Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail on Carrying the Band Alone, "Paradise" and What Comes Next

I Prevail frontman Eric Vanlerberghe joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast.

In May 2025, I Prevail lost the clean-vocal half of their identity when Brian Burkheiser stepped away following an Eagle syndrome diagnosis. Nine days later they lost Dave Shapiro, the agent who built their career, in the San Diego plane crash. Four months after that they released Violent Nature — the heaviest record of their career, with Eric singing every note on it.

We get into what that actually cost him: rebuilding his voice to carry both screams and cleans, surviving a full album cycle doing two jobs a night, and what changed when producer Jon Eberhard joined the band on bass. Plus the story behind "Paradise," the surprise single with Amira Elfeky written on a tour bus in Europe that the band admit they still can't quite categorise — and what's coming after it.

Also: Black Vault Gaming, the retro game and trading card shop he runs in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, and how a man decompresses from a job that now demands his entire voice every night.

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