Ray Drieberg

Raymond Kent Drieberg (born October 11, 1988) is an American guitarist and producer. He's Triple Seven's lead guitarist, having been with them since they started in 2007. As of Spring 2015, he is the only remaining member from the band's earliest lineup, as co-founder and original drummer Derrick Halsey was sacked. In February 2019, he announced that he had launched a label called Scornful VII. The company became home to all future Triple Seven material starting with Narcotics for the Lost. 
==Background information==
*Also known as: Ray Ray; Heavy Rain Man
*Birth name: Raymond Kent Drieberg
*Born: October 11, 1988 (age 35) -- Sandusky, Ohio, United States
*Genres: Avant-garde metal, extreme metal, alternative metal, deathcore
*Occupation(s): Guitarist, musician, songwriter, record producer, A&R
*Instruments: Electric guitar, piano
*Years active: 2007-present
*Labels: Stillborn, Equal Vision, Relapse, Scornful VII
==Style==
Drieberg's approach to the ax is every bit as multifaceted and radical as the band he calls family. Throughout the project's history he's used seven-string guitars without a plectrum. Since Devirgination he is now simultaneously a six and nine-string player. His guitar work encompasses a nice assortment of moods: hook-laden buoyancy one minute (Kutchur Katela Flala!), atonal AND massive the next (Sleeping Princess Syndrome), then it's... hard to put into words (Human Furniture). The man's development as writer and musician over the course of Triple Seven's career mirrors their trajectory. He started banking on open-note chugs with a general "breakdown-atop-breakdown" ideology, later welcoming harmonics and dissonant chords when Ash Erickson entered the picture. As soon as the band jumped deathcore ship Drieberg would employ twangier melodies, arpeggios, and much heavier usage of effects pedals. His solos took less inspiration from Gothenburg and leaned more neoclassical after Ghost Romance. Devirgination sees him and Chance Bottings experimenting with bounce riffs, suiting the "jumpdafuckup" feel of the album. 
He's cited many individual artists and groups as his cataylsts. Influence-wise the ones at the very top of his list are Zoot Horn Rollo, Alf Svensson, Adrian Belew, Ichiro Agata, George Harrison, Crispin Gray, and Gary Green. 
Category:Triple Seven
Category:Active members