In 2002, Ryan was named All-State Honorable Mention in soccer[10] and finished 6th at the state championship track meet in the pole vault.
[12] Ryan contributed drum tracks and lyrics to Havok's 2009 debut album Burn,[13] and appeared in the music video for the song "Morbid Symmetry".
[18][19] In 2012 he was contacted by Rob Hubbard of Synthetic Minister[20] to record drums for a side project grunge/punk band called Amish Warfare.
[24] In June 2014, Ryan's website announced[25] that he had joined the swedish death metal band Bloodstrike and had recorded a demo called Necrobirth.
[27] In the late summer of 2015, Ryan's band Bloodstrike announced that they had signed with Redefining Darkness Records[28] and would be releasing the full-length album, In Death We Rot on September 25.
[41] This edition fixed minor errors and added new topics, notably a section on cam shape, while condensing the previous two books into a single volume.
In April 2017, The Complete Double Bass Drumming Explained[42] was picked up by publisher Hudson Music and re-released in an exclusive digital ebook format.
The initial publication was his third[46] book with publisher Hudson Music[47] called Encyclopedia Rudimentia - The Ultimate Drum Rudiment Collection.
[54] In June, he announced that Hudson would be releasing a book called Subdivide and Conquer,[55] in collaboration with author Robert W. Miller,[56] a method for counting and reading rhythms.
In 2022, Bloom published an English translation of the Swiss military's World War I drum manual Tambour-Ordonnanz für die Schweizerische Infanterie 1917,[57] which had only previously been available in French and German.