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Matt Alston
-Drums & percussion/ Vocals
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Full Name: Matthew Alston
Age: 21
Born: 29th July 1988
Lives: Coggeshall, Essex (ENG)
Member Since: 2002 - Present
Favourite...
Bands:
All That Remains/ Angra/ Arch Enemy/ As I Lay Dying/ At The Gates/
Barely Breathing/ Black Label Society/ Black Sabbath/ Blaze/ Burn The Priest/ Capharnaum/
Carved From Violence/ Children Of Bodom/ Chimaira/ Crowbar/
Dagoba/ Decapitated/ Dimmu Borgir/ DIO/ Divine Heresy/ Down/
Dragonforce/
Dream Theater/
Engel/ Evergrey/ Fear Factory/ Five Finger Death Punch/ Foo Fighters/ Forever Never/ God Forbid/ Godsmack/ Gojira/ Guns 'N Roses/ Hellyeah/ Iced Earth/
Ill Nino/ In Flames/
Iron Maiden/
Killswitch Engage/
Lamb Of God/
Led Zeppelin/ L.T.E/
Machine Head/ Malefice/
Metallica/
Mudvayne/
Neurosis/ Nevermore/ Norther/ Pantera (+R.I.P Dimebag+)/
Paradise Lost/ Pink Floyd/ RATM/
Rammstein/ Sanctity/ Shadows Fall/
Slayer/ Sleep/
Slipknot/ Strapping Young Lad/ Stone Sour/ Superjoint Ritual/ Sylosis/ Symphony X/ Tool/ Turisas/
Unearth...
Albums:
As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise,
Sylosis - Conclusion Of An Age,
Lamb Of God - Wrath
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage,
Dagoba - What Hell Is About...
Drinks:
Jagermeister/ Jack Daniels/ Carlsberg...
Favourite place(s) played at:
Bloodstock '09
London Islington Academy - w/Ill Nino & God Forbid
Birmingham/ Glasgow/...
Favourite thing to do on tours when not playing:
Watching movies & Sleeping!!!
Best tour memory:
Aftershow party/clubs with lots of beer & dodgy dancing!
Worst tour memory:
Getting covered in cream & shaving foam just before the
last song on the last night of the tour -
even worse not being able to shower, until i got home the next day!
TV/Films/DVDs:
CKY, Jackass, American Dad, Family Guy,
Team America, Saving Private Ryan, Snatch,
28 Days/Weeks Later, Anchorman, Full Metal Jacket...
Sideprojects:
Guardians Of Andromeda...
Former Bands/Sideprojects:
Too many to mention..
Equipment list...
Drums:
Ddrum Dios M series- Exclusively
2x 20"x 22" Kicks...
8"x 7" Rack Tom...
10"x 8" Rack Tom...
12" x 9" Rack Tom...
14" x 14" Floor Tom...
16" x 14" Floor Tom...
Ddrum 14x6.5" HandHammered Brass Snare...
Mapex Black Panther; Chris Adler Signature 12x4.5 Snare...
Sticks:
Vater Exclusively
1A Nylon...
Cymbals:
Paiste...
RUDE/Signature/Rock/Wild Series...
Pedals:
Axis Longboards...
Skins:
Remo...
Other:
ACS Custom Moulded In-Ear-Monitors - Exclusively...
For more equipment information: Click Here
Links:
www.Myspace.com/Matt
www.Myspace.com/DdrumUK
www.Ddrum.co.uk - Matt's Profile
www.Vater.com
www.ACS-Hearing-Protection.co.uk
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