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Nevermore was a Progressive Metal band (with influences from every Metal sub-genre this side of Norway thrown into the mix) formed from the ashes of Power-Metallers Sanctuary in Seattle, 1991. They are noted for the blazing, technical lead guitar playing of Jeff Loomis, as well as frontman Warrel Dane's distinctively atonal and cynical singing style. Difficult to pigeonhole, the band tends towards the darker, more instrumentally complex sides of progressive music - though chaotic and heavy enough to compete with the most aggressive of thrash bands, they retain many more progressive aspects such as acoustic segments, classically influenced guitar arrangements and Dane's vocal delivery.Vocalist Warrel Dane and bassist Jim Sheppard founded the band. They were veterans of Sanctuary, more or less a power metal group with thrash influences. Guitarist Jeff Loomis had recently quit a death metal band because he was sick of the vocal approach, and was accompanied by Guitarist Pat O'Brien, who would later quit to join Cannibal Corpse (his favorite band).The band released their first album, Nevermore, in 1995. They then became more progressive with the sophomore effort The Politics of Ecstasy, but otherwise, things remained the same.Dreaming Neon Black took the progressive instrumentation of TPoE and toned it down a bit, but the lyrics became far more ambitious. The album is a Concept Album, with lyrics about Dane's girlfriend, who got involved and a religious cult and is now missing.However, the band's signature sound didn't settle until the release of Dead Heart in a Dead World in 2001, when Loomis busted out the detuned 7-string guitars and increased the pervasiveness of the Black and Death influences in their sound. However, the album was not without it's softer moments, and whilst these moments are generally agreed to fit on the record (and ballad "Believe In Nothing" is even a fan favorite), 2003's Enemies of Reality, the follow-up, is usually considered their heaviest album overall.Then, the band went for contrast. The result is 2005's This Godless Endeavor, which has soft moments again (The first halves of "Sentient 6", "A Future Uncertain", and the Title Track), but the heavy parts of the album (everything else) got even heavier. This album made many Metal Magazines "Top X Albums of the Year" and "Top X Albums of the Decade" lists.Then they toured for it. And toured for it. And toured for it.The intense workout they got from having to play all those songs night after night lead to their most recent effort, The Obsidian Conspiracy, which, whilst still plenty cynical and heavy, is becoming regarded as something of a Breather Episode.It would've been interesting to see where the band went next: Softer? Heavier? More progressive? Even lower guitar tunings? But then Loomis and drummer Van Williams quit, to the fans' dismay.Singer Warrel Dane and bassist Jim Sheppard were left as the only current members of Nevermore, and both were concentrating on the reunion of Sanctuary. Loomis was even busier, juggling a solo career, the progressive metal supergroup Conquering Dystopia, and as of recent, Arch-Enemy, while Williams has largely retired from music outside of Ashes of Ares, which tours irregularly. Dane had hinted that a Nevermore reunion was very likely, but it would probably be without Loomis and almost definitely without Williams; Attila Voros, however, would likely be one of the new inductees. As of December 2017, whatever hope remained is gone, as Warrel Dane passed away as the result of a heart attack.Discography: Nevermore (1995) The Politics of Ecstasy (1996) Dreaming Neon Black (1999) Dead Heart in a Dead World (2000) Enemies of Reality (2003) This Godless Endeavor (2005) The Obsidian Conspiracy (2010) | |
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Protest Song: A lot of their stuff. | |
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Back around the first few years of the band, Warrel Dane owned a restaurant in Seattle. After he came back from a tour in support of Dreaming Neon Black, he returned to his day job to find that his staff had robbed him blind, with over 17 kegs and untold thousands of dollars of liquor having been pilfered. It was this that led to him quitting his day job, leaving the restaurant business for good, and focusing all of his efforts on music. | |
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New Sound Album: Dead Heart in a Dead World. The next album, Enemies of Reality, goes up to eleven. This Godless Endeavor does the exact same thing to Enemies of Reality. | |
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Concept Album: Dreaming Neon Black is this: it's about Dane's ex-girlfriend, who got caught up in a religious cult and was never heard from again until she and her then-husband were confirmed to have been victims of a serial killer decades later (which Dane was not aware of at the time). | |
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Uncommon Time: Inevitable for a prog metal act. While not as extreme as some, they've pulled off some tricky examples, such as the main riff to "Psalm of Lydia". | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Warrel's lyrics can border on anviliciously cynical, which fits the band's generally dark tone. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: This happens to everything from Dreaming Neon Black backwards if someone listens to anything from ''Dead Heart in a Dead World'' onward first. The first three albums are best described as Progressive-Post-Thrash. Everything after is that, but cranked up to eleven. This can also apply to a few tracks on Nevermore, which just sound like really heavy Grunge. | |
