The American singer Eric Wagner, who was frontman with the doom metal bands The Skull and Trouble and a guest vocalist on Dave Grohl’s Probot side project, has died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was 62 and had been admitted to hospital in the US last week with Covid-19-related pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His passing was confirmed by his family and The Skull bandmates on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wagner formed Illinois band Trouble in 1979 and they went on to release the seminal albums Psalm 9 (1984), The Skull (1985) and Trouble (1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having left the band in the late 1990s, he rejoined in 2000. Wagner left Trouble again in 2008 and went on to form The Skull. Their most recent album, The Endless Road Turns Dark, was released in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl enlisted some of his favourite singers to perform on his 2004 Probot album, Wagner was among them – providing vocals on the track My Tortured Soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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