Slipknot's new drummer Eloy Casagrande admits leaving Sepultura was “complicated”.
The 33-year-old stickman recently replaced Jay Weinberg on drums for hitmaker Weight and Bleed after he left fellow metal band Sepultura.
Eloy was keen to continue his break-up tour with Sepultura, but said he was leaving Attitude because the hitmakers told him he couldn't “juggle two bands”. There is.
“I received an invitation to audition,” he told Brazil's Veja São Paulo. [for Slipknot] later [Sepultura farewell] A tour has been announced.
“The main reason I agreed to audition was the end of Sepultura.
“The band was going to break up and I didn't want to stop playing drums at 33.
“I spoke to Slipknot and asked them about their schedule and if it would be possible to juggle the two bands, and they said no, that's not possible, that I would be exclusive.
“So it was my decision to leave Sepultura. It was complicated.
“I said [Sepultura my decision] when the transaction is completed [with Slipknot] on February 5th or 6th. Later that day, I called a meeting and explained the situation. It was a personal decision. ”
Eloy admits Slipknot “wanted to test it” [him] In every sense of the word before they hired him.
He added: “They asked me to record some videos from here in Brazil and send them to them.
“At first I had three songs, but then they asked me for three more and asked me if I was going to America and I was going to play there in January with my instrumental music project, CASAGRANDE and HANYSZ. did.
“So they sped up my flight a little bit and I spent five days in Palm Springs rehearsing with a full band. Then they asked me to stay longer so they could record some stuff. I asked for an extension of 5 days.
“I think that was part of the audition too. They threw new ideas at me to see what my songwriting was like. They tried to test me in every way. is.”
Jay, the son of Bruce Springsteen's drummer Max Weinberg, joined Suicidal Tendencies in March after being fired from Slipknot last year.
The musician previously described how he felt “heartbroken and unable to see” when he was fired from the band after almost 10 years as a drummer.