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News : LORD welcome new drummer

By on February 20, 2016

Sydney’s LORD have made the exciting announcement that they have found their new permanent drummer. Shared over the band’s Facebook page and the official blog from their website, frontman and guitarist LT made the announcement under the title ‘Journeys Old and New, and New Friends’.

Speaking of their past drummers, including the likes of session drummer Adam Barck who joined them on tour all of last year, where the band enjoyed such experiences as opening for Helloween in Sydney in mid October. LT then went on to speak of Darryl Murphy, and how like before, it seems to the band as if “lightning has struck for us yet again”. Darryl will be joining LORD when they tour the States later this year, and will be a part of new recordings being planned by the band.

Introducing Darryl Murphy, LT went on to say:

Just to put this into perspective, we had one quick rehearsal with the guy a few weeks back to see if we’d all get on, where he learned a couple of songs. He blew us away. But we weren’t convinced. We sent him home to learn some crazy hard songs to see if we could break him. What you’re seeing is his second rehearsal, and the first time we’re playing some of those songs together. It was good enough to take out live on any stage in the world.

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So we’d like you all to welcome Darryl to the band. He’ll be the man behind the drums when we hit the USA later this year, and I expect we’ll knock out some recordings soon so you can really hear what this guy is capable of.

The only thing left to do is give this guy a stupid stage name! Mark is already calling him Hemmy (short for Haemorrhoids… we don’t understand how he got to that name either, but we were calling Mark Sargeant Squidlips for a couple of years, and we just made that up on the spot, so it figures! HAHA!) Do yer worst!

LT then promises a new announcement soon on LORD’s new recording. Stay tuned here as it develops.

You can find the full original blog post here: http://www.lord.net.au/blog/journeys-old-and-new-and-new-friends/

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Jonathon is an aspiring fantasy/sci-fi novelist and music journalist. Thanks to the influence of the music he grew up with, he has always possessed a keen interest in metal and rock. He is also a huge fan of mythology, legend, and folklore from all across the world. You should follow him on Twitter.