The Skull

”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.

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

Wino-led The Obsessed and The Skull were touring together earlier this summer, but they've since parted ways, with Wino eschewing COVID guidelines as The Skull vocalist Eric Wagner tests positive and is hospitalized with COVID pneumonia.

Doom legends The Obsessed hit the road with The Skull this summer

New additions also include HEALTH, Obituary, TSOL, Crowbar, Exhorder, Wolves In The Throne Room, Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer, Repulsion, Immolation, Intronaut, Khemmis, Creeping Death, Midnight, Wino, Zola Jesus, Lower Dens, and more...

Emperor, who just played the 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise yesterday, are ”rumored” to play their first-announced US show (on land) in years.

Brutus and This Will Destroy You are also among the new additions to this increasingly stacked festival.

Plus: Weyes Blood, Perry Farrell's Kind Heaven Orchestra, Pissed Jeans, Tayla Parx, Orange Goblin, and more tour-related news.

The new additions join previously announced bands Windhand, Elder, Monolord, Danava, and more.

Our metal sister site Invisible Oranges ran down the best albums of the year. Plus, see new lists from Thou, Outer Heaven, Evoken, The Obsessed, Khemmis, CHRCH, and other metal bands.