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Metal Scream: Dane's been known to pull off a few of the high wails, though they were more common in his Sanctuary days. Recent Nevermore material occasionally showcases more harsh, aggressive vocalization bordering on the kind displayed in extreme metal. | |
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Religion Rant Song | |
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Religion Rant Song: The whole of Dreaming Neon Black, for starters, due to its Real Life basis of Warrel Dane's girlfriend joining a religious cult and disappearing as a result. Beyond that, there's "Who Decides?", "This Godless Endeavor", "Believe In Nothing", etc. | |
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Iconic Item: Loomis' signature red Schecter C7 FR (he also owns and occasionally uses a C7 Hellraiser and a C7 Blackjack, but the signature model is what he usually uses for live appearances as of now). | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: They have a few long songs - The Politics of Ecstasy and This Godless Endeavor both have notably extensive title tracks. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Dane and Sheppard became infamous for excessive drinking and it's been all but confirmed as one of the bigger reasons why Loomis and Williams left. Coupled with diabetes, it was also what ultimately led to Dane's tragic death. | |
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Large Ham: Warrel. | |
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Power Metal | |
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Power Metal: They have been associated with the genre, but it's debatable if they are, and if they are at all, they are far more popular among fans of extreme metal than most power metal bands as well as far heavier. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Jeff and Van quitting. | |
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Free Handed Performer | |
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Free Handed Performer: Warrel Dane, known for his classical opera training and deep baritone voice, was exclusively a vocalist. He took full advantage of being free-handed, however, being very animated on stage, often slinking to the ground and even singing from his back. | |
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Word Salad Title: "Dreaming Neon Black" amongst many, many others. | |
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Talk to the Fist: Dane was on the receiving end of this from Billy Milano (Stormtroopers of Death, M.O.D.). The actual reason is still up in the air; some accounts allege that Dane was drunk, depressed, and generally having a bad night and that Milano told him to “stop whining” before punching him, while others allege that Dane was piss drunk and acting like an asshole, and that Milano had been the target of significant amounts of verbal abuse and finally decided to do something about it. Some facts are consistent, however: Dane was drunk, Milano punched him, the police were called, and Milano was hauled off. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Their Protest Songs are usually framed as this towards government, religion, and the advance of technology. | |
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Ballad of X | |
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Ballad of X: "Timothy Leary" from self-titled. | |
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Self-Titled Album | |
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Self-Titled Album: Their debut album. | |
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The Band Minus the Face | |
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The Band Minus the Face: If they do continue, Nevermore will not be the same without Van's drumming, or, more importantly, Jeff Loomis' guitar playing. Thus, this trope arguably comes into play, and with the death of Warrel Dane capping it off, the signs seem to indicate that Nevermore truly is gone for good. | |
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Cover Version: "The Sound of Silence" subverts this, as the lyrics are the same, but the music is all original. (See In the Style of below) | |
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Matricide | |
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Matricide: The title of one of the songs on the In Memory EP. It is actually a song about how humanity is killing Mother Earth, rather than actually about someone killing their actual mother. | |
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Album Title Drop: All of their albums, however, the words "Neon Black" were dropped into the lyrics of their cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence". | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: Warrel Dane's attempts to put together cryptic but meaningful lyrics fails sometimes. | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Who ELSE can back Warrel Dane? They use samples live for him to harmonize to. | |
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In the Style of: "The Sound of Silence" In the Style of Nevermore! | |
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Harsh Vocals | |
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Harsh Vocals: Considering the Extreme metal influences on everything in the post-Dead World-era, this is surprisingly averted. Played straight on "Born" from This Godless Endeavor. | |
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