Avenged Sevenfold Reveal New Drummer

Avenged Sevenfold have confirmed that ex-Bad Religion sticksman Brooks Wackerman is their new drummer.

Announced on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast (listen in full below), frontman M. Shadows and new drummer Brooks chatted about how the guys joined forces following Arin Illejay leaving the band.

“To be honest, Brooks’ name has always been in the mix,” M. Shadows told Chris (via Loudwire). “It was one of the names we were throwing around when Jimmy [The Rev] passed away in terms of who was going to step up for Nightmare. We felt Mike [Portnoy, ex-Dream Theater] was the right choice and we still feel that way. Mike just destroyed on the record. He was perfect. But at the time, our tour manager brought up Brooks’ name as well. But at the time he was also busy with Bad Religion and it was also… People were going to look at it differently because he was a punk drummer at this point.”

Listen to M. Shadows and Brooks talking to Chris Jericho below, and let us know what you think in the comments!

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