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===2007–2019: Lead singer replaced with Arnel Pineda, ''Revelation'' and ''Eclipse''===

Following Soto's departure, the band was again without a lead vocalist. Neal Schon began searching [[YouTube]] for a new lead vocalist, with Jeremey Hunsicker of the Journey tribute band Frontiers auditioning and spending a week with the band writing material.<ref name="roanoke">{{cite web |last=Dickens |first=Tad |url=http://www.roanoke.com/entertainment/wb/146327 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201222611/http://www.roanoke.com/entertainment/wb/146327 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |title=His new Journey leads to old Frontiers |work=Roanoke Times |date=January 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://voices.yahoo.com/jeremey-hunsicker-different-guy-same-ol-sound-1357201.html |title=Jeremey Hunsicker - Different Guy, Same Ol' Sound.. |publisher=Yahoo Voices |date=April 7, 2008 |access-date=April 18, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728221141/http://voices.yahoo.com/jeremey-hunsicker-different-guy-same-ol-sound-1357201.html |archive-date=July 28, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Hunsicker claims to have been formally offered the position, but the offer fell through shortly afterwards following tension with Schon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fabricationshq.com/jeremey-frederick-hunsicker-march-2012.html|title=Covering every little thing... Muirsical Conversation with Jeremey Frederick Hunsicker|publisher=FabricationsHQ|date=March 2012|access-date=August 6, 2021}}</ref> One of the tracks co-written with Hunsicker, "Never Walk Away", later appeared on the ''[[Revelation (Journey album)|Revelation]]'' album. Schon later found [[Filipino people|Filipino]] singer [[Arnel Pineda]] of the cover band The Zoo, covering the song "Faithfully". Schon was so impressed that he contacted Pineda to set up two days of auditions, which went well, naming him the official lead vocalist of Journey on December 5, 2007.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/journey-finds-new-singer-the-old-fashioned-way-on-the-internet-99867/|title=Journey Finds New Singer the Old-Fashioned Way: On the Internet|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=December 6, 2007|access-date=October 31, 2018|archive-date=October 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031214848/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/journey-finds-new-singer-the-old-fashioned-way-on-the-internet-99867/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Daniels|2011|p=171}}