DAVE LOMBARDO Is My Biggest Influence

It is laborious to call a extra influential band on the event of utmost steel than Slayer, as numerous musicians will inform you. Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz is the newest to go on report, sharing that not solely is Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo his largest affect, he most likely would not be enjoying loss of life steel in any respect with out Lombardo paving the way in which, as he informed Pod Scum (transcribed by Blabbermouth).

“Dave Lombardo is my largest affect, after all. If it wasn’t for him, I most likely would not be doing what I am doing. He is the king of thrash, double bass and all that, in order a youngster, listening to him play within the mid-’80s, clearly I wasn’t enjoying at that time but — I [was] simply beginning out — so that basically solidified me desirous to play the way in which I play at the moment, what he was doing and nonetheless is doing. However all these bands and all these influences we had within the mid-to-late ’80s, going from, I suppose, any of the heavy steel like Iron Maiden, because it progressed, into bands like Metallica, Slayer after which the thrash bands of… Kreator and issues like that, Death Angel, that basically, actually have been the forerunners of loss of life steel and what we do in Cannibal Corpse. So, I imply, so many, so many influential bands and drummers again then, however, yeah, Lombardo could be my largest one.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Mazurkiewicz mentioned how his physique is holding up and having to regulate his life-style as he ages.

“I am feeling pretty good for my age. And, Jeez, if something, there’s a number of instances I feel, ‘Man, I am enjoying higher than I ever have been,’ which is, I suppose, a great factor. However you’ve got gotta make these tweaks, you’ve got gotta make these changes. You possibly can’t simply depend on younger adrenaline and simply pure fury, such as you might need accomplished whenever you have been youthful. So, you need to type of perhaps attempt to deal with your self somewhat bit extra so. I imply, all of it comes right down to the fundamentals. The way in which I have a look at it in any case is that if you may get good sleep, you keep hydrated, you eat pretty properly and also you apply, these are the principle keys. After all, having some good genes maybe. Sadly, you hear [about] these guys that simply have issues, again issues, and there is nothing you are able to do. Fortunately, I suppose I do have fairly first rate genes in that regard the place I by no means had any main illnesses in that approach. So, if something, you’ve got simply gotta actually play much more.”