In a latest interview with Brazil’s Heavy Speak, former KAMELOT singer Roy Khan was requested if there are any plans for brand spanking new music from CONCEPTION, his pre-KAMELOT band which reformed in 2018 and launched an EP that 12 months, “My Darkish Symphony”, and a full-length album, “State Of Deception”, in 2020. He stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We’re always engaged on new stuff, however the songs for ‘My Darkish Symphony’ and ‘State Of Deception’, these had been written from 2016 by 2019. And we’ve just a few songs by now, however we nonetheless want fairly just a few songs to have a full album for CONCEPTION once more. So, I do not know — possibly [we’ll release something by the] finish of ’26, possibly ’27. We’ll see. And for positive we’re gonna play some gigs each this 12 months and subsequent 12 months. However possibly not as actively as a full group as what we do. We’re gonna do that idea, me and Tore [Østby, CONCEPTION guitarist] along with a cello participant in Athens. [We’re] including a present in Norway now. In order that’s gonna be a trio — me and Tore and a cello participant, the place we do CONCEPTION songs acoustically. And that is likely to be an idea we wanna develop additional. We’ll see.”
As beforehand reported, Khan will take the stage on July 5 at Tokio Marine Corridor in São Paulo, Brazil for a one-night-only efficiency celebrating the twentieth anniversary of KAMELOT‘s “The Black Halo” album.
Initially launched in 2005, “The Black Halo” stays a landmark in metallic historical past, that includes iconic tracks like “March Of Mephisto”, “The Haunting (Someplace In Time)” and “When The Lights Are Down”.
Earlier this 12 months, “The Black Halo (twentieth Anniversary Version)” was made out there in an array of particular codecs, together with a limited-edition wood field set that includes splattered vinyl, a collector’s chalice, a hoop, a pendant in a velvet bag, a 20-page booklet, and an unique autographed card. Different variants embody deluxe marbled vinyl, a slipmat and a digipak CD version. This must-have collector’s version was launched by way of Napalm Data on March 14, 2025 — precisely twenty years after its unique debut.
Khan can be featured as a particular visitor on “Right here Be Dragons”, the most recent album from Tobias Sammet‘s AVANTASIA. His highly effective vocals grace a grand and emotional energy ballad, marking one other thrilling chapter in his return to the scene. Sammet himself praised Khan‘s contribution, calling the music “some of the shifting and emotional, but largest ballads I’ve ever performed.”
In the summertime of 2023, Roy stated that numerous issues contributed to his determination to depart KAMELOT practically a decade and a half in the past.
The now-55-year-old Norwegian singer introduced his exit from KAMELOT in April 2011 after taking a number of months off to get better from a “burnout.”
After his departure from KAMELOT, Khan, who’s a religious Christian, joined a church within the coastal city of Moss, Norway.
Three years in the past, Roy informed Chaoszine about his cut up with KAMELOT: “I am actually, actually extraordinarily grateful that KAMELOT was capable of proceed with out me, ‘trigger I had no intention to harm the band. It was a really private determination to stop the band and I merely needed to. And I am simply glad that every part turned out in the long run to be… They managed to go on with out me, and I am simply very grateful for that, actually.”
KAMELOT formally introduced Tommy Karevik as its new lead singer in June 2012. The Florida-based band has recorded 4 albums thus far with the Swedish vocalist: 2012’s “Silverthorn”, 2015’s “Haven”, 2018’s “The Shadow Concept” and 2023’s “The Awakening”.
Requested if he has listened to any of KAMELOT‘s latest materials with Karevik, Roy informed Italy’s SpazioRock again in 2018: “Sure I’ve. I actually like a few of their new stuff. Sounds classical KAMELOT in my ears, and Tommy is a superb singer.”
