprised of David Ellefson, Mark Menghi, Alex Skolnick, and Mike Portnoy. On Thursday, January 23, 2025, the band – which in addition to the core 4, will also include Chuck Billy (Testament), Bobby Blitz (Overkill), John Bush (Armored Saint), Doc Coyle (Bad Wolves & God Forbid), Brandon Ellis (The Black Dahlia Murder), Marty Friedman, Gary Holt (Slayer / Exodus), Andreas Kisser (Sepultura), Jeff Loomis, Mark Tornillo (Accept), Angel Vivaldi and more – will perform at what has become an annual event for the band at the House of Blues (400 Disney Way) in Anaheim, CA.  Continue reading →