Jeff Loomis releases details about Nevermore’s upcoming album

Guitarist Jeff Loomis discussed the revival of his longstanding band Nevermore in a recent interview with Sefo of VegaTrem, as reported by blabbermouth.net. The reunion, which was first hinted to on December 27, 2024, in a one-minute video including various Nevermore-related imagery and silhouettes of Loomis and drummer Van Williams along with the text “Resurrecting The Dream,” does not involve bassist Jim Sheppard. The phrase “A New Chapter Rises” and the year “2025” were displayed alongside the Nevermore emblem at the conclusion of the teaser.

It was something that I’ve been talking with to Van Williams for, I would say, three years, about reforming Nevermore. The whole subject comes up, is it proper to [reform the band] when a singer passes away?, or whatever. I think it is. I think that there were some things that were left unsaid, and I think we had more things to say musically. It’s unfortunate that Warrel Dane passed away — he was one of my best friends — but I really honestly believe that Van and I and the rest of the new band [will do the music justice], and we are scheduling shows already for 2026.

Fans will have to wait a few more months to find out who Nevermore’s newest members are, according to Loomis.

We’re withholding the names of the members of the new Nevermore, simply because there’s a lot of online criticism nowadays about pointing fingers about, ‘Oh, you should have gotten that person or that person.’ We’re just gonna wait until the first show and have an announcement before that, probably sometime in, I would say, March. And we’ll announce the new members. They’re all extremely talented. They know the Nevermore material and are huge fans of the material. We picked people that are excellent musicians. We really spent time [looking for the right people]. And we went through about seven [hundred submissions], and it took a long time [to check everybody out]. And this started basically about a year ago. So Van and I started looking for new musicians about a year ago. And since then we’ve accomplished so much. There are new shows that are being scheduled. We have all these festivals that are coming up for ’26, and I’m also working on writing a new album right now for Nevermore. So a lot of exciting stuff coming up for 2026. We’re just so excited to get back out there and play those songs again that people wanna hear from our earlier albums, and some new stuff, and just kind of a new direction.

And about the new music…

It’s gonna be a heavy album. It’s gonna have all the Nevermore qualities you would expect, with heavy aspect. But yeah, we’re just really excited. With everybody’s input in the band, it’s gonna be really cool. The musicians are absolutely fantastic and are able to play all the stuff perfectly and the singer’s able to sing almost exactly like Warrel. But he’s got a death metal voice, he’s got different [ways] he can use his voice, and we wanna utilize that. So, it’s gonna be cool. But we’ll see what happens.

How did the reunion come to happen?

“I’ve had a fantastic life up to this point. I spent 10 years in Arch Enemy, and I got to [tour with them around the world], they’re just a fantastic bunch of people and musicians, and I love them. They’re all very close friends. But there was a time that I felt like I needed to kind of do my own thing. And that’s important to me. If you’re feeling something, you’ve gotta go with those feelings. So I had to wave goodbye to Arch Enemy and just kind of go in my own direction. I’m very happy I did because it’s allowing me to kind of focus more on my music and just kind of be my own person. And we’ll see where it leads.