Jean-Paul Gaster (born June 19, 1971) is an American musician who is the drummer for the rock band Clutch.

Gaster, Neil Fallon, Dan Maines and Tim Sult formed Clutch in 1991.

Since then the band has released 13 studio albums and toured extensively through North America, Europe, UK and Australia.

Clutch plays an average of 120 shows a year and its most recent release Sunrise on Slaughter Beach went number Three on billboards rock chart.

River Road Records would lay the ground work for what would become the Weathermaker music label.

In 2007, Gaster collaborated with ex-Opeth keyboardist Per Wiberg and Kamchatka guitarist Thomas Andersson on a project called King Hobo.

[2] During 2008, Gaster played drums on Maryland doom legend guitarist Scott Weinrich's solo album, Punctuated Equilibrium.

He also co-produced Lionize's 2017 album Nuclear Soul & played drums on their record Panic Attack in 2019.

In 2014, Gaster recorded drums on Maryland guitarist Mark Stanley's Dark Brain album.

The album also features guitarist Oz Noy as well as Spyro Gyra bassist Scott Ambush.

I look forward to hitting the studio with Jay again soon" Gaster collaborated with Kevin Hillard to record drums and percussion for the soundtrack to the movie Fishing Without Nets.

Gaster recorded drums and percussion for Agent Ogden's movie When the Man Went South.

Gaster collaborates with Mark Morton of Lamb of God, Yanni Papadopoulos of Stinking Lizaveta and Chris Brooks of Lionize.