There are few metal drummers with a CV as impressive as that of Jon Dette. The San Diego native has played with Testament, Volbeat, Iced Earth and Heathen, as well as stints with two of thrash’s Big 4 – namely Slayer and Anthrax.
Dette moved from San Diego to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, where he was playing in his own band, Evil Dead. After then-Testament drummer John Tempesta left to join White Zombie, Dette was recommended for a job with Chuck Billy’s Bay Area bangers by none other than Tempesta himself, who stumbled across Jon pummelling through Testament’s Practice What You Preach in their shared rehearsal studio. “He went outside to the payphone, called Chuck and said, ‘I just found your new drummer,’” says Dette now.
