Reverend

Reverend was the band formed by vocalist David Wayne after his initial departure from Metal Church in the late eighties. Among the members in the original lineup were three guys from Heretic, which ironically was the band that featured Wayne's Metal Church replacement in Mike Howe. They put out four releases between 1989 and 1992, unsurprisingly with a style not too dissimilar from mid-period MC, after which Wayne jumped back to the Church for that band's 1995 Masterpeace effort. He restarted the band in 2000 and an EP was released a year later, after which he again put Reverend on ice and put out a solo album as Wayne, with the somewhat amusing title of Metal Church, which riled up his old bandmates though he claimed he meant no disrespect. After that, Reverend the band was an on-again, off-again venture up until Wayne's death in 2005, and in fact for several years after that, with some of his then-current bandmates playing live in his honor. The band petered out in 2010, and nine years later, early guitarist Bill Rhynes put together a completely new lineup featuring a couple of underground metal names.

Trivia note: former drummer Jason Rosenfeld went by the name Jason Ian, and he is indeed the brother of Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian.

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