John Bennett is a British

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, and a founding member of the progressive

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band,

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. With The Prophecy, Bennett has completed several tours of Europe and the

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, and has also recorded three albums. Bennett also played drums for fellow doom metal band

My Dying Bride My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in Bradford. Since their inception in 1990, they have released 15 studio albums, five EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release. Along ...

for two years, filling in for

Shaun Steels Shaun 'Winter' Taylor-Steels (born Shaun Steels, 22 August 1970) is a British heavy metal drummer and bassist. Steels, born in Normanton, West Yorkshire, is of Scottish and Norwegian descent on his mother's side of the family. Steels replaced ...

while Steels recovered from an ankle injury. Bennett played as a session musician on the ''

A Line of Deathless Kings ''A Line of Deathless Kings'' is the ninth studio album by English doom metal band My Dying Bride. It was released on 9 October 2006. A limited edition of the album comes in a hard clamshell case with a double-sided poster and five postcards, d ...

'' album. In 2007 he announced that he could not continue to play with My Dying Bride.BLABBERMOUTH.NET - MY DYING BRIDE Parts Ways With Bassist, Drummer; Replacements Announced

Discography

Equipment

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TD20BK V Drums *Hardcase cases *

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5A Sticks

References

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