Sepultura’s Derrick Green says he was “really in shock” at Eloy Casagrande exit for Slipknot

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Sepultura’s Derrick Green has looked back at Eloy Casagrande’s abrupt departure from the band earlier this year, stating that it left him “in shock”.Back in February, the Brazilian thrash-metal icons announced that their longtime drummer, Eloy Casagrande, had suddenly left the band after having been in the line-up for 13 years.

The news came as a shock to fans, as it broke shortly before they were set to kick off their ‘Celebrating Life Through Death’ farewell tour dates.He would later be confirmed as having joined Slipknot, following Jay Weinberg being unexpectedly ousted from the Iowa band around the same time.Now, during a new interview vocalist Derrick Green has said that fans weren’t the only ones left surprised by Casagrande’s departure, as the news left him “in shock” too.“I think I was flying out literally the next day to start rehearsals,” he said on the One Life One Chance With Toby Morse podcast (via Blabbermouth), recalling the day he found out his drummer was leaving. “Andreas [Kisser, Sepultura guitarist, got in touch with me and was] like, ‘Yo…’ I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ He’s like, ‘He’s out.’”Green continues: “I was just kind of like falling in a black hole, like, ‘What are you talking about?’ It was totally surreal.

It was literally in slow motion. I was just trying to get my breath. And he explained everything.”Adding how they had a meeting with the drummer to clarify the situation, Green continued: “[Eloy] came in and it was just like, ‘I’m doing this gig.

I signed a contract. And I’m out.’ And I was just trying to get my head around it, because it’d been 13 years playing with this guy.“I was just really in shock.