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ELOY CASAGRANDE Has Loads Of Praise For SEPULTURA's New Drummer, GREYSON NEKRUTMAN

"I wasn't teaching him how to play the songs because he can play anything he wants to play."

Casagrande Nekrutman

Eloy Casagrande left Sepultura in February 2024 to join Slipknot and was replaced by drummer Greyson Nekrutman (who left Suicidal Tendencies and was replaced by ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg. Full circle!). Now in the January 2025 issue of Modern Drummer magazine, Casagrade had some pretty high praise for Nekrutman and said he hopes to maybe get all the Sepultura drummers at some point.

"Yes, and when I see him playing, I can remember myself in the same spot. When I joined Sepultura, I was his age. That's quite interesting. He's a very good drummer. I used to watch him playing videos he posted on social media when he was playing more jazz and drum solos. He's a brilliant player and I wish him and the rest of the band all the best. I have a lot of respect for him. I wish I could talk to him more one day. Maybe we could bring all the Sepultura drummers together.

"Greyson came to my studio in SĆ£o Paulo when he joined the band to do some rehearsals, and we had a very good talk. He had just two or three weeks to learn all the songs, so I gave him some advice like, 'We used to play that song faster. Be careful with this song because we used to play it slower.' I wasn't teaching him how to play the songs because he can play anything he wants to play. He's an incredible drummer."

Casagrande also talked about how he got recruited to join Slipknot, saying it was a natural decision considering Sepultura was about to embark on their farewell tour. Though it certainly seems like it was a surprise to Sepultura, given vocalist Derrick Green's comments and Casagrande saying that the auditions were top secret.

"Everything happened at the end of 2023 when I got a call from Slipknot's manager asking me if I was interested in doing an audition for Slipknot. That year, Sepultura decided to stop playing, so it was a very natural decision for me to keep playing with someone else instead of just retiring. At the end of [2023] and the beginning of [2024], I wasn't supposed to talk to anyone about that. The audition was a big secret. Nobody could know about it. Sepultura didn't even know, it was just something between me and the guys from Slipknot. It was my decision to do the audition. I said, 'Okay, I'm interested in doing an audition because Sepultura is going to stop. I have one and a half years left of working with them and I'm going to be done.'

"Through the years, I have played many times with Slipknot. We shared stages when I was playing Sepultura, and that was the place that I always wanted to be. I grew up listening to their music, so I wanted to have the experience playing live with Slipknot with a mask on my face. In my first show with the band I was thinking, 'Oh, this is really happening. Oh my god. I can't believe it.'

"Going back a little bit, before I was invited to do the audition, I took my drums to a studio in SĆ£o Paulo and did a proper sound and video recording. I played six songs, and I sent it to the guys. I chose three songs and then they asked me to play three specific songs. They were 'Eyeless', 'Purity' and 'Gematria'. My flight was booked to go to the audition, so at the end of January [of 2024], I flew to Palm Springs, California, and spent ten days with them there. The first five days, the whole band was rehearsing like it was a live show. Every day, the guys came with a different setlist, and we just played those songs."

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