Roy Mayorga

Early life Mayorga was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, At four years old, his family moved to Florida. While growing up, his parents would often play Motown music and rhythm and blues, which were his earliest exposures to music. He eventually became a fan of Kiss through his older brother, which led him to become interested in rock music. He began playing drums at six years old.

Mayorga befriended the members of New York punk rock band Nausea while living in Allentown, which led to him becoming the band's drummer in 1988.

After Nausea's breakup, Mayorga formed Thorn with Stephan Flam and ex-Nausea guitarist John John Jesse. After their fourth live performance, they signed to Roadrunner Records.

He also played with New York hardcore punk band Shelter in 1996. He also played drums on the album The Hollowing with metal band Crisis in 1996.

Mayorga formed the heavy metal band Soulfly in 1997, with former Sepultura vocalist Max Cavalera.

He was briefly a member of the band Medication from 1999 to 2001.

In 2004, he helped create rock band Abloom as with vocalist Jasan Radford and lead guitarist Levon Sultanian. Also part of the band was Mike Doling (Snot, Soulfly) and John Fahnestock (Snot). Fahnestock left and was replaced by Marcelo Dias a.k.a. Marcello D. Rapp (Soulfly).

In 2005, he appeared as one of the drummers on the Roadrunner United compilation CD The All-Star Sessions, playing on "The Enemy", "The End", and "Baptized in the Redemption", all tracks being produced and musically written by Dino Cazares and Roy Mayorga. The song "The End" spawned a music video.

Mayorga also does classical film scoring, working on films such as Legion (2004) and Shudder (2007).

He temporarily filled in behind the drumkit for Sepultura's 2006 European tour with In Flames following Igor Cavalera's absence.

He officially joined Stone Sour on May 10, 2006, as a replacement for Joel Ekman. He drummed for their second release, Come What(ever) May, released in August 2006. The band toured for the next year and a half, releasing the Live in Moscow album exclusively to iTunes on August 14, 2007.

Roy Mayorga played drums for Amebix during their 2009 reunion tour until they broke up again in 2012.

In October 2013, Belgian metal band Channel Zero announced that, following the death of their drummer Phil Baheux, they will continue the work made on the new album, with Roy Mayorga playing the drums as a session drummer.

On May 6, 2019, Mayorga was announced as Hellyeah's new drummer for their May 11, 2019, performance honoring their previous drummer Vinnie Paul. while also announcing Welcome Home as the title of their next album and that the release date was pushed back to September 27.

In 2024, Mayorga joined Kylesa.

Personal life In May 2011, Mayorga suffered a stroke as a result of his frequent headbanging while drumming. The event led to him having to re-learn how to play drums.

Discography

1986: Youthquake – Maximum Rock and Roll Compilation 1989: Nausea – They Don't Get Paid, They Don't Get Laid, But Boy Do They Work Hard 1989: Nausea – Squat or Rot Volume. 1 1990: Nausea – Extinction 1990: Nausea – Cybergod 1991: Nausea – More Songs About Plants and Trees 1991: Nausea – Lie Cycle 1992: Nausea – Discharged: From Home Front to War Front 1993: Thorn – Bitter Potion 1997: Crisis – The Hollowing 1998: Soulfly – Soulfly 2000: Dave Navarro – Trust No One 2002: Soulfly – 3 2004: Abloom – Abloom 2004: Nausea – The Punk Terrorist Anthology Vol. 1 (re-release) 2005: Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions 2006: Stone Sour – Come What(ever) May 2007: Black President – Black President 2010: Amebix – Redux 2010: Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy 2011: Amebix – Knights of the Black Sun 12" 2011: Amebix – Sonic Mass 2012: Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones – Part 1 2013: Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones – Part 2 2014: Channel Zero – Kill All Kings 2015: Stone Sour – Meanwhile in Burbank... (recorded in Mayorga's personal studio in Burbank, California) 2015: Stone Sour – Straight Outta Burbank... (recorded in Mayorga's personal studio in Burbank, California) 2017: Stone Sour – Hydrograd 2018: Ministry – AmeriKKKant (tracks 3, 8, 9) 2019: Ministry – Moral Hygiene (track 1) 2019: Mark Morton – Anesthetic (tracks 4, 7, 10) 2024: Star Stunted II - Mahogany Wood 2024: Ministry – Hopiumforthemasses (tracks 1, 3, 6) 2024: Melvins - Tarantula Heart 2025: Ministry – The Squirrely Years Revisited

Producer/Engineer credits 1994: Chaos B.C. remix (Sepultura) 1995: Sun to Sun (The Spitters) 1997: Kicks Joy Darkness (Karouac) 1997: Eye for an Eye remix (Soulfly) 1998: Tribe remix (Soulfly) 2012: No Rules EP (Lody Kong)

Film score 2004: Legion 2007: Shudder 2024: Little Bites