BARUCH VAN BELLEGEM

Baruch (°1981) grew up under the parental influence of 70-80s hard rock, and got into heavy music at the age of 11 after hearing Guns ‘N Roses. His musical interests evolved in subsequent years, going from Metallica, Slayer and Pantera to power, progressive, death and black metal. At the age of 12 he started drumming and one year later he joined his first grunge band. In the subsequent year, he started playing keyboard. During his career, he played drums or keyboard in a multitude of bands, ranging from rock cover bands (Doom Child), prog-rock (Visions of Jeopardy), indrustrial metal (DivaDroid) to black-death metal (Satyrus, Exterminator, Exogenesist, Vae Victis, When Autumn Ended). Once he entered his twenties, Baruch also began to focus more on developing his talents as orchestrator and producer (a.o. Satyrus, Exogenesist). Due to back problems around the age of 30, he started focusing more on studio projects and contributed to other bands as a session musician, orchestrator or sound engineer (a.o. Omicron). Baruch was introduced to Thomas by Guy Vercruysse as being the perfect match to take on the drums of THRONE OF THORNS, which he accepted, resulting in a great collaboration.
 
His main influences for drums are George Kollias, Nicolas Barker, Pete Sandoval, Thomas Lang, Marco Minnemann and Derek Roddy. For keys, he got mainly influenced by J.S. Bach, Wagner, Hans Zimmer, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, John Williams and Danny Elfmann.