{"id":74303,"date":"2018-11-12T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=74303"},"modified":"2018-11-18T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:54:18","slug":"news-deceased-drummer-dave-castillo-dies-aged-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-deceased-drummer-dave-castillo-dies-aged-43\/","title":{"rendered":"DECEASED Drummer Dave Castillo Dies Aged 43 (November 12th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DECEASED Drummer Dave Castillo Dies Aged 43<\/strong><\/span>
\nNovember 12th, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dave Castillo, drummer of Arlington, Virginia-based death \/ thrash metal band Deceased, passed away on November 12th, 2018 at the age of 43. Castillo died while visiting family in El Salvador; the apparent cause of death was drowning.<\/p>\n

Deceased founder and vocalist King Fowley paid tribute to his friend and bandmate with the following words: \u201cOn Monday, November 12th, Deceased drummer and dear friend Dave Castillo died unexpectedly in his homeland of El Salvador. His sudden passing has crushed our hearts! Me growing up as singing \/ drummer in Deceased for close to two decades and being ridiculously loud and over the top, people became expecting of it a certain way, and then I stepped away from the kit in the early 2000s. Dave came right in and said, \u2018These are big shoes to fill\u2019, but right out of the gate, he was spot on.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis first show ever with Deceased was in front of 20,000 people at Wacken fest. The man mastered my oddities as a drummer and locked \u2019em all in. I always told him he was the better drummer – he was the drummer for Deceased! Slowly over the years, I think he started to believe me.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the latest record, Ghostly White<\/em>, we have had the weirdest off-kilter time to practice the new material as a full band due to everyone\u2019s schedules outside of the band (work \/ life\/ etc). Even up to showtime on recording the studio songs, we were editing and changing things and he had a nervousness that he wouldn\u2019t get it right. Yes, I did sit there right by the kit and conduct each song to him on changes on the fly as he locked it all in. He\u2019d play and look up and lay down the track. When you hear the record, you, too, will see he got it all spot on!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man always came prepared for recordings \/ jams \/ shows, and if you didn\u2019t give him enough time to have it ready, he\u2019d surely let you know. He wanted to impress you. He wanted it correct and not half-assed, which is the only<\/em> way music will ever come out of a band I\u2019m a part of. It\u2019s how he did everything in life. And my writing all the Deceased drum parts never bothered him a bit. He would just say, \u2018You write it, man – keep it your wild Deceased style\u2019, and then he\u2019d gladly learn it no matter how wacky I might have made something.<\/p>\n

\u201cDave will always be remembered as a great drummer, a great person, and a dear friend. Dave helped me in so many ways to keep the band moving forward with his talent, and for that alone, I\u2019m eternally grateful. But he was so much more. Always there for my family in troubled times; the man painted my family\u2019s entire four-level house after fixing 25 years of living-in, beat-up, need-to-be-replastered walls first, then did the sink fixes and all other loose ends too – and all over a week span when we lost our house in 2000 and were basically forced out on two weeks notice. My mom demanded he take money for his time and efforts, but he wouldn\u2019t take a dime. He thanked my mom for letting us all \u2018wreck\u2019 the place with years and years of big parties, telling her this was his way of saying thank you.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt my hospital bed after I had a stroke, he sat all day with me and joked and made me feel better. He had your back always, even in our differences, and there was moments of this; we\u2019d say our peace and then cool down and talk things out and make things right. Because that\u2019s what real friends do. He was the real deal! And in the blink of an eye, his life was taken away from him. <\/p>\n

\u201cI preach all the time, life is for living because you just never know – here today, gone tomorrow! That\u2019s the cold fact to it all! I love you, Dave Castillo – rest in peace, brother!\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave Castillo joined Deceased in 2003 and appeared on three of the band\u2019s full-length studio albums, Rotten To The Core<\/em> (2004), As The Weird Travel On<\/em> (2005) and Ghostly White<\/em> (2018).<\/p>\n

The drummer also played with Arlington, Virginia-based heavy metal group October 13 between 2000 and 2008, appearing on live effort Stagefright<\/em> (2003) and full-length studio record No Survivors<\/em> (2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DECEASED Drummer Dave Castillo Dies Aged 43 November 12th, 2018 Dave Castillo, drummer of Arlington, Virginia-based death \/ thrash metal band Deceased, passed away on November 12th, 2018 at the age of 43. Castillo died while visiting family in El Salvador; the apparent cause of death was drowning. Deceased founder and vocalist King Fowley paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4218,4219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceased-news","category-october-13-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74303","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=74303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74353,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74303\/revisions\/74353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}