{"id":28112,"date":"1995-04-22T00:00:11","date_gmt":"1995-04-22T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=28112"},"modified":"2020-04-21T21:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:58:35","slug":"news-vicious-rumors-vocalist-carl-albert-dies-following-car-accident-aged-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-vicious-rumors-vocalist-carl-albert-dies-following-car-accident-aged-32\/","title":{"rendered":"VICIOUS RUMORS Vocalist Carl Albert Dies Following Car Accident Aged 32 (April 22nd, 1995) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

VICIOUS RUMORS Vocalist Carl Albert Dies Following Car Accident Aged 32<\/strong><\/span>
\nApril 22nd, 1995<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Carl Albert, vocalist of San Francisco, California heavy metal group Vicious Rumors, died on April 22nd, 1995 at the age of 32, following a car accident.<\/p>\n

Carl Spencer Albert was born on May 13th, 1962 in Santa Monica, California. Albert co-founded melodic heavy metal band Ruffians in 1983, with whom he recorded a 1984 demo as well as a 1985 self-titled EP. Villain would be the next outfit to feature the frontman, 1986 EP Only Time Will Tell<\/em> featuring Albert behind the microphone.<\/p>\n

Albert joined Vicious Rumors in late 1986, erstwhile Hawaii frontman Gary St. Pierre having lent vocals to 1985 debut Soldiers Of The Night<\/em>. At that time, guitarist Vinnie Moore had left the fold following a brief tenure, citing musical differences. Erstwhile Starcastle member Mark McGee auditioned for the guitar position, with Albert auditioning for the vocal position. Jamming one time, the track \u2018Digital Dictator\u2019 was immediately written, the pair collectively joining Vicious Rumors\u2019 line-up. Albert recorded four full-lengths with the ensemble in all, namely; Digital Dictator<\/em> (1987), Vicious Rumors<\/em> (1990), Welcome To The Ball<\/em> (1991), and Word Of Mouth<\/em> (1994).<\/p>\n

Consisting of live recordings cut in Europe during 1994, a limited edition CD entitled A Tribute To Carl Albert – European Bootleg<\/em> was issued in his memory. Over half of the material for sixth full-length Something Burning<\/em> had already been authored by the time of Albert\u2019s passing, much of it by the man himself. That album emerged in 1996, co-founder and guitarist Geoff Thorpe assuming vocal duties.<\/p>\n

Carl Albert is buried at Saint Patrick\u2019s Catholic Mountain View Cemetery in Sonora, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VICIOUS RUMORS Vocalist Carl Albert Dies Following Car Accident Aged 32 April 22nd, 1995 Carl Albert, vocalist of San Francisco, California heavy metal group Vicious Rumors, died on April 22nd, 1995 at the age of 32, following a car accident. Carl Spencer Albert was born on May 13th, 1962 in Santa Monica, California. Albert co-founded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vicious-rumors-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83145,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112\/revisions\/83145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}