{"id":55135,"date":"2017-05-05T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=55135"},"modified":"2017-07-20T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:51:47","slug":"news-black-star-riders-recruit-former-black-label-society-drummer-chad-szeliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-black-star-riders-recruit-former-black-label-society-drummer-chad-szeliga\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK STAR RIDERS Recruit Former BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Drummer Chad Szeliga (May 5th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLACK STAR RIDERS Recruit Former BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Drummer Chad Szeliga<\/strong><\/span>
\nMay 5th, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rock group Black Star Riders, an offshoot of Thin Lizzy, have recruited former Black Label Society and Breaking Benjamin drummer Chad Szeliga, revealing this development on May 5th, 2017.<\/p>\n

Frontman Ricky Warwick issued the following statement: \u201cI\u2019m delighted to welcome Chad Szeliga to the Black Star Riders family… Chad is an amazing drummer, a great guy and will powerfully strengthen Black Star Riders\u2019 resolve going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guitarist Scott Gorham shared the following words, meanwhile: \u201cJust wanted to say that I\u2019m really looking forward to getting up onto the stage with our new drummer Chad. This guy is one killer player. See you all on tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guitarist Damon Johnson supplied the following: \u201cChad is a monster musician and a quality human being. I couldn\u2019t be more excited to welcome him to our band and to show off his skills to Black Star Riders fans worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bassist Robbie Crane contributed the following: \u201cChad\u2019s a badass!… Great energy and a cool hang… Looking forward to working together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chad Szeliga himself issued the following statement: \u201cFirst, I\u2019m so stoked for one to play with Scott Gorham, an iconic guitar player! Second, I can\u2019t wait to play with Damon who is a badass on guitar. Lastly, I can\u2019t wait to jam with Robbie on bass and we all know who the star is… Ricky who can command a fantastic show and is an amazing frontman. Let\u2019s light them up, boys!\u201d<\/p>\n

Black Star Riders\u2019 line-up is as follows;<\/p>\n

Ricky Warwick (vocals and guitars, The Almighty)
\nScott Gorham (guitars, Thin Lizzy)
\nDamon Johnson (guitars, ex-Alice Cooper \/ Brother Cane)
\nRobbie Crane (bass, ex-Ratt)
\nChad Szeliga (drums, ex-Black Label Society \/ ex-Breaking Benjamin)<\/p>\n

Auditions for a new drummer were held during April 2017 in Los Angeles. Szeliga was known to Black Star Riders; Thin Lizzy toured North America with Judas Priest during 2012, with Black Label Society additionally being part of the bill \u2013 who Szeliga was a member of at the time.<\/p>\n

The departure of drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (ex-Alice Cooper \/ ex-Megadeth) was disclosed on March 29th, 2017.<\/p>\n

Third studio record Heavy Fire<\/em> was released<\/a> in February 2017 via Nuclear Blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BLACK STAR RIDERS Recruit Former BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Drummer Chad Szeliga May 5th, 2017 Rock group Black Star Riders, an offshoot of Thin Lizzy, have recruited former Black Label Society and Breaking Benjamin drummer Chad Szeliga, revealing this development on May 5th, 2017. Frontman Ricky Warwick issued the following statement: \u201cI\u2019m delighted to welcome Chad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-star-riders-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58926,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55135\/revisions\/58926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}