We were actually pretty spoiled for choice on this, believe it or not.
About a week after I got the boot, we had a first trying-shit-out jam session, where we actually got a full* song written. That was with a really, really good drummer who had to bow out in time for the next rehearsal, due to having two other bands to juggle, so that was of course fair enough
He had a really unique style which would have made for something very interesting. He was/is immensely technically gifted, and could just as easily pull off complicated Jazz fills as he could do gravity blasts and other shenanigans. He is a bit out of practice currently, due to a long period of not drumming so much, so he didn't hit as hard as he once did. But hey, that stuff returns quickly for a dude as absurdly talented as him. He will be touring Europe with a band called Shaped Like Swans this summer, and his other grind band Piss Vortex (best name ever!) are going well ahead too. So yeah, no hard feelings for him backing out
I'm just glad that he's busy playing again, since it would be a crying shame for someone so talented to not use it.
Now, the other guy I haven't heard play yet, but he has a pretty good pedigree. He's a longtime friend of the vocalist and I've met him a few times in the last few weeks. I like the guy! Solid, down-to-earth dude, and he's DEFINITELY into it
He's practically been begging to get to play some grind for quite a while now, since his current bands are standard-issue death metal. He's played with Konkhra and Panzerchrist, two well-recognised death metal bands in the scandinavian scene, as well as some others. The fact that he's played with Panzerchrist does show that he can play
absurdly fast in any case, and that's good.
From what I know, he's not a very flashy drummer, at all, but that's pretty much what I've wanted. I want to do this thing as a seriously fast, pissed-off, stripped-down grind/powerviolence kind of thing with a solid dose of Death Metal in it too, so I think this guy will actually be better for that style.
*DISCLAIMER: "Full song" is in a Grindcore context here, so we're only talking 1 minute and 30 seconds, with 3 riffs. Not rocket science, though one of the riffs was pretty tech, and based on a fucked-up, odd-timed drumbeat the drummer came up with.