Monster conducted an interview with Tim Yeung (MORBID ANGEL, DIVINE HERESY, VITAL REMAINS, HATE ETERNAL) at this year’s NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, a massive music-products convention that took place January 24-27 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. You can now watch the chat below.
Asked how it’s been playing with MORBID ANGEL more than two years after he replaced the band’s longtime drummer, Pedro “Pete” Sandoval, so that Pete could recover from surgery for a disc prolapse, Yeung said: “It’s been great. MORBID ANGEL has been awesome as far as we work great together. I fit really good with those guys. We’re all a little crazy, so I fit in perfectly with that. It’s great. It’s awesome. It’s an honor to work with them. It’s fantastic. The fans are really starting to come through also. It was a little hard at first, because Pete‘s such a great player; he’s really irreplaceable. So I really just kind of filled that slot. I didn’t really replace him — I just added my own… They just added me to the element there, what was there. So it’s been awesome; really great.”
With the inspiration of a songwriting mother and artistic father, Tim began playing drums in 1990 at the age of eleven. Within a few short years he was recording demos and playing live shows within the local muisc scene in upstate New York. He attended Hochstein School Of Music in Rochester and got his first big break in 1997 when he joined the death metal band HATE ETERNAL.
Now based in Los Angeles, Yeung has performed and worked with such national acts as ALL THAT REMAINS, HANK WILLIAMS III, NILE, VITAL REMAINS and DECREPIT BIRTH. His straddling of the extreme and mainstream is perhaps best reflected in his work with his band DIVINE HERESY, whose music features elements of extreme death metal as well as more mainstream genres.
For more information, visit Tim‘s official web site at TimYeung.com.
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