Dirk Verbeuren

Dirk Verbeuren
Dirk Verbeuren
Born	1975
Origin	Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium,
Genres	Heavy metal
Instruments	Drums, percussion, guitar
Associated acts	Soilwork, Scarve, Aborted, Bent Sea

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Dirk Verbeuren (born 1975, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium) is a heavy metal drummer for Swedish melodic death metal band, Soilwork, French melodic death metal band, Scarve^[1] (of which he was a founding member), French melodic death metal band, Phaze I, Dutch death-thrash metal band, Anatomy of I, and American thrash metal band, Powermad. He has played as a session drummer for Aborted, Sybreed, Lyzanxia, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, Yyrkoon, Manu Livertout, Infinited Hate, 7th Circle, Headline and Taliandorogd. He has also recorded drums for Devin Townsend's Deconstruction, Fredrik Thordendal, Jeff Loomis, and Warrel Dane's solo album, Praises to the War Machine. He recently created grindcore band Bent Sea which features Devin Townsend on bass and vocals by Sven de Caluwe of Aborted. Dirk runs his own Die Crawling studio. He uses Tama drums and sticks, Meinl Percussion cymbals, Evans drumheads, Toontrack software and dB drumshoes. He's married to professional editorial and commercial photographer Hannah Verbeuren. He resides in Cleveland, Ohio and in Vernouillet, Yvelines, France.

[edit] Bands and collaborations

He recorded the drum tracks on Warrel Dane's solo album Praises to the War Machine, which was produced by fellow Soilwork guitarist Peter Wichers.^{[citation needed]} He also recorded several tracks on the Nuclear Blast All Stars CD Out of the Dark with several current and former Soilwork members Henry Ranta and Peter Wichers. He acted as session drummer on Sybreed's 2007 album Antares, as well as Yyrkoon's Occult Medicine. Dirk is sharing drum duty with Ryan Van Poederooyen on Deconstruction, the third album of the Devin Townsend Project.