GRIM REAPER Singer STEVE GRIMMETT To Be Honored At Germany's KEEP IT TRUE RISING Festival
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GRIM REAPER's founding guitarist Nick Bowcott will take part in a special tribute concert to the band's late singer Steve Grimmett at this year's Keep It True Rising festival, set to take place from September 30 to October 2 in Würzburg, Germany. Joining Bowcott at the event will be the surviving members of Grimmett's post-GRIM REAPER band STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER, Steve's son Russ Grimmett, who will sing few of his father's songs, JAG PANZER and TITAN FORCE frontman Harry Conklin, and other guest vocalists. Festival organizers will produce and give away for free 2,000 Steve Grimmett buttons and will produce a special tribute t-shirt, with all proceeds to be given to Steve's family.
This year's edition of the Keep It True Rising festival will be headlined by SAXON and VENOM INC. Also appearing at the event will be New Wave Of British Heavy Metal acts DIAMOND HEAD, Paul Di'Anno (formerly of IRON MAIDEN),BLITZKRIEG, AVENGER, SARACEN, SATAN, QUARTZ, CLOVEN HOOF, HOLOCAUST, DEMON PACT, TYTAN and MYTHRA. Other acts scheduled to perform include RIOT V, RIOT CITY and KONQUEST.
Steve died on August 15 at the age of 62. The singer's passing came five years after he had his right leg partially amputated when an infected wound on his foot spread to the bones in his leg partway through his South American tour.
On Tuesday (August 16),Millie Grimmett shared the following message via social media: "Thank you for the thousands of messages of condolences since the passing of my beloved Steve. I'm gradually reading a few at a time but I will get round them all eventually.
"Steve had 2 passions, aeroplanes & being on stage, & it's his fans that made being on stage possible. So thank you from the bottom of my heart for buying tickets, queuing for hours to meet him after a gig (which he was honoured that you all did) & buying his albums. After every gig he would call me to tell me how amazing the crowd were & about the people he met.
"Over the weekend we were talking about our plans for the future. The tours he had coming up this year & next, the album he had half written, which had guest musicians on, the planes he was working on & looking forward to flying & the places we were looking forward to exploring together. Life was amazing. Steve was in the best place, mentally, that he's been since loosing his leg. My heart couldn't have loved him more.
"I found Steve forever asleep at home on Monday 15th August. He hadn't been ill so to say this was a shock is an understatement. His official cause of death has not yet been released by the coroners.
"My heart will forever be broken & my life now incomplete. I long for the day that we are together again. Steve sung a lot about hell but I know he is in heaven waiting for me and watching over his family.
"Please help me keep his music & memory alive by playing everything he ever wrote, sung, produced & did guests slots on. If you don't own it all, buy it, download it. Please keep his 40+ years on this mad industry going. There's plenty of YouTube footage too & we all loved the Beavis & Butthead videos but none more than Steve.
"Steve was known as the Metal Warrior, to me he was My Steve.
"Thank you again. Blessings & prayers. Millie".
Grimmett's life-saving surgery in 2017 was carried out in Ecuador and the frontman was in hospital for just over a month while fans raised $14,000 to bring him home after his insurance company refused to pay because of the type of work he was doing.
