Doom veterans LEGIONS OF DOOM will release their first live album, Legions Of Doom Live: Low N Slow In The UK, in late March 2027 via Tee Pee Records. The exact date, the full tracklist and further details will follow.
The album was recorded earlier this year at KK's Steel Mill in Wolverhampton, the club run by former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing, during the band's sold-out U.K. and Ireland run with CROWBAR and SILVERBURN. It mixes LEGIONS OF DOOM originals with THE SKULL favorites and a few surprises. One of them is CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's "Dance Of The Dead", a nod to vocalist Karl Agell's years fronting C.O.C. in the Blind era.
From THE SKULL to LEGIONS OF DOOM
The band grew out of THE SKULL, the group led by the late TROUBLE frontman Eric Wagner. After Wagner died in 2021, bassist Ron Holzner and guitarist Lothar Keller found a folder on his computer labelled "New Skull Record", with lyrics and unfinished ideas for a third SKULL album. With the blessing of Wagner's family they finished the material and put together the lineup that became LEGIONS OF DOOM, drawing on former and current members of TROUBLE, THE SKULL, SAINT VITUS, PENTAGRAM, LEADFOOT and CORROSION OF CONFORMITY.
The result, The Skull 3, came out on Tee Pee Records in 2024. It included Wagner's own recorded vocals on "Heaven", with the rest of the singing shared by Agell and original SAINT VITUS frontman Scott Reagers.
A live record years in the making
For Holzner and Keller, the new release closes a circle: a live album with Wagner had already been under discussion back in THE SKULL days. Holzner, speaking from the mixing studio, said the band had always wanted to make a live record with THE SKULL and were planning one before Wagner's death, so this one means a lot to them. He called it "LEGIONS in fine form with a bit of THE SKULL thrown in."
Agell thanked the crowd and the band's "dear old friends" CROWBAR, calling the Steel Mill show, recorded in front of a packed house, the high point of the tour.
The artwork and band photography are by Adam Spall.
Lineup on the recording
- Karl Agell — vocals
- Ron Holzner — bass
- Lothar Keller — guitar
- Scott Little — guitar
- Chad Walls — drums