Richard "Ricky" Evensand is a Swedish

drummer A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drums. Most contemporary western music ensemble, bands that play Rock music, rock, Pop music, pop, jazz, or Contemporary R&B, R&B music include a drummer for purposes including timekeepi ...

, who has contributed to several

extreme metal Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. It has been defined as a "cluster of metal subgenres characterized by sonic, verbal, and visual tran ...

bands including Therion (2001-2004),

Chimaira Chimaira ( ) is an American heavy metal music, heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in August 1998, the band's name is derived from the word Chimera (mythology), Chimera, a monstrous creature in Greek mythology. Throughout its history, ...

(2003-2004), Ebony Tears,

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, Dog Faced Gods,

Soilwork Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They have released twelve studio albums. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, the band was originally known as ''Inferior Breed''. In late 1996, they changed t ...

Demonoid Demonoid is a BitTorrent tracker and website founded in 2003 to facilitate file sharing, file-sharing–related discussion and provide a searchable index of torrent files. The site underwent intermittent periods of extended downtime in its his ...

, Southpaw, Stardown. He currently resides in Australia and is the drummer in Gretchen Lewis and

Toehider Toehider are a progressive rock band from Melbourne, Australia that also identifies as a "collab project between musician and illustrator". Their influences include progressive rock, pop, hard rock, metal and folk. Toehider was founded in 2008 b ...

. Ricky performs live regularly as Australian session drummer for Black Majesty as well as a variety of freelance sessions. He recently did a clinic tour of Australia for renowned drum company Mapex.Musiknyheter.nu, 2009-02-19: Svensk trummis blir medlem i australiensiskt band

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