Benediction have named Kam Lee their singer. Dave Ingram, who had the job before, has retired because of his health.
Lee has been on stage with the band for a while already, but this makes it formal and makes it his alone. He will be taking sole responsibility as front man, the band wrote, and they announced it after a tour of Ireland and Latin America and what they called a triumphant return to Damnation in Manchester.
There are few people in this music with a longer claim to it. Lee sang on the early Death demos in the middle of the nineteen eighties, before anybody had a word for what that was, and has fronted Massacre on and off ever since. He remains in Massacre now.
Benediction have been going from Birmingham since 1989 and have had four singers. Ingram himself had two spells, either side of the Dave Hunt years. Each change has moved the band slightly without moving it off its line.
Work on the follow up to Ravage of Empires has already started. OSDM forever, as the announcement signed off.