{"id":113596,"date":"2024-08-04T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=113596"},"modified":"2024-08-04T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T14:37:10","slug":"whitechapel-announce-new-drummer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=113596","title":{"rendered":"WHITECHAPEL &#8211; Announce New Drummer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Drummer\u00a0<strong>Brandon Zackey<\/strong>\u00a0has exited\u00a0<strong>Enterprise Earth<\/strong>\u00a0and will be taking up permanently behind the drum kit for fellow deathcore outfit\u00a0<strong>WHITECHAPEL<\/strong>. An announcement shared by\u00a0<strong>Enterprise Earth<\/strong>\u00a0earlier today, August 02nd, reveals that\u00a0<strong>Aron Hetsko<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>The Xebellian Triangle<\/strong>) has been instated as his replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cIt\u2019s with a bittersweet heart that we announce the departure of our drummer of the last 5+ years, Mr. President, Mr. Hands, the one and only,\u00a0<strong>Brandon Zackey<\/strong>.<br \/>\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800<br \/>As some of you are already aware,\u00a0<strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u00a0has been filling in for a lil ol\u2019 band called\u00a0<strong>Whitechapel<\/strong>\u00a0over the last 2 years and has missed a few of our tours due to overlapping schedules, with\u00a0<strong>Aron Hetsko<\/strong>\u00a0filling in for us on most of those.\u00a0<strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u00a0has officially accepted the position as\u00a0<strong>Whitechapel<\/strong>\u2019s full time drummer, with our encouragement and blessing.<br \/>\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800<br \/><strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u00a0is our bandmate, brother, and the best damn drummer any of us have ever played with and we could not be happier for him to join one of the most legendary bands in our genre as there is no one more worthy of the position. While we wish we could clone him, unfortunately the intense schedules of being in two full time touring bands is A LOT and has already resulted in several tour conflictions, in addition to\u00a0<strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u00a0spending nearly all of his time on the road between both bands. Because of this, we have amicably decided to part ways as it\u2019s the best thing for all of us.<br \/>\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800<br \/>In addition to being an incredible drummer and bandmate, he has been a vital part of EE on and off the stage. His house was our home base for years (Thanks Annette, Jim, and Angie we love you too!) and he will forever be a part of the EE family. We love\u00a0<strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u00a0dearly, so please continue to support his journey!<br \/>\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800<br \/>With\u00a0<strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u2019s departure we\u2019d like to announce our new drummer\u00a0<strong>Aron Hetsko<\/strong>! After a few tours with\u00a0<strong>Aron<\/strong>, we knew we had our guy should\u00a0<strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u00a0no longer be able to do both gigs. He\u2019s worked tirelessly to honor and faithfully recreate all of\u00a0<strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u2019s parts with fire and intensity to the best of his abilities, which is no easy task given\u00a0<strong>Brandon<\/strong>\u2019s prowess, while adding his own flair and personality. We could not be more stoked on having Aron join team EE and after watching him play, we\u2019re confident all of you will be too!<br \/>\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800<br \/>Check out\u00a0<strong>Aron<\/strong>\u2019s playthrough for\u00a0<strong>Malevolent Force<\/strong>\u00a0on our YT\u2026<br \/>\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800<br \/>SEE YOU ON THE ROAD THIS FALL\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enterprise Earth - Malevolent Force Drum Playthrough (Aron Hetsko)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-s7jFE7YWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drummer\u00a0Brandon Zackey\u00a0has exited\u00a0Enterprise Earth\u00a0and will be taking up permanently behind the drum kit for fellow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113600,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113596\/revisions\/113600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}