{"id":109478,"date":"2025-08-01T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109478\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:45:09","slug":"vitriol-add-bassist-brett-leier-but-part-ways-with-drummer-matt-kilner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109478\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitriol add bassist Brett Leier but part ways with drummer Matt Kilner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Northwest death metal unit <strong>Vitriol<\/strong> have shaken up their lineup again. The band announced today, July 31st, that drummer <strong>Matt Kilner<\/strong> is out after a roughly two-year run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A replacement is reportedly in the works. Meanwhile, former <strong>Gargoyl<\/strong> bassist <strong>Brett Leier <\/strong>has officially joined the group.<\/p>\n<p>Vitriol shared the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have two large developments to share. Firstly, we are deeply saddened to announce that Matt Kilner has chosen to step away from Vitriol. While I imagine that most people&#8217;s first instinct is to ask why, Matt&#8217;s reasoning is his own, and we want to afford him the respect of not speaking on his behalf. Suffice it to say, we are pained to see him go.<\/p>\n<p>In more triumphant news, we have welcomed Brett Leier into the fold on bass and accompanying vocals. Brett is a wildly talented instrumentalist with a very potent creative mind. He also looks like he&#8217;d be camped out in a Serbian gas station bathroom with chicken wire pulled tight, which I think is a pretty sweet vibe. Brett is best known for his work in @gargoylband alongside fellow mega-shredders. Brett will be joining Keith Merrow and I on our upcoming, soon-to-be announced tour where we will re emerge as a four piece. We look forward to seeing what the future will bring. We will provide more information on the drummer situation soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little Woo for my fellow Wooers.<\/p>\n<p>While these goodbyes don&#8217;t become less painful, I&#8217;m at peace knowing that, if nothing else, part of this band&#8217;s legacy will be to have proven that grief does little to slow the art of loss. And that you simply can not kill what is already dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pacific Northwest death metal unit Vitriol have shaken up their lineup again. The band announced today, July 31st,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,1042,1041,981,975,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-109478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hardcore","10":"tag-lambgoat","11":"tag-metal","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114951928275237787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}