Claim: Brooks Wackerman in in the band Avenged Sevenfold.

Brooks Wackerman -LRB- born February 15 , 1977 -RRB- is an American musician , currently the drummer for the American heavy metal bands Avenged Sevenfold and Mass Mental , also known as the former drummer for Bad Religion , and is the younger brother of John Bob , and Chad Wackerman -LRB- formerly a member of Frank Zappa 's band -RRB- . He is the son of Chuck Wackerman , an educator in the Los Alamitos California Unified School District . Wackerman is also a former student of Murray Spivack and Chuck Flores . After his departure from Bad Religion , it was announced on November 4 , 2015 that he would replace Arin Ilejay as the drummer for Avenged Sevenfold .