{"id":137058,"date":"2025-10-21T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:30:08","slug":"dave-mcclain-comments-on-his-departure-from-sacred-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137058\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave McClain Comments On His Departure From Sacred Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drummer <strong>Dave McClain<\/strong> has issued a personal statement regarding his newly announced exit from <strong>Sacred Reich<\/strong>. The aforementioned veteran thrash metal outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2025\/10\/20\/news\/sacred-reich-announce-the-exit-of-drummer-dave-mcclain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed the news of his departure<\/a> yesterday, October 20th. <strong>Eduardo Baldo<\/strong> has been enlisted as a temporary live fill-in going forward. Taking to social media this morning, <strong>McClain<\/strong> had the following words to share of the split:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHey everyone!<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard, I\u2019m no longer with <strong>Sacred Reich<\/strong>. Since rejoining in 2018 we made great music and had fun times together. I\u2019ve decided to move on and I wish them all the best in the future! If you\u2019ve been at a <strong>Sacred Reich<\/strong> show over the last 6 years, it was my pleasure to perform for you and to meet a lot of you.<\/p>\n<p>Still 100% doing my thing, whether it\u2019s touring, recording, teaching or just playing in my home studio.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you all out there in the world again. Now back to my drum room!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <strong>Dave<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>McClain<\/strong> served two stints behind the drumkit for <strong>Sacred Reich<\/strong>, with the initial run taking place from 1991 to 1996. His latest run found him back in the fold from 2018 until this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drummer Dave McClain has issued a personal statement regarding his newly announced exit from Sacred Reich. The aforementioned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[81478,18,117,19,17,337,81479],"class_list":{"0":"post-137058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-dave-mcclain","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-sacred-reich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}