Drummer Dave Elitch is in demand these days! Elitch drums for both Killer Be Killed and Antemasque, which is basically The Mars Volta 2.0, and both of those groups are playing Australia's Soundwave XV festival this year. In the place of Elitch will be the extremely capable Converge skinsman Ben Koller, so fear not! You'll still get to hear blazing drums behind awesome metal.
Killer Be Killed and The Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato explained why Elitch can't just pull double duty:
"Antemasque confirmed at the same time we did. We didn't know what day we we're going to be on, and then it just became an issue whether we wanted to still do it or not, which we obviously did. Then it was, if Antemasque have a good slot, if we have a good slot, I didn't want to shuffle the band around to a shittier time slot just to accommodate Dave playing in both bands. Antemasque for Dave is a much bigger commitment; they're playing a lot of shows all the time. If he needs to do that, that's fine with me. Ben from Converge is a fucking animal, so it'll be cool to play with him."
Now here's hoping the group can pull of a U.S. tour sometime this year as well. In the event you forgot, Killer Be Killed is Elitch, Puciato, Max Cavalera of Soulfly and ex-Sepultura fame and Troy Sanders of Mastodon.
