Brooks Wackerman, the former Bad Religion drummer who announced he was parting ways with the band at the end of October, has joined Avenged Sevenfold.
“After 15 years, 6 records and countless tours – I’ve decided to move on from Bad Religion,” Wackerman announced. “This wasn’t an easy decision to make after spending a good chunk of my life in such an iconic band, but after reassessing my future in music it was time for me to peruse another path.”
That path has seen him join Californian rock behemoths Avenged Sevenfold. Making the announcement on Chris Jericho’s ‘Talk Is Jericho’ podcast, frontman M. Shadows said: “To be honest, Brooks’ name has always been in the mix. It was one of the names we were throwing around when Jimmy passed away in terms of who was going to step up for ‘Nightmare’.”
“We felt Mike 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.”