{"id":14050,"date":"2025-10-06T13:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:08:02","slug":"wow-rush-hires-an-incredible-new-drummer-carries-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/06\/wow-rush-hires-an-incredible-new-drummer-carries-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Rush Hires An Incredible New Drummer&#8230; carries on."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/new-rush-drummer-anika-nilles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Consequence<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who Is RUSH\u2019s New Drummer Anika Nilles?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The 42-year-old German drummer has been prolific both as a recording artist and instructor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/author\/jon-hadusek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jon Hadusek<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anika Nilles: Who Is Rush&#039;s New Drummer?\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CtpUil0S1Ws?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anika Nilles has been announced as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/rush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RUSH<\/a>\u2019s drummer for their upcoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/rush-2026-north-american-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reunion tour<\/a>, which will mark the band\u2019s first shows in 11 years, and first concerts since the passing of the legendary Neil Peart in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than tap a well-known name to fill Peart\u2019s shoes, RUSH opted for a relative unknown in Nilles, a 42-year-old German virtuoso who comes from a family of drummers. Add it to the long list of major bands&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/list\/touring-drummers-guide-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touring with new people behind the kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RUSH gig is undoubtedly her most notable professional drumming endeavor to date, following a stint in Jeff Beck\u2019s live band for his European tour in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Nilles has been a prolific YouTuber since the early 2010s, garnering millions of plays on her content, which includes clinical instructional videos, as well as her own original music with her backing band Nevell. She has released two full-length albums,&nbsp;<em>Pikalar<\/em>&nbsp;(2017) and&nbsp;<em>For a Colorful Soul<\/em>&nbsp;(2020), appearing on the cover of&nbsp;<em>Modern Drummer<\/em>&nbsp;in June 2017 to promote the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/new-rush-drummer-anika-nilles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Consequence<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Consequence Who Is RUSH\u2019s New Drummer Anika Nilles? The 42-year-old German drummer has been prolific both as a recording artist and instructor by Jon Hadusek Anika Nilles has been announced as&nbsp;RUSH\u2019s drummer for their upcoming&nbsp;reunion tour, which will mark the band\u2019s first shows in 11 years, and first concerts since the passing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}