Kevin Foley (drummer)

Kevin Foley[1] (born March 10, 1988 in France) is a French drummer of Irish-Italian descent. He has played with bands including Decapitated, Sepultura, Sabaton, Abbath, Disavowed, Benighted and Mumakil. He is a permanent member of Disavowed and Benighted. He has recorded 3 albums with the French Death Metal band since he joined it in 2006.

Kevin Foley, 2008

Foley was first inducted into death metal (double bass and blast beat) by Benighted.[2] although the young drummer had already proved his talent in many other bands.

In 2011, he played with the Swedish band Sabaton for three shows when their drummer hurt his knee. Sabaton was on a common tour with the heavy metal band Nightmare and Kevin was their session drummer. He had only some hours to learn all the tracks. Some months later on 25 November 2011, he played drums with Nervecell (band from Dubai) at Abu Dhabi for the Metallica's opening.

Similarly two years later, Kevin was called upon by the famous Brazilian band Sepultura to stand in for their drummer after an injury he sustained during their European tour, with only hours to learn the setlist. He played for 8 shows with Sepultura. After the tour Sepultura published a press release to thank him for his help.[3]

Career

Permanent Bands

Live Sessions

Records

  • Benighted - Icon : 2007
  • Benighted - Asylum Cave : 2011
  • The Seven Gates - Of Gods... Of Saints... Of Graves : 2012
  • The Seven Gates - Polymorph Demon : 2012
  • Benighted - Carnivore Sublime : 2014
  • F Stands For Fuck You
  • Dawohl - Potestas . Ratio . Iustitia : 2014
  • Abbath - Abbath : 2016
  • One Life All-In - The A7 Session : 2017
  • One Life All-In - Letter of forgiveness : 2020

Press

Recently Kevin has become a target for the media because of his tattoos and drum skills?[4][5]

References

  1. Archived 24 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine Kevin Foley's website
  2. Benighted's Official page
  3. Archived 28 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine The Sepultura's press release
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) n°266 of Batteur Magazine
  5. n°52 of Parat Magazine
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