Energy Journey announce return with new singer

Texas thrash steel band Energy Journey have introduced their return later this yr with a brand new singer.
- READ MORE: A tribute to Energy Journey’s Riley Gale, a self-styled unusual man who made a contemporary steel masterpiece
Yesterday (February 20), the band took to social media to announce their return, confirming that they are going to be performing on the inaugural No Values pageant in June in California.
In a prolonged put up, the band mirrored on the previous 4 years and coping with the loss of life of frontman Riley Gale in 2020. The band – guitarists Blake Ibanez and Nick Stewart, bassist Chris Whetzel and drummer Chris Ulsh – wrote: “Practically 4 years in the past to the day, unbeknownst to us, we might carry out for the final time as Energy Journey. It has been a tough street since then, marked by deep ache, grief, and all the pieces else that got here with shedding our brother Riley.”
“We all know this may’t be undone, and it’ll at all times stay a part of us. We’ve thought deeply about the way forward for Energy Journey and what at all times comes again to us is that this band was based on resilience, perseverance, and most significantly: a love for the music and for all the folks it has introduced us nearer to alongside the way in which.”
Energy Journey continued: “We’ll by no means have the phrases to convey our appreciation of the enduring help we’ve obtained through the years, and we really feel as if the time is true to get again on stage for all of you who’ve been there all through our existence as a band.”
They then confirmed their attendance at No Values, and that Seth Gilmore of Fugitive and Skourge will tackle vocal duties for a string of reveals after. The band have but to introduced their upcoming efficiency dates.
Seth Gilmore beforehand joined the band for 5 songs when Energy Journey reunited for a shock gig in December final yr. It marked the primary efficiency from the thrash steel band since the sudden loss of life of frontman Riley Gale in 2020. Aged 34, Gale was later confirmed to have died of an unintentional overdose from the “poisonous results” of fentanyl.