Snot Won’t Reveal Their New Vocalist for Their Reunion Until the Moment He Steps On Stage
The reunion of nu-metal icons Snot at Welcome to Rockville next year, plus at a handful of California dates ahead of the festival, is kind of a big deal. But it still leaves one big question that’s been on everybody’s mind: who will be the vocalist for this reunion? Frontman Lynn Strait was killed in a car accident in 1998, meaning that their second album was released with a different replacement singer on each track, and their last reunion saw them go through a few different replacement vocalists. But, according to Snot guitarist Mikey Doling, nobody’s going to find out who the new vocalist is until the second he steps on stage.
In a recent interview with The Kevin Powell Podcast (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), Doling was asked about the new vocalist, and the guitarist played coy about who the new vocalist would be:
“Let him come on stage. That’s it. And figure out who he is on your own. If he says his name, great. But the last thing I wanna do is go on the Internet and put his name out there, and then people go to his social media and whatnot and start scrutinizing him before he even gets on stage. Because that’s what will happen. I mean, you’re living in the shadow of the great Lynn Strait [SNOT’s late vocalist]. So it’s gonna be a rough road for him. He’s gotta prove himself on stage first. And, we’re giving him that comfort. ‘Cause like I said, if I said his name right now, we’d have a lot of people just going right to his social media.
“But he’s awesome. Let me just say when he sent me his audition reels, tapes, recordings, I was blown away like I’ve never been blown away since [the demise of the original SNOT lineup]. And I sent it to Tumor first thing, my right arm, my bass player from SNOT. He usually doesn’t like anything. He’s very cynical. He’s the greatest guy ever, he’s my brother, but he’s a cynical person at times. And he called me right away and just said, ‘Holy shit balls.’ That’s a quote. ‘Where’d you find this guy? We found our dude. We found him.’ And that’s how it went down. Then, of course, I sent it to Jamie and Sonny, and they both agreed he’s the guy. And here he is. We got him.”
While it’s a little frustrating that Doling won’t simply announce who the new vocalist is, he did give us some new information. One thing he told us is that this vocalist is someone new to the band, and possibly even someone who’s new to performing professionally in general, which rules out any of the replacement vocalists that the band has used before. Also, Doling used he/him pronouns to describe the new singer, implying it is a man, so we can rule out Emily Armstrong at least. Other than that, there’s not much we’ll be able to find out about the vocalist until after Snot’s first show of the upcoming reunion on January 17.
If you want to be one of the first ones to see who the new vocalist is, here’s the complete list of reunion dates announced so far for Snot:
The full list of dates is listed below:
Jan. 17 – Anaheim, CA – The Parish at House Of Blues
Jan. 18 – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
Feb. 08 – Santa Barbara, CA – SohO
May 15-18 – Daytona Beach, FL – Daytona International Speedway (Welcome To Rockville)
