Their five-day session with Nilles wasn’t an audition, but it took until the last day for their doubts over a Rush reunion tour to be destroyed

Rush drummer Anika Nilles detailed her preparation regimen for the band’s recently launched Fifty Something reunion tour, explaining how the prog rock legends’ catalog forced her to alter her usual practice routine.

Anika Nilles absolutely aced her first test as Rush’s new touring drummer. Filling the late Neil Peart‘s shoes was never going to be easy, but Nilles did so with an impressive mix of talent and reverence.

Mike Portnoy has given an unequivocal thumbs-up to Anika Nilles after the first show of Rush’s Fifty Something tour on Sunday night. Nilles, of course, is stepping into some big

Their five-day session with Nilles wasn’t an audition, but it took until the last day for their doubts over a Rush reunion tour to be destroyed

In Rush's first show without Neil Peart since 1974, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson make grown men cry, and new touring drummer Anika Nilles absolutely kills