"Considered the best Brazilian heavy metal drummer of the last nineteen years by drumming magazines and sites, Aquiles Priester has made a name for himself among drummers both locally and worldwide. He has collected awards and achievements throughout his career and has made his home country of Brazil proud.
In his life as a drumming expert and educator, Aquiles Priester has done more than 500 drum clinics and has taken part in the biggest drum festivals around the world.
He has put out four educational DVDs: Inside My Drums (2004), The Infallible Reason of My Freak Drumming (2010), Aquiles Priester's Top 100 Drum Fills (2013) which Modern Drummer elected as the "best educational DVD of the year", and his first Blu-ray and triple DVD All Access to Aquiles Priester's Drumming (2019) and his second Double Blu-ray All the Secrets of Vera Cruz Drumming and Unravelling Aquiles Priester’s Double Bass Technique. Additionally, he has put out six drumming textbooks: Inside My PsychoBook: 100 Double Bass Patterns (2007), Aquiles Priester Biography (2010), Aquiles Priester's Top 100 Drum Fills (2013), PsychOctopus Play Along (2014) and Music Market and How to Get Sponsorships (2023).
In 2017 Aquiles Priester took part in heavy metal legend W.A.S.P.'s European tour, traveling through 21 countries and he is ready to embark on the band’s 40th Anniversary World Tour in 2022/2023.
In 2020, for the very first time, Brazilian metal drummer Aquiles Priester was ranked number one in the double bass category by the readers of Modern Drummer Magazine and was also awarded the YouTube award plate for having over 100,000 subscribers on his drum channel.
In 2024 and 2025, I was fully dedicated to W.A.S.P.'s global tour. We played 45 shows across the U.S. in 2024, performing the debut album in full, and continued through South America in 2025, ending with a powerful set at Bangers Open Air in São Paulo, where I had the honor of addressing the crowd (see speech/photo/video).
Alongside that, I managed 43 solo Drum Shows across Brazil and Italy in 2024. In early 2025, I teamed up with Thomas Lang for an intense 20-show tour across Brazil, our journey was documented by Thiago Bagues Drum’on and will premiere on September 9, 2025, in São Paulo.
To wrap up the year, I’m back on the road with W.A.S.P. for a 50-show European tour from June to October, playing festivals and arenas in over 17 countries, celebrating the band’s 40 year legacy and proudly representing Brazil worldwide.”
