Herbie Langhans part ways with Firewind

Henning Basse (Metalium, Sons Of Seasons, Withering Scorn) has replaced singer Herbie Langhans (Avantasia, Sinbreed) in Firewind, a band that features former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Gus G. During a YouTube broadcast earlier on November 20, Gus revealed the most recent Firewind lineup update, as reported by blabbermouth.net.

A lot of things have been happening. It seems that it’s been a quiet year for Firewind, but it has not been a quiet year at all. It’s been an eventful year, and we are preparing for a lot of stuff in ’26. Tomorrow we’re gonna have a big press release going out… But the big news that we wanna share first is that Herbie is out of the band. I don’t know if it’s gonna come as a shock to some of you. But maybe if you have been following Firewind, it shouldn’t be so much of a shock because we have had some singers coming and going, as you know.

But, yeah, we just wanna wish Herbie Langhans all the best for the time in this band, the music we made together. And we wanted to tune in and let you guys know here first. Herbie was very busy with Avantasia and we had a busy schedule and we kept clashing and choices had to be made. But the show must go on. He’s a great guy. He’s a great singer. He offered a lot to this band, but show must go on. And we have a lot of stuff planned for the next year. We have some really good festivals lined up. We’re working on a new album. We’re working on more tours for ’26 and ’27, and at the same time, we wanna announce the new singer.

If you guys are new here, we can tell a couple of things about Henning. Henning goes back — way back — with the band, since 2007. He was on the ‘Allegiance’ world tour. He helped us finish the tour. Then he joined the band for good in 2016. We made an album together called ‘Immortals’, which is one of the strongest Firewind albums in our career. We’ve done quite a few tours together, and then in 2019 we went separate ways for different reasons, but we always remained friends. And we thought this was perfect timing to call up Henning and see what he’s doing and if he would be interested to work with us again. And luckily he was.

Henning Basse was also present in the livestream.

I’m back and happy about it. We have a great band vibe going on here. We know each other for so long, and I’m very happy.

He was asked if he had any other projects.

Well, besides all the touring, I’m a voice coach. I’m a studio singer. I’m doing this for a living, but I don’t have any plans on doing another band project live because this is priority and I wanna do this as long as we can… It’s the best thing, whatever happened to me now, and all these shitty years behind me, and now it’s so much better. So, yeah, this is the future, man.