It’s been a wild month for Trivium. The band parted ways with longtime drummer Alex Bent, recruited current Sepultura drummer Greyson Nekrutman, and then officially welcomed former Whitechapel drummer Alex Rüdinger into the fold for touring and album duties.
So yeah – chaos. Now in a new interview with Belgian Jasper, Trivium bassist Paolo Gregoletto spoke on recruiting Rüdinger and what Trivium looks for in a new drummer. Which I’m sure isn’t gonna be any trouble with Rüdinger – that guy is a machine and a half when it comes to drummer.
“You’ve gotta start from square one again in a lot of ways because the first thing you’ve gotta do is get people up to speed on the music you’ve done, ’cause you’re touring, probably, so that takes a bit of effort. I feel like it’s made me a lot more aware of every aspect of our band because I know the drum parts pretty, pretty well, down to little, little things that I’ll kind of bring up from time to time, like, ‘Hey, actually, this part has this’ blah, blah, blah.
“And I don’t know — it’s just something I’ve started to retain in my head. And also maybe it’s because, as a bass player, you focus in on the rhythm a lot more than… I don’t know if a guitar player wouldn’t, but you focus in on the little things like that because you often are playing off of what they’re doing.”
Gregoletto continued: “Yeah, you just have to kind of pick back up, start again. I guess for us it’s a lot easier, being a band for 20 years. We have a pretty established thing. We have our records. We know them really well. It’s, like, we know who we are. It was harder going through that in the beginning, but now it’s… I don’t wanna say that we’re used to it, because it’s been nine years [since the last time we had to change drummers], so it’s not something we were expecting, but you, I guess, can weather and handle these kind of things a lot better.
“I think being our age, that’s part of it too. Maybe when you’re younger, it’s a lot more of an emotional thing. But I don’t feel like that now. I just know what we’ve gotta do, and I wanna get to it and I wanna get to the tour. I wanna make sure this tour, for the people coming out, this is the best Trivium show you’ve ever seen. And it’s gotta be that level.”
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