Coburn Pharr obit

Ex-Annihilator Vocalist Coburn Pharr Has Passed Away

 He was not on the list.

Coburn Pharr, former vocalist for Canadian thrash metal band Annihilator, has passed away at the age of 62. Pharr fronted the aforementioned band on their sophomore 1990 album “Never, Neverland” before exiting in 1992. He would later rejoin the band onstage roughly a decade ago to guest on some tracks from his era.

Annihilator guitarist Jeff Waters announced Pharr‘s passing this morning (February 25th) on social media, stating:

“Sad News in the Metal World: ANNIHILATOR‘s Never, Neverland vocalist, Coburn Pharr, has passed away. I won’t say anything about the details, as that is the family’s business, but I wanted to post this before any misinformation surfaces on the internet.

Coburn was the singer on our best and biggest record. He had the most unique voice of all our singers, along with Randy Rampage (he also passed, in 2018).

I had very little contact with Coburn over the years, but was able to get him to play a few songs with us on the 70,000 Tons Of Metal cruise, 2014ish.

In 2018, I had Coburn over to our house in the UK for a really amazing visit. He had lost his Mom and sister and was eager to hang out and talk music, life and reconnect.

Attached are 2 pics from that visit in Aug 2018, along with my favorite 2 of he and I, back in the day (1990). Since 2018, we had been discussing him coming back for some festival shows and even a tour… However, he was having struggles with some personal things, demons, etc… and it was clear that he would not be able to do any of it.

I was really glad to have had that time in 2018 with him. He was going through a terrible time and the thought of doing music again brought back some real hope and life in his eyes and being.

Thoughts to his wife and family.

Thank you for the music and memories, Coburn.

Sail away, Coburn: To Never, Neverland.”