In a recent interview with “Reckless” Rexx Ruger of Pod Scum, drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz from the legendary Florida death metal band CANNIBAL CORPSE discussed his greatest musical influences.
When asked to name his biggest musical influences, Paul responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “SLAYER‘s Dave Lombardo is my biggest influence, of course. If it wasn’t for him, I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing. He’s the king of thrash, double bass and all that, so as a teenager, hearing him play in the mid-’80s, obviously I wasn’t playing at that point yet — I [was] just starting out — so that really solidified me wanting to play the way I play today, what he was doing and still is doing.
“But all those bands and all those influences we had in the mid-to-late ’80s, going from, I guess, any of the heavy metal like IRON MAIDEN, as it progressed, into bands like METALLICA, SLAYER and then the thrash bands of… KREATOR and things like that, DARK ANGEL, that really, really were the forerunners of death metal and what we do in CANNIBAL CORPSE. So, I mean, so many, so many influential bands and drummers back then, but, yeah, Lombardo would be my biggest one.”
CANNIBAL CORPSE released their sixteenth studio album, Chaos Horrific, in September 2023 through Metal Blade Records.
Produced again by guitarist Erik Rutan, who has now produced six of the band’s albums, Chaos Horrific is, without question, a full-on, CANNIBAL-style death metal outing, straight down to the themes, which include zombie warfare, resetting the human race through mass mutilations, and the violent revenge of victims of human trafficking, and its cover art by longtime collaborator Vince Locke.
Chaos Horrific slaughtered Billboard charts upon its first week of release, earning the #7 position on the Billboard Album Sales chart, #2 on the Hard Music Albums chart, #3 on the Rock Albums chart, #5 on the Independent Label Albums chart, and more!
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