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\nDen Headz, legendary front-man Mike Howe returns to Metal Church! In the summer of 2014 the band suddenly found themselves in need of a new singer. As fate would have it, Kurdt was already in talks with Mike for another project that he was working on with Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler, so he decided to ask Mike to rejoin Metal Church. Mike agreed, but true to form, didn\u2019t want to make it official until he knew for sure that the integrity of the new material was there. In Mike\u2019s own words, \u201d I didn\u2019t want to come back to Metal Church just for nostalgia, it had to be for the right reasons, it had to be the best stuff we\u2019ve ever written together or it just wouldn\u2019t be worth it to anyone, especially the fans.\u201d Soon after, Kurdt and Mike began exchanging ideas and writing new material with the band. The end result sounds like \u201cClassic Mike Howe era Metal Church, it\u2019s both heavy and melodic\u201d says guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof and further states \u201cMike sounds the same as he did 20 years ago, this is going to be truly epic!!\u201d Drummer Jeff Plate comments, \u201cMike Howe is the ONLY singer for Metal Church. He has a reputation of complete honor and respect. We can now take Metal Church to the next level!\u201d<\/p>\n
Mike Howe originally joined Metal Church in the late 80\u2019s and released 3 albums with the band: \u201cThe Human Factor\u201d, \u201cBlessing In Disguise\u201d and \u201cHanging in the Balance\u201d. Mike was also the face of popular music videos \u201cDate With Poverty\u201d and \u201cBadlands\u201d that aired during MTV\u2019s heyday like\u201d.<\/p>\n
The band is currently in the process of working on their new album, which will be released later this year via Rat Pak Records. Metal Church is: Mike Howe (Vocals), Kurdt Vanderhoof (Guitars) Jeff Plate (Drums), Steve Unger (Bass) and Rick VanZandt (Guitars). Den Headz, legendary front-man Mike Howe returns to Metal Church! In the summer of 2014…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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