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Edward R. Warby (born 7 March 1968) is a Dutch musician, best known as the drummer for
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Gorefest Gorefest was a Dutch death metal band from Goes in Zeeland. It was founded in 1989 by Jan-Chris de Koeijer, Frank Harthoorn, Alex van Schaik and Marc Hoogendoorn. History Within two months of existence Gorefest recorded their first demo. A ...
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. He also appeared in the band Agressor in 1982 and joined the Eindhoven-based metal band
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in 1987. Warby moved to Gorefest in 1992, where he replaced the former drummer just before the recording sessions of "False", he had to learn all themes and develop his work in just two weeks, which he managed to achieve in a matter so fast that producer
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nicknamed him ''Fast Eddy''. After Gorefest split up in 1999, he took part in the re-united Gorefest in 2004. In 1998,
Arjen Anthony Lucassen Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born 3 April 1960) is a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen started his career in 1980 as the ...
asked Warby to perform on his album ''
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'', because Arjen was impressed with Warby's works with Gorefest. From that moment on, Warby had performed on Ayreon's every album, except for '' Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer'' and ''
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''. He also performed on the re-recording of ''
Actual Fantasy ''Actual Fantasy'' is an album released in 1996 by Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen A. Lucassen and is the second album of his Ayreon project. It is the only Ayreon release that does not feature a single overarching story concept, but instead dr ...
'' (the original recording featured a computerized set of drums). He's also a member, since its creation in 2002, of Lucassen's band
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and has also performed in his latest solo album ''
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''. He helped the Dutch pop band
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during the recordings of "Days Like This" in 2002. He also helped German band Love Like Blood with three songs of their album "Snakekiller", in 1998. In 2005 he played live with the Dutch
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while their actual drummer André Borgman was recovering from cancer. In 2008, Warby began a
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project named The 11th Hour, and released the album ''The Burden of Grief'' in 2009. All guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and clean vocals are performed by Warby, with the additional growls contributed by Rogga Johansson ( Ribspreader). The Burden of Grief is a concept album, "about a man about to die from a lung disease."


Discography


With The 11th Hour

* ''The Burden of Grief'' (2009) * ''Lacrima Mortis'' (2012)


With Arjen Anthony Lucassen

* ''
Lost in the New Real ''Lost in the New Real'' (also referred to as ''Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Lost in the New Real'') is the second solo studio album by Dutch songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen, released on 23 April 2012. ...
'' (2012)


With Vuur

* ''
In This Moment We Are Free – Cities ''In This Moment We Are Free – Cities'' is the debut studio album by progressive metal band VUUR. It was released on 20 October 2017, via Inside Out Music. Apart from the regular edition, the album was released on special editions including a CD ...
'' (2017)


With Hail of Bullets

* '' …Of Frost and War'' (2008) * ''
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'' (2010) * '' III: The Rommel Chronicles'' (2013)


With Elegy

* '' Labyrinth of Dreams'' (1992)


With Gorefest

* '' False'' (Nuclear Blast 1992) * ''The Eindhoven Insanity'' (Nuclear Blast 1993) * ''
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'' (Nuclear Blast 1994) * ''Fear EP'' (1994) * '' Soul Survivor'' (Nuclear Blast 1996) * ''Freedom EP'' (1996) * ''
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'' (SPV 1998) * '' La Muerte'' (2005) * '' Rise to Ruin'' (2007)


With Ayreon

* ''
Into the Electric Castle ''Into the Electric Castle – A Space Opera'' is the third album of the progressive metal project Ayreon by Dutch songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Released in 1998, it was the band's first double a ...
'' (1998) * '' Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator'' (2000) * ''
The Human Equation ''The Human Equation'' is the sixth album from the progressive rock project Ayreon by Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen, released on 25 May 2004 via Inside Out Music. As with other Ayreon albums, it features guest appearances from several mu ...
'' (InsideOut 2004) * ''
Actual Fantasy ''Actual Fantasy'' is an album released in 1996 by Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen A. Lucassen and is the second album of his Ayreon project. It is the only Ayreon release that does not feature a single overarching story concept, but instead dr ...
'' (Revisited) (InsideOut 2005) * ''
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'' (2008) * '' The Theory of Everything'' (2013) * ''
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'' (2017)


With The Gentle Storm

* '' The Diary'' (2015)


With Lana Lane

* ''
Secrets of Astrology ''Secrets of Astrology'', released in 2000, is the fifth album, but the fourth studio recorded album, by symphonic rock vocalist, Lana Lane. Though this album is Lane's fifth album release in the US, it is her eighth in Japan. The album was reco ...
'' (2000)


With Star One

* '' Space Metal'' (InsideOut 2002) * '' Live on Earth'' (InsideOut 2003) * ''
Victims of the Modern Age ''Victims of the Modern Age'' is the second studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's progressive metal project/ supergroup Star One, released on the recording label Inside Out in the US on 25 October 2010 and in Europe on 1 November 2010. The alb ...
'' (InsideOut 2010) * ''
Revel in Time ''Revel in Time'' is the third studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's progressive metal project/ supergroup Star One, released via Inside Out on 18 February 2022. As with previous Star One albums, here Lucassen focuses on the "metal" side of hi ...
'' (InsideOut 2022)


Guest appearances


With Love Like Blood

* ''Snakekiller'' (on 3 songs) (1998)


With Krezip

* '' Days Like This'' (2002)


References


External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Warby, Ed 1968 births Living people Musicians from Rotterdam Dutch rock drummers Male drummers Dutch heavy metal drummers Star One (band) members Gorefest members