Dave McClain

Dave McClain live 2010

Dave McClain (born October 24, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is an American drummer .

Career

Dave McClain 2009

McClain was born in the Hessian metropolis of Frankfurt am Main and lived in Wiesbaden for the first two years of his life . His father was stationed there as a member of the United States Air Force . McClain moved to Texas with his family and spent time in Hawaii . Back in Texas the band he joined Slayer from San Antonio to. Since the better-known, from Huntington Park- based band Slayer threatened with a lawsuit , McClains band renamed SA Slayer . McClain recorded a demo , an EP and the album Go for the Throat with SA Slayer . Then McClain switched to the band Catalepsy, which only brought it to three demos. In the following years McClain played in the bands Murdercar, Juggernaut, Ministers of Anger and Narita. During his time at Catalepsy and Murdercar, McClain played with guitarist Ross Robinson , who later embarked on a successful career as a producer .

In 1992 he joined the band Sacred Reich , where he succeeded Greg Hall. With Sacred Reich he recorded the albums Independent and Heal . After recording the Heal album, he left Sacred Reich and, on the recommendation of then Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera, joined Machine Head , where he replaced Chris Kontos . His debut there came with a delay because he was involved in a car accident while recording the album The More Things Change ... and had to pause for weeks. McClain first took part in the band's songwriting on the album The Blackening from 2007. At the end of the Catharsis tour in November 2018, McClain left Machine Head together with guitarist Phil Demmel , and then returned to Sacred Reich.

Discography

With SA Slayer Demo (demo, 1983) Prepare to Die (EP, 1983) Go for the Throat (1986) With Catalepsy Demo 86 (Demo, 1986) Evil Within (demo, 1987) Law and Disorder (Demo, 1988)

With Murdercar 3-Song Demo (Demo, 1989) With Narita Demo (demo, 1985) With sacred realm Independent (1993) Heal (1996) Awakening (2019)

With machine head The More Things Change ... (1997) The Burning Red (1999) Supercharger (2001) Through the Ashes of Empires (2003) The Blackening (2007) Unto the Locust (2011) Bloodstone & Diamonds (2014) Catharsis (2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Conny Schiffbauer: Machine Head are Robb's band . In: Rock Hard , October 2011, page 25.
2. ^ Garry Sharpe-Young : New Wave of American Heavy Metal . Zonda Books, New Plymouth 2005, ISBN 0-9582684-0-1 , pp. 214/15 .
3. ↑ Holger Stratmann (Ed.): Rock Hard Encyclopedia . Rock Hard GmbH , Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 225 .
4. ↑ Alexandra Michels: Machine Head: Phil Demmel and Dave McClain leave the band after a US tour. Rock Hard, accessed September 29, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Alexandra Michels: SACRED REICH - Drummer DaveMcClain is back. Rock Hard, accessed December 18, 2018 .