Dan Reynolds (singer) and then transferred to BYU after serving an LDS mission, where he studied communications, marketing, and music and excelled academically. While at BYU, he formed Imagine Dragons and won the school's battle of the bands competition before leaving to pursue music full-time. Reynolds was initially reluctant to become a professional musician, partially because future bandmate Wayne Sermon had once told him: "Don't do music because you want to do music - do music if you have to do music". After he began attending Brigham Young University, Reynolds found that he could not "do anything else" and committed fully to a
Dan Nelson Dan Nelson Dan Nelson (born June 21, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist from New York City. Hailing from New York, Nelson is currently the guitarist and lead vocalist of the band Wolfpack Black. In the past, he has worked with the Long Island bands Inside Hollow, Discipline and Devilsize. From 2007 to 2009, he was the lead vocalist of American thrash metal band Anthrax, replacing original frontman Joey Belladonna following his second departure from the band on January 24, 2007. He was the first Anthrax vocalist to perform with the band in Korea, Colombia, and Estonia. Nelson