Lance King is an American heavy metal vocalist. Lance has sung for many metal bands all around the world throughout his career including, "Defyance", "The Kings Machine", "Empire", "Gemini", "Decibel", "Magic Kingdom", Balance of Power, Pyramaze, Shining Star, and Avian. He is known for singing in a traditional metal style with falsetto vocals in the mold of James Labrie, Bruce Dickinson or Geoff Tate. In 1990 Lance founded the St. Paul, Minnesota based Nightmare Records Inc. which specializes in Progressive metal and Power Metal and has a large selection of Christian Metal artists. He originally founded the label in order to get the music of his band Gemini out to the world. Lance is still the owner and head of Nightmare Records and since its small inception in 1990, it has continued on to sell over 2,000,000 albums. In late 2006, word came out that Lance King had departed from what many people thought was going to be his new permanent band, Py