RIP Eric Wagner. Trouble lives!!! Please enjoy this cartoon I made for the greatest band on earth. All of the storyboarding, animating, drawing and editing by me, all audio clips sourced from old interviews. Pretend it’s a made-for-cable doom rock documentary on an old VHS.

Eric Wagner, a former singer for the doom metal icons Trouble and most recently The Skull, died at the age of 62 after being hospitalized with COVID pneumonia last week. The Skull had recently been on the road with The Obsessed, but pulled out of the hike midway, citing the surge in COVID cases across the country, fueled by the delta variant of the coronavirus. The group later stated that they would also be withdrawing from their appearance at the Psycho Las Vegas festival in an announcement in which it was also revealed that Wagner had been admitted to the hospital with COVID pneumonia. The Skull had recently been on the road with The Obsessed, but pulled out of the hike midway, citing the surge in COVID cases across the country, fueled by the delta variant of the coronavirus. The group later stated that they would also be withdrawing from their appearance at the Psycho Las Vegas festival in an announcement in which it was also revealed that Wagner had been admitted to the hospital with COVID pneumonia. Read Also: Who is Kristen Valente? Wiki, Biography, Age, Jimmy Hayes’s Wife, Children, Death Robinson wrote: "This morning I woke up to the worst news ... We are all really devastated ... My dear friend, bandmate and brother Eric Wagner has passed away. Goodnight Tempter ... We love you ... " Wagner, who appears second from left in the photo above, rose to fame as the lead singer of Trouble, who was among the earliest traditional doom metal bands. He joined the band in 1981, two years after its formation, and sang in Psalm 9 (1984), The Skull (1985), Run to the Light (1987), Trouble (1990), Manic Frustration (1992) and Plastic Green Head. (1995) before departing in 1997. Following Wagner's return in 2000, Trouble finally released a new album, Simple Mind Condition, in 2007, which was his last with the iconic vocalist, who left again the following year. In 2021, The Skull was formed, with former Trouble members naming the group after the 1985 album. They released two albums, For Those Which Are Alseep and The Endless Road Turns Black, in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Loudwire extends our condolences to the Wagner family, his friends and bandmates past and present, and all who knew him. Rest in peace. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK Read the full article