On Saturday, Jim, Ben, and I got together to have a second audition with Ron Crockett; a bassist who started playing bass relatively late after the urging of family and friends but not content with being just a passive listener of Slayer, Death and All things Bay Area Thrash.

Ron met Jim when he supported Defiance at a show while he was playing with another band, and he got in touch a few weeks back to apply to join our headbanging troupe on bass duties. We auditioned him a few times, played Foretold Revelation, Drill Down, and Politicold with him and offered him the job.

He absolutely ripped through the songs with a thumping great tone, ideal balance of rhythm and technical creativity, and we are looking forward to him being a firm foundation holding up the bottom end in Severed Fifth.

Ron has played with a number of South Bay metal bands and opened up for various touring acts while also rebuilding metalblade.com and consulting on matters of music and communications. Ron is looking forward to doing to what he loves most, melting faces with a deafening bass. \m/