Florida-based metallers TRIVIUM have recruited Greyson Nekrutman to play drums for the band on the Aftershock pageant in Sacramento, California in addition to on “The Ascend Above The Ashes” North American tour. The 23-year-old Nekrutman, who most not too long ago performed with SEPULTURA, stepped into TRIVIUM because the alternative for Alex Bent, who left the latter band earlier this month after a nine-year run.
Video of Greyson‘s efficiency with TRIVIUM at Aftershock on Saturday, October 4 will be seen beneath.
“The Ascend Above The Ashes” trek will kick off October 31 in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina and run by way of December 14, with a hometown present in Orlando, Florida. Particular friends are JINJER and HERIOT.
When Alex introduced his departure from TRIVIUM on Friday (October 3),he stated in a press release: “I’m past grateful for the unimaginable previous 9 years with TRIVIUM — crammed with unforgettable moments, music, and friendships that I am going to at all times carry with me. I am so happy with each report and tour we created collectively, and I do know TRIVIUM will proceed to dominate the world; they’re going to at all times have my help.
“Whereas this chapter has come to a detailed, that is on no account the top of my path as a musician. I am excited for this new chapter, and I sit up for persevering with to create, carry out, and share music in new methods.
“Thanks to everybody who has supported me alongside the way in which. Your encouragement means the world.”
Nekrutman formally changed SEPULTURA’s longtime drummer Eloy Casagrande in February 2024.
Greyson, who additionally beforehand performed with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, made his reside debut with SEPULTURA on March 1, 2024 at Enviornment Corridor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Greyson is featured on ALICE IN CHAINS vocalist William Duvall‘s “11.12.21 Reside-In-Studio Nashville” CD, which got here out in June 2022. Nekrutman has additionally carried out or recorded with Bakithi Kumalo, Darren Criss, Drumeo, Pearl Drums, Meinl Cymbals and has been featured in articles by Rolling Stone, Rhythm, Rhythm And Drum (Japan) and Sweetwater Music.
In December 2016, TRIVIUM parted methods with Paul Wandtke and welcomed Bent, a former member of BATTLECROSS and DECREPIT BIRTH who had beforehand performed with TESTAMENT as a fill-in for that band’s longtime drummer Gene Hoglan.
TRIVIUM guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy mentioned Bent‘s addition to the band throughout an October 2021 look on “Drinks With Johnny”, the Web TV present hosted by AVENGED SEVENFOLD bassist Johnny Christ. Matt stated: “[Alex is] studio drummer [number] 4. Folks, for some purpose, they are saying we have had like 1,000,000 lineup modifications. We have solely had 4 drummers, however everybody acts prefer it’s so much — they at all times act prefer it’s ten. We have had one other reside man [before Alex joined]. However fortunately, each time we switched, somebody’s, like, ‘Why did you turn? Why did you turn?’ Lastly we switched to Alex, they usually stated, ‘Now we get what you are searching for.
“He is tremendous younger,” Matt continued. “He comes from tech-death and slam and stuff like that. We name him ‘Modesto Monster,’ however he is simply this super-sweet, insane drummer. Our stuff could be very simple for him [to play]. However he is additionally performed with, like, gospel stuff and Latin stuff, so it is actually cool to have a man that may do black steel, loss of life steel, gospel, Latin, nation…”
Again in 2017, Heafy admitted to the That is Not Metallic Podcast that it had been tough for the band’s core trio — Heafy, bassist Paolo Gregoletto and guitarist Corey Beaulieu — to maintain a drummer previous to Bent‘s addition in 2016.
“The drumming is what the band is constructed upon, it is the muse for which all of the music is constructed upon, and if you do not have a robust basis for a home or a constructing, it will definitely collapses,” Matt defined. “And I am so grateful that the celebrities lastly aligned, after eight information, to search out the man that we wanted to search out. And I feel that when individuals hear Alex, it isn’t a query of ‘Why?’ It is extra like an commentary, like, ‘Oh, I see you probably did it once more, however I do know why.’ As a result of he is that freakin’ good.”
In October 2019, Gregoletto instructed Silver Tiger Media that Alex is “not solely an ideal drummer however a very good dude. After years of taking part in with individuals who haven’t been the fitting match, it feels good to only have all the things settle into place. If there’s any testomony to that relationship working, it is [TRIVIUM‘s 2017] report [‘The Sin And The Sentence’]. I really feel like our talents to translate our concepts on to a report have simply improved ten-fold. It looks like now, with Alex, he writes on our stage already. He is now been with us for less than two years or so, however he is only a phenomenal drummer and it makes our jobs simpler, ‘trigger we simply write the cool riffs and he is able to go together with drums. That is what we wanted.”
As a bass participant and one half of TRIVIUM‘s rhythm part, Paolo stated that it was “robust to have had” all of the drummer modifications through the years. However “I by no means minded taking part in with totally different individuals, ‘trigger I really feel such as you form of study new methods to play,” he defined. “Everybody has their very own fashion, and I really feel like each drummer we performed with had a unique tackle taking part in with TRIVIUM. If something, I obtained to study much more taking part in with totally different individuals and form of tailoring my bass taking part in to whoever the drummer was within the band.”
TRIVIUM‘s upcoming three-song EP, “Struck Useless”, will arrive on October 31 by way of longtime label Roadrunner. The trouble was produced by TRIVIUM and recorded with Mark Lewis on the band’s Hangar Studios in Orlando, Florida. It was blended and mastered by Josh Wilbur.