Daniel Wilding

Daniel Wilding
Wilding with Carcass in 2022
Background information
Born	(1989-01-22) 22 January 1989 Kettering, England
Genres	Death metal, technical death metal, grindcore
Occupation(s)	Drummer
Years active	2005–present

Daniel "Dan" Wilding (born 22 January 1989) is an English drummer.

Biography

Wilding started playing drums at the age of 10 and at the age of 16 joined his first band called Killing Mode. After Killing Mode disbanded he formed a black metal band called Misery. In 2007 Wilding joined Belgian death metal act Aborted. With them he had recorded Strychnine.213, released in 2008. In 2009 he left Aborted and joined UK technical death metal band Trigger the Bloodshed. He also plays drums for melodic death metal group The Soulless and blackened death metal band The Order of Apollyon. In 2011 he has begun serving as touring drummer for German metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn. In 2012 it was announced that Wilding will also be the drummer for grindcore/death metal veterans Carcass and recorded their latest album titled Torn Arteries.

Wilding is married and has two kids.

Equipment

Wilding uses Tama drums, Paiste cymbals (as of 2021), Remo drumheads and Vic Firth sticks. He has formerly used Sabian as well as Meinl cymbals.

Discography

With Aborted

• Strychnine.213 (2008, Century Media Records)

With The Order of Apollyon

• The Flesh (2010, Listenable Records)
• The Sword and the Dagger (2015, Listenable Records)

With Trigger the Bloodshed

• Degenerate (2010, Rising Records)
• Kingdom Come EP (2011, Independently Released)

With Heaven Shall Burn

• Veto (2013, Century Media Records, guest appearance)

With Carcass

• Surgical Steel (2013, Nuclear Blast)
• Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel (2014, Nuclear Blast)
• Despicable (2020, Nuclear Blast)
• Torn Arteries (2021, Nuclear Blast)