Our team has gone back and forth and has decided on these releases for the Sick Drummer Magazine Favorite Drumming Albums of 2025. They are NOT in any particular order of most to least or least […]
On New Year’s Eve 2024, we tragically lost Joshua Nassaru Ward of Voraath, along with his fiancee’ and two other friends, when struck by a drunk driver. We’ve been friends with Joshua for many years… […]
Union Black is a new metal tribute band taking songs from artists such as Depeche Mode, Type O Negative, NIN, and others, and turning them into heavy metal jams! The band was formed and is […]
Over 300 Million people today live with some form of mental illness or clinical depression, and in far too many cases this ends with suicide. Musicians, and artists of every discipline, deal with a tremendous […]
Drummers Helping Drummers – Online Drum Lessons – Coronavirus Lockdown 2020. During this time of quarantine and madness, many friends of ours who play drums for a living are being hit hard by canceled shows […]
A few words from drummer, Gus Rios, on his new project ‘Eternal’ and this exclusive preview of the ‘Carved In Blood’ track: It was early 1995 when I first met a young 19-year-old, Dave Culross. […]
After hanging out backstage at a show in Miami, Former Malevolent Creation members Gus Rios & Jay Black have crossed paths once again and have spontaneously decided to join forces with longtime friend & guitarist Seth […]
You may know drummer Gus Rios from Gruesome, or from his work as a recording engineer or even as drum-tech. Bottom line is… whatever Gus sets his mind to, he does. Gruesome has become a widely-known and […]
Drummer, Gus Rios, got his first instrument (a guitar) at age 10. Two years later at age 12 he was so drawn to the drums on the albums he was hearing that he decided to learn to […]
Less than four short years into their career, drummer Gus Rios and death metal defenders of the old, Gruesome, featuring current and former members of Exhumed, Possessed, Malevolent Creation, etc. — returns with its second full-length […]