Joe Rickard
| Joe Rickard | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Heavy Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Drums, Guitar |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Essential, Nuclear Blast |
| Associated acts | The Wedding, Red, Manafest, In Flames, Islander, Starset |
Joe Rickard is an American drummer played for various Christian acts such as The Wedding, Red and Manafest. In 2016 he joined Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames.[1]
Biography
Rickard started drumming at the age of 13. At the age of 17, when he was in high school, he started playing music professionally. He was auditioned by a band called Sky Harbor and left his home and highschool to pursue his musical career.[2] Since then Rickard also was the drummer for bands such as Mourning September, followed by the Wedding.
In November 2007, while Rickard was working as a drum tech for Hayden Lamb of the band Red, the band was involved in a car accident and Lamb was injured, so Rickard stepped in to fill his role. In 2014, after spending 6 years, 3 albums and numerous tours with Red, Rickard decided to leave the band.[2]
Rickard also toured with other acts such as Islander and Manafest.[3] He also does session work for producer Howard Benson and played drums on albums for artists such as Vamps, Starset, Miwa and Brian "Head" Welch's solo project Love and Death (Between Here & Lost). He is also a co-founder of the fashion brand venture Stayeasy Apparel.[4]
In 2016 he sessioned with Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames for their twelfth album Battles and later joined the band on a permanent basis.[5]
Discography
With The Wedding
- Polarity (2007)
With Red
- Innocence & Instinct (2009)
- Until We Have Faces (2011)
- Release the Panic (2013)
- Release the Panic:Recalibrated (2014)
With Starset
- Transmissions (2014)
With In Flames
- Battles (2016)