Warrel Dane got his first professional music start as lead vocalist of the group Sanctuary, performing on five of their albums (including 2014 reunion album The Year the Sun Died). When that group fell to pieces in 1994, he formed Nevermore with two other Sanctuary members. Dane's first solo album, Praises to the War Machine, was released in May 2008. The singer was working on his second solo full-length in São Paulo, Brazil when he died of a heart attack in December 2017 at the age of 56. The posthumous album was given the title Shadow Work, and scheduled for release in October 2018. ~ Gary Hill