It has been nearly two years since Skid Row parted ways with singer Erik Gronwall. According to bassist Rachel Bolan, they are starting to make progress in finally finding a replacement.

“We have a couple of guys on our radar,” he confirmed in a recent interview with the Rockstrap podcast. He mentions that in the new year, they plan to audition more candidates with the assistance of their management and producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Rush).

It has been a fairly detailed process, as he discussed with hosts Don Jamieson and Keith Roth. “We’re all going through each person saying, like, ‘Okay, let’s get in a room with this person [or] this person is a little too young, or a little too inexperienced, or they can’t sing. Who told them they could sing?'”

The personality aspect is crucial as they look to select their next singer, and to that end, Bolan says they are making good progress. “We have a couple of guys on our radar that we’re pretty excited about,” he shared. “So hopefully before the end of the year, we’ll be back out on the road.”

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Skid Row has had several different frontmen in the nearly 30 years since they parted ways with Sebastian Bach. “You know, it’s just one of those things, man,” Bolan laments. “We had a really good thing going with Erik. I think the road was just too much for him [with] due to his past health issues and whatnot.”

“It just didn’t work out, which was disappointing. He was great,” the bassist continued. “I mean, he fit right in. We’ve been writing songs, though. I wish we all lived within an hour of each other, rather than flights away. That would make things so much easier.”

Listen to Rachel Bolan on the ‘Rockstrap’ Podcast

What Has Skid Row Been Up To?

In addition to writing songs, the ’80s hair metal legends did a short run of shows in early 2024. Lzzy Hale of Halestorm stepped in to assist on vocals in May of that year as they were working to fulfill some dates they had following Gronwall’s unexpected exit.

It seems that fans who continue to hope for a reunion with Bach should place those hopes elsewhere as both Bolan and Snake Sabo have stated multiple times it’s not going to happen.

There is new music on the way as Bolan himself is finalizing a solo album that according to his comments during the Rockstrap interview should be out as soon as June. The Gang’s All Here, Skid Row’s most recent studio album, was released in October 2022.

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