Eric Wagner

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Eric Wagner in 2018

Eric Wagner (born April 24, 1959 ; died August 23, 2021 in Las Vegas , Nevada ) was an American singer . Wagner became popular with the doom metal band Trouble in the early 1980s . Especially after leaving the band in the 1990s, he worked on various projects.

Career

Wagner became the singer of the doom metal band Trouble in the early 1980s . The band debuted through Metal Blade Records in 1984 .

Trouble initially generated little popularity despite benevolent reviews and efforts by the label. Based on the Christian lyrics, the band was the first band to be called White Metal . A term that later established itself for a spectrum of metal with Christian texts. The band gained international attention only later and was able to gain a steady following and cult status over the years as part of a "US Doom Trinity" with Saint Vitus and Pentagram . Until the mid-1990s, Wagner remained part of the group that, according to music journalist Garry Sharpe-Young, is a “cult act” of Doom Metal. After his departure, Wagner formed groups such as Lid and The Skull , with which he was able to build on the success of Trouble, and took part in the Probot project initiated by Dave Grohl . Wagner died of pneumonia resulting from a COVID-19 infection in August 2021 at the age of 62 in a Las Vegas hospital while touring with The Skull.

style

Wagner's high-pitched vocals are considered distinctive and particularly important for Trouble's success. Thereby Wagner is attested positively to have a "tearful voice", which, however, as a "high-pitched screeching voice polarized [the listeners] from the start". The music journalist Aleksey Evdokimov even describes Wagner in his Doom Metal Lexicanum as “one of the most charismatic singers on the rock and metal scene”, whose voice is unmistakable.

Discography

With trouble

  • 1984: Psalm 9
  • 1985: The Skull
  • 1987: Run to the Light
  • 1990: Trouble
  • 1992: Manic Frustration
  • 1995: Plastic Green Head
  • 2007: Simple Mind Condition

With lid

  • 1997: In the Mushroom

With Blackfinger

  • 2014: Blackfinger
  • 2017: When Colors Fade Away

With The Skull

  • 2014: For Those Which Are Asleep
  • 2018: The Endless Road Turns Dark

As a guest singer

  • 2004: Probot (vocals: My Tortured Soul )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aleksey Evdokimov: Doom Metal Lexicanum . Cult Never Dies, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-9933077-6-8 , Trouble, pp. 244-248 (English).
  2. ^ Luxi Lahtinen: Interview with Trouble. Metal Rules, January 2004, archived from the original on September 21, 2017 ; accessed on August 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Goth & Stoner Metal . Rockdetector, 2003, ISBN 1-901447-14-6 , pp. 427 f . (English).
  4. ↑ Diamond Oz: Original Trouble Vocalist Eric Wagner Passes Away. metalunderground.com, accessed August 24, 2021 .
  5. ^ Trouble Eric Wagner has Died. Kerrang, accessed August 24, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth: Trouble: The Skull . In: Deaf Forever . November 2014, p. 22 .
  7. ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Trouble: Psalm 9 . In: Deaf Forever . November 2014, p. 21 .
  8. ↑ Aleksey Evdokimov: Doom Metal Lexicanum . Cult Never Dies, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-9933077-6-8 , Trouble, pp. 244 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
BIRTH DATE April 24, 1959
DATE OF DEATH 23 August 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Las Vegas , Nevada