David Wallin was born in 1976, in Stockholm, Sweden. At the age of seven he started taking drum lessons at Sollentuna Jazz Workshop. In 1993 David was accepted as a full time student at the Stockholm Musical Conservatory. After three years of studying at the SMC and one year studying at the RML David started touring as a pyrotechnician, doing assignments for bands like Twisted Sister, Motörhead, Europe and In Flames among others. After recording a couple of albums with bands like Blacksmith and Stormwind, David joined the industrial metal act PAIN in 2003 and started touring all over the world. In 2014, Davi Wallin joined the Swedish heavy metal pioneers HammerFall.