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Trouble

American doom metal band from Aurora, Illinois, formed in 1979. One of the pioneers of the genre together with Candlemass and Saint Vitus. The collective also played in the stoner rock genre. The band developed its own special style, being influenced by both British bands Black Sabbath and Judas Priest and the psychedelic rock of the 1970s. The first two albums, Psalm 9 and The Skull, are recognized as benchmarks of doom metal. To date, the band has released eight studio albums. Trouble's first label, Metal Blade, classified the band as "white metal" (as opposed to the growing black metal movement) because of the religious themes of the collective's early albums. The band was formed by vocalist Eric Wagner, guitarists Rick Wartell and Bruce Franklin, and drummer Jeff Olson. Although Trouble never disbanded, the collective was dormant for a long time since vocalist Eric Wagner, one of the band's founders, left it in 1997. Wagner returned in 2000, and then left for another eight years.