Craig Nunenmacher is an American musician, best known as the former drummer for heavy metal bands

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and

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. He joined BLS in July 2000 while playing for Crowbar, who were touring with BLS at the time. The original BLS drummer, Phil Ondich, left the band mid-tour and, to keep the tour on the road, Nunenmacher filled in for Ondich, playing for both Crowbar and BLS for the rest of the tour. A few weeks into the tour, he was asked to join the band permanently. In 2003, during a short break from Black Label Society (as front-man

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was focusing on a full-time tour with

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), Nunenmacher reunited with Kirk Windstein and wrote and recorded Crowbar's '' Lifesblood for the Downtrodden'' album, which had

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on bass guitar, and a guest performance on the track "Lifesblood" by former BLS bass guitarist

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on guitar. In 2006, he launched his website. However, sometime since then the domain right expired and it is now overtaken by cybersquatters, adding a faux search-page instead. He is sponsored by Pearl Drums. In March 2008, it was announced that Nunenmacher's albums—''Crowbar'' (1993), ''Time Heals Nothing'' (1995) and the ''Live+1'' EP (1995)—would be reissued in Europe on April 21, 2008, with bonus and multimedia tracks. In February 2010, it was announced that Nunenmacher had resigned as Black Label Society's drummer. He currently resides in Mississippi with his wife and son and has taken up a career change in logistics with a

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3rd Party Logistics company. Nunenmacher is the brother of Stevie Blaze from the band

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which he was briefly a member of.

Discography

Crowbar

Black Label Society

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American heavy metal drummers Crowbar (American band) albums Lillian Axe members Black Label Society members {{US-drummer-stub