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Eric Althaus with his first Gold Record AwardThanks for visiting! There's STILL a new website in the works, but for the time being this is what I'm stuck sharing with the world. ;-)

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October 2011

Eric - Live DVD Shoot 2009

It's my favorite time of year - when all the wild and weird things that go bump in the night are brought to the forefront of everyone's mind. Decorating with rotting corpses, and severed limbs; visiting haunted attractions; and playing around with lights and fog...it's such a fun time!

Though I'm preoccupied with all things horror this month, I'm also happy to report that I have some more recording work coming up. I just finished up some drum tracks for a new metal band's debut album. I believe they are called Scream At The Sun. I wasn't available to do their whole album, but I had fun with what I did end up contributing. Hopefully those tracks will be released soon.

Eric Althaus flipping drum sticksMy variety band, Joy Ride has been keeping busy as well. More changes are in store as the year draws to a close - but nothing I can report on now. But as always, it's great to see those of you that make it out to those shows, so I continue to look forward to seeing you there!

Jamison (Equinox) and I have recently been working on a new song for a mutual friend's wedding, where we'll be performing it. Of course, the conversation always comes up about additional new material, and I think we're headed in that direction...at least I hope so, anyway. It's been a blast so far - just like no time has passed since we last worked together. But we have no agenda, other than feeding our hunger for creativity. I'm just happy to have that collaboration back in my life.

Feel free to visit my social networking sites via the links on this page. I'd love to hear from you on any one of them.

-E

Check out Joy Ride's 2011 promo video:

Current Project News

New Custom Pearl Kit (10/2009)

Wine Red with 24K Gold Hardware on drums and stands

Masterworks - 6x7 rack tom, 14x5.5 snare

Reference - 8x8, 10x8, 12x8, 14x14, 16x16, 22x18, 22x18