Eric Wagner

”It blows my mind to realize that so many people in a genre I would have previously described as forward thinking and cool, get their feathers all ruffled when ideas come down the pike that are ’out of the mainstream’ way of thinking,” Wino writes.

”Eric was what musicians call a ‘lifer.’ He made music his life’s mission. He was always working on the next thing and God knows he wasn’t doing it for the money.”

Legendary doom metal vocalist Eric Wagner (founder of Trouble and more recently of The Skull) has passed away after being hospitalized with COVID pneumonia.

Original Trouble singer Eric Wagner will be touring with his new band Blackfinger. The doomish psych rockers will be playing shows in support of their eponymous debut released last January on the Church Within Records…