Chris Adler is one of the richest Drummer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Adler's net worth $2 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was a student at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was introduced to his bandmates to come.
He was mentioned in DRUM! Magazine.
Christopher James Adler (born November 23, 1972) is an American drummer, best known as the founder of the heavy metal band Lamb of God from 1994–2020, and Grammy Award winning member of Megadeth. Chris became a member of the heavy metal band Megadeth from 2015–2017, playing all percussion on their fifteenth album Dystopia and performed all touring dates in support of that album as well as the touring and creative obligations with the band he founded, Lamb of God (1994–2020). In his 7th Grammy nomination, “Dystopia” won Chris his first Grammy Award for the Best Metal Performance at the 59th Grammy Awards. In 2006 Adler collaborated with revered progressive guitarist Ron Jarzombek and began the project Blotted Science. In 2013, Adler moved to Toronto, Canada to contribute to and record the album “Volition” with the progressive metal band Protest the Hero. The album went on to deliver Chris his first Juno Award (Canadian equivalent to the US Grammy) In 2014 he contributed several drum tracks to the Testament album Dark Roots of the Earth. In 2016 Adler recorded three songs with Jim Gillette, Michael Angelo Batio, and Victor Wooten in a California studio for a Nitro reunion album. As of October 2017, he left the Nitro reunion project to focus on a mid-2018 release and tour with Lamb of God. Chris is the elder brother of Lamb of God bandmate and guitarist Willie Adler. Willie joined the band based on Chris’s recommendation, replacing guitarist Abe Spear. Chris played in several local bands including Calibra, Jettison Charlie, Grouser and Darker Days before founding the heavy metal band Lamb of God (1994–2019) in 1994. Adler is pescatarian and has worked with PETA.
