Introducing Matt Garstka (Animals As Leaders)

A peek at the drummer who will perform with the band on their upcoming European and North American tours.

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[luap paul]

MATT Gartska, MATT Halpern, MATT Greiner. Wished my parents named me MATT.

[Psychoreu]

Navene:"Tosin and Javier (Reyes, guitar) are the two most generous, caring and understanding individuals I've ever met and I look forward to a lifetime of friendship with the both of them. Now before I leave the band to make dubstep crap, here are so damn near impossible drum tracks. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Matt: "Hand me those sticks."

[Psychoreu]

Is it really? Maybe i just assumed it was...I should take a listen then.

[Psychoreu]

No it wasn't homosexual at all.

[EvergreenStranger]

Mike portnoy, Mike mangini

[MrLukeimurdad6]

O_O hahaha im gonna miss navene, but this guy looks up to the challenge \M/

[mattbetts01]

Lucky me!

[Brett Potter]

Also thought I might add that I have played the drums for years (off and on) and I am nowhere near the level of Mr. Garstka. I simply lacked the drive to work hard at it until I got older. Hopefully, if you do play and you're still young, you are more driven than I was growing up. Definitely regretting it now. It's a ton more work to reach this level if you haven't already by time you reach your 30's since your body doesn't recover as quickly as it did in the years past.

[Brett Potter]

While I'm sure you're just joking around, there are tons of amazing drummers with all sorts of different names (duh! obviously!). If you play the drums, then you probably know that it isn't as easy as most people think or make it out to be. Just like everything else in life, it takes an insane amount of hard work and dedication to get to the level that Matt and the tons of other amazing drummers out there are at. If you do play, keep it up! You may someday have people wishing they had your name.

[mayoarm11]

wow that was a gay fucking comment.

[CrystalTrees5mcs]

saw him tonight, best experience of my life. wow fuck me! my only regret in life is that i will never see the Mars Volta.

[dandishion]

I will still miss Navene! However welcome Matt!