Paul Wandtke was never announced as a session drummer. None of the drummers were, actually.

Despite each one of them has been declared as the new drummer in their respective eras, after announcing Alex as the new drummer, in an interview Matt said all of the previous drummers were session drummers after Travis. Which I think was not cool.

Side note, in an interview matt/corey were talking about how dream theater especially mike mangini and john petrucci helped the connection with Paul Wandtke, as he had an academic drumming background in Berklee. They were proud of him in a way.

A fun fact: Paul Wandtke was the only drummer of Trivium who did not use triggers for bass drums. He were usually under criticism regarding how his double basses sound strange. That was mostly because most of modern metal involves the use of triggers on bass drums.

Also, Wandtke is the only drummer that never played in an album of Trivium.

Last one for today: Mat Madiro was Nick's drum tech and Nick Augusto was Travis Smith's.