Mark Vanderbilt
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Kamelot in 2013 with Alissa White-Gluz
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| Origin | Tampa, Florida, United States |
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| Years active | 1991–present |
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| Website | kamelot |
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Kamelot is an American power metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed by Thomas Youngblood and Richard Warner in 1991. The Norwegian vocalist Roy Khan joined for the album Siége Perilous, and shared songwriting credit with Youngblood until his departure in April 2011. On June 22, 2012, Youngblood announced on their website that their new vocalist is the Swedish singer Tommy Karevik, who was first featured on Kamelot's album Silverthorn as main vocalist, co-songwriter and lyricist.
As of 2015, Kamelot had released eleven studio albums (excluding two reissues), two live albums, one live DVD, and seventeen music videos. Their latest studio album is Haven, which was released May 2015 via Napalm Records.
Kamelot was unofficially formed back in 1988 by Thomas Youngblood, Richard Warner and others as "Camelot". The band recorded "Breaking The Silence" for the "Tampa Bay's Metal Mercenaries: The Invasion" a cassette of various Heavy Metal bands from Tampa Bay produced by Keith "Thumper" Collins (ex-bassist for Savatage).
The official foundation was in 1991, in Florida, by Youngblood and Warner. Three years later, the band signed a deal with Noise Records and released its first album, Eternity, in 1995. The next album, Dominion, was released in 1997. Later that year, the drummer and founder Warner and the lead vocalist Mark Vanderbilt were replaced by drummer Casey Grillo and vocalist Roy Khan (formerly of Conception). With these two new members, Kamelot released its third studio album, Siege Perilous, in 1998. The band undertook its first tour during toward the end of the year, playing shows across Europe. Following this, the band returned to Tampa to write music for a new album titled The Fourth Legacy.
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