LEATHERWOLF NEWS...

ORIGINAL LEATHERWOLF VOCALIST RETURNS:
Press Release / Legendary Orange County, CA metal stalwarts Leatherwolf have posted a re-worked version of Behind The Gun, featuring returning original vocalist Michael Olivieri, on their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/leatherwolfmusic.

States the band: "We just got "Behind The Gun" from Jacob Hansen (Rob Rock, Volbeat, Communic) who is re-mixing the whole World Asylum album over in Denmark and we wanted to give everyone a taste of what's in store. Mikey is singing his ass off on this one and has never sounded better - he has really stepped up to the plate and delivered what is one of his best vocal performances ever! And Jacob is once again doing a great job mixing - we cannot wait to hear the rest of the tracks and get this album out!"

The re-worked version of World Asylum with Michael Olivieri on lead vocals, tentatively titled New World Asylum, is due out later this summer on the band's own NIL8 Records label.

The classic Leatherwolf line-up, featuring Olivieri, drummer Dean Roberts, and guitarists Geoff Gayer and Carey Howe, will make their first live appearance with bassist Pete Perez (Riot, Spastic Ink) Friday, August 31 at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, CA opening up for LA GUNS. The band are also slated to co-headline the sold out ninth edition of Germany's Keep It True festival, scheduled for November 3 at the Sporthalle in Dittigheim.
For more information on the event, visit www.keep-it-true.de.

That's pretty cool news. I wonder what happened to Wade Black. I heard one of the songs off World Asylum and it sounded awesome.Olivieri is a great vocalist though and I'm sure the re-worked songs will sound just as good.

Wade Black has a bad habit of joining an established band and then bailing after only one album (see: Crimson Glory, Seven Witches, now Leatherwolf). Great singer but he's apparently not very career-driven!!!

007 wrote:

That's pretty cool news.Olivieri is a great vocalist though and I'm sure the re-worked songs will sound just as good.

he's even better imho.

Ive got Street Ready which is a great disc, I'll have to check the new one out.

Wade Black rejoined Crimson Glory and is currently playing in that band.

Lurideath wrote:

Wade Black rejoined Crimson Glory and is currently playing in that band.

Yea, I know, but I'm not holding my breath to see if he sticks around long enough to do a new studio album with them....

Wade seems a lot more reliable than Midnight.

I have some MP3 downloads that the band released awhile back with Jeff Martin (Racer-X) doing the vocals. They sounded pretty cool. I wonder if any of those songs will be re-recorded and released on the new album